My designing friend Zang Toi has two white-gold paintings of Marie Antoinette that were love at first sight for me. You know how I feel about queens! I once bid on a small, pink version of Marie in an auction but lost. I was very upset. When Zang finally introduced me to the gorgeous artist, [...]
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I’ve been so busy with Sex and the City 2 that I didn’t get to share some pictures from a great Ting Tings concert a couple of weeks ago. The show was part of a series of free concerts sponsored by Microsoft’s new line of KIN “social phones.” “Social phones” sound to me like phones [...]
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Gorgeous blogger and vintage-clothing purveyor Miss Peelpants (aka Liz) alerted me to an Ossie Clark dress on eBay (aka, as Liz Tweeted, “the Bay of E”) that had the same Celia Birtwell print as an Ossie I recently bought from Miss Peelpants herself. There was a different color scheme though, so if even if you [...]
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Thanks to my designing friend Christian Francis Roth (of the Francis clothing line), I’ve developed a graffiti obsession. So I was totally craving this stupendous vintage graffiti bathing suit from Rice and Beans Vintage. If it weren’t so difficult to get the fit right on a bathing suit — challenging enough in person but more [...]
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We started out the day with lunch at L’Avenue with our Paris-based friend James Lieber. Thanks for lunch, James! After lunch, MrB and I headed to an exhibition of graffiti art called Born in the Streets. (You can read more about what was in the exhibit on the Francis blog.) I was thrilled to be [...]
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I first went to London when I was 15. During that trip, I bleached my bangs blonde and got my left ear pierced for a second time. When I arrived home, my mother was very upset about these things. Good thing I didn’t tell her that I smooched a 20-something guy during the whole flight [...]
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Last week, I went to see “Whole in the Wall,” an exhibit of graffiti art at the Helenbeck Gallery, accompanied by my designing friend, Christian Francis Roth, and my gorgeous, non-designer friend, Maggie Kneip. I wrote more about the show on my brand-new Francis blog today. Click here to check that out. As a bonus, [...]
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I saw this disturbing wall art when I was in Miami recently. It reminded me of a Charles Addams cartoon that used to bug me. Share and Enjoy:
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I got a nice note from John Varriano, the painter I posted about here, so I asked him for a photo of the New York Stock Exchange painting that I mentioned. Can you find the handsome fellow who intrigued so many ladies? Click to enlarge. For more on the very talented John Varriano, check out [...]
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As any man can tell you, there’s such a thing as “too soon.” In 2004, while I was working at Lehman Brothers, a colleague introduced me to a bartending artist who specialized in portraits of his bar’s customers. The artist also did a huge, action-packed painting of the traders on the floor of the New [...]
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