AP - "The Bold and the Beautiful" won drama series honors at the Daytime Emmys on Sunday, the CBS soap opera's first such victory in 22 years on the air.
AP - "The Bold and the Beautiful" won drama series honors at the Daytime Emmys on Sunday, the CBS soap opera's first such victory in 22 years on the air.
AP - "The Bold and the Beautiful" won drama series honors at the Daytime Emmys on Sunday, the CBS soap opera's first such victory in 22 years on the air.
AP - Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander will learn what his sentence will be for sexually assaulting aspiring models he lured to Los Angeles, only to be turned around and sent to New York where he faces similar charges.
(Reuters) Reuters - Columbia Records will release a series of soundtracks from Fox's upcoming musical drama "Glee," beginning with "Glee: The Music, Volume 1" on November 3. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 30 Aug 2009 | 10:38 pm
Reuters - Had Paramount put a number on this summer's successful "Star Trek" reboot it would have been XI, an instant indication of just how valuable the franchise has become.
Japanese couple, Kyoko Yamao (left) and Hiroshi Yamao, celebrate after winning the first place in the Tango Salon competition at the VII Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires, on August 29. Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 30 Aug 2009 | 10:14 pm
A Japanese couple has won the Seventh World Championship of Tango, dethroning Argentina, whose dancers have dominated the contest for years. Kyoko and Hiroshi Yamao, aged respectively 33 Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 30 Aug 2009 | 10:14 pm
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Rachael Ray" and "The Tyra Banks Show" won the talk show categories at the Daytime Emmy Awards for the second consecutive year on Sunday, while the women of "The... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 30 Aug 2009 | 10:11 pm
Highlights of the fall film slate (release dates are subject to change, and some films will play in limited release): ___ September: THE AGE OF STUPID: An archivist (Pete... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 30 Aug 2009 | 10:01 pm
Hollywood might be telling its own life story this fall, presenting a lineup of liars, phonies, smooth talkers, bloodsuckers and greedy old men. Granted, there are heroes in the mix,... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 30 Aug 2009 | 10:00 pm
The 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards was an event of firsts, lasts and one very Big Bird.
The Bold and the Beautiful won outstanding drama series, ending the CBS soap's...
It takes weeks for M.A.C. Cosmetics to prepare for Fashion Week. The company signed on to paint faces at 86 shows, which means the M.A.C. pro beauty team must create hundreds of beauty combinations and face charts to pitch at designer meetings before any makeup artist pulls out a single lipstick backstage. M.A.C. will unveil its new collections on the spring runways, and each new color or formula needs to be individually tested by Gordon Espinet, vice president of makeup artistry, and Nadine Luke, director of makeup artistry. We caught up with the beauty gurus on testing day to see how their process works. "We fuss with it and decide what we want to use backstage, and what will eventually go out to the consumer," says Espinet, noting that the products won't be available to consumers until March. Together they physically mangle products — crushing eye shadow, slicing lipstick, smudging blush, and if they're inspired, mixing new formulas. "This is the play time. We need to play with the colors, and see what we're working with. I'm looking for something to jump out at me. I'm looking for something to speak to me," says Luke. "It's like studying for the exam. If it's not done, you're screwed. Because you won't have what it takes to get it done backstage," she continues. "We put so much on that by the end of the day we end up leaving looking like drag queens."
Click ahead for a preview of M.A.C.'s spring collections, and see Gordon and Nadine test the products to find out which ones they want to take backstage at New York Fashion Week.
Inspiration, as we all know, can come from any source: music, art, literature, hell, even bodily functions. As we eagerly await the spring collections, we asked designers to give us one word to describe their upcoming shows. Most stuck to the rules, some did not. Read them and be inspired.
This season Milk Studios and M.A.C. have teamed up to offer designers a centralized alternative to showing in the Bryant Park tents. Some of spring 2010’s hottest shows — Alexander Wang, Proenza Schouler, ThreeAsFour, and many others — will take place at Milk this season. And while the tents will still host 63 shows, Milk is hosting a formidable 30. It’s the tents’ first major competition, if you will, in Fashion Week history. So what truly will be the place to see and be seen at this Fashion Week? Herewith, an empirical analysis based on several scientific factors.
PEOPLE-WATCHING Tents: The tents host 100,000 people over an eight-day period. The tent seats 1,100, the promenade 800, and the salon 350. You have a pretty good shot at seeing Anna Wintour, Hamish Bowles, Zoe Saldana, and four actresses from a CW show within one hour. But your chances of coming within arm’s reach of any? Slim at best. Milk:Milk’s runway on the second floor, where most of the shows will take place, has a capacity of 308 seated and 50 standing, while the main room for presentations has a capacity of 100 to 200. So you might not only see Anna Wintour, but you could very well then get pushed into her, only to turn around and realize Nina Garcia accidentally bumped you! Winner: Milk. Touching famous people — even accidentally — beats staring at them any day.
LOUNGING Tents: The tents offer the comfort of four backstage lounges, most of which have bars and free chocolate — some even taunt you by offering Pop burgers. You can read three days' worth of the Daily while consuming highly caloric treats in relative peace. Milk: M.A.C. and Milk offer one backstage lounge and one press room. So if a celebrity’s security team shuts down the lounge, you might be stuck wandering Chelsea, looking for a Starbucks in which you might kill some time. Winner: Tents. What more could you need than free Pop burgers, chocolate, and booze?
BATHROOMS: Tents: The hall of port-a-potties will be there, as usual. To IMG’s credit, they are the nicest port-a-potties (we really do appreciate the makeup mirrors) we’ve ever encountered. Milk: Milk has actual bathrooms on the eighth floor! And on the second floor! And in the Milk gallery! For a total of eighteen ladies' toilets, nineteen men’s toilets, and two VIP toilets. Winner: Milk. No one chooses port-a-potties over the loveliness of private stalls.
AFTER-PARTIES: Tents: No after-parties are held in the tents, ever. Winner: Milk, by default. Plus, we hear the coolest, sweatiest party of the week — Alexander Wang’s — is taking place there this season.
ALCOHOL: Tents: The tents will host five bars this season. Main alcohol sponsors include Chambord and Peroni, while other products will be available for sampling. Milk: Milk has no permanent bars, but is working with several liquor brands throughout the week. Winner: Tents. During Fashion Week, you need a bar in every corner.
HANGOVER REMEDIES: Tents: The tents guarantee a healthy supply of free cookies courtesy of Lu, free coffee courtesy of McDonald’s, and free water courtesy of One National Experience. Milk: Milk offers free Fiji water backstage and two full-time cafés on the second and eighth floors. WINNER: Tents. There’s nothing like going to your first show on Sunday morning only to be greeted by a girl in lederhosen unloading cookies for the select people who aren’t too embarrassed to take them.
SWAG: Tents: The tents have thirteen sponsors this season, many of which will readily woo showgoers with free cookies, raffles, flip-flops, pens, Post-It notes, specialty cocktails, what have you. Milk: M.A.C. and Milk are the sole sponsors — hopefully you’ll collect some free makeup. Winner: Tents. We’re suckers for guaranteed free sustenance and office supplies.
BUDGET-CONSCIOUSNESS: Tents: The cost of a runway in Bryant Park ranges from $25,000 to $50,000. Additional costs for hair, makeup, and styling vary by show. Milk: Thanks to M.A.C. and Milk, the spaces are donated — however, costs for anything that deviates from the standard setup must be covered by the designer. Winner: Milk. M.A.C. saves designers showing there at least $25,000.
FINAL SCORE: Tents: Four wins. Milk: Four wins.
It's a serious toss-up! Milk and M.A.C. are certainly putting in a lot of time and energy to ensure Milk is the home away from home to many an editor, buyer, and blogger this Fashion Week. But IMG’s tents are a haven of sponsorships, freebies, and cozy temperature-controlled lounges. We'll obviously have to wait for the lights to go up and the week to get under way before we can truly judge. It's another thing for us to obsessively compare notes about during an already obsessive week ... we genuinely can't wait to see how this unfolds!
As you may have noticed, August has been a little bit of a bad month for news. The only big stories have been the festering national debate over health care, and a handful of horrible, horrible things that you don't want to be left thinking about for too long. And that's before all those deaths.
Enter into this depressing news void a new class of headline-grabber. They're merry pranksters, thieves, runaways, and even, sometimes, terrorists. But of the best kind. They're the Animals of Summer! They give us something to talk about that isn't as depressing as anything people could come up with. Last summer, we had Monty the Monster of Montauk, Anderson Pooper, and Princess Chunk. This summer we have a raccoon cat burglar, peace-loving turtles, and, of course, hundreds and hundreds of potentially murderous birds. This slideshow is our tribute to them, because even if they're all out to get us, writing about them is still more fun than writing about the humans who are doing the same thing.
Five weeks ago, Los Angeles–based sperm bank California Cryobank launched a celebrity-inspired Donor Look-A-Likes service, which allowed clients to search for donors according to what celebrities the donors most resemble. The service, which is a catchy way of answering the question of what donors look like without having to actually reveal their pictures, was an instant hit: The company's website was inundated by inquiries (300 percent more than usual) from women who want their artificially inseminated progeny to look like David Beckham or Jon Hamm.
Now California Cryobank is diversifying again, with a move to New York — they'll be taking over Park Avenue Fertility, a small operation that had previously been mostly in the business of testing sperm rather than hawking it. It will be a few months before California Cryobank hangs its sign over the door, but New York women in the market for some A-list-looking semen can start searching online now.
The company’s process of attributing a celebrity to a donor could never be termed scientific. Male and female employees of varying ages make up the assigning committee. They meet, put each donor’s picture up on a projector, and then argue about whom he looks like. Scott Brown, California Cryobank’s communications manager, says it’s more complex than it seems. “There’s a lot that goes into it. It’s not just sitting in a room deciding who looks like Ben Affleck,” he says. “What sounded really easy got complicated when we realized that people see people in completely different ways. So we’re very concerned about misleading clients. One rule we made was that a donor never gets just one celeb. And one of our representatives can always get on the phone and explain.”
So far regular-guy-type actors Paul Walker, Greg Grunberg (from Heroes and Alias), Scott Caan, and Ben Affleck have garnered the most interest; Brown says guys with dark hair and blue eyes do best. Sportsmen are popular, too — Brett Favre, basketballer Luke Walton, and Jeremy Shockey in particular. If C- and D-list studs are more your style, Lance Bass, Adam Carolla, and Joe Rogan types make the celeb search engine, too.
Manhattan’s sperm banks don’t seem to be bothered by the company’s move east — or by its gimmick. “The idea of matching [donors] to some ideal has always been a goal. Different companies have different approaches,” says Stephen Feldschuh, chief operating officer of Idant Laboratories, a bank that sits in the shadow of the Empire State Building. “I’m not saying it’s a bad thing or a good thing. If they’re comfortable with it, that’s fine. It’s not something we’re considering.” Ty Kaliski, director of operations for Cryo International, is similarly unperturbed. “It’s something I never thought of. If it gives clients another picture, that’s great. With us it’s more important to speak directly to the client about the personality. And all of our clients focus on the health aspect.”
Ah, yes, the health of the donor — shouldn’t that be utmost in the minds of California Cryobank clients, too? “I think in their heads they know the medical history is most important,” Brown says. “But ultimately we’re all interested in what someone looks like. It’s what we do when we’re dating or meet someone. I didn’t ask my wife her medical history before I decided to marry her.”
In January just weeks before Fashion Week, Peter Som canceled his fall 2009 runway show. His label had abruptly split from its financial backers, Creative Design Studios, a division of Lord & Taylor LLC. They had been financing Som, whose runway shows in the tents drew the likes of Anna Wintour and André Leon Talley, for less than a year and a half.
The breakup was anything but a happy start to the New Year for Som. And he of all designers could have used one: He spent a good part of the last half of 2008 at the center of a whirlwind of rumors and speculation over whether he would be forced to step down from his position as creative director of Bill Blass, then owned by the financially troubled NexCen. In October, he finally resigned. Unable to financially support the label, NexCen shuttered Blass in December — a depressing process that involved laying off 60 employees, some of whom had worked there for twenty years.
But months later, Som finds himself in a very different place from a year ago. In May he signed a licensing deal with an Italian company to produce and manufacture his line. Though last season he showed his fall collection by private appointment only, he’ll show his spring 2010 collection in a presentation at Milk Studios. Yet it’s only the beginning of his comeback. Som has been fortunate enough to emerge from what was hopefully the worst of the recession with his label intact, but he continues to adjust to the harsh economic challenges his industry still faces. “For fall that was the depths of the recession, where there was no visibility for anybody — I don’t care who you are. Stores were going out of business left and right, no one was shopping,” Som recalls. “Hopefully we’ll get back to some semblance of normalcy. Nothing’s normal anymore.”
Up until fall 2009, Som had shown in the Bryant Park tents since the spring 2001 season. And perhaps in a perfect world, he’d be back there this season. “I think the times call — at least for me — for something a little more intimate,” he explains. “I do hope to be back to the runway soon.” The presentation he’ll stage at Milk in just a few days is the first in his career. It’s all part of having an open mind in an age where nothing’s normal. “Anything you’ve said no to before, you should look at it in a different way.”
Though he hopes to return to the runway soon, he’s excited to be downtown trying a new format. As when buyers visited his showroom privately to see the fall collection, guests this season will be afforded a long, close-up view of his clothes. Showing privately last season prompted him to choose this format for spring. “It ended up being a very nice experience just to show clothes and just show all the details, certain things with a big fashion show that you can’t kind of show,” Som notes.
The spring collection is a little larger than the collection he showed last season, which you can buy in stores like Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, and Kirna Zabête. He designed the collection, naturally, with the economy in mind. “I have to make sure that every piece I design is special and unique,” Som says. “People don’t come to me for basics. They come to me for print and for color and for happy clothes.” Som was hesitant to reveal too much about the collection, as designers are wont to do, but offered: “I’m at heart kind of a beach bum and I love summer days by the beach, so I was thinking about that.” His team is working with a set designer to put together something special.
A presentation isn’t the only new thing Som is exploring in the age of the new normal. He says he’s working on “lots of things,” but it’s too soon to discuss them. Might one be the diffusion line for a chain like Target or H&M he’s said he wants to do? “Kind of like I said, I mean, we’re looking at all different kinds of options,” he answers coyly. Som was a guest judge on Bravo’s Project Runway replacement The Fashion Show, and wouldn’t exactly be opposed to becoming a reality-TV star in his own right. “Never say never,” he says, again coyly. “Sometimes opportunities come at strange times, so it’s an exciting time.”
Som acknowledges, “Definitely, at some point I’d like to be back on the runway — there’s nothing like showing your clothes with music and a full vision.” But he doesn’t feel like he’s sacrificing anything this time around, and is confident his presentation will showcase his work at “a similar level of impact.” One thing racks his nerves, though: “I didn’t realize during a presentation that I’m out there. I thought I could be backstage like a normal show having a nervous breakdown.” At Milk he’ll have to hear everyone talk about how much they like (or dislike) what they see right away. But he’s happy with his work so far. “I think it feels very kind of me, and kind of, you know, colorful and a little crazy.” The last year certainly has been.
In the summer of 1904, as the New York subway system neared completion, a New York Times journalist tagged along with then-mayor George McClellan and his associates on a tour of the new system. “With the temperature above ground such that men and horses were dropping in the streets, the Mayor of New York and his party rode about under the city with coats buttoned close and in perfect comfort,” the reporter wrote. With the dank underground air, the “temperature could not have ranged much above 70 degrees in any part of the subway.”
Turn-of-the-century commuters weren’t, it turns out, living in a better time. The mayor simply experienced the subway without the main factor that makes our waits so hot and uncomfortable: modern trains, with their heat-releasing brakes and air-conditioning systems belching humid exhaust. On an average New York summer morning 105 years later, it was 92°F in the sun outside the 86th Street, Lexington Avenue station, but down below, temperatures reached 96°. On the 14th Street platform it was also 96° — under the fans that blast air down from the ceiling.
New Yorkers aren’t alone in their suffering. The London Underground, which opened in the 1860s, has withstood summer temperatures as high as 116°. (The Underground posts signs advising customers to ride with water bottles, and its Cooling the Tube program has devoted a couple hundred million pounds to test efforts like putting massive blocks of ice in the trains.) The Paris Métro, which opened in 1900 and carries 4.5 million riders a day, also heats up in the summer — although it pumps in a perfume called Madeleine to mitigate the stench.
But hot, muggy conditions aren’t a necessary evil. Look at Washington, D.C.’s underground train system. In a Washington Post article earlier this month, a reporter visited eighteen different D.C. stations and found that the hottest ones peaked at 90°F, while the coolest topped out at 79. While D.C. suffered under the same mid-90s heat as New York, its stations averaged temperatures in the mid-80s.
So what makes the capital’s system so comfortable? The Washington Metro, opened in 1976, was built extremely deep, where the air is naturally cooler. (The city’s Wheaton Station is at the bottom of a 508-foot escalator, the longest automated stairway in the Western Hemisphere.) The heat from train air conditioners and brakes dissipates more readily under D.C.’s high ceilings. But more important, the D.C. system was built with “chiller units,” which use water to cool incoming air. The 47 underground stations each have between three and thirteen of these units, depending on their size and layout.
There’s little formal ventilation in the majority of New York City stations. Instead, air is passively released through ceiling grates and circulated when trains blast through the tunnels. (It’s impossible to provide air conditioning in stations, because the system wasn’t built with space for the machinery, and there are too many openings to the street.) In 1999, the MTA did begin installing a system called regenerative braking, which captures some of the released heat from the trains’ brakes and feeds energy back into the third rail, but that changed little.
However, New York’s system now has a few D.C.-style chiller units — some were installed in Grand Central’s 4,5,6 station during the Terminal’s recent restoration, and there are four in the brand new South Ferry station. The long-delayed Second Avenue line, now slated to open around 2018, will also utilize them. Says MTA Capital Construction chief engineer Joe Trainor: “There will be an air ventilation system in the Second Avenue line which will mechanically move the air around. It’s actually a system with ducts and fans.” Unfortunately, the MTA has no plans to install chillers in other stations. Charles Seaton, a spokesperson for NYC Transit, says the units go in the ceiling, and there’s just no room for them in the current system. We won’t see them, sadly, “in our lifetimes.”
Each season, a new crop of girls (and guys) comes strutting down the runways. But which ones will be the breakout stars? We found the season's top ten guys and girls, all of whom you'll be seeing plenty of come fashion week. And some of these could very well be the next Chanel Iman or Agyness Deyn. Hedge your bets now.
Sure, Anna is hoping that Fashion's Night Out incites a frenzied, citywide spending spree, reintroducing us to the long-forgotten joy of shopping. And while there are hundreds of tempting ways to blow your rent money on September 10 (one-of-a-kind Thakoon dresses! Limited-edition Helmut Lang leather jackets! Framed Jason Wu sketches!), the festivities also provide a tote bag full of opportunities (read: swag) for those recession-savvy shoppers among us. By our imprecise estimation, you can save at least $1,000 in beauty products, yoga memberships, clothes, manicures, updos, dinner, and more (not to mention the excessive amounts of Champagne and cocktails flowing among the racks). Check out our guide to the top twenty freebies and deals on fashion's flashiest night.
Bumble and bumble. 146 E. 56th St., nr. Lexington Ave. (212-521-6500)
Kick off your night with a glass of Champagne and a free styling session at Bumble and bumble. Rising stylists will be re-creating styles from the fall runway by request, so anything from a glam Oscar de la Renta pompadour to Zac Posen’s teased French twist is fair game. But are they capable of pulling off Dior’s wild, couture-worthy frizz? Savings: $150, the starting price of an updo at Bumble & bumble.
Gucci 725 Fifth Ave., at 56th St. (212-826-2600)
More than 100 retailers are selling the Fashion's Night Out T-shirt tonight at Vogue’s “suggested retail price” of $35 — Gucci is the only one giving them away for free to all who attend. We’re betting supplies will run out quick, so stop off early (and sample a few Gucci chocolates while you’re there). Savings: $35, the retail price of an official Fashion’s Night Out T-shirt .
Burberry 9 E. 57th St., nr. Fifth Ave. (212-407-7100)
Enter Burberry's drawing to win a classic trench. Brit model Lily Donaldson D.J.'s, and Champagne and canapés will be served. Sure, it's a long shot, but a $1,300 jacket would definitely curb our pouting over the approaching chilly, rainy weather. (Potential) Savings: $1,295, the price of a classic trench at Burberry.
Bergdorf Goodman 754 Fifth Ave., nr. 57th St. (212-753-7300)
On your way in, ogle Zac Posen painting one-of-a-kind creations in the front window alongside the exhibit "Extreme Beauty in Vogue," a selection of provocative photographs curated by Phyllis Posnick (the exhibit was on display at Milan's Palazzo della Ragione earlier this year). Inside, it only gets better. André Leon Talley hosts a Fashion Rules game show (teams led by Donna Karan, Linda Fargo, and Robert Verdi face off); Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen tend bar; and Isaac Mizrahiperforms a cabaret act (likely after a strong cocktail mixed by MK). Savings: $55, the price of Posnick's Extreme Beauty in Vogue book, out in October.
Juicy Couture 650 Fifth Ave., at 52nd St. (212-796-3360) Vogue editor-at-large Hamish Bowles — a man who has been known to let loose with some show tunes now and then — is singing Noel Howard classics at Juicy Couture. Afterwards, snap a few photos in the Juicy Couture gentleman’s salon, a spot reminiscent of Gela Nash-Taylor’s English manor featured inVogue’s September issue (except, you know, shrunken down to New York size). Skateboarding, tuxedo-clad waiters dispel any English stuffiness. Savings: Varying cocktail cash.
Saks Fifth Avenue 611 Fifth Ave., at 50th St. (212-753-4000)
Fulfill your latent celebrity fantasy and strut down the red carpet, which leads the way to the store's Fifth Avenue entrance. Donna Karan, Carolina Herrera, Peter Som, and other design idols will be mingling with shoppers. But the real deals are found in the beauty section, where there will be more than 7,000 cosmetics giveaways from Estée Lauder, Frederic Fekkai, Laura Mercier, and Tom Ford. You can also take advantage of complimentary brow-shaping services, while guys receive free clean-ups at John Allan's men's salon. Savings: $40, for brow shaping and beauty swag.
Giorgio Armani 760 Madison Ave., at 66th St. (212-988-9191)
Catch a reading by Nora Ephron and Rosie O’Donnell of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, an Off Broadway play written by Ephron sisters Nora and Delia. The show runs September 21 through December 13, and Rosie O’Donnell is part of the first leg of the rotating cast. Savings: $82.50, the price of a ticket to Love, Loss, and What I Wore, opening at the Westside Theatre on September 21.
Barneys New York 660 Madison Ave., at 61st St. (212-826-8900)
You may already be a couple cocktails in, so it's time to mingle with greatness while you’re still feeling sharp: Guests include Isabel Toledo, Narciso Rodriguez, Thom Browne, Alexander Wang, and more. Hone your signature walk with Wang, who will be hosting runway-strutting lessons, or take a knitting lesson with Wool and the Gang if you’re feeling crafty. And swing by the Sue Devitt beauty counter — the first 50 visitors get a free Eye Intensifier Pencil. Savings: $171, the price of a scarf-knitting kit by Wool and the Gang ($149) and a Sue Devitt Eye Intensifier Pencil ($22).
Unis 226 Elizabeth St., at Prince St. (212-431-5533)
Nolita is a prime neighborhood to indulge a free dinner on Fashion's Night Out (or several, depending on how you feel about gorging while surrounded by models). Swing by Unis for Thai food from former Nolita favorite Lovely Day (which was shuttered by a fire last October). D.J. Johnny Mischeff from the Jane Hotel spins. Savings: $15, cost of a typical meal at Lovely Day.
Tory Burch 257 Elizabeth St., nr. Prince St.; (212-334-3000)
Across the street, La Esquina is barbecuing (paired with Champagne — because it's Fashion Week, and Champagne goes with everything). Savings: $10, cost of two steak tacos at La Esquina.
Le Labo 233 Elizabeth St., nr. Prince St. (212-219-2230)
Browse the sweet-smelling wares at this Nolita perfumerie and receive a five-milliliter bottle of one of the scents from Le Labo's collection, ranging from rose to the so-hot-right-now patchouli. Savings: $17, the price of a five-milliliter "discovery-size" bottle.
Korres 110 Wooster St., nr. Prince St. (212-219-0683)
"Detox bar" sounds like kind of an oxymoron to us, but Korres is serving up cocktails based on the beauty brand's natural ingredients: wild rose, thyme, honey, and pomegranate. Makeup artists will offer complimentary touch-ups, and all visitors receive a gift bag full of Korres cosmetic, bath, and skin-care best-sellers. Savings: $12, the price of a Korres mini gift set.
Space.NK 99 Greene St., nr. Spring St. (212-941-4200)
Pick up a gift bag full of samples from Eve Lom, Nuxe, and Space.NK Laughter fragrance. Plus, complimentary face masks and mini-facials, if you're ready to call it a night at this point. Savings: $20 in beauty swag.
Chanel 139 Spring St., at Wooster St. (212-334-0055)
Belly up to the nail bar for a free manicure in Jade, Chanel's new limited-edition polish (the same pale, pistachio-green hue that we lusted after on the runway). If you run into buzz-killing lines, head over to Tracy Reese (641 Hudson St., nr. Gansevoort; 212-807-0505), where Sally Hansen manicurists will be offering complimentary nail services. (They're also serving drinks like the "Frocktail" and the "Plentini," which we're betting are pink.) Savings: $25, the price of a Chanel polish manicure at Wei Lang Spa nearby.
Opening Ceremony 35 Howard St., nr. Broadway (212-219-2688)
Join the Opening Ceremony block party, where Jack McCollough, Lazaro Hernandez, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Delfina Delettrez Fendi, Alexander Wang, and Scott Sternberg will be selling custom-made wares out of the back of befitting custom cars, like a VW Minibus (Proenza Schouler) and black van (Wang). Check out the Thai Tie truck nearby from Band of Outsiders, which will be selling clip-on bow ties and neckties and dishing out Thai-inspired desserts from Momofuku pastry chef Christina Tosi. Savings: $10, the price of a Thai Iced Tea Parfait at Momofuku Ssäm Bar.
C.O. Bigelow 414 Sixth Ave., nr. 9th St.; (212-473-7324)
Stop by C.O. Bigelow for a free tube of Mentha Lip Shine, a glossy balm scented with peppermint oil. The spot is also serving free sodas from a vintage soda fountain. Savings: $7.50, the price of Mentha Lip Shine.
Bird 203 Grand St., nr. Driggs Ave. (718-388-1655)
Bird is teaming up with Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai of Vena Cava to host a block party at the Williamsburg shop. The festivities include specialty cocktails, pizza, disco D.J.'s, and carnival games. (As an added bonus, Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos of Shipley & Halmos will finish the last leg of their beer-fueled Fashion's Night Out bike trek here.) Mayock and Buhai will be creating limited-edition T-shirt-style dresses from archival fabrics salvaged from their past ten seasons, priced at $100 a pop. Savings: $80, off the regular price of a Vena Cava T-shirt dress ($180).
Anna Sui for Target Pop-up 54 Crosby St., nr. Spring St. (no phone)
Get first dibs on the Gossip Girl–inspired Anna Sui for Target collection in this three-day pop-up shop. Consider it your chance to scoop up the affordable Blair and Serena dresses (prices range from $19.99 to $149) before they inevitably sell out. Savings: $400 or more, off the price of an Anna Sui collection dress.
Pure Yoga 203 E. 86th St., nr. Third Ave. (212-360-1888)
Scope out trunk shows for various athletic brands and pick up a free unlimited, weeklong yoga pass. Take a break from the gym to practice at any (or all) of Pure's twenty different yoga classes. Savings: $170, the price of a weeklong trial pass.
“Best I Ever Had”! For sixteen weeks we’ve been monitoring the Song of the Summer landscape — checking the charts, polling our friends, hanging out next to car-stereo shops — and now it’s all over, with Drake at the top of the heap. He couldn’t be here in person to accept the award, and also, we didn’t contact him to let him know about it, but if we had actually gotten in touch with him, and if he had actually responded, he surely would have let us know that he’s overjoyed.
Now, before a pitchfork-wielding mob descends upon Vulture HQ demanding to know how a track that never reached No. 1 on the Power Rankings (nor on the Billboard Hot 100) could be the Song of Summer, allow us to explain: As we see it, the only real competition for “Best I Ever Had” were the two Black Eyed Peas singles — “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling,” in case you haven't heard them — with which BEP collectively broke the record for most consecutive weeks atop the Hot 100. But while BEP might’ve had the overall edge on Drake, they managed it with those two blockbuster singles, and effectively split the summer. Meanwhile, like the apocryphal tortoise, “Best I Ever Had” stayed prominent from the beginning of the season to the end, achieving true ubiquity — and launching Drake, and his feel-good Degrassi-to-riches tale, into the upper reaches of stardom. And it doesn’t hurt that, unlike BEP’s candidates, “Best I Ever Had” never once made us want to donate our ears to charity. Finally, for what it’s worth, we honestly did hear more Drake out of passing automobiles than anything else this summer.
Now, for the genre winners. We’re going to start with the easy ones, giving Country SOTS to Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me,” Indie to Dirty Projectors’ “Stillness Is the Move,” and Throwback to Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.” Rock is a tougher call — honestly, there just aren’t many good options — so we’re crowning Pearl Jam’s “The Fixer” despite its late entry into the game. Pop might have had an even more disappointing showing, considering the expectations (and as long as you consider “I Gotta Feeling” an R&B song), but we have to admit that Cobra Starship’s “Good Girls Go Bad” totally grew on us. Young Money’s laid-back and honest-to-a-fault posse cut “Every Girl” takes Hip-hop, while the aforementioned “Best I Ever Had” takes R&B (with honorable mention to Keri Hilson’s terrible “Knock You Down”).
And that’s it! We leave you with a master list of every song that made even a blip on our SOTS radar. See you next summer.
Social competition is and will always be the central preoccupation of the country club set. It wasn’t so long ago that that unending game of casual one-upmanship was waged over canapés and cocktails, but the arena has changed: Now that everyone from Tinsley Mortimer to Lydia Hearst is on Facebook, Status Updates are the best way to assert your status. It’s not enough to share your most recent trip to Ibiza with a few of your clubby friends at the Rose Bar — it must be broadcast to hundreds of acquaintances (or in Peter Davis’s case, 5,001). The game’s still the same old Keeping Up With the Joneses — but now it’s weirder, more impersonal, and each word much be chosen carefully.
There are five key rules to using your status update to maximum status-signifying effect. Learn from the masters.
1. CAREFULLY NAME-DROP
In status updates, proper nouns are catchy — they lend an air of credibility and gravitas. But names must be dropped carefully! Give away too much, and you’re a braggart with no respect for personal privacy (“I’m having dinner with Anna Wintour!” How gauche). Give away too little, and it’s pointless (“I’m having dinner with a friend!” Great, so you have at least one friend). Here our updater thus utilizes the range of name-dropping from the overt to the obscure. Initially she lures us by dropping “Elaine’s,” the famously intellectual restaurant. Then she baffles us with the vague character BJF, a three-named hint of a man left mysterious. Finally she injects an easily solvable enigma for those interested enough to Google “June 16 Daily Show guest.” (Tom Folsom.) Expertly played, though perhaps we didn’t need it tied together for us at the end. Let your status speak for itself, darling!
In this case we’re met with the inscrutable acronym DA — discretion that veers into uselessness — but we are at least assured that the meeting is a “reunion,” which suggests that the moment will be charged with an enviable energy. And it will take place at Hotel Griffou, the new Beatrice Inn of the West Village. Whatever this mysterious reunion is, it will be fabulous.
2. UNDERSHARE FABULOUSNESS
Facebook status updates are like playful mind burps of the psyche meant to be shed with the same nonchalance as shoes at a threshold. Though you would be wise to merely spit out an update, the update’s very efficacy rests on the premise that it is an undercrafted ejaculation. Try too hard, and you will fall flat. Nevertheless, you must at least hint at your glamorous reality. Here our updater expertly teases with a beautiful if apocryphal photo. She leaves it to us to inquire under what circumstances it’s taken. Then, in the inevitable reveal, she closes in on the kill, casually revealing she was (a) in the Hamptons, and (b) with a man named Rufus (see rule No. 1).
In one word and three syllables, this updater communicates that she is in some sort of relationship with Nantucket — probably summering there, but it's left coyly unclear — and that she is sufficiently jaded by the island rat race. If only all writers could be as succinct and elliptical. She's the William Carlos Williams of updates.
3. COMPLAIN
Your life is worthy of envy, but it is not perfect — otherwise everyone would hate you, and we can’t have that. And so the fabulous undershare must strike a counterbalance, and the results can be fantastic. This updater’s status, nominally a complaint about a nasty hangover, is really a subterranean boast that (a) the updater has a Dionysian appreciation for the high life, (b) has rather limitless supplies of Rose [sic] wine, and (c) is in Ibiza.
Nothing stinks more than having a DVD collection made up solely of Criterion editions of French New Wave directors except, perhaps, being torn between your loyalty to art and your desire to watch Bill Murray in a onesie. You’re highbrow but love the lowbrow — you are the kind of person everyone wants to be friends with.
4. SELF-AGGRANDIZE VIA SELF-DEPRECATION
Your personal glories should be wrapped in the leaky sackcloth of self-deprecation. As we’ve mentioned, bragging is unacceptable. But when you simply happen to leak that you have a maid in the course of revealing a funny anecdote — you’re illiterate, ha! — you’ve broadcast your fabulousness without the incriminating prints of arrogance.
Here our updater plays coy with self-awareness, melding Complaint (Rule No. 3) with self-deprecation. With such a flimsy excuse to return to the Hamptons, this is the This is Spinal Tap of Facebook updates, a symbiotic system of ridiculousness, in both awareness of said ridiculousness and beneath that ridiculousness. Most likely written from the Jitney.
5. PROJECT
Taking a cue from Shakespeare’s King Lear, another avenue of the indirect boast is putting the goods in the mouths of fools, or in this case, foreigners. Our updater’s status would be diminished if it had read only “beautiful shorts,” but when it’s a strange foreign man who says it, we also have an opportunity for complaint (see rule No. 3).
By placing her bragging in the lying mouth of a subway stranger, this updater covertly asserts the prestige of her position and at the same time insulates herself against similar claims. Particularly masterful is the covert assumption here that her position is one sufficiently grand to be the ethereal stuff of A train boasting. [Note: She’s listed on the masthead as a contributing writer.]
Man at work: Rassi swings by Milk's in-house casting company, House.
Mazdack Rassi is standing in a gutted area on the second story of Milk Studios. The floor is covered with a dusty tarp, the air-conditioner unit was just installed, and the only decoration in the room is a gray rolling trash bin and a yellow ladder along the wall. "This will be ready for Fashion Week," Rassi asserts, looking up at the exposed ceiling. In just a few days, fashion designers like Peter Som and Vena Cava will show their collections in this space, along with nearly 30 other runway shows and presentations throughout the venue, which is almost double the amount Milk hosted last season. With its hip group of designers, this season Milk represents a real downtown alternative to the Bryant Park tents. "There was nothing above the first floor that could hold up to 300 people. Now there will be," Rassi says, while pushing away paper scraps with his feet. "The difference between Milk and the tents is that we don't set up our tents twice out of the year. We're here 365 days out of the year. And we do thousands of photo shoots. We are not a pop-up. What we do is real."
As the creative director of Milk Studios, Rassi, 39, is the man who orchestrates almost everything, including renovations, within the 80,000-square-foot space he co-founded twelve years ago. His penthouse office looks purposefully busy, just like him. Stacks of magazines and books by Jeff Koons and Bob Colacello are piled high along the borders, while framed photographs like a nude Kate Moss by Rankin and a signed print of Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry line the walls. Rassi calls Milk a "hub of creativity." This is where Vogue shoots its covers. ("They are always very special. If Anna approves them, we feel very humble," Rassi says.) Eva Mendes is swinging by next week for a campaign, and H&M booked the top floor for a spring shoot. Terry Richardson, David Sims, Greg Kadel, and Craig McDean — "not the Cipriani crew," as Rassi explains — shoot here regularly. In just a few hours, he'll fly to Los Angeles and set up another situation room just like this, after he puts his stamp of approval on Milk's new $16 million West Coast complement studio — a huge launch he's sandwiching in right before Fashion Week.
In less than two weeks, designers will show here.Photo: Melissa Hom
This season's Fashion Week strategy unfolded quickly. Rassi was on his honeymoon in Tuscany in June with his bride, Zanna Roberts, senior fashion editor at Marie Claire, when he confirmed plans with M.A.C. to provide services free of charge for the first M.A.C. & Milk Fashion Week. "It literally took, and I mean this, fifteen minutes to put our lineup together. I said to designers, 'Listen, this year, you're not going to have to pay. Just come and do your thing,'" he says. "We're not trying to be a charity. It's a real business. But for some people, they know this gives them another six months." Alexander Wang, ADAM, Costello Tagliapietra, and Preen all moved to Milk. And old friends Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler and Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders loved the new plan right away. "They're like Milk family," Rassi says.
Rassi heads to the second floor, where his Emmy-nominated film team, Legs, is busy brainstorming new multimedia methods for fashion designers to present their collections. Good news, they tell him: Temperley London's project is near completion — but Shipley & Halmos want to forgo their original idea and start again. Rassi's face shifts. "Does the budget still work?" he asks. "We're going to make the budget work," one answers. He smiles, seemingly pleased.
Then Rassi heads down the hall to House, the in-house casting company, which is handling the shows for Christian Cota, Marchesa, and several others. On the way, he passes six tall, pretty boys and girls sitting on the hall bench waiting for their moment to impress Edward Kim, director of print casting. Rassi stops just long enough to see Jeneil Williams posing for her Polaroid. "I step away from this process mostly," he says, looking to Kim. "But we'll usually get these shots to the designer tonight." Kim nods.
Back in his office, he plops down on his black chair. He puts three staffers on a conference call to check on the status of Sam Haskins. The famed photographer will set up an exhibition — his first in years — on the main gallery floor, mere hours after Proenza Schouler finishes their show, and it's time for finishing touches. Proenza triggers something in Rassi, and he's back in Fashion Week mode. "I'm not trying to be an alternative show space. I'm in the service industry. I'm in the creative industry. And if we stay true to those things, it's going to be a great week," he tells his team. "When people say we're stealing people away from the tents, I just say, most of our group were never the tent type anyway."
His BlackBerry pings mid-meeting, and he checks the time.
"Okay, what's next?" he asks them. But before anyone answers, he answers himself. "Los Angeles. Let's go."
If you ask most editors what shows they're excited for, the first name on their lips is invariably Marc Jacobs. But beyond the usual suspects, there's new talent (or talent new to the New York pool) this Fashion Week that we can't wait to see. From Prabal Gurung's internationally inspired collection to Rad Hourani's sophisticated designs and palette, these are our five designers to watch.
Before condos in Williamsburg started selling at a loss and weekend flights to L.A. dropped to under $200, New York's cocaine dealers were supplying good times to people who indulged like the party wouldn't end. Before the recession, "I was making deliveries every night of the week," says Eddie, a middle-aged man who exclusively deals cocaine. (All names have been changed.) At the height of his career, in early 2008, Eddie sold eight-balls to hipsters, financiers, and Upper West Side high-school students. "Back then, I could afford to pick and choose. If I didn't know the address — forget it. If I didn't like their accent — forget it. On most nights, there were more people wanting than I could get to." Sammy, another coke dealer, was equally aloof. "On weekends, I was making twenty house calls per night," he says, "And there were always 20 to 25 that got shafted."
Then the stock market crashed, and people started losing Sammy’s number. But he didn’t lose theirs. "It was a 646 number," says Nate, 26, who works at an investment bank; he got three calls from Sammy in one week. (Sammy's contacts — five years' worth — are stored in a small black notebook with cross streets, physical descriptors, and even sketches corresponding to each name.) When Nate called back, Sammy picked up right away: "He was like, Hey Nate, it's me, Sammy, where ya been?" Last November, Nate was forced to switch jobs, and took a notable pay cut. "It's not all fun and games anymore. I told him thanks but no thanks."
Damien, 27, who quit doing coke almost two years ago, has been contacted by three different cocaine dealers, all wanting his business, since June. "None of my friends mess with that anymore," Damien says, "It's like they grew up overnight when the banks died." Eddie was one of the dealers who has recently contacted Damien. When demand first dropped, Eddie took a vacation. But when the situation failed to improve, he decided to call every name in his phone book until he'd arranged a deal. "It worked," he says. "I'll keep doing it until it stops working. But I don't like small talk. I don't like having to ask them how their day was."
Having to reach out to customers isn’t the worst of it. "I see high-end guys hawking in parks now," says Sammy. "And these are guys that used to sell to Paris Hilton's crowd." For Tim C., a longtime street dealer whose headquarters are in Washington Square Park, the problem has trickled down. He’s now competing with those guys who used to do deliveries only: "They come in like they own the place, and take all my business." Things have been made worse by the fact that NYU freshman and other passersby are more resistant to his pitch. "These kids are clean," Tim says. "It sucks. You're gonna find me at the post office if this goes on for much longer."
The U.S. Open begins early tomorrow (breakfast is at 6 a.m.!). We’re certain to see our fair share of epic late-night marathons and the raucous crowds (for tennis) that Flushing is renowned for. But Opens are defined by their personalities, whether it’s an aging Pete Sampras winning his fifth in 2002, Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert’s battles in the early eighties, or John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors sweating and screaming their way through our country’s best-ever tennis rivalry. Here solitary souls compete, watched by the whole world, emptying their guts while fans sip vodka drinks and compare outfits. It’s a two-week party. Here are this year’s most compelling players, on both the women’s and men’s sides.
Women Kim Clijsters, Belgium. In May 2007, the 2005 Open winner announced her retirement, citing injuries and her desire to have a family (with former Villanova basketball player Brian Lynch). Well, she un-retired in March and has shown little rust: In tournaments in Cincinnati and Toronto, she beat four top-twenty players despite two years off and stretch marks. She’ll be unseeded at this year’s Open, but no one wants to play her.
Dinara Safina, Russia. The 23-year-old is the No. 1–ranked player in the world right now … something absolutely no one cares about because she has never won a Grand Slam title. (She was runner-up at the Australian Open and the French Open, and a semifinalist at Wimbledon.) Her brother is Marat Safin, who won the U.S. Open in 2000, and he’s an excellent older sibling: He gets very protective and big-brothery when someone questions his little sis. "I hope she can be No. 1 for a long time so she can prove to everybody that they can go fuck themselves," he said two weeks ago. Even though she’s No. 1, no one is giving her much of a chance at winning: British oddsmaker PaddyPower has her at an unimpressive 10–1 odds.
Maria Sharapova, Russia. Once the best player in the world (and certainly the most popular and downloadable), shoulder surgery kept her out of last year’s Open and has messed with service game this year. But her larger issue might be off-court activities: She’s been fighting with her coach, dealing with scores of obligations to her clothing line and corporate events, and openly downplaying her chances to win. She’s seeded 29th, which means her return to Flushing could be brief. She may face fellow Russian (and No. 4 seed) Elena Dementieva in the third round.
Serena Williams, United States. The overwhelming favorite, and why not? She’s the defending champ, she’s won Wimbledon and the Australian Open already this year, and she’s motivated to win her twelfth Grand Slam, which would tie her with Billie Jean King for sixth all-time. There are ominous signs, though: She hasn’t won any of her last sixteen non–Grand Slam tournaments, she has her fair share of off-court distractions (she and her sister just became part owners of the Miami Dolphins), and her motivation, particularly in matches against her sister, has always been in question. Still: She’s far better off than Venus, who has actually lost her last two matches. The two can’t play in the finals: If each keeps winning, they’ll meet in the semis.
Men Novak Djokovic, Serbia. You can have Andy Roddick: We’ll take the wacky Serb who does killer impersonations of other players on tour and is perfectly pleased to play the villain. His “rivalry” with Roddick boiled over last year at the Open, with Roddick questioning Djokovic’s “injuries,” Djokovic verbally bashing Roddick in return, and then beating Roddick while enduring scorn rained down by Flushing's fans. (The players could meet again in the quarterfinals.) Djokovic is colorful, goofy, emotional, and a total hoot to watch. You know, like tennis players used to be.
Roger Federer, Switzerland. What more can you say? He has won five straight Opens, and he’s looking to become the first to win six in a row, an especially impressive achievement considering he was the first in the Pro era to win five. He’s killing everyone on tour right now. He also won Wimbledon and finally got the French Open monkey off his back. Finally, he’s healthy, and in a happy state of mind after his wife gave birth to twins last month. If he loses, to anyone, it will be a monumental upset.
Andy Murray, United Kingdom. The U.K.’s Next Great Hope has made his power play this year, rising to No. 2 in the world (and No. 2 in the Open seedings). The rap on Murray is that he’s a passive player — those Brits! — and until he unleashes his inner maniac, the general consensus is that he’ll never have a Grand Slam title. But if he’s gonna “man up,” in the local parlance, Flushing’s the place to do it.
Rafael Nadal, Spain. Last year, Nadal came into the Open as a good bet to unseat Federer as the best tennis player in the world. (He also came in shirtless on the cover of this magazine.) He subsequently lost in the semis and struggled with injuries. (To be fair, he made a brief detour to win the Australian Open.) He admits he’s not at his best after taking two months off to rest his knees. The U.S. Open remains the one Grand Slam event he’s never won, but the draw sets up well for him: He wouldn’t face Federer until the final.
As August draws to a close and Hollywood runs out of blockbusters, we look ahead with great anticipation to the coming onslaught of small-budget, tear-jerking dramas about families destroyed by abuse, tuberculosis, and the apocalypse — awards season is almost upon us! So which movies and actors will compete for statues at next March's Oscars? Because it's early and we've seen almost none of the probable contenders yet, we have absolutely no idea — but there's no law that says we can't speculate anyway! With this year's expansion of the Best Picture category to ten slots, at least a couple of our predictions have to come true, right? After the jump, our premature picks for nominations in the five major categories, based on films' trailers and pedigree, things we read on Twitter, and our own infallible intuition.
Best Picture Predicted nominees: Jane Campion's poetry-tuberculosis drama Bright Star; Sundance-acclaimed coming-of-age story An Education; Kathryn Bigelow's IED thriller The Hurt Locker; Clint Eastwood's Nelson Mandela biopic Invictus; Peter Jackson's Heaven-set murder-avenging weeper The Lovely Bones; glitzy Rob Marshall musical Nine; the Oprah-endorsed inner-city incest drama Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire; John Hillcoat's Cormac McCarthy-adapting The Road; Pixar's Up; and Jason Reitman's George Clooney-starring Up in the Air. Other strong contenders: The Coens' A Serious Man, Mira Nair's Amelia, Terrence Malick's Tree of Life, Armando Iannucci's In the Loop, and Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are.
Best Director Predicted nominees: Jane Campion (Bright Star); Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker); Clint Eastwood (Invictus); Rob Marshall (Nine); Peter Jackson (The Lovely Bones).
Other strong contenders: Practically anyone who directed any of the above picks for Best Picture.
Best Actor Predicted nominees: George Clooney (Up in the Air); Daniel Day-Lewis (Nine); Morgan Freeman (Invictus); Viggo Mortensen (The Road); Sean Penn (Tree of Life. Other strong contenders: Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker); Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man).
Best Actress: Predicted nominees: Abbie Cornish (Bright Star); Carey Mulligan (An Education); Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones); Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia); Hilary Swank (Amelia). Other strong contenders: Emily Blunt (The Young Victoria); Penélope Cruz (Broken Embraces); Michelle Monaghan (Trucker); Charlize Theron (The Burning Plain).
Best Supporting Actor Predicted nominees: Matt Damon (Invictus); Richard Kind (A Serious Man); Alfred Molina (An Education); Kodi Scott-McPhee (The Road); Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds).
Best Supporting Actress Predicted nominees: Marion Cotillard (Nine); Penélope Cruz (Nine); Judi Dench (Nine); Mo'nique (Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire); Rachel Weisz (The Lovely Bones).
Did we leave something out? Feel like making a case for a movie you haven't seen yet either? Let us know in the comments.
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