[8 posts tagged “Fashion.”]

Editor TV interviews Metropolitan Home Editor-in-Chief Donna Warner

What's more fun than attending a party? Working a party! Just ask Joyce Wadler, the NYT scribe whose defunct Boldfaces Names column was recently resurrected in the Home section as Seen. (Yes, the interior-design crowd revels so frequently it deserves its own gossip column.) What's more fun than Seen? Editor TV, of course! Since hooking up with The Editor at Large, I've been hitting fine fetes around town—film crew in tow! Donna Warner, EIC of Metropolitan Home was one of Editor TV's first interviews, and she's not the only one to be put on the spot. Boldface designers from Christopher Coleman to Thom Filicia to Amy Lau to John Saladino are among our conquests. Next up: the grand opening of the new Buck House.

photo by Martha Holmes, 1949, care of Life

I'm bounding out of town again (Istanbul this time), but before I board, I leave you with a story published in The Cut today. Secret agents, high fashion and hilarious hijinks--all the fun of a Fifties flick in a neat bloggy package.

Happy Fashion Week! On Saturday we spotted Hoon Park, a Korea-born art student who pulls off jodhpurs with gusto. Guess how many passersby asked if he was Jason Wu? Exactly three.
Student-intern-model Nick Palmer in Soho

This kid walked straight off the streets of Berlin and into my heart. Not really. Truth: he was shopping with a friend and we tore him away for a Video Look Book!

It didn't make the clip, but this newly signed model (and Obedient Sons and Daughters intern and Parsons freshman) told me that his dream would be to photographed by Hedi Slimane. In his Dior Homme days, don't you think Hedi would have been head-over-heels for Nick?

On the Christina, right, DIY polka-dot eyeglasses--a girl after my own heart.

Sasha and Michelle Obama; first daughters, Malia and Sasha

The sartorial surprise-hit at today's inauguration? Not Aretha's hat or Michelle's dashing Isabel Toledo getup but the effervescent color donned by Obamettes: Sasha and Malia. Back in November when the Obamas took the stage at Grant Park, I was crushed to see little seven-year-old Sasha in head-to-toe black. Girl, you have your entire life to don basic black, but only in your youth can you rock out in pink and orange.

When the writing and crafting starts making me feel like a hobbit, I hit the streets with New York Magazine's Jonah Green to film Look Book videos for nymag.com. We loiter around Union Square, leering at pedestrians and muttering 'what about her?' and 'how 'bout him?' until we attack the subject with our pitch: tell us about your personal style. On camera. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but we always learn interesting things. Here's Jermaine. For more Video Look Books, go here.