Vanity Fair has been publishing an International Best Dressed List for over 70 years now, and this week they released their 2010 List. I love Vanity Fair, it is a magazine that takes more than 15 minutes to read, cover to cover, and it contains interesting content, something that many magazines fail to deliver in this day and age. But the International Best Dressed List is lame, predictable, and boring.

I guess Vanity Fair isn’t about to include anyone who isn’t ultra rich and famous, but it would be far more interesting to see a list of people who manage to look incredibly stylish on a salary less than $50,000 a year. The people on this list should not be commended for dressing well, they should simply be shot down if they don’t. There’s no excuse, with massive amounts of money and style consultants at your disposal, not to look good.

Here are some of the “Best Dressed” individuals, and my comments.

I love…

the way Carey Mulligan dresses, although this photo, chosen by Vanity Fair, is definitely not one of the better ones I have seen.

Diane Kruger in this Calvin Klein dress. Even thought she's an A-lister and probably has a stylist, you rarely see actresses pulling off a simple dress like this. And well done to her for not being all about leg and cleavage.

Lady Gaga. No matter what people say, you can't deny she is a breath of fresh air with her crazy outfits.

Martin Scorsese's eyebrows, does that earn him a spot on the Best Dressed List? Maybe not, but out of all the boring suited-men on the list, he is definitely the one who comes closest to earning a spot.

that Michelle Obama has proved that First Ladies don't need to be all about Oscar de la Renta and conservative pastels.

I loathe…

that working at Vogue and not wearing makeup entitles you to a spot on the Best Dressed List (although perhaps Emmanuelle Alt, who has the same credentials, could have been on the list a few years ago.). This photo clearly demonstrates that Alexandra Kotur is not "Best Dressed" at all.

spoilt kids living in the shadow of their stylish Mom (Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld.) Neither Julia nor Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld are particularly well-dressed. I'd give them an award if they actually both managed to get a real job and prove their worth, rather than just doing "creative" things and getting credit because their Mom is famous.

that Carla Bruni Sarkozy is on this list. She is gorgeous, and super well-dressed, but she is an ex-supermodel and First Lady of France. She HAS to be well-dressed! And how can she not be, with all that Dior clothing?

fashion magazine editors on a Best Dressed List. Again, this is part of their job description. It is like congratulating an gardner for planting a flower. This is Cindi Leive, Editor in chief of Glamour.

that someone who dresses reasonably well, but is married to the worst-dressed woman in the world, is allowed to be on this list. Sorry David Beckham, but your wife brings you down.

that the three people who count Ralph Lauren as their father, are on this list. How hard can it be to dress well if you've got one of the world's most famous fashion designers as your father?

All images taken from the Vanity Fair website.

Kim Kardashian: If personal style will dictate her fashion designs, we are in trouble.

WWD announced yesterday that the Kadashian girls (Kim, Khloe and Kourtney) will be launching an apparel, home, and accessories line in partnership with an Australian manufacturer. This is the same company that brought us a licensed shapewear collection in partnership with TV show “The Biggest Loser”, and bed linens by Priscilla Presley. Top notch stuff, folks.

Can we all join forces and try and convince the world that this crap should not, under any circumstances, be bought by anyone? There is only one reason stuff like this is launched, and it is because the company behind it thinks they will make money. If no one buys it, there won’t be any more of these ridiculous launches. Let’s all start buying clothing designed by DESIGNERS. Not celebrities. Not wannabe celebrities. And certainly not fake tanned, fake-boobed reality TV stars.

Kim Kardashian image source.

The latest model-designed collection is coming from French fast fashion retailer Morgan. They have collaborated with British model Daisy Lowe to create a capsule clothing collection which will be available in France and online. I almost fall asleep at the thought of another model-daughter-of a-sort-of-famous-couple collaborating with another desperate-to-get-some-attention-cheap-fashion-brand.

The clothing appears to be nothing special at all, and the Daisy, who is usually quite cool, looks like a drag queen in some of the photos. A failure all round, I’d say. And it is boring even before it hits the stores. Can we all please stop buying into this crap? Brands will only continue to launch celebrity collaborations if there is a market for it. If no one buys it, we will be free of this rubbish. Can’t we all just buy fashion brands that are designed by fashion designers? Or is that too much to ask?

All images from the Huffington Post.

A typical Hollister image.

A couple of things have come to my attention this week, which has made me laugh. Maybe I am cruel, having laughs at others’ expense, but I thought I’d share them with you.

Bedbugs invade Hollister’s New York store. Ok, I know this isn’t funny if you brought bed bugs home, or you work there, but there is something ironic about a frat boy brand being invaded by bed bugs. The Cut posted this interesting interview with one of the bed bug experts who worked with Hollister to “get rid” of the problem. The suggestion that it may be a problem from the warehouse, rather than one particular store, is terrifying, well, not for me because I wouldn’t set foot in Hollister, but anyone who has gone into in a Hollister store in the past few weeks. Apparently they lost millions of dollars by being closed over the July 4th weekend. Oops…

Victoria Beckham is named Creative Director at Range Rover. At least now I know I will never buy a Range Rover. I am curious about the market research Range Rover did in order to come to the conclusion that Victoria Beckham would be an asset rather than a liability to their brand. I can’t see any respectable Range Rover customers identifying with her, she is the opposite of luxury and class. But perhaps they are trying to target a new customer, the one who admires Victoria Beckham: do you know any 18 year olds who wear fake Louis Vuitton and fake tan, who can afford a Range Rover? The worst part if that UK Vogue was involved in the launch.

Lady Gaga's crazy eyes in her Bad Romance video.

Lady Gaga started an “eye” trend. Apparently “circle” lenses, which make your eyes appear larger, are the latest trend thanks to Lady Gaga’s giant irises in her Bad Romance video. The problem, according to this article in the New York Times, is that the “circle” lenses are not legal in the US, so Gaga fans are buying contraband versions from dodgy websites. A representative from the Food and Drug Administration suggests that illegal contact lenses could make you go blind. Are you willing to risk blindness to look more doe-eyed?

Lindsay Lohan is going to jail! Am I mean to have laughed out loud when I watched this BBC video of a pathetic Lohan crying when she finds out she is going to prison for 90 days? I don’t think so. If you violate your probation, you go to prison. And I am so happy that the US courts aren’t making exceptions for her because she is a celebrity. I don’t feel sorry for her at all, this is the first time she can proudly be a role model for her fans: don’t drink and drive, and don’t do drugs, or you’ll go to jail like me. What do you all think? Is it good that Lindsay is going to jail?

Lady Gaga image from Youtube and Hollister image courtesy of their website.

Gisele modelling for Calzedonia, with her "post-baby flat stomach." Incidentally, Calzedonia is possibly my favourite swimsuit brand in the entire world

I think it is great that Gisele has managed to get herself in shape so quickly after giving birth, but I really don’t need to hear about it. Every day. First of all, it sure helps that she has enough money to employ staff to ensure that she eats well, exercises, the baby is entertained, etc… So she definitely has an advantage over normal people. But also, this is another one of those screwed up messages we are sending out to the world…”you must have a perfect body 6 months after having a baby…” It is not feasible for most, especially those who have more than just 5 photos shoots and a bunch of breast feeding between birth and 6 months.

This goes back to the plastic surgery the teens are having…when the media wastes column inches (printed or online) going on and on and on about the perfection achieved by the world’s most beautiful and richest women, it makes it tough for the rest of the world to catch up. And people begin to start doing stupid things (like getting a nose job so that your sunglasses look better. Christ.)

I think Gisele is beautiful, and I love seeing her in catwalk shows, campaigns, etc.. So can we just look and admire, rather than having to listen all the time about how flat her stomach is? She’s a supermodel, that’s her bloody job. Baby or not.

Here’s some of the countless articles (mostly from high quality publications, of course) talking about her “baby body.”

People
Anything Hollywood
The Cut
Skinny vs Curvy

Image courtesy of Calzedonia.

STOP, one of Walter Cessna's magazines.

I was first introduced to Walt Cessna (well, introduced in the phone/email sense, since we have never met in person) through an American brand development agency, Lambesis. We were both doing trend reports for them (and Mandana Towhidy was our editor, read more about her here.) Then I noticed he contributed to Diane Pernet’s blog, A Shaded View on Fashion, which is pretty much one of the best insider fashion blogs out there. So thanks to Mandana, I was able to set up an interview with him for Fashion Chat, and it wasn’t until then that I realized that Walter Cessna is a GEM. His stories are insane. Read on, and enjoy.

Here’s the deal with the Fashion Chat interviews: they are done on Skype or Gmail using the chat function. I do edit them down a bit, but try and keep the general flow of the conversation. And I definitely sort out the spelling mistakes, since I am guilty of very bad writing when I’m chatting and typing very quickly.

Alexandra Suhner Isenberg: How was your day?

Walter Cessna: ok. I’m in Florida taking care of my mom till Thursday and booking my summer schedule- I’m in 5 shows this summer and trying to do about 50 portraits before September. Also, I just started a new short story cause I write quite a bit when not shooting.

ASI: All photography shows? What cities?

WC: All NYC. Just had a one man show in Feb to coincide with the release of my first photo book, FUKT 2 START WIT.

ASI: Where can we buy the book? (see image below)

WC: http://www.blurb.com/books/1183261

ASI: The bio on your website is SUPER impressive. I was particularly excited by the fact that you were working as a fashion designer in your teens, and that you managed to sell your anti-fashion zine, THE KEY, to a major publisher at the age of 17. With the help of fashion designer Norma Kamali. How the hell did you manage that? Tell us the story.

WC: Ok, I was very lucky to be friended by the late make-up artist Way Bandy, who gave my zines to the late Stephen Sprouse, who I did a bit of modeling for. Between him & Norma I was introduced to a publisher and that became my first of 4 independent publications.

ASI: You were SO young. I started in the industry young (although not as young as you, I was on the design team at Sonia Rykiel when I was 20) Are there any disadvantages to starting off so young?

WC: I started at 12 on 7th ave as an assistant at Jack Mulqueen. Went back to school, ran away to Hollywood, got arrested, convinced my folks to emancipate me and started working full time at 15 for Fenn Wright & Manson, then Carol Horn, then a string of India-based junior sportswear companies. I stopped once I sold my zine.

Then I started writing & styling full time for mags like Elle, The Village Voice & Interview, but at the same time I published 3 more mags- The Form, STOP & CSNA (which I was sued by Louis Vuitton for.) I was obsessed with fashion as a child and my mom taught me to sketch fashion illustrations.

ASI: Wow, you have been in the industry a long time, but started at such a young age, that you are still young. What do you love about all the changes that have taken place in fashion and media over the past 10-20 years? Does anything scare you about the way the industry has changed?

WC: I dropped out of the biz in 2006 after working as an editor at PAPER. My last shoot was with Mike Ruiz and I was sick of being an editorial stylist considered too edgy for advertising so I was always broke. Plus, pardon the expression, I was sick of cunty, pretentious, bitchy fashion trolls and the whole luxury/celebrity thing. BORING

As for disadvantages starting young, I really didn’t have a childhood, was given way too many drugs at a young age by adults who treated me like I was one, and was going out to clubs every night from the age of 14. Mudd, Danceteria, Area, Palladium. Plus I worked at all of them producing fashion shows.

Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails, styled by Walter Cessna.

ASI: The stylist thing leads to my next question. You’ve styled some pretty amazing stars, like Trent Reznor and The Beastie Boys, any fun/crazy/interesting stories you can tell us?

WC: I was friends with the Beasties until they kicked Kate Schellenbach out of the band so they could go more rap and she was my best friend and assistant at the time. As for Trent, I styled the Downward Spiral tour and CD and was the first stylist he ever worked with. I had (Stephen) Sprouse do him for the cover of STOP in 90 and by 93 I was working with him. He was cool, but paranoid about the fact that it might get out he was working with a stylist.

After that I did Milla (Jovovich) for the cover of High Times and then worked on her CD. My last band was The Crystal Method – nice boys, but too much speed.

ASI: Yeah, The Crystal Method and speed probably go hand in hand.

Milla Jovovich for High Times, styled by Walter Cessna.

WC: The Beasties used to hang out at my apartment and eat Smurfberry Crunch. Trent was rather cool and I used all the money from that to start my own line called Dom Casual, which was carried in Patricia Field & Macy’s until I was sued by American Airlines, for stealing their blankets and turning them into mini dresses.

ASI: Amazing! I thought everyone stole airline blankets from time to time. I guess we don’t all sell them as dresses though…

WC: (Harper’s) Bazaar shot one and the president saw it and sued me. But I called The New York Times and turned it into great press which helped me finance a series of short films based on a series of short stories I had been writing for Paper, most notably CHILDREN OF THE RAVE & THIS IS NOT A LOVE STORY. This is like a year before Kids (the movie directed by Larry Clark.)

ASI: Fuck, you are so on the ball!

WC: I also had a model agency at the time called The Top, where my kids included Chloe Sevigny, Glenn Fitzgerald & Julianne Nicholson.

ASI: So, speaking of bitchy fashion trolls and the whole luxury/celebrity thing, what do you think about the celebrity stylist that exists today, the Rachel Zoes and Patricia Fields of this world. How has that changed for other stylists? I mean, they suck, but are they necessary, in a way? or just a total waste of space.

WC: I actually like Rachel Zoe because when she does style editorial she turns it out, but she’s no Grace Coddington. Now that’s a genius. Celebrities are necessary but overrated, that’s why it’s nice to see Lara Stone, Karen Elson and Karly Kloss. I think people like Andre Leon Talley, Hamish Bowles and all those Vogue trolls should be shot.

ASI: Agree, I was just getting annoyed today about the fact that Anna Wintour decided there needs to be more resort catwalk shows, and therefore everyone is doing it. I don’t get how the hell she manages to force everyone to do MORE work, like they aren’t busy enough with their 18 collections a year, fast fashion collaborations, Twitter, posing nude (Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs), whatever…

WC: The era of Anna shall soon be over, but I have a feeling she will be replaced by something even more evil. Marc was actually a very good friend of mine back in the day, but when I got sued by LV for putting a converted LV bag turned into a bondage mask on the cover of my mag CSNA, he wouldn’t even take my calls. I guess if I had that body I’d show it off too, but maybe a bit less obviously.

The cover of CSNA magazine featuring the bondage mask made out of a Louis Vuitton monogram bag.

ASI: Yes, I have met him before and he is really cool, I just think the naked perfume ads are lame.

WC: I did it (the Louis Vuitton bondage mask) originally for PAPER but Kim (Hastreiter, editor & publisher of PAPER) pussied out because they advertise. Plus she has got to be the biggest poser ever. She pays no-one but buys $8000 bags. GROSS

ASI: Don’t hate me for asking this, but I am sure you’ll have something fun to add to my collection of anti-SATC2 quotes. Sex and the City 2….what are your thoughts? Do you give a shit? Love to hate? Or were you at opening night?

WC: SO over it. Pat Field has become the worst excuse for a fashion insider. The show was great cause it always had a bit of a lesson at the end. The movies are an exercise in over aged style masturbation masquerading as some kind of mid life fulfillment with too many accessories and really obvious product placement – Hello, Sarah Jessica Parker & Halston…TACKY

ASI: The Halston thing makes me want to cry, cause I love him. His stuff, and Helmut Newton, are my go-to’s when I need inspiration. Now the brand is going to be ruined. It’s depressing.

WC: Me too!

The Get Christy project.

ASI: Tell us about the Get Christy project. The photos look amazing.

WC: My father was dying of cancer and I was stuck in Pennsylvania caring for him. My boyfriend saw my sketches and said I should make them 3D, so I got a black Barbie (cause the blonde is so tired) and started creating all these mini felt dresses. Then I got a digital old skool floppy disc camera and realized if I shot them solarized they looked almost alive. So in 3 years I made 500 dresses, took 5000 photos and had a very personal relationship with over 20 dolls that I customized and redid. MAC saw the pictures and sponsored my show in San Francisco. I lied and said the make-up was MAC. It was all Sharpies.

ASI: Sharpies are the best. My dad gives me mini ones that attach to a key chain.

WC: I got more emotion out of those dolls than I ever did with some of the biggest models I’ve worked with, and I’ve worked with them ALL. I’m going to do a book on the whole thing after my next one. It’s called THY WILL BE DONE and documents a 3-year relationship with my ex, Will. Very Nan Goldin meets Larry Clark with better lighting.

More images from the Get Christy project.

ASI: Nice. I lecture a lot of fashion students (and there are WAY more of them today then compared to 10 years ago.) What would you say to people trying to break into the industry now?

WC: GO FOR IT! If you’re looking to make $ though, give up your soul because it just doesn’t work that way anymore.

ASI: Yup, too true.

Cover of STOP magazine.

WC: This is the best time ever for new fashion. Just check out Diane Pernet’s site. She proves it every day.

ASI: I was going to ask you about her, but I am running out of time. I love her blog.

WC: I contribute to her blog.

ASI: I know!

WC: She is my HERO!

ASI: I love her too. So, aside from you and Diane, who else is doing amazing things at the moment? Anyone we should be checking out?

Walter Cessna, self portrait.

WC: I live for the performance art scene in NYC which hasn’t been this exciting since the 80’s. LEA PECKRE is my favorite designer right now. PERIOD. I still live for Isabel Toledo and there will never be another Sprouse or McQueen.

ASI: RIP

WC: Ditto. And Beth Ditto is my fashion icon.

ASI: I’d like to chat to her, I’m curious.

WC: Me too!

ASI: That’s it! Thanks SO much.

Check out Walter Cessna’s website and Facebook page.

Read other Fashion Chat posts:

Fashion Chat: Mademoiselle Robot

Fashion Chat: Nixxi

Fashion Chat: Mandana Towhidy

Fashion Chat: Bon Bon Bodywear

The CFDA awards took place last night (Council of Fashion Designers of America.) The red carpet was marginally more palatable than most events, probably because we are looking at fashion designers’ outfits, rather than celebrities. Fashion designers know more about getting dressed than celebrities do (that’s their job!) Despite this, there were some grim ensembles, but on the most part, everyone looked good.

Here are some of the award winners, and my comments.

Board of Directors Special Tribute: Alexander McQueen
-He deserves it, obviously

Womenswear Designer of the Year: Marc Jacobs
-Marc, you are fantastic, but it is boring if you win stuff every year.

Swarovski Award for Womenswear: Jason Wu
-You dress MObama = you get awards.

International Award: Christopher Bailey for Burberry
-Boring. Christpher Bailey is fantastic, but moving on please!

Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award: Michael Kors
-For using the most amount of camel in his collections, and being the most American.

Eugenia Sheppard Award: Paper’s Kim Hastreiter
-Read what Walter Cessna says about her on Thursday in my next Fashion Chat post. He has some great gossip. I’m not sure she deserves this.

L’Oréal Popular Vote Award: Ralph Lauren
-Popular vote? I guess this makes the USA one of the most boring countries in the world.

I love…

Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer in Michael Kors. She looks so fresh and happy. But who wouldn't be happy with that family fortune?

BeeShaffer in Thakoon and Anna Wintour in Carolina Herrera. This may be the first compliment Anna has ever gotten from me.

Betsey Johnson with her daughter Lulu. I am not a fan of her designs, but at least they "represent" and are great poster girls for the brand.

Gaby and Donna Karan. Another great mother/daughter brand ambassador combo.

JasonWu and Rachel Weisz in Jason Wu. That dress is beautiful. I'll bet MObama has one.

Joseph Altuzarra and Vanessa Traina in Joseph Altuzarra. She looks fantastic in that sharp, sexy dress. Too bad she is just another "waste-of-space-heiress."

Rachel Zoe in Marc Jacobs. We certainly can't accuse her of changing her style every season. At least it suits her.

Sarah Jessica Parker in Alexander McQueen. The dress looks stunning. And this is probably the last time we are going to see her out in public wearing something other than Halston Heritage, so let

I loathe…

Alexa Chung in Marc Jacobs. The dress is quite nice, but she looks frumpy and out of place.

Doutzen Kroes in Michael Kors. How can one of the hottest women in the world (even I have a crush on her) end up looking...so lame. The dress is boring, frumpy, and predictable, the shoes are disgusting, and her hair makes her look fifty. What the hell is going on here?

Kim Hastreiter from PAPER magazine. Speaking of frumpy...well actually, I'll let the necklace do the talking.

The OlsenTwins and Sasha Pivovarova, all wearing The Row. They look like a bunch of depressed goths trying to cheer themselves up by incorporating some white into their shapeless, unflattering wardrobe.

Tamara Mellon in Threeasfour with Derek Blasberg. I don

Thom Browne in his own design. This is not the way to promote your brand. You are doing yourself damage.

Vera Wang in her own design. Eat something, please.

Zac Posen and Devon Aoki, wearing Zac Posen. Two former stars reduced to dressing like they are seventy years old.

All images from Style.com.

By the way, Tommy Ton’s photos of the guests arriving at the CFDA awards are much nicer than the ones above, to see them, click here.

David Bowie for Aladdin Sane album cover, by Brian Duffy.

Brian Duffy died recently, so I thought I would post some of his photos. I love sixties photography, portraits and fashion.

Here’s a blurb about him, from The Guardian.

Brian Duffy, whose photographs helped define the mood of the Swinging Sixties, has died aged 76. Together with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, Duffy formed part of the trinity of photographers who became as famous as the models, musicians and film stars they worked with… He was one of just a handful of photographers to shoot two Pirelli calenders, and was credited for his inventive approach to fashion photography… He shot three David Bowie album covers, including Aladdin Sane.

Jean Shrimpton by Brian Duffy.

John Lennon in 1965 by Brian Duffy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1970 by Brian Duffy.

Photo by Brian Duffy.

Image credits, from top to bottom: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

It is probably very un-fahsionista for me to announce that I HATE SEX AND THE CITY. And I am sick of hearing about it. I just never understood why it was so hyped. Aside from Samantha, the characters were lame, and aside from the occasional conversation over a cocktail (that I could relate to), the whole show was totally contrived.

I wasn’t a fan of the clothing either, although from a styling perspective, it was super well done. Carrie’s outfits were ridiculous most of the time, but I liked the style that Patricia Field gave every character. I haven’t seen many of the TV episodes, but enough to know I wasn’t that interested in the show and its plot. I saw the first movie on a plane, and although I felt verklempt when Carrie was abandoned on the aisle, I thought the movie was just one big advertisement for the luxury brands involved. So I’m basically not that excited about Sex and the City 2 either….

What really interests me is the number of parties and events that are happening as a result of this movie launch. I missed Style Republic’s party on Tuesday night (which was apparently very fun), but I am going to one at the Opus Hotel tonight, and that’s just Vancouver….apparently New York City is awash with SATC 2 premiers parties, screenings, etc… I love that the fashion industry likes to have a great big celebration, but why can’t it be about something a bit more…deserving. A movie about a bunch of 40 something semi-sluts is not deserving of hundreds of fashion parties. Hadley Freeman explained it quite nicely in her review of the film in the Guardian: “I don’t want to be filled with despair at Hollywood’s increasing inability to conceive of women in comedic films as anything other than self-obsessed babies with breasts.” Another great article, also from the Guardian, asks the question “Does anyone really care what the characters wear?” Well, the brands sure do, but as the article explains, we didn’t all go off and start wearing a “stupidly oversized corsage or a tutu.”

A page from the Sex and the City 2 book. A waste of trees.

The worst past about the movie is the blatant product placement AND the commercialization of the product placement. There is a book coming out, which will feature every single outfit from the film, with the names of the designers. So, you’ll have to pay 30 bucks for the pleasure of knowing about every single bracelet, hat, and shoe that was bought with the film’s 10 million dollar wardrobe budget. Has anyone even asked the question, do we HAVE to know all of the outfits? All of the brands? I mean, what’s wrong with watching a movie and saying “Wow, I love her dress” without then having to research the designer and the price? Will anyone actually be able to watch the movie without thinking, “there’s that Halston dress” or “Are those Jimmy Choos or Manolos?”

Tutus are for ballerinas and five year old girls.

I’ll definitely be asking myself these questions when I see the movie, which will make it even less enjoyable…although I have to state I’ll be seeing the movie for business purposes. If I didn’t see the movie, it would be on par to NOT looking at the recent Stella McCartney fashion show images, just cause I don’t like her. It is part of my job. But I won’t be going on opening night, or any night shortly after that, because I’d like to watch the film without being surrounded by groups of squealing thirty-something women gasping at the ridiculous storyline and the outfits. I won’t be drinking cosmopolitans before, during, or after the film. And I certainly won’t be wearing a tutu.

Images courtesy of Sex and the City. Keep an eye out for my review in 6 months once the film has gone to DVD and its on sale for 5 dollars at HMV.

—–UPDATE—– May 28th

The Sex and the City 2 party at the Opus Hotel last night was (as usual) a super well-organized, fun event. I didn’t get to see the Halston pop-up store on the second floor, which was a shame, but I saw a few people wearing Halston dresses and they looked great.

How lovely is this quote by Richard Avedon:

“And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible. -Richard Avedon, 1970

I would love to feel this way about my job, and I am sure many others would too. I guess this is what we all eventually want to achieve in life.

Richard Avedon was an American photographer, best known for his portraits and fashion photography. He was born in 1923 and died in 2004, and his photography work spanned from 1944 until his death. He worked for publications such as Harper’s Bazaar,  Vogue, The New Yorker, and Life.

All images and quote from The Richard Avedon Foundation website.