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Age 6. Dear Japanese drag queens in rainbow-colored, over-the-knee suede boots in the Gay Pride Day parade…I was eye-level with the top of your swagger boots, mesmerized and vowing to grow up just like you. Age 16. Dear Leigh Bowery, You will always be one of my first Harujaku lovers. Your i-D magazine covers kept my […]
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Filed under: FASHION, JAPAN, NEW YORK | Closed
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This is the City, and this is the music. Out of the little black boxes an unending river of romance in which the crocodiles weep. Henry Miller, Black Spring With the State of TV New Jersey opening up it’s trench coat and exposing itself as the real-life Fellini movie it always was, I thought more […]
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Filed under: FASHION, LOVERS, MEN, NEW YORK, WOMEN | 1 Comment
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My father was my Heyoka. Amidst my chaotic teenage into adult years, if he knew I was sad, thinking too much or existing on an ego island of my own, he would stand at my doorway and just drop his trousers to his boxers and stand there with a dumb look on his face until […]
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Filed under: ARCHITECTURE, ART, FASHION, FLOWERS, NEW GREEN, NEW YORK, STYLE, TRENDS | 10 Comments
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Peeking Behind The Diva Curtain
30Jun09
Mandatory accessories behind every Diva are tons of devoted fans or even one lone obsessive soul. For me, the metaphor for Diva worship is the cult 80’s film of the same name directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, about a young man who is obsessed with a stunningly beautiful opera singer played by Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez. The Diva never allows her performances recorded […]
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Filed under: FASHION, NEW YORK | 3 Comments
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New York City on the make is a churning pot of all kinds of Mob-Stars and Fame Gamers. The best New York stories happen every minute… when fortune smiles in chance meetings, in a flash hard work for years is rewarded, creative collabs are formed or the hand of Fate puts one suddenly on the […]
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Filed under: ART, FASHION, LIVES, NEW YORK | 1 Comment
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