Tag: Amanda Lepore
Society comes along to wish Zelda a happy 95th!
The Gramercy Park Hotel hosted the 95th birthday celebration of elder club kid and New York icon Zelda Kaplan this passed Tuesday night in New York City. The private event was supported by The King Collective to assist in raising...
SCALLYWAG TO KENNY KENNY: Are you on talking terms with SUSANNE BARTSCH?
If anyone knows anything about NYC underground it's that Kenny Kenny and Susanne Bartsch have been best friends and the most unlikely business partners in the world of nightclubbing going on for 20 years. He a romantic Irish dandy...
Jeremy Kost: “It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn”
NYC. Thursday night saw the book release party for Jeremy Kost’s latest photography work “It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn” at The Box on Chrystie Street. The special event was presented by Susann Bartsch and hosted by Amanda Lepore (did...
The continued rise of the underground fashionista.
Judging by what passes for popular fashion today you'd be forgiven for thinking that discerning fashion ennui is a tepid approximation of some of the easily recognized names and faces making mainstream headlines. From Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs,...
Victor de Souza: Oceanic Imperial
Victor de Souza does weird well. His last two collections dressed women like they were living in a sequel to David Lynch’s Dune, in that they were both beautiful and bizarre. So it was...
Kenny Kenny and his nocturnal entourage.
This past weekend I found myself shamelessly cavorting with Kenny Kenny's entourage at a winding gallery space- Collective Gallery in the thick of Chinatown, NY. Of course if truth be known, Kenny Kenny flippant and...
CW’s High Society gets the green light for season 2 but now needs new characters. But who will fill...
Who will love Tinsley Mortimer more than Devorah Rose?
It's official, Michael Aho and his gruesome cohort have decided to continue offending our collective sensibilities by offering us a second season of the hideousness that has preceded...
Richie Rich Amuse Runway Show: An Orchestra of Spectacle
A toned, grinning woman in a yellow bikini festooned with bananas does cartwheels onstage for bemused paparazzi. A line of sulky, skinny boys with garish, painted faces and red lips stares out at the crowd, quietly singing along to...
Dress Codes: ICP Triennial of Photography and Video.
The third triennial video and photography exhibit at the International Center for Photography, was aptly entitled “ Dress Code.” Featured artists provided their own interpretation of style, figure and fashion from behind the seams. The sky was overcast, the wind...
Happy Birthday to you Michael Krans!
The moment I walked into Michael Krans' birthday party at the newly renovated W hotel penthouse suite, I was treated with such kindness and generosity I almost forgot I was in Manhattan. Luckily the brightly lit night sky illuminating...
Think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so…
Entering Japonais is crossing from the heart of a metropolis irreverently bustling around the clock in Manhattan’s GRAMMERCY Park district into a serendipity of subtle au courant—the restaurant is all mirrors and mood lighting. Downstairs, such lighting gave the...
Amanda Lepore turns up for DEPESHA, kind of…
Chic and sleek characterized the upper-level, upscale Depesha mag designer charity auction at the Helen Yarmak Showroom on May 21st. From the beautiful faces to the immaculate attire, everything was aimed to please, but none more so than the...
Amanda Lepore: More than a Woman.
Call her beyond life size, freak, transcendental icon, night life host impresario, seductress extraordinaire, pop star or savvy business woman galore this femme fatale has us wondering if you’ve all got it wrong and somehow right too. More real...
