Kithe Brewster: Style Director Visionary. If only you could be as talented…

Kithe Brewster doesn’t have to try. What he does is breathe, relate, reflect and look into your soul. It is this sensibility and awareness of high fashion that has brought you his fashion covers, the world’s most glamorous onto...

If only you were as Glamorous as us!

I am in the business of covering of all things that are glamorous. Or perhaps I should preface this by saying “I am in the business of all things that are perceived to be glamorous.” It’s a role that...

Recession Depression: Why Reality (TV) Bites.

"I need to stop spending like an heiress", she said as she exited the cafe on the corner. Who she was I haven't the faintest; she hardly looked like an heiress. But she did leave this scallywag to ponder:...

A paparazzo turns up to Moeller Snow Gallery.

The taxi dropped us at the Moeller Snow Gallery on Bond Street minutes before 9:00.  Outside stood a crowd of dapper gentlemen, one of which who was quick to strike up a conversation.  In a refined accent he inquired,...

Fixx Invictus; life of an aspiring Paparazzo.PAPER MAG launch.

Tuesday night, Mother Nature made good on Punxsutawney Phil’s promise that there would be 6 more weeks of winter.  Over ice-covered sidewalks, blinded by snow, New Yorkers could be seen waddling like penguins, striving to arrive at their respected...

Kenny Kenny and Alanah misbehave….again.

What’s a boy or for that matter a girl, or someone caught in between to do? Last Friday this Scallywag dropped by the monthly Circus party at HQ to partake in the combustible revelry. With flying Cheerio cereal boxes,...

Sally does Donald TRUMP.

What do you get when you mix black tie accoutrement, Donald Trump’s United World Bar, a young socialite who has pull (the very affable Sally Shan), and the power of Facebook connections? You might be surprised, but you actually...

James Willis: The Great White Shark finally comes in.

I’ve just arrived at James new chic abode, and the first thing I notice is the porno red leather sofa which he is admiring from afar. “Mate,” he tells me in his wonderfully thick Australian accent, boomerangs flinging off...

Russian Speed-Dating Would Make My Uncle Smile

My uncle Nikolai has been building castles in the sky around the idea of me marrying a traditional Russian girl since my immaculate and flawless birth in 1982. He’s come to my parents’ house with pierogi s’mockum and ginger...

The Culture of Self Help.

What is self-help? Does it work? And why do we buy it? We here at Scallywag and Vagabond get a kick out of self-exploration so we sat down with the effervescent Ariane de Bonvoisin, change guru and author of “The First 30 Days”,...

Bizarre Encounters

The ONES. Photography by Mark Reay. There is nothing that could have prepared me for the fantastic freak show that was Mel’s World. Hosted last Thursday night by Austrian party princess, Mel Merio, at the hip West Village hideout, Le Royale, the...
Cosmopolitan: Gender roles

Gender roles: How to Please your Man and other Myths

Who' really calling the shots between the sexes? What’s in gender role? Who’s exploiting who? And is acting like a ‘man’ or a ‘woman’ just a meaningless term we like to use to reinforce stereo types? So much for equality...

The Green Conspiracy.

Is going green a sham? Saving the environment is quite the noble sentiment, but with all the faddish vegan diets, eco-friendly couture and designer hemp grocery bags, I have to wonder if “green” is nothing more than our decade’s...

Just another day at Work for Fixx. Where are the Russian models?

Photo by Seana Cavanagh. There’s nothing worse than being the first one at the party. The untimely arrival of being perfectly on time to any festivity can steal away one’s opportunity of making a good entrance.  And let me...

Russell James and his Super amazing Work, Friends, Designers and Models.

Russell James, Donna Karan, Alan Cumming, Allasandra d' Ambosio. Photos by Mark Reay. Wednesday night’s endorsement of talent, persona, high cheek bones and the visage of brilliant rainbow serpents had the effect of holding all those there tantalized, beguiled...