If you watched the pilot episode on How to Make it in America, then you’ve already taken a virtual trip to the Brooklyn Navy Yard with Ben and Cam. A place from history, made prominent in movies and TV shows like in countless CSI-esque dramas. If you’d like a deeper dive into the Brooklyn Navy Yard, come by powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn at 7pm on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 to pick up the book The Brooklyn Navy Yard by John Bartelstone. PowerHouse will be hosting the book release party, and from experience, these are often quite fun and will give you an excuse to check out the amazing PowerHouse Arena.
The internet is abuzz today about the American Apparel’s collaboration with LOOKBOOK.nu. The lookbook showcases 132 American Apparel looks created by 77 of regular old Lookbook.nu members. I recently got an invite to join the site from stylish blogger Keri Shadai of LostNowLaunched.com and love the site!
PowerHouse arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn is one of my favorite art spaces in New York City. Over the past 2 years, I’ve seen Sarah Jessica Parker there while she shot a commercial for Diet Coke (released only in Japan), attended a couple of book release events that were sponsored by Heineken and various other wine and champagne manufacturers (read “got drunk on free booze”) and bought countless hilarious birthday cards like this one. Per a Newsletter blast from the CEO, PowerHouse is joining forces with Random House for the publishing side of the business, but the Arena should still be around. It’s a mainstay in DUMBO and DUMBO wouldn’t be the same without it. Make sure you drop by next time you’re in the hood and pick up a book or some funny SIDEPONY cards.
I was given the opportunity by Jet Set Girls and Sunsilk to get my hair styled by the gorgeous celebrity hair stylist Teddy Charles. AnaPhoto was at hand to snap some glamour shots of the results. Keep an eye on http://thejetsetgirls.blogspot.com to read about the event.
My glamour shot! I NEVER wear color on my lips and this might have been airbrushed to intensify. Haha, I kind of like it and it's a bonus that it matches The Stylester's logo!
I was completely starstruck and could barely speak in front of him, but managed to get a few words out and practice my french, which he laughed at (in a friendly way of course).
It’s good to see that the Sunsilk beauty team gave me this season’s hottest fuschia list! Check out WhoWhatWear’s article on this hot trend.
Some of my favorite fashion bloggers receive invites for the real Dolce and Gabbana runway shows in the mail. I’m ecstatic just to receive an invite to their sample sale in the mail. D&G samples don’t come to NYC very often, but when they do, they are displayed like an art exhibition, and rightly so.
Dolce & Gabbana Sample Sale: Where
This year, the sale is being hosted at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 West 18th St, 4th Floor.
When is the sample sale:
Thursday-Saturday, March 11-13, 9am-7pm and Sunday, March 14 9am-6pm
Prices:
Price range varies from $50 on the low end for tanks, lingerie and some Tees all the way up to $1000 handbags. You can pick up a tee for $75 that originally sells for $250 and handbag for $800 that originally was $2,000. I might just have to break into my savings account for this one.
I got a pair of blue tights in a goody bag recently and have been trying to figure out how to wear it for weeks. This lovely lady caught my eye in Grand Central by her gorgeous pairing of blue tights and a bright orange coat. She showed me that there is no better way to pair a bright color than with another!
If you are like me, and brights colors aren’t your thing, then try your blue tights with your fave LBD like Pavement Chaser in SoHo.
Bebe’s Spring 2010 line is better than I had expected. This seasons hottest florals and the red lip from the runways can be found taking main stage in Bebe’s spring lookbook. One of my favorite pieces of the collection was the waistband of the Silk Embellished Waistband Dress. The belt has gorgeous triangle studs that give it a rough ‘bad-ass’ edge. If they could only make this waistband alone as a belt, I think it would take the cake!
Buy the Silk Embellished Waistband Dress on Bebe.com for $139.
If one happened to be in the Meat Packing District on Thursday night (3/5/2010), one might have asked themselves what a 6x6x6 feet red box branded with Target was doing smack in the middle of the intersection of 13th street and 9th avenue. At first it seemed like the box was simply an advertising tactic but I later learned that it was in fact an on the spot casting call for a Target commercial.
While walking around the area and trying to figure out what exactly this box was about, I was approached by a lady who introduced herself as a casting director for the commercial. The project was to find people on the street, (skilled street-stylesters or not) and ask them to audition for a Target web commercial or webisode of sorts on the spot. If the passerby agreed, they would be whisked into the casting trailer, get some Polaroids snapped and then head into the box to be interviewed by professional stylists.
The idea behind this street-intervention is to take ordinary people and help them solve their fashion dilemmas with expert styling advice and using items only from Target.
I was one of these lucky passerby’s approached by the casting director – even under my puffy parka – maybe she really thought I needed an intervention. Below are some sneak peeks from the trailer and inside the interview box.
Inside the casting trailer - bigger than the average NYC apartment!
Inside the Target interview box – before the two stylists and camera man crammed in there for the interview/audition
The Target Box at 13th and 9th, Meat Packing District
How To Make it in America is the best new show on television – hands down. The show is a love child of the rock star ambition of Entourage and the jaded and slightly clueless New Yorkers of Bored to Death, blessed by God Father Mark Wahlberg. As outrageous as these characters are, there’s more humility to them than the “true Hollywood story” of Vince Chase.
Unlike Entourage, How to Make it is realistic in the sense that not every girl in the show is throwing herself at Ben, unlike the more promiscuous pick of them on Entourage who seem to throw themselves at Vince, E and even Turtle. I mean, really? The characters in How To Make it have trouble getting into Avenue, just like the rest of us (although we’d never pay 3K for the privilege). Just like them, we grab coffee with friends in and around China Town, ride the subway over Manhattan bridge, live in Brooklyn and play in Manhattan, know a couple of d-bag wall street guys who don’t mean any harm, but just can’t help themselves and go to Veselka at 3am.
Life is hard in NYC, they don’t say “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere” for nothing. How To Make it is the city’s essence captured for the rest of the world to taste. We welcome this true New Yorker (the show, and the characters too I suppose) into our lives with open arms.
