Les dames du Bois de Boulogne: French poster

One of my favorite characters is Helene in Robert Bresson's 1945 film Les dames du Bois de Boulogne which is my favorite French film.

The new Rob Pruitt's are hot! Image via artforum.com

One all-male clique trotting down the aisles looked too pretty and pulled together, then, to be just another gaggle of collectors

Can Baptiste Giabiconi ride that privileged Karl Lagerfeld platform all the way to icon-hood

"The lifeblood of any model, male or female is the customer coming back. We can be the best possible agent and make that opportunity of the booking... that one time. We can get you in to see that customer who ordinarily would not have requested you...that one time. But the only one who can make that into a repeat booking is you when you get on set"

Sean Patterson , President of Wilhelmina Management.

Sexy, sinuous and totally 21st century Corian seduces TI: Image © designboom

TI concedes. He is a bit of a design-nerd when it comes to material and the finish thereof .

Seriously..every story IS about love or detah or a combination thereof

"I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?"

Arthur Schnitzler

Sasha P enjoys the best of both worlds

Vogue Paris is not an uncertain magazine

"As much as I love your blog, it does make me nervous that you and others are exposing the "secrets". Fashion is fashion when the mass public can't see the workings"
Anonymous post on TI

Sam at NY Models is a late breaking rising star

On The Road Again: back to NY and all its ruthless modernity

Seconds after touching down in NY I realized that it would be very dangerous to live permanently in Paris. I would turn into an alcoholic spendthrift, an overdressed dandy and a relentless nightcrawler! Maybe it was the wealth (pun intended) of all those big money status labels. Perhaps it was because the collision of all those international degenerates looking to blow off steam after a month of trudging through the trenches of NY and Milan . Whatever the case, Paris partied like there was no tomorrow this past fashion week and our Hiss Squad had 5 banging bashes to choose from for the title of "Best Paris Fashion Week Party"

Red's Joe Lazo has been scooped up for the Hugo Boss

I really wanted to take an art break on this post, but sometimes you just have to go where the information is. Right now all the energy on the blue chip fashion scene is swirling around the Milan shows this weekend. At dinner tonight I got the update that all the big players have landed and are marking off their territory. There's a great moment of conflict looming with Prada, Dolce and Hugo Boss, which means drama, screaming, demands and hapless young men from Idaho cornfields wandering the streets of Milan in a daze. Mangers are going to have to choose one over the other....

Red's Joe Lazo has been scooped up for the Hugo Boss