books

theimagist has been becoming too much of a formula for me recently so I decided to look for a new challenge in writing. The only thing I can think of that is grueling but rewarding was long form prose. So here's the first excerpt from a burgeoning attempt to "fictionalize" some of my adventures in fashion. The following is an introduction to a seminal figure I met very early on when I first ventured into the business.

Read Vreeland's "Allure" like it were gospel

"I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you have to blow it across the page and down the side. Crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else...do something with it. You have to make something of it.

Diana Vreeland in Allure

The book signing will also feature original music by Mr Borthwick

OFR is going to see a lot of TI this week

Downstairs from where I'm staying is the brilliant bookstore for Ofr. (library and gallery) and TI is deeply in love.

Mike Mills new monograph captures recent design history. Buy It Now!

I love the way the novel traces the ghost Roman remains in the dwindling ideal of "nobility"

The way Di Lampedusa describes 19th century Sicily ...as

Jack the Knight.. Good title for a DJ no?

Stephen Shames Ralph Jumps, Bronx, 1977 Vintage gelatin silver printed 1985 17 1/2 x 12 inches

Douglas Preston's The Monster Of Florence is hella cinematic

There is the story and then there's the way the story changes the teller.

10 years from now, first editions of this book will be a serious collector's item

People who very visual usually have a hard time with words and those fluent in words often times can't produce images as well as they can describe them. Photographer Pieter Hugo is the rare case where a mastery of images matches a mastery of text. Check out this excerpt from his website (pieterhugo.com/nigeria/index.html) describing the genesis of his "Hyena And Other Men" project.