AS SUMMER SLOWLY APPROACHES AND NEW YORK TURNS INTO AN INFERNO, MANY OF US TRY TO ESCAPE THE SEARING STREETS AND HEAD TO HIGHER GROUNDS TO SIP OUR MARTINIS AND MARGARITAS. IF YOU'VE GROWN WEARY OF THE HOTEL GANSEVOORT'S ROOF TOP, OR 230 FIFTH THEN YOU'RE IN LUCK. SCHEDULED TO OPEN LATER THIS MONTH IS HIGHBAR LOCATED AT 251 W 48TH IN MIDTOWN.
WHAT WERE YOU DOING AT AGE 15? PROBABLY NOT TAKING RUSSIA'S FASHION SCENE BY STORM, OR WORRYING ABOUT OPENING UP YOUR FIRST AMERICAN STORE IN SOHO. BUT THEN AGAIN KIRA PLASTININA IS NOT YOUR AVERAGE 15 YEAR OLD GIRL. STIRRING UP CONTROVERSY LEFT AND RIGHT, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO TAKE THE DAUGHTER OF ONE OF RUSSIA'S RICHES MEN, ONE WHO PRIDES HERSELF OFF OF USING PARIS HILTON AS A FASHION MUSE, SERIOUSLY AS A DESIGNER. BUT NUMBERS DON'T LIE, AND APPARENTLY LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE HAS A CULT FOLLOWING LARGE ENOUGH TO LAUNCH HER GLOBALLY. CLEARLY SOMEONE FINDS TALENT HIDDEN IN THE RUFFLES OF HER TACKY TULLE. PASSING OUT LOLLI POPS AND ICE CREAM IN THE STREETS THIS WEEKEND TO CELEBRATE THE OPENING OF HER FIRST U.S. STORE IN NEW YORK CITY, MANY FLOCKED TO SEE WHAT THE BIG FUSS WAS OVER, I BEING ONE OF THEM.
THE WHOLE STORE WAS BUBBLE GUM PINK, THE TABLES WERE JAMMED PACKED WITH JARS STOCKED FULL OF CANDYLICIOUS ACCESSORIES. THE WALLS WERE DRIPPING WITH MASSES OF COLOR PILED ONTO CHEAP COTTON TEES WITH EVEN CHEAPER SENSOR TAGS STRETCHING OUT THE CORNERS, AND I THINK I CAUGHT A TOOTH ACHE FROM THE 50TH LOLLI POP THROWN IN MY FACE FROM THEIR OVERLY EXCITED CREW. YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE CHERRY ON TOP? MAYBE IF SOME TRANSIES ON STILTS SHOWED UP POURING GLITTER FROM THEIR MOUTHS. BUT BESIDES THAT, I DON'T THINK ANYTHING COULD HAVE BEEN MORE RIDICULOUS. THE NEXT STELLA MCCARTNEY? I THINK NOT. BUT SHE SURE DOES GIVE FOREVER 21 A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY!
THERE ARE A FEW SONGS OUT THERE THAT CAN TAKE YOU BACK TO A TIME YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE (AND I'M SPEAKING TO MY 80'S BABIES ON THIS ONE), BUT THE PICTURE IS SO VIVID YOU FEEL AS IF YOU'VE LIVED IT FIRST HAND. A PLACE WHERE IT SEEMS AS IF IT WERE 90 DEGREES ALL YEAR ROUND, POLYESTER ONLY CAME IN TWO COLORS [MUSTARD YELLOW AND FADED MAROON], EVERYONE WALKED WITH THEIR HANDS CUFFED UNDER, AND ALTHOUGH LIFE WAS A STUGGLE EVERYTHING WAS DYNOMITE. ONE OF THESE SONGS I SPEAK OF IS ISAAC HAYES "WALK ON BY," ANOTHER ONE IS MARVIN GAYE'S "INNER CITY BLUES," BUT THE SONG PLAYING ON MY IPOD AS I LEFT THE HOUSE WAS ONE THAT REALLY MAKES YOU WANT TO SAY 'DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A GANSTA'....AL GREEN'S "LOVE AND HAPPINESS."
HIT PLAY ON THE PLAYER ABOVE AND CHECK OUT SOME OF MY PHOTOGRAPHY INSPIRED BY NEW YORK CITY'S URBAN STREETS THEN AND NOW VOL. 1
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By: StarvingCelebrity | Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 8:00 PM | |
