Fashion Week Observed

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With this pose, you'd think she'd won a Grammy in the last decade.

Cynthia Rowley Show: Derek Blasberg Blows, Terence Koh Doesn’t Eat

It looked like an FIT football game. The metal bleachers were filled with couture-clad gossiping fashion figures, all sipping mini-bottles of prosecco with straws provided at the entrance by dapper waiters. Instead of a gridiron, however, there was a runway. Photographers were executing carefully choreographed plays, snapping shots of the demi-celebs and blitzing the bold-faced names with Manning-worthy precision.

The Cynthia Rowley show was about to start. Read More

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On the DL, LES Invades LA PDQ at OHWOW Show

Last night downtown New York was seemingly transplanted wholesale for a show at the OHWOW gallery in Los Angeles. Post 9-11 featured Dan Colen, Terence Koh, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Adam McEwen, Ryan McGinley, Agathe Snow, and Aaron Young, and the Patrick McMullan photos showed a few familiar faces that seemlessly managed to infiltrate the Read More

Parties

What Does Heaven Look Like to Terence Koh?

At the 10th-anniversary party for Style.com last night, it seemed statement jackets were the order of the evening: immediately upon entering the party, we ran across the artist Terence Koh, who was wearing an immaculate white one with befeathered shoulders. He looked a bit like an art-world angel — and he informed The Observer that Read More

Artsy Crowd Joins Chuck Taylor, AIDS Activist, at Charity Footwear Gala

Art Forum correspondent Linda Yablonsky, Giant magazine editor-in-chief Emil Wilbekin and rapper Lupe Fiasco joined more than two dozen art and fashion world luminaries at chef Marcus Samuelsson‘s Aquavit restaurant in Midtown on Thursday, April 16, for a cocktail reception and dinner in support of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS’ (RED) campaign, hosted by sneaker giant Converse. Read More

The Gallery Matador

Javier Peres slept on the flight from Berlin last Wednesday night and hit the tarmac running. He dropped by the Tribeca Grand hotel to check in, splashed some water on his bearded face, then grabbed a cab to Terence Koh’s art opening at a private residence uptown. Sometime around sunrise, he crashed. He woke up Read More

The Transom

Ages of Consent

At the premiere of Notes on a Scandal on Monday night, it was the film itself that had The Transom squirming. Without revealing too much, it deals with, among other things, a love affair between an older woman and a 15-year-old boy.

Midway through one of the film’s rather explicit sex scenes, Read More