My Favorite Recession Proof Luxury: Gossip

I keep slacking, so when I do write I have so much to catch up on! First of all let’s tackle the men. Mitch (see earlier post about me questioning whether he could be more than a friend) finally came to visit. Slept in my bed. Got wasted with me. And nothing happened, not even close. Not even an awkward “oops I didn’t mean to touch you while I was sleeping.” Which is a good thing I suppose. At least I don’t wonder anymore, and at least we will always have our friendship. When the chemistry isn’t there, it just isn’t and you can’t force it.

Dick and I saw each other the weekend after Mitch came to town. Dick got in at 10pm, and I had spent the afternoon at Steve’s. Dick and I had a pretty fun weekend, except on Saturday night we had a huge fight and he brought me to tears. I am so over all the drama, and it’s like he can’t live without it. I left him at 3am and haven’t looked back. I’m mentally exhausted from everything that’s gone down with us and I’m finally done. I just don’t have it in me anymore.

I saw Steve again the day after Dick left. He and I spent a great, sober afternoon together before Dick got into town and it was great. It was like hanging out with a funny friend that later you get to fuck. I was looking around his place, and definitely saw photographic evidence of the girlfriend. A few days later when Brandon and I were at his bar, she was sitting there too. Talk about awkward! When Steve and I first met he told me how bad their relationship was, and that’s why I ignored the fact that he had a girlfriend. That is obviously not true and kind of a slap in the face. Don’t get me wrong, I know that this is my responsibility for getting involved in the first place. But I’m done. I can’t keep wasting time on a man who has his girlfriend in front of him and his mistress to the side, literally! It’s a little trailer park to me, huge dick or no huge dick!

Last night I went on the worst date ever. He was so grabby with me, and actually wanted me to go home with him after about 2 hours of talking, even though I specifically said I had other plans. The only reason I gave him a chance was because he seemed normal. Lawyer, 9-5, not a musician or bartender. But that backfired.

Onto fashion! I still saw many shows this year, but I must say, a dark cloud hung over the week. The fashion world is one of the few that actually seems cognizent of the state of affairs with the recession. Citibank, take note.

I loved Marc Jacobs much more than usual this year, Matthew Williamson is always a winner in my book. I’ll say it again, William Rast does not belong at fashion week. Kanye West, get over yourself.

One of my favorite reads is NYMag.com, and right now they are polling for the “Bests of NY”: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/02/whats_your_best_of_new_york.html. Read the comments for a good laugh, only in New York will you find people literally berating each other for their choice of best bagel. What I don’t understand are the people that call out their favorite bars. There are so few places in New York to drink that aren’t overrun by tacky people and tourists, please don’t try to ruin them. If you’re calling out a place like Southerm Hospitality or the Box, ruin away, because for God’s sake – the more douchebags we can get into one place the better off we all are. But the little neighborhood places, leave them alone! I’ll make my lists of the “bests and worsts” excluding bars of course. Please contribute your favorites too!

1. Best brunch: Public or Cafe Select

2. Best place to fuck in the bathrooms: Peep

3. Best sushi: Yama (17th)

4. Best hotel bar: Maritime

5. Best steak: STK or Sparks

6. Best cupcake: At the moment, Buttercup

7. Best way to spend a boring afternoon: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex or shopping in the garment district

8. Best place to shop: Bloomingdales – say what you want about this one, we are in a recession people!

1. Worst Brunch: Any shitty little place around NYU

2. Worst place to fuck in the bathrooms: Quality Meats – best bathrooms in town, don’t dirty them up!

3. Worst sushi: Any midtown lunch cafe

4. Worst hotel bar: Gansevoort – the people, not the actual place

5. Worst steak: Personally, I’m over Smith and Wollensky

6. Worst cupcake: Magnolia – too much sugar!

7. Worst place to spend a boring afternoon: Let’s face it, you can’t really go wrong doing any time wasting activity in NY

8. Worst place to shop: Overpriced boutiques in SoHo

NY Fashion Week Spring 2009: The Rest

As promised, the rest of my recap! As I write this I am on a wicked flight that could not get me back to NY fast enough. One day trips are just too short to enjoy. Plus I heard from Steven yesterday which I was not expecting. I haven’t talked to him much in the past week or two, and the avoiding worked. I quit thinking about him. He asked me to hang out at like 3 pm. That’s a sober day date. I wonder if he’ll ever ask again now that I dissed him.
Also, Dick texted me last night. Asking me to take a vacation with him. Which I probably will, if he pays. He’s a cheap fuck though so I’m not holding my breath. Plus, I have a vacation planned with Adriana over the holiday so I have that to look forward to. Onto fashion!

Marc Jacobs
Very European and Titanic-ish. Liked it, patterns and colors better than usual.

Matthew Williamson
Incredible and by far my favorite collection. I think I’ll be buying the entire thing. Colors and patterns phenomenal. I’m even letting it slide that my friends say he’s a complete asshole, because I’ve never met him.

Michael Kors
How awful that we rely on him to judge other designers on Project Runway. Primary colors? Really? It was like someone took a kindergarten classroom and puked on it.

Oscar DeLaRenta
If only everyone who made plain yet sophisticated clothes could do it as well as Oscar. Well tailored, well cut, and beautiful.

Ports 1961
Points for having knitting needles and yarn as a gift. I love crafts! But I was expecting knits in the collection due to the gift. Collection was simply not cohesive and not great.

Rag and Bone
If Factory Girl and the Ramones had a baby. Love.

Rock and Republic
Whitewashed denim was hot. Other than that, was slutty and cheap looking.

William Rast
Oh I am so glad I can give this an honestly scathing review, because I despise Justin Timberlake. He’s an egotistical prick and dating that man of a woman, Jessica Biel, who is the perfect bitch for him. Although “beard” is probably more accurate! But you didn’t hear that from me;) First of all, the Canadian tuxedo? Denim on top and bottom? Sickkkk. And there were jean shorts on the men. Klassy. And leaves on the runway. It’s a spring collection dumbass!

Zac Posen
A disappoinment. Not flattering to a woman’s shape. If it makes skinny models look fat, that’s not good.

There you have it! Don’t shoot the messenger, it’s not my fault that for the most part Fashion Week was dull. I believe Valentino said last year that he was retiring because fashion has become boring. No one is shocking anymore. I have to agree.

NY Fashion Week Spring 2009: The Good, the Bad, and the Boring. Part 1

Well Fashion Week is always crazier in January, but this year wasn’t bad. As far as crazy goes I mean. I had a chat with Charlotte Ronson who is really a lovely girl. If course completely overshadowed by Lindsay and Sam’s faux lesbian relationship. I wish the media would leave those girls alone. Holding hands and kissing a girl does not mean you are in a romantic relationship. Best friends spend all their time together and display the same characteristics. Just because one is a lesbian does not make them girlfriends. Aside from the female Ronsons, there’s the sexy as all hell Mark, who made the whole Ronson experience entirely worthwhile.
Of course everyone was up in arms that Mary Kate Olsen graced us with her presence at the Rock and Republic show. Hopefully that means she will stop dressing like a girl who spends forever trying to look like she doesn’t care. I will never understand that! Does she even do anything in real life?
Chace Crawford also showed up, him and MKO should hang out, they’ve both mastered that dirty messy hair look. Chace is just too pretty, by pretty I mean a little girly. The only time he looked hot to me was in the débutante ball episode of GG, when he took his shirt off before him and Blair did it at the Palace.
On to the shows! There were so many, I’m breaking it up into a few installments, for your reading pleasure! PS I’m now obsessed with the Rachel Zoe show, so you might start hearing SHUT IT DOWN from me a lot. I just can’t help it.

3.1 Philip Lim
Pretty ruffles, otherwise somewhat unremarkable, aside from the absolutely wretched menswear. Cropped pants on almost anyone, but especially a man, not good. Moms in Nebraska wear short pants, not a good look.

Abaete
Some nice cocktail dresses, all we really expect anyways. We will definitely be seeing some on our favorite celebrities.

Alexander Wang
It was like the whole RENT cast suddenly won the lottery. This is what they’d wear. And I loved it.

BCBG
Let’s take a moment to discuss how much I despise BCBG. It is not designer. I don’t think there’s anything interesting about it. It’s like a Banana Republic to me. And it’s horrifically overpriced. And never goes on sale. Who do you think you are exactly?

Behnaz Sarafpour
Ridiculously matronly. I’ll be nice since I think it’s cool what she did with Target.

Brian Reyes
Classic but not boring. At the same time, nothing earthshattering.

Carlos Miele
I have to mention this simply because the models were stunning. All absolutely beautiful, and the styling was impeccable. I hope we see the return of the beautiful “Supermodels” instead of these “it girl” models of the moment.

Derek Lam
Drawstring waists: just don’t.

Diane von Furstenburg
Styling was beautiful, I’m personally partial to the look. But I don’t think it was really anything new, not that I expected anything all that edgy.

Erin Featherston
Absolutely gorgeous. If there were fairy princesses, this is what they would wear.

Halston
Loved! Can someone please get their money together and re open Studio 54?

Herve Leger
It is unfortunate that satans spawn (BCBG) is owned by Max Azria along with Herve Leger because I adore it. So insanely sexy. And I think the bathing suits are going to give Rosa Cha a run for her money!

Well I’m off, just landed! More to come tomorrow. Kisses! With tongue.