It may be the most unusual celebrity mash-up the world of boxing has seen in years: next Thursday, Dustin Hoffman, Adriana Lima, Hugh Jackman, Narciso Rodriguez and Harvey Keitel will serve as judges at a punching and jump-rope competition at Aerospace, the fitness studio in New York's Meatpacking District that's become a magnet for the fashion and film world. The stars — all clients or friends of the club — will judge competitors on their moves, wardrobe and "swagga," or how they carry themselves in the contest.
The jabs and jumps will raise money for a fitness program at the East Harlem School at Exodus House. And while we can't comment on the boxing chops of Harvey or Dustin, Aerospace co-owner Michael Olajide, Jr., says Lima is one to watch in the ring. "She may be a model, but she hits hard," he says. Olajide, a former boxer, should know: he teamed up with Lima for a video (click HERE to view) on the supermodel's Web site showing off her post-pregnancy body, which Olajide helped tone over two months of intensive training after she gave birth last November.
The competition is May 6 at Aerospace. Tickets cost $20 for members and $30 for non-members. Call at 212-929-1640 for tickets.
April 2010 Archives
I've finally admitted to myself that I will be going to see Sex and the City 2. I was trying to avoid it, but then I saw the trailers and... couture on camel? Seriously? This movie will be a visual riot of epic proportions and who am I kidding—I will be Fandango-ing tickets on opening weekend.
I am disappointed, however, that the movie's IMDB listing reveals no mention of actress Julie Halston's return as Bitsy von Muffling. Remember Bitsy? She was a socialite who married a cabaret singer played by Nathan Lane in Season 5 and everyone rolled their eyes because they thought he was gay ... and then Bitsy shows up all glowing and pregnant in season 6, much to everyone's bewilderment. (We also caught a glimpse of her in the first movie, sitting next to Stanford Blatch at Carrie's rehearsal dinner.) It really is a pity she isn't returning for SATC2, because last night I got a chance to see Halston in a performance in Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss and What I Wore (she's part of the new cast that took over this week). And I must say, she is a funny, fantastic and tragically underused character actress.
Lane and Halston in the Sex and the City episode "I Love a Charade."
Tucked away on East 71st St. just off Madison Avenue, the Sigerson
Morrison Laboratory Boutique has been flying below the radar since its
opening last fall. But that’s given owners Kari Sigerson and Miranda
Morrison time to get their sea legs with the new venture, which combines
their signature shoes and bags with a tightly edited mix of vintage
sunglasses, jewelry, perfumes and stationery. “Finding cool, esoteric
things to sell alongside the shoes has been a pleasure,” says Morrison.
“We love to find, choose and share the things we like.”
This includes the work of up-and-coming artists, as the boutique also serves as a gallery space. Most recently, the boutique exhibited the scrolly, trippy works of wallpaper guru Dan Funderburgh. Next up is fashion illustrator Rikke Jorgensen, whom the duo will fête with an opening on May 5.
The uptown clientele “is anthropologically just as distinctive as on
Prince Street,” says Sigerson. As she puts it, it’s a mélange of
“fashionista high-schooler, chic working mother, grande dame” and
stylish pedestrian wandering “between the Whitney and the Frick.”
Not surprisingly, the shoes have proven the main draw. “But we’re also really intrigued by which of the other offerings people respond to.,” says Morrison. “Uptown shoppers definitely love handbags, python, rare gemstones, hand-made gold chains. And they wear more gloves, which one might have guessed.”
In the early days of Colin Farrell’s career, someone must have advised
the young actor to make action blockbusters, and the result was films
like Miami Vice and Alexander. Meanwhile, Farrell has revealed the true
extent of his talent to a much smaller audience with grittier roles like
the ones he played in In Bruges and Crazy Heart. And if there was ever
any doubt that he was meant to make nuanced dramas rather than
bajillion-dollar spectacles, it was put to rest at last night’s Tribeca
Film Festival premiere of Ondine, in which he plays a recovering
alcoholic fisherman from a small Irish village.
On stage after the screening, Farrell stood alongside director Neil Jordan and his costar, newcomer Alicja Bachleda (with whom Farrell had a child last October), and told the audience that he had hired a dialect coach for the role. Growing up watching shows like CHiPs and T.J. Hooker, he said, gave him a better grasp of American accents than the regional Irish one that Ondine called for. “I had this nationalist sense of pride and fear that I’d be an Irishman doing a bad Irish accent!” he admitted.
Above, Farrell with Alison Barry in a still from Ondine.
Another Ondine revelation: Alison Barry, the 11-year-old who plays Farrell’s daughter in the film. It was her first acting job and she is spectacular. Sadly for us (though perhaps sanity-preserving for her), she has no immediate plans to continue acting. “The biggest challenge was to not be upstaged,” Farrell replied when asked by an audience member last night about the challenges of working with such a young co-star. “I failed miserably.”
Click here for more pics from last night's red carpet.
Photo Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival. Ondine: © Magnolia Pictures.
Yesterday, at his L.A. boutique on Robertson Boulevard, a grey-fedora-and-pink-jacket-bedecked Christian Louboutin made a rare in-store appearance to sign shoes and show off his spring 2010 collection. Fans lined up thirty and forty deep to have their red-soles signed by the designer, who sat behind a table armed with multicolored Sharpies and an Ice Blended from Coffee Bean. "I think women still see that I take a lot of pleasure in designing the shoe," he told us, obviously pleased at the turnout. "The shoes are very much at the service of women. They're here to make them feel good and beautiful."
While some women were clearly there just to see the designer, a good number (we noticed a lot of mother-daughter pairs) also came there to s-h-o-p. Clients gravitated toward the metal-heeled Big Lips pump and the Cage Bootie, two of the store's bestsellers of the season.
What else was on Louboutin's Los Angeles agenda, we asked? An intimate dinner with some friends at Chateau Marmont, a bit of antique shopping, and "I want to go to Pasadena to visit the [botanical] gardens." On Monday night, he'll be on the East Coast at the Met Costume Institute gala, with, rumor has it, one of the Olsens on his arm.
Tune in to Oprah this Monday, when she sits down with Naomi Campbell to discuss everything from superstardom to airborne cell phones. Modelinia
The VF 2010 Least Influential People list— so much more fun than anything Time puts out. VF.com
Fern Mallis, the force behind Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, is saying farewell to the fashion tents, and hello to her own new consulting firm. Fashionista
Which Transformers star is juggling two love interests while flaunting a sexy, toned body? Pop Sugar
Supermodel Christie Brinkley has a new face! Does she look better before or after? HuffPo Style
Coroner reveals that the late Alexander McQueen was on a massive amount of cocaine at the time of his death, choosing to commit suicide "while the balance of his mind was disturbed." The Cut
Nota Bene: Sandra Bullock is ready to move on with her life. The Oscar winner reveals adoption plans as a single mom while filing for divorce from scummy hubby, Jesse James. People
The Hills' Heidi Montag admits that her plastic features offer limited range. This means eating anything with a bun can be tricky. Behold! Barbie tries to eat a hamburger. New York Daily News
Only one designer made the cut for this year's Time 100. Guess who? Hint: His SpongeBob tattoo probably won him brownie points with voters. HuffPo
Former First Lady Laura Bush talks fatal car crashes, possible poisonings, and Nancy Pelosi in her new memoir, Spoken From the Heart. New York Times
The ever-demure Courtney Love quits talking about Robert Pattinson, decides to discuss sexual relationship with Gavin Rossdale instead. We're waiting to hear what Gwen Stefani has to say about it all. Celebitchy
We recently came upon the work of photographer Matt Schwartz at the Brooklyn Flea flea market and were struck by the simplicity and nostalgic beauty of his Polaroids. Apparently, we're not the only ones. Schwartz, 35, told us that last year Catherine Zeta-Jones bought five of his framed pieces (she picked them out herself at an Upper West Side craft market) and that Anthropologie purchased 200 images to sell throughout their stores. Last year, he was one of sixty artists commissioned by the Ace Hotel to create work for the rooms.
"My motivation is to try and capture all of my dreams and images that I feel need to exist in this world," he says. "Sometimes when I take a photo, I feel it already existed and I just found it first."
Schwartz can be found manning his own stand at the Brooklyn Flea on most weekends and his work (which starts at $65 an image) can be viewed at shehitpausestudios.com
Juergen Teller has photographed model Raquel Zimmermann picking pomegranates while dressed to the nines (Marc Jacobs's S/S 2009 campaign); wandering nude in the Louvre (for France's Paradis magazine), and perched by a river in the West Indies, decked out in Mongolian lamb (our March 2009 story "Dominica").
For Teller's new photography book, Zimmermann (Steidl), the frequent collaborators have gone in a slightly different direction. For this series, Teller shot his muse in his secluded hometown of Bubenreuth, Germany. The images of Zimmermann sprawled corpse-like on a tree trunk and lying semi-nude on Teller's family dining table during a meal confirm that Teller knows how to go beyond conventional glamour in spinning one of his surreal fairytales. The book will be available starting May 31 on Amazon.
--Thulasi Sivalingam
Previously: Scenes from Juergen Teller's opening at Lehmann Maupin; see our archive of Juergen Teller fashion portfolios
We Heart Bitsy von Muffling
I've finally admitted to myself that I will be going to see Sex and the City 2. I was trying to avoid it, but then I saw the trailers and... couture on camel? Seriously? This movie will be a visual riot of epic proportions and who am I kidding—I will be Fandango-ing tickets on opening weekend. I am disappointed, however, that the movie's IMDB listing reveals no mention of actress Julie Halston's return as Bitsy von Muffling. Remember Bitsy? She was a socialite who married a cabaret singer played by Nathan Lane in Season 5 and everyone rolled their eyes because they thought he was gay ... and then Bitsy shows up all glowing and pregnant in season 6, much to everyone's bewilderment. (We also caught a glimpse of her in the first movie, sitting next to Stanford Blatch at Carrie's rehearsal dinner.) It really is a pity she isn't returning for SATC2, because last night I got a chance to see Halston in a performance in Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss and What I Wore (she's part of the new cast that took over this week). And I must say, she is a funny, fantastic and tragically underused character actress.
Lane and Halston in the Sex and the City episode "I Love a Charade."
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Accessories report: Spring whimsy
The weather's finally getting warm, and we're craving a little fun and whimsy in our daily wardrobe. Here, six accessories that might do the trick.
Louis Vuitton gives the season's ubiquitous wooden soles a playful mixed-media treatment, metal heels and tassels included. Calf leather sandal, $1,075, at Louis Vuitton stores, 866.VUITTON.
Something sparkly and not at all serious: Vera Wang's crystal and metal dragonfly brooch, $200. At SaksFifthAvenue.com.
Pastels were everywhere for spring. We love Bottega Veneta's embroidered calfskin clutch, $1,180, at BottegaVeneta.com.
Fowl play: Louis Vuitton's leather coin purse. $340, at Louis Vuitton stores, 866.VUITTON.
Donna Karan's raffia and leather heels remind us of picnic baskets. In a good way. $740, at DonnaKaran.com.
Citrus punch: Yves Saint Laurent's leather wallet, $385, at select Yves Saint Laurent boutiques, 212.980.2970.
--Beitressa Mandelbaum and Will Kahn
Louis Vuitton gives the season's ubiquitous wooden soles a playful mixed-media treatment, metal heels and tassels included. Calf leather sandal, $1,075, at Louis Vuitton stores, 866.VUITTON.
Something sparkly and not at all serious: Vera Wang's crystal and metal dragonfly brooch, $200. At SaksFifthAvenue.com.
Pastels were everywhere for spring. We love Bottega Veneta's embroidered calfskin clutch, $1,180, at BottegaVeneta.com.
Fowl play: Louis Vuitton's leather coin purse. $340, at Louis Vuitton stores, 866.VUITTON.
Donna Karan's raffia and leather heels remind us of picnic baskets. In a good way. $740, at DonnaKaran.com.
Citrus punch: Yves Saint Laurent's leather wallet, $385, at select Yves Saint Laurent boutiques, 212.980.2970.--Beitressa Mandelbaum and Will Kahn
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Shopping report: Sigerson Morrison, uptown
Tucked away on East 71st St. just off Madison Avenue, the Sigerson
Morrison Laboratory Boutique has been flying below the radar since its
opening last fall. But that’s given owners Kari Sigerson and Miranda
Morrison time to get their sea legs with the new venture, which combines
their signature shoes and bags with a tightly edited mix of vintage
sunglasses, jewelry, perfumes and stationery. “Finding cool, esoteric
things to sell alongside the shoes has been a pleasure,” says Morrison.
“We love to find, choose and share the things we like.”
This includes the work of up-and-coming artists, as the boutique also serves as a gallery space. Most recently, the boutique exhibited the scrolly, trippy works of wallpaper guru Dan Funderburgh. Next up is fashion illustrator Rikke Jorgensen, whom the duo will fête with an opening on May 5.
The uptown clientele “is anthropologically just as distinctive as on
Prince Street,” says Sigerson. As she puts it, it’s a mélange of
“fashionista high-schooler, chic working mother, grande dame” and
stylish pedestrian wandering “between the Whitney and the Frick.”
Not surprisingly, the shoes have proven the main draw. “But we’re also really intrigued by which of the other offerings people respond to.,” says Morrison. “Uptown shoppers definitely love handbags, python, rare gemstones, hand-made gold chains. And they wear more gloves, which one might have guessed.”
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Revelation: Colin Farrell Should Never Have Been An Action Star
In the early days of Colin Farrell’s career, someone must have advised
the young actor to make action blockbusters, and the result was films
like Miami Vice and Alexander. Meanwhile, Farrell has revealed the true
extent of his talent to a much smaller audience with grittier roles like
the ones he played in In Bruges and Crazy Heart. And if there was ever
any doubt that he was meant to make nuanced dramas rather than
bajillion-dollar spectacles, it was put to rest at last night’s Tribeca
Film Festival premiere of Ondine, in which he plays a recovering
alcoholic fisherman from a small Irish village.
On stage after the screening, Farrell stood alongside director Neil Jordan and his costar, newcomer Alicja Bachleda (with whom Farrell had a child last October), and told the audience that he had hired a dialect coach for the role. Growing up watching shows like CHiPs and T.J. Hooker, he said, gave him a better grasp of American accents than the regional Irish one that Ondine called for. “I had this nationalist sense of pride and fear that I’d be an Irishman doing a bad Irish accent!” he admitted.
Above, Farrell with Alison Barry in a still from Ondine.Another Ondine revelation: Alison Barry, the 11-year-old who plays Farrell’s daughter in the film. It was her first acting job and she is spectacular. Sadly for us (though perhaps sanity-preserving for her), she has no immediate plans to continue acting. “The biggest challenge was to not be upstaged,” Farrell replied when asked by an audience member last night about the challenges of working with such a young co-star. “I failed miserably.”
Click here for more pics from last night's red carpet.
Photo Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival. Ondine: © Magnolia Pictures.
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Christian Louboutin picks up a Sharpie, his fans swoon
Yesterday, at his L.A. boutique on Robertson Boulevard, a grey-fedora-and-pink-jacket-bedecked Christian Louboutin made a rare in-store appearance to sign shoes and show off his spring 2010 collection. Fans lined up thirty and forty deep to have their red-soles signed by the designer, who sat behind a table armed with multicolored Sharpies and an Ice Blended from Coffee Bean. "I think women still see that I take a lot of pleasure in designing the shoe," he told us, obviously pleased at the turnout. "The shoes are very much at the service of women. They're here to make them feel good and beautiful."
While some women were clearly there just to see the designer, a good number (we noticed a lot of mother-daughter pairs) also came there to s-h-o-p. Clients gravitated toward the metal-heeled Big Lips pump and the Cage Bootie, two of the store's bestsellers of the season.
What else was on Louboutin's Los Angeles agenda, we asked? An intimate dinner with some friends at Chateau Marmont, a bit of antique shopping, and "I want to go to Pasadena to visit the [botanical] gardens." On Monday night, he'll be on the East Coast at the Met Costume Institute gala, with, rumor has it, one of the Olsens on his arm.
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Thursday's Reading List
Tune in to Oprah this Monday, when she sits down with Naomi Campbell to discuss everything from superstardom to airborne cell phones. Modelinia
The VF 2010 Least Influential People list— so much more fun than anything Time puts out. VF.com
Fern Mallis, the force behind Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, is saying farewell to the fashion tents, and hello to her own new consulting firm. Fashionista
Which Transformers star is juggling two love interests while flaunting a sexy, toned body? Pop Sugar
Supermodel Christie Brinkley has a new face! Does she look better before or after? HuffPo Style
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Wednesday's Reading List
Coroner reveals that the late Alexander McQueen was on a massive amount of cocaine at the time of his death, choosing to commit suicide "while the balance of his mind was disturbed." The CutNota Bene: Sandra Bullock is ready to move on with her life. The Oscar winner reveals adoption plans as a single mom while filing for divorce from scummy hubby, Jesse James. People
The Hills' Heidi Montag admits that her plastic features offer limited range. This means eating anything with a bun can be tricky. Behold! Barbie tries to eat a hamburger. New York Daily News
Only one designer made the cut for this year's Time 100. Guess who? Hint: His SpongeBob tattoo probably won him brownie points with voters. HuffPo
Former First Lady Laura Bush talks fatal car crashes, possible poisonings, and Nancy Pelosi in her new memoir, Spoken From the Heart. New York Times
The ever-demure Courtney Love quits talking about Robert Pattinson, decides to discuss sexual relationship with Gavin Rossdale instead. We're waiting to hear what Gwen Stefani has to say about it all. Celebitchy
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Eye on: Photographer Matt Schwartz
We recently came upon the work of photographer Matt Schwartz at the Brooklyn Flea flea market and were struck by the simplicity and nostalgic beauty of his Polaroids. Apparently, we're not the only ones. Schwartz, 35, told us that last year Catherine Zeta-Jones bought five of his framed pieces (she picked them out herself at an Upper West Side craft market) and that Anthropologie purchased 200 images to sell throughout their stores. Last year, he was one of sixty artists commissioned by the Ace Hotel to create work for the rooms. "My motivation is to try and capture all of my dreams and images that I feel need to exist in this world," he says. "Sometimes when I take a photo, I feel it already existed and I just found it first."
Schwartz can be found manning his own stand at the Brooklyn Flea on most weekends and his work (which starts at $65 an image) can be viewed at shehitpausestudios.com
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The latest from Juergen Teller and Raquel Zimmermann
Juergen Teller has photographed model Raquel Zimmermann picking pomegranates while dressed to the nines (Marc Jacobs's S/S 2009 campaign); wandering nude in the Louvre (for France's Paradis magazine), and perched by a river in the West Indies, decked out in Mongolian lamb (our March 2009 story "Dominica").For Teller's new photography book, Zimmermann (Steidl), the frequent collaborators have gone in a slightly different direction. For this series, Teller shot his muse in his secluded hometown of Bubenreuth, Germany. The images of Zimmermann sprawled corpse-like on a tree trunk and lying semi-nude on Teller's family dining table during a meal confirm that Teller knows how to go beyond conventional glamour in spinning one of his surreal fairytales. The book will be available starting May 31 on Amazon.
--Thulasi Sivalingam
Previously: Scenes from Juergen Teller's opening at Lehmann Maupin; see our archive of Juergen Teller fashion portfolios
