Atlanta de Cadenet Taylor, the 20 year-old daughter of model-turned-photographer Amanda de Cadenet and Duran Duran bassist John Taylor, has that potent mix of fashion and music running through her veins. Throw in an LA upbringing and its clear why vintage boots, airy floral dresses and judicious touches of leather round out her easy personal style.

Our June It Girl dissected a long laundry list of wardrobe favorites, a newfound penchant for hot sauce and her love of denim (yes, she’ll even rock a Canadian Tuxedo). Read on for more.

Atlanta de Cadenet Taylor

Define your style in three words: Boyishly girlie, casual, chic.

Daily uniform: Black jeans, vintage tee, ankle boots.

Greatest hits: I was recently given a dress by this clothing line called Wren, it’s a long dress with space printed on it, with cut outs near the waist. I’ve been living in it. I also got one of the Christopher Kane rainbow dresses for my birthday, I was so obsessed with that entire collection so that’s gotta be up there in terms of favorite pieces. When I was in NYC recently, I got a dress from a store called American Two Shot, it’s a jean tank top dress [by Dusen Dusen] with some white paisley prints on it. I just got it but it shot to the top of my list of favorites. There’s also my vintage Corvette t-shirt that I stole from one of my best friends a few years back. My cashmere mulberry sweater with the printed pear on it is one of my ultimate favorite sweaters ever—I get so many compliments on that thing! My friend recently gave me a vintage Bijan men’s denim shirt, it’s super comfortable and easy. And of course my vintage floral dresses…

A Wren dress, Celine bag, Christopher Kane dress and Bijou shirt

Preferred footwear: Isabel Marant Dicker boots—since I got those I stopped wearing every other pair of shoes in my closet. I have a few pair of vintage Harley Davidson boots I also wear all the time and I recently splurged on some red Chloe studded ankle boots, but damn they were worth it!

Finishing touches: My black Celine box bag, Acne leather jacket, Laura Mercier Illuminating Tinted moisturizer, Benefit Benetint, Estee Lauder Sumptuous Extreme mascara.

Nighttime look: I really don’t change that much in between what I wear during the day and what I wear at night. If I’m going to some sort of event, I might throw some heels on, or switch up my big purse for a clutch, or put on one of my nicer dresses.

Best recent discovery: Sriracha hot sauce!! I can’t believe I had never tried it until about two months ago, and now I’m totally hooked.

Favorite stores: Necromance in Los Angeles. Topshop (I can’t help it). Net-a-porter—I really love that website. And although I know they aren’t technically stores, I find most of my good stuff at all the flea markets around LA.

Style pet peeve: Boys in flip flops. This is NEVER OKAY!! Also, I can’t stand fedoras.

Style icons: To be totally honest, I really have never known what to say when I get asked this question. I guess I’d have to say my mom—I really developed my style around hers. I also always had a girl crush on Nicole Richie and Kate Bosworth. I love the way those girls pull their looks together and how they mix all sorts of clothes together (old and new).

de Cadenet Taylor’s collection of sunglasses

Last purchase: Well, my last purchase was what I was lusting after— those red Chloe boots! Sometimes you just have to treat yourself!

Lusting after: A new boy to crush on! But no really…probably the Anita Ko cat mask diamond necklace… A girl can dream.

Favorite haunts: The Darkroom.

Warm-weather must haves: Jean shorts, a good pair of sandals, a jean jacket (sometimes I even rock the Canadian Tuxedo), a good pair of sunglasses (mine are currently the Celine “Paris” glasses) and obviously a good bathing suit! (My favorites are by Missoni and Topshop.)

Next vacation: I’m going with my dad to the South of France and Italy in July, which I’m really looking forward to. He’s touring around, so it should be a lot of fun!

Vladamir Restoin Roitfeld and W's Giovanna Battaglia at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc.

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34-year-old breakout star, Omar Sy, discusses his César-winning role as one-half of an unlikely friendship in The Intouchables:

Omar Sy

This is your first lead role.
Yes, I was really excited for it. It was also the first time I read a script where the main character comes from the more underprivileged suburbs of Paris and the character is portrayed in a positive way.

It’s a script loosely based off a real story: a hard-won connection between a handicap millionaire and his ex-con caretaker. How much of your character is creative interpretation?
The two filmmakers who wrote the script had me in mind for the role of the caretaker, Driss—it was supposed to be a gift to me—so they integrated a lot of my own personality traits. Also, I went back to my old neighborhood in the suburbs of Paris, where I grew up, and spoke to my friends. I needed to soak in the atmosphere of what it’s like to be there.

Congratulations on winning the César Award for Best Actor. Is it presumptuous to assume you had some idea you might win?
I really had no idea, I didn’t expect it at all! Even just to be nominated alongside all of those big names was a victory in itself to me. I would’ve been happy for many years with just that. I was shocked.

How did you celebrate?
Well, that night I went straight to bed. I was dead, done for. Then, right after that I went on vacation.

Where do you keep the statue?
It’s on a shelf right across from my main entrance door, so the first thing you see when you come see me is that.

The Weinstein Company is in talks with Colin Firth and Paul Feig for the American remake. Who should play your character?
Actually, one that I just thought of would be Meryl Streep. She can pull off anything.

The Intouchables opens in theatres May 25.

Photo: courtesy of The Weinstein Company

On Sunday, as the 2012 Whitney Biennial entered its closing week, the museum’s fourth floor performance space transformed into a catwalk for artist K8 Hardy’s Untitled Runway Show.

Hardy's Untitled Runway Show

Tropes of the fashion industry have long underwritten Hardy’s art. Since arriving in New York eleven years ago from Ft. Worth, Texas, she’s worked as a stylist and published FashionFashion, a Xeroxed zine in which she models satirically provocative, auto-fetishized looks. Her photographs of shoe concepts, included in the biennial, riff on merchandizing and other languages of editorials and advertisements. These divergent projects have made her into a cult figure, and this weekend’s show was a high-production culmination of some of her most fun, repellant and tragic visions.

Untitled Runway Show at the Whitney Museum

Once guests were corralled into their places, the house lights flared and the spectacle began. The indispensable DJ Venus X mixed archival gay pride parade broadcasts and YouTube-sourced beauty tutorials with slowed down reggaeton, techno and southern rap beats. As the first girl came out, art world front-rowers played their parts and scribbled in their notepads. The choreography called for odd walks: backwards, leaden, or otherwise marked by cadences of discontent. At the end of the runway each model turned to ascend its elevated extension: a menacing sculpture made by Oscar Tuazon, for which he cannibalized segments of his wood and iron maze installed in the lobby gallery, and reconstituted them here as a bridge flanked by two flights of stairs.

The lifeless glaze of the make-up—orange, red and blue on the face, lips and eyes—seemed lifted from cheap mannequins, but the hair may have stolen the show: huge stork’s nests coated in paint and chemical detritus, recalling Amy Winehouse and hyperbolic online memes like “Helicopter Hair.” The outfits had a thrift store sensibility in keeping with Hardy’s aesthetic. Some were crude juxtapositions of culturally antithetical apparels sutured together, like a matronly slip with a thuggish shirt. “There’s also kind of a paint story happening here,” Hardy mentioned before the show. Indeed, inky, dripped stains foreshadowed a great, big, phallic paintbrush cartoonishly affixed to the final look (a canvas sack). One of the most memorable ensembles was a spliced together pile of bras. “I burned all those bras, or tried to. We were torching some that were flame retardant and they just gassed.”

K8 Hardy

Asked whether this was the birth of the house of Hardy or its fall, she conceded, “I'm going to re-stage this show at the Dallas Contemporary in October, but I have no desire to create another one. Maybe in ten years. Not because I didn't totally enjoy making this show, it's just not my primary form of working.” After the last model left the stage, the designer came out in a disheveled, red-tie, red-blooded man look. “The inspiration was Wall Street banker. I didn’t want to compete with the show or be incorporated.”

Photos: © Paula Court. K8 Hardy, May 20th, 2012 at 2012 Whitney Biennial.

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The shades, from left: Anardana, Ratin Jot, Amchoor, Koliary, Kutki

Just another day at W: taking a break from the August issue to get our nails done in Nars's bright new summer shades.

Photographer Jeremy Kost, the party-world doyen famous for his Polaroid photos and collages, took us through his latest exhibition at 150 11th Ave. “I think that the whole show is about façade and the breaking down of façade,” he says. A theme that recalls Andy Warhol, whose Polaroids are interspersed throughout the exhibition, each one selected by Kost to echo one of his own pieces: Warhol’s Diana Ross next to Kost’s Beyonce, Warhol’s Mick Jagger next to Kost’s Lady Gaga, even a self-portrait of Warhol and a skull next to Kost’s skull-painted face.

W: When did you know Poloroid photography was going to be your signature?
Jeremy Kost: In 2004, I was in Pamela Anderson’s hotel room at The Four Seasons. And that night David [LaChapelle] sort of turned to me and said, “What you’re doing is really good, you should take this more seriously.” And I said, “Yea, alright, whatever,” and the rest just sort of evolved from there. I just brought my camera along everywhere.

How many shots would you say you take for one of your collages?
Every single frame goes into the piece, so there’s no waste. At four dollars a frame now…it’s insane…it’s totally insane…and the medium is basically running out. So every frame matters.

I Fucking Love You (Marriage Equality For All), 2011
“This was on the roof of the Ace Hotel. We shot it about two months before the gay marriage act passed in New York and it was just something I’d always had in my head, the idea of two drag queens getting married. So Jordan [Fox] reprised the bridesmaids and she gets boozier as she goes, and Veruca reprised the groomsmen.”

What do you think people like about Polaroids?
For me it’s sort of the color and the saturation and the softness. That’s what makes me crazy about it. You can’t get those colors in digital. You just can’t. I mean, you can retouch all you want but some of the colors of the sky and the way the sun catches someone and casts that glow, it’s just un-replicable.

How many cameras do you own?
Maybe 16. They die. The gears break out after shooting so many of them. There’s one model I sort of use all the time, as soon as I see one available on eBay or something, I just buy it. It’s an Image 1200. It was the last one that they made so it’s the most advanced.

“One of the drag queens in the show who I have shot with a number of times painted my face in skull makeup for my 34th birthday party. I’d never done anything like that so I just sort of did it. You become somebody totally different. This is a self-portrait with [me holding out] the camera. We did them at the end of the night. I was super shitfaced.”

What are you going to do when the film does run out?
Well I think that’s one of the reasons I showed the new paintings because it shows I’m thinking about things outside of the collage work. Originally I was showing photographs, prints, but I really liked the idea of showing this unique object, so I’ve really veered away from photographs. I also don’t shoot in nightlife anymore. Period.

Jeremy Kost’s solo show titled Of An Instance is on display through May 31 and is presented by Hugo Boss and The Andy Warhol Museum.

Portrait: Michael Flores

After three months of non-stop socializing in the name of charity, it would be understandable that some party energy was lagging—initially—on Thursday night when El Museo del Barrio threw its annual spring gala. As one well-photographed lady entered the cathedral-like Cipriani 42nd Street space, she posed momentarily for the roving photographers before making her way to the small step-and-repeat-cum-red carpet in the room’s Western corner.

From left: Julianna Margulies and Keith Lieberthal; Yaz Hernandez and Valentin Hernandez

“Where are you going?” asked Patrick McMullan, hoping for more shots.

“I PROMISE I’ll come back,” she said, undeterred from her path.

“Just remember, you’ll meet the same people on the way down as you’ll meet on the way up,” quipped McMullan, before turning his attention to others.

He was joking—I think—but that was as catty as things got. Because not to pull out any stereotypes, but how could one stay in a snappy mood when surrounded by such fun-loving Latin spirit? There were bellinis and tequila everywhere you looked (and rum cocktails—Bacardi USA was one of the night’s honorees) and enough women in red dresses to paint many a town in scarlet hues.

“We Latins like bright colors,” said Carolina Herrera.

A makeshift VIP room slash holding pen was set up overlooking cocktails in the Eastern bar—Carlos Mota, for one, loved it exclaiming, “I want to be where all the young people are!”—but most seemed content to imbibe in the packed fray. In place of the normal announcement for dinner came three sets of trumpet calls that had one girl wondering, “Are the Hunger Games about to start?”

From left: Nina Garcia; Carolina Herrera

Not quite. Unless gazpacho with shrimp, prime roast and huge slices of meringue cake with strawberries constitute a famine.

As guests like Angel Sanchez, Fe Fendi, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Cindy Sherman and Charlotte Moss dug in, Tony Bechara, the museum’s chair, introduced the evening’s presenters and honorees.

First up was Julianna Margulies, endowing Narciso Rodriguez with the Excellence in the Arts Award (he’s the first fashion designer to receive it).

From left: Cindy Sherman and Narciso Rodriguez; Carlos Mota

“He loves his heritage and he really loves women,” said Margulies, showing off one of Rodriguez’s designs. “I’ve known him for 18 years. When I was on ER, I would call Narciso up and say ‘I need a dress for an awards show… I’m thinking red.’ And I would get a dress in a FedEx envelope and I would be like, ‘This is never going to fit me!’ And it never needed an alteration.”

A very moved Rodriguez thanked the Latin American women in his life saying, “It means a great deal to me because El Museo celebrates my most profound influences, the cultures that made me who I am today.”

From left: Bibhu Mohapatra; Mackenzie Hamilton

After Facundo Bacardi, the chairman of Bacardi Limited, picked up the Corporate Excellence in the Arts Award, Mrs. Herrera introduced “the beautiful and glamorous” Yaz Hernandez, recipient of the Trustee Leadership Award.

“Tonight is my lucky night because I have the woman who is the icon of my life presenting me with an award,” said Hernandez, adding, “It’s my lucky night, but it’s also your lucky night because I forgot my speech at home, so since I don’t remember what I’m supposed to say, it’s going to be a real short one! Humble is not for me, but gratitude, yes. I am really grateful. That’s it, 35 minutes, now enjoy your night.”

Fe and Paola Fendi

And so they did, some in the most unexpected of ways. As dessert wrapped up and many hit the dance floor, designer Bibhu Mohapatra was getting ready to leave. His date, Mackenzie Hamilton, had other things on her mind.

“I’m just waiting for my model to finish her cake,” said Mohapatra, eyeing her.

Yup, no hunger games here.

Photos: Sherly Rabbani & Josephine Solimene

Shailene Woodley, Jessica Chastain, Naomi Watts, Ludivine Sagnier and Diane Kruger being honored as notable women in film. Photograph by Alexis Dahan.

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Fashion and film have always gone hand in hand. Here are some of my favorite actresses starring in their chicest roles. xoxo—Edward Enninful

Pretty Baby, Brooke Shields, 1978


Scarface, Michelle Pfeiffer, 1983


The Night Porter (Il Portiere Di Notte), Charlotte Rampling, 1974


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