Thank You, CBS!
Evidently, PX This recently appeared on CBS’s The Insider— but unfortunately not in NYC, since apparently it’s been canceled here? Aww, boo.
Oh well! For a closer look at the segment and a bit of a peek behind-the-scenes, you know where to look…
Yay!
Thank You, NBC!
Look, PX This was on LX-TV! Yay!
Mmmm… peacock….
:)
** See also (earlier):
• good morning, Australia [The Morning Show]
• [CBS's] the insider
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Have you heard?
Until the release of PX Me (Summer 2011), this website will henceforth be updated only intermittently (approximately once or twice a week).
Abbe Diaz’s new (daily) blog is now at: abbediaz.com
Hey, remember a few weeks ago when we referred to Armin Amiri‘s new enterprise but didn’t want to give away all the details because we were trying to be respectful, and then Eater graciously picked up our tidbit and then the very next day The New York Post shadily ran with the story without crediting us, as usual, because they’re lame shystery fuckers, and then supposedly Amy Sacco got pretty upset and then maybe may or may not have thrown a wee bit of a tantrum that Amiri is riding her coat tails straight over her head now that he’s getting all these big new deals in New York (hey New York Post, did you happen to hear about the other project Amiri’s been fervently eyeing for months now?) and she’s not?
Yeah well, that place is called Mr H, and it soft-opened to "friends and family" as a complimentary "preview" last week on Friday night for "only thirty invited guests," in a practice run before the Prabal Gurung and Derek Lam parties over the weekend. We have a few photos even though technically we weren’t allowed to take pictures, so we’ll show you some because clearly there’s no point in trying to be respectful. However, we will endeavor to remain somewhat courteous and just give you a sneak peek, because apparently Mr H is currently in the unfortunate position of having to honor Fashion Week bookings made months in advance despite being behind development schedule and "not fully prepared." Evidently, its current state is "temporary"; Mr H will re-close after Fashion Week to undergo further renovations.
That is all for now. Try checking The Post tomorrow— maybe they’ll make some calls today in an attempt to score some kind of awesome indignant quote from Amy Sacco or something.
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Salon 403: Love is…
Congratulations to Lelaine Lau of Salon 403 for another wonderful and successful event last night, "Love is…"
Love is one of those things that is nearly impossible to quantify or describe, and difficult to define beyond "a strong affection for". And yet we know it when we see it or feel it, receive it or give it. It’s also an energy and a visceral feeling. It’s positive and uplifting and healthy. It encompasses so much more than just romance, and yet that is the first thing most people think of when they hear the word. So what is love to you?
Love Is is a celebration of love of all kinds as told through the stories of my presenters. Love Is is meant to be an expression of the various ways that love manifests. Love Is is a storytelling event and an interactive art project.
Please join me at the next 403, where presenters including chanteuse, French punk, and cult icon EDWIGE BELMORE, singer/songwriter DAVID RALEIGH, writer and cartoonist ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST, Super Sprowtz founder RADHA AGRAWAL, purveyor of love KATIA TALLARICO, lifestyle consultant WILSON MESA, model and muse PETEY WRIGHT, and other members of the 403 community will share what love is to them.
French painter, poet and conceptual artist JULIEN ISORE will also present his LOVE project – an experimental and interactive international art work and "advertising campaign" for LOVE. The aim of the campaign is to combine materiality and immateriality and transform humanity into a work of art. Julien’s work explores theoretical questions about metaphorical thought and the process of imaginary, and his campaign has captured the hearts of people all over the world from Lisbon, Paris, Shanghai, Brussels, Los Angeles, Geneva, Bogota, Stockholm and Bombay. This is his first LOVE campaign in New York City.
Love Is will feature the cuisine of CAMILLE BECERRA, a NYC-based chef and restaurateur known for incorporating the Latin spices of her heritage and her dedication to the farm-to-table movement. A top graduate of the Academy of Culinary Arts, she went on to open the popular Paloma in Greenpoint, which lasted 3 years before being shuttered by fire, and she competed in Season 3 of Top Chef. Most recently she held a series of wildly successful pop-up restaurants called The Hunger, which drew raves from the likes of Tom Colicchio and Todd English.
To see more photographs of this fantastic evening, you know where to go…
Okay so apparently, with all the renewed attention being paid to PX This – The Revised Edition—
what with The Daily News, and hamptons.com, and Perez Hilton, and dlisted, and foodchannel.com, and Australia’s The Morning Show, and the upcoming appearance on CBS’s The Insider and whatnot—
it seems some people have come to realize the The Revised Edition (unlike the original version of the book), aside from its snazzy new cover and funky slick square shape, actually has photographs inside as well.
And true, the two separate books pretty much do cost the same, so obviously that’s not a very good excuse for depriving the early purchaser’s of the original version (thank you!) of the lovely visual eye-candy afforded within The Revised Edition only. Fair enough!
So, if you’d like to take a gander at all the photos contained in PX This -The Revised Edition— you know where to look…
G’Night, Australia!
Thank you so much! It was really a lot of fun.
(For more of a behind-the-scenes look at the live-via-satellite appearance of PX This on Australia’s The Morning Show with Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies— you know where to go…)
Art Basel Miami Beach – Day 02
- No breakfast; coffee from Starbucks. Spent morning trying to blog with an iPad. Ha ha haa aargh what a fucking nightmare. Gave up.
- Few hours by the pool, because beach is still kinda windy.
- Lunch at The Setai (poolside). Spotted: Larry Gagosian, Jason Binn (not together).
- Second tour through Art Basel Miami Beach exhibit. Spotted: Susan Sarandon.
- Quick tour of Design Miami exhibit. Spotted: Alex Rodriguez.
- Tour of Red Dot exhibit. Second tour of Scope exhibit.
- Shopping in the Design District at new showrooms Maison Martin Margiela, Christian Laboutin, and Y3.
- Dinner with friends at (beloved by locals) Mandolin in the Design District.
- Drinks with friends at Nexxt Cafe on Lincoln Rd to meet with proprietor Sedat Onur.
*See also (earlier):
• Art Basel Miami Beach – Day 01
• Art Basel Miami Beach – Day 02
Art Basel Miami Beach – Day 02
- Breakfast at The Raleigh again.
- Few hours at the beach. Kinda windy.
- Lunch at Joey’s in the Wynwood District.
- Tour of Wynwood galleries.
- Tour of Scope exhibit.
- Dinner at Michael’s in the Design District.
- Opening reception of Luminaire showroom in the Design District.
- AOL/Paper Party in the Design District (but, didn’t stay for the Pharrell performance).
- Bar hopping at Vino&Olio and MaiTardi (next door to the AOL/Paper party).
*See also (earlier):
• Art Basel Miami Beach – Day 01
• Art Basel Miami Beach – Day 03
Art Basel Miami Beach – Day 01
- Living in NYC is awesome— pretty late dinner at Kenmare and then breakfast bright and early at The Raleigh (Newark Airport still does not have creepy X-ray cancer boxes or nasty horny perverts trying to feel your goodies. Hooray!).
Spotted poolside: Julian Schnabel
- Tour of Art Basel Miami Beach at the convention center.
- Early dinner with friends at Sardinia (off the beaten tourist path and beloved by the locals).
- Drinks at John deLucie‘s The Royal "grand opening" reception at The Raleigh.
*See also (earlier):
• Art Basel Miami Beach – Day 02
• Art Basel Miami Beach – Day 03
CRAYON by abbe diaz
By popular demand, PX This is proud to present the fine-art works of Abbe Diaz
Currently, any/all artworks are available by appointment and special order only through The House of Geld Iaz.
To purchase and/or for more information, please call 212.334.2288
or e-mail:
geld_iaz@yahoo.com
Thank you.
:)
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Okay okaaay, I messed up. Yes, I’m a week late. Yes, I did see these beyoootiful photographs earlier, and yes, I meant to steal them— but I like totally spaced and completely forgot. And yes, you are googling Karim Amatullah all day long and for some reason expect to find his shiny bald round head here. (Sorry, he’s actually more like here. And uh… here.)
In any case, fine. Now you’ve found him. He’s at the Jay Z & Eminem concert at Yankee Stadium! Or at least, he was. (Check it out, dude. Time travel! Wheee!)
Enjoy! Or ya know, try. Seeing as you’re probably dejected and disconsolate now you weren’t actually there in person.
:(
** With very special thanks to Karim Amatullah of Green Tea Innovative Marketing Concepts and Matthew Katakis
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For more on Karim Amatullah, read PX This – The Revised Edition and PX This Too (The Sequel to PX This) – Coming Soon
Okay, yeah yah, there’s a lot to absolutely despise about fashion, we all know this. But, every once in a thousand lifetimes or so, a great designer/label comes along with a collection that kinda reminds us all why we got into this ridiculous business in the first place. No big surprise this season it’s: Christopher Bailey of Burberry Prorsum.
What can we say? His shit is dope.
And yesterday at 4PM London time, Burberry did the smartest thing any person in Fashion doesn’t usually have the brain cells to conceive— it hired a genius computer geek and ran a live feed on the internets of its Spring/Summer 2011 runway show.
OMG, hallelujah! High Fashion, meet High Technology; High Technology, meet Moron Idiot Johnny-Come-Lately (aka Anna Wintour).
One look at this collection had us feeling both invigorated and forlorn. Invigorated, because it’s really great to see fashion making a semblance of sense every once in a fucking while. Forlorn, because we realized that in comparison, New York really sucks right now. Did you seeee the shows this season? Holy cow, we really suck, what an embarrassment. We have a famine of beauty, hunny— a FAMINE OF BYOOTEE!
On the up side, however, our models are MUCH better walkers— yup, even the regular non-super variety. Wooo child, even if you’re not into fashion at all, watch this show anyway just for a gander at the poor lanky clods. (Ohhh dear, maybe you should have stayed in bed for less than $10,000 today, sweetie.)
Anyhoo, the video directly at Burberry has far better quality, or check out the handy yootoob version offered below if you’re too lazy to click over. Enjoy!
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For a factual, in-depth, and uniquely insightful peek into the world of high-fashion, read PX This – The Revised Edition featuring true-story encounters with such luminaries as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Azzedine Alaïa, Mohamed al-Fayed, Graziano de Boni, Ann Demeulmeester, Marc Bagutta, and so much more…
GREATEST HITS: PX This [The Blahg]
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"Mark Baker and Vicky Andren"
MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2005. 10:48AM:
we just got back from europe, we went to the wedding of mark-baker and vicky-andren in stockholm, sweden.
wow, it was lovely. and totally fascinating.
weddings are such a trip.
ah haaa. literally
… there was rebecca-de.mornay and angie-everhart and ingrid-seynhaeve. and at the table with us was caroline-winberg (and her boyfriend "of two years" who apparently runs the Lydmar Hotel, he was really nice) and erik-wachtmeister who is the dude that founded aSmallWorld…
yah so then after that faboolous weekend in stockholm, we dropped by barcelona, spain…
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This is an abbreviated version of Abbe Diaz’s diary/blog entry on August 8, 2005, for archival purposes only. A far more detailed, thorough, and incisive account is to be included in Diaz’s upcoming second book, PX This Too (The Sequel to PX This) – Coming Soon in the Autumn of 2010
* "…The intellectual community, as usual, showed itself to be timid and divided, and even the most unexpected graphologists engaged in controversies regarding their inconsistent analyses of my handwriting. It was they who divided opinions, overheated the polemic, and made nostalgia popular…. Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future." – Gabriel García Márquez
okay yah, i have a very strong and twisted love/hate relationship with fashion, we all know this. bad me, bad me— it’s Fashion Week right now and i couldn’t care less.
BUT! i gotta admit, this was a good one.
sigh. yes, my photos suck and my stupid BlackBerry video thingie turned out to be all jiggly jumpetty and the size of a postage stamp. so i found this other video on the interwebs from like last year or whatever (sure, it’s "old" but at least you can get a better look at all the great clothes). so shoot me.
"asians love my work…" hee eheee. well, there you have it.
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Yeah yah, it’s NYC Fashion Week. I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m totally flattered by the e-mails and Facebook® messages and whatnot, looking for my usual remarkably insightful and brilliantly sparkly perpspective on the whole rigmarole— but uhh… rilly?
Come on, you knooow you don’t want to get me started on this topic, do ya now? God forbid you end up all jaded and inured about all the glamour and "fabulosity," yes? How in the world would you ever be able to stand yourself?
Here, just look at all the pretty pictures instead:
Siiigh. Therrre you go, alllll better now…
*With very special thanks to Marc Bagutta
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For a factual, in-depth, and uniquely insightful peek into the world of high-fashion, read PX This – The Revised Edition featuring true-story encounters with such luminaries as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Azzedine Alaïa, Mohamed al-Fayed, Graziano de Boni, Ann Demeulmeester, Marc Bagutta, and so much more…
GREATEST HITS: PX This [The Blahg]
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"Beyonce @ Cipriani 55 Wall"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2005. 11:18AM:
… so last night was the official finale for this season’s Wall Street Concert Series at Cipriani55Wall featuring beyoncé! holy cow she’s gorgeous. i got to sneak in earlier and watch her rehearse and everything, she was all dressed down like she just rolled out of bed, and still she was so beautiful. actually i think she looked better without all the pancake and glitter and whatnot. don’t get me wrong, she was stunning during the concert, but just in her jeans without any makeup— no joke, she looked ten years younger.
anyways, it was a great extravaganza, beyoncé really put on quite the show. she sang and danced and changed her outfit so many times.
eheee at one point she handed her microphone down to alex-rodriguez standing in the audience so he could sing-along, and omygoodness. that poor boy couldn’t carry a tune if it was shaped like a baseball bat.
and the performance in the audience was almost better than the show onstage. all the big ballers (shot-callers and brawlers) were in da house, everybody was glossin and flossin, on and on’in, till six in the mawnin. or something like that.
i saw damon-dash & piddy-diddy & harvey-weinstein & vivi-nevo & flavio-briatore & of course giuseppe-cipriani. i think jay-z arrived late, i didn’t spot him at all until almost the very end of the concert, he was backstage watching from the sidelines and it seemed even beyoncé was surprised to see him there, she looked over when the jumbotron abruptly caught him lurking in the wings and she suddenly beamed and blushed like lovestruck teenager. aww.
oh and harvey-weinstein was totally sweating my dress. i’m just sayin.
… yah so aside from that
last monday (october 31) was a… halloween dinner at Matsuri
… and it was lots of fun everybody was all dressed up in funny costumes. eric-goode was a boyscout. sean-macpherson was a totally convincing jesus-christ. sante-d’orazio was an archbishop. rachel-williams was ummm heidi? saint-paulie girl? something like that. and fisher-stevens was himself.
oh and valentino-garavani & his homeboy giancarlo-giametti were themselves too. do they have halloweenie in italy? i guess not.
… afterward was another party at Crobar…
mark-baker was a pirate. and the lovely vicky-andren was a stepford wife. oliver-stone was some kind of military soldier or veteran or something, i think.
and then later i heard was heidi-klum & seal & usher but i didn’t see any of them because we left by midnight.
finally was a stop at LaEsquina… serge-becker was dressed as a gimp which was totally the best costume all night.
pxthis.com archives
This is an abbreviated version of Abbe Diaz’s diary/blog entry on February 22, 2005, for archival purposes only. A far more detailed, thorough, and incisive account is to be included in Diaz’s upcoming second book, PX This Too (The Sequel to PX This) – Coming in the Autumn of 2010
* "…The intellectual community, as usual, showed itself to be timid and divided, and even the most unexpected graphologists engaged in controversies regarding their inconsistent analyses of my handwriting. It was they who divided opinions, overheated the polemic, and made nostalgia popular…. Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future." – Gabriel García Márquez
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