Category Archives: SEPARATES

art works

top: Geld Iaz, 2002 | pants: Adidas, 2010 | shoes: Donna Karan, 2011 | eyewear: Chanel, 2004

 

aww look, it’s a Nick Walker on the side of a nightclub in the Meatpacking District. ha ha ahaa, remember awhiles back when there was all this hubbub about a Nick Walker on the the side of this restaurant in Greenwich Village? but Gawker kept calling it a Banksy, and i was the one who pointed out they’re wrong, and then Gothamist took the information out of Gawker’s comments section trying to act all smart an’shit as if they actually knew it was a Nick Walker, without crediting me as the source who initially pointed out it’s really not a Banksy? and how the whole hubbub actually started in the first place because Eater was so fucking stupid?

ahh, good times good times.

drinks at Dream Hotel Downtown. dinner at Marble Lane.

 

animal planet – 02

top: Geld Iaz, 2003 | shorts (altered): Blue Marin Five Star, 2004 | shoes: Dior, 2005 | bag: Missoni, 2008

 

these sweatpants are pretty neat, they’re 100% cotton knit jersey, they used hang all the way down and drag on the floor. unfortunately, i shrunk them in the wash so i just cut the legs off.

dinner at Chinatown Brasserie.

 

animal planet

top: Geld Iaz, 2004 | pants: Geld Iaz, 2003 | handbag: Fendi, 2007

 

i’d actually brought and worn these pieces on my trip to the Aeolian Islands but i realized later that maybe, although the top was fine, the pants may have been something of an aesthetic faux pas. it’s been brought to my attention that animal prints (or anything else animal-y, like meat for example) could be considered by some maritime purists as a bit of a murky sea/land creature dichotomy. (i’m not exactly sure how people in the sea fit into this equation, but whatever.)

something for you to keep in mind while you’re packing for your next world cruise aboard the Queen Elizabeth. i’m just sayin.

 

panarea – part two

top: Geld Iaz, 2011 | hat: Raya (Panarea), 2011 | scarf (on hat): Adrienne Vittadini, 2010 | leggings: Poof, 2011 | shoes: Oswaldo Martini (Panarea), 2011 | eyewear: Yves St Laurent, 2008

 

and another night in Panarea— which worked out really really great because Air Panarea turned out to be the very bestest way to get back to Lamezia Terme for our return flight to Milan.

sigh. bye bye Black Sea! thanks so much for everything.

:)

 

[ for even more maritime adventures see also: Black Sea – from St Tropez to Portofino ]

 

panarea – part one

top: Geld Iaz, 2008 | pants: Missoni, 2011 | shoes: Donna Karan, 2011

 

finally my favoritest island of all: Panarea [part 1].

i used to sorta vaguely daydream that someday i might retire and spend the rest of my life in a place like Santorini, but now that i’ve visited Panarea, all i can think about is a second home here. Panarea is so incredibly beautiful, mostly because evidently two architects landed on the island long ago and built a hotel called Raya. then they set about making over nearly the entire island in the very same style (inspired by Balinese artistry); almost all the larger homes and shops and restaurants and stuff were built by the very same architects. it really is unlike any place i’ve ever seen, it’s an aesthetic person’s paradise.

Panarea is quaint enough to be charming but popular enough to be fabulous. another great thing is a good quantity of the residents and summer employees are foreigners and expats— so it’s a lot like New York in that it’s a nice big melting pot! and the people are so wonderfully amicable all over Southern Italy– very much unlike Southern Greece (or Southern France or Southern Spain, for that matter).

all the taxicabs on Panarea are golf carts, and there are even lots of daily ferries and hydrofoils and whatnot to shuttle you to the neighboring islands. but best of all, Panarea has a very convenient helicopter service that makes transportation to and from the island rather easy… and dope (but more on that later).

:)

(drinks at Raya. dinner at Da Pina.)

 

platform

top: Geld Iaz, 2008 | shorts: Ralph Lauren (men’s; altered), 2006 | shoes: Dsquared, 2010 | eyewear: Gucci, 2004

 

lunch meeting at Centro Vinoteca. i’m starting to get excited about this new little project thingie we’re working on. i hope it all works out.

dinner at Japonica.