“Traveling is so essential in anyone’s life. Getting somebody out of their comfort zone, taking them out from where its familiar, and planting them into some new environment is so eye opening. You really test yourself. There are so many little tests in travelling. Traveling is not easy, it’s glamourized in the media, but it’s […]
“Stop picking up black babies [for pictures],” says world traveler Jessica Nabongo. As the keynote speaker for Women’s Travel Fest, an annual conference created and hosted by blogger Kelly Lewis centered on women’s space in the travel industry, Nabongo came to deliver truths. You know the photograph: some variation of a white woman holding a […]
Hermès’ opening of the New York Meatpacking boutique this week prompted a lavishly hip after party at Skylight on Vesey Street. An emblematic foray into Studio54 meets Greek mythology, the Kitchen, Garden Tapestry and Kings rooms transported guests into a royal feast + 1970’s disco fête. Set amid ancient Mediterranean scenery was the serpentine […]
On the top floor of Pier 59 it was pretty much impossible not to feature in somebody else’s selfie. There were strident leopard-print fashionistas strutting and restrutting dramatic entrances into the Oxford Fashion Studio’s waiting room (always recorded by a trustworthy friend); leopard-print solo flyers touched up their foundation in phone reflections, occasionally pausing to […]
Jetzy hosted “The Human Jungle” art show this week, thankfully extending Halloween beyond the Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Curated by Parisian multimedia artist Aima Saint Hunonj and hosted by the energetic beauty Shama Zehra—art, music, dance, ethnicity and of course—TRAVEL—marked the course of a genuine Fractal, that damp Evening. The makeshift jungle was […]
Dangerous Tongue Slicing niceties into blades that scratch away the warm red lip gloss, melt mascara and pop rosy cheeks, Gossip prevails. Mirrors paint her walls, inside & out, she scurries between switches, eliminating facial glitches -with Pointy Fingernails Scissoring up well-stitched inseams and dreams with whispers, words and index finger pointed up, […]
There’s nothing more ‘fractal’ than an eclectic group of cultured jetsetters celebrating culture, friendship and romance at a classy Egyptian venue. Hosted by Jetzy, the world’s first geo-location based social app, at the elegant, mosaic-tiled and rose laden Casa La Femme in the West Village, the Valentine’s day soirée centered around everyone’s favorite theme: Travel. Founded […]
“The goal of MOCA’spopularNight Market event is to introduce people to Chinese and Chinese-American cuisine in an easy and accessible way. This way you can sample great signature dishes from 8 different Chinese and Chinese-American restaurants. It’s a simple way to bring the Chinese food culture to the masses.” –Edward Cheng, Advisor for Communications […]
‘The 100-degree L.A. heat in October had me envying the crispy coolness of colors bursting from the east coast’s dying leaves. Craving nothing more than the feel of leather, fur, and toasty fires, a familiarity with NYC certainly could breed complacence; an unfamiliarity with L.A. could just as easily feed loss. L.A. propels you to drown […]
Mira Nachman’s first exhibit in the United States, at 3Squared Gallery, showcases 28 large-scale photographs that span the globe. Supplying intimate lenses into the lives of real people, phenomena, and scenarios, Mira carves for viewers a single path that forks into many. Curated by Marina Dojchinov, each picture tells a unique story that magnifies a […]