Nature-jeweler and artist Kira Koktysh created a new series of hand-sculptured pendants, or talismans, for Katya Leonovich’s S/S 2020 Menswear collection this New York Fashion Week. Fix and Fax marks Katya’s shift to menswear from couture womenswear. Kira too, had limited experience creating fashion for men; having merely created pearl cuff links, she was pleased and […]
Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest creative nonfiction masterpiece, published in 2009, 469 pp. by Grand Central Publishing, steers away from his tradition of fundamentally exposing fundamental bigotry, misanthropy and corruption. Chronicling the minutest details of his turbulent childhood, in a series of quick-shot synapses, fractals come to saturate readers’ foreheads, like milk does an animal’s bones. […]
Modern yet classic, artsy and urbane, the eclectic enclave Bar Pigalle feels like a gem you’d stumble upon in East Williamsburg or Dumbo. Then again, we liken to things what we experientially know. Founded by award-winning mixologist Travis Fourmont, and renowned Sommelier Joseph Allerton, its being ultimately inspired by one founder’s trip to the nightlife […]
