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TheRealReal: Luxury Consignment Authenticators to the Rescue!

The RealReal hosted their generous launch at 80 Wooster this past Thursday.Brilliantly robust hues of couture textiles and brands, furs-silks and – leather blind viewers, with luxury experiences of authenticity, expertise and sustainability. A fractal of business devices and curatorial skills, this Library of Fashion, fine jewelry, art, home and kids fashion renews itself on […]

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Gothic Romance at Last Rites Gallery

To honor Friday the 13th – I’d like to pay homage to a spectacular Tim Burtonesque gallery: Last Rites Gallery. Featuring one of my favorite creators, William Basso, while extending Eric Lacombe’s “Anomalies” presentation, I am supremely smitten by Last Rites’ accordance to the Gothic Romance. Best epitomized by Nathanial Hawthorne’s Bosom Serpent and Scarlet Letter, […]

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Botanical Metamorphosis: Nature Jewelry by Kira Koktysh

“Nature is the best Artist”   Aphrodite’s spring meets the Garden of Eden through Kira Koktysh’s nature-inspired jewelry. She employs her signature Swarovski crystals and natural stones unto mesmerizing fig, mushroom, leaves and flowers moldings. Imbued with an Earth-toned color palette—olive greens, deep purples, burgundy, brown, rich browns—Kira evokes the mysterious laws of Nature. She […]

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Whitney Museum Studio Party !

While Honoring the 2017 Biennial artists, the Whitney Museum‘s Studio Party welcomed those willing to assist in the furthering of its honorable mission: To honor and advance the careers of extraordinary living artists today.  Propelled by its signature exhibition, the Biennial marks the supreme assessment of fresh American art in the world. Erected between the […]

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New York Design Week, SoHo

  Kindling yet another spoke of the NYC culture fractal is New York’s Design Week. However the best of it located itself in SoHo’s cast-iron district, where one abounds in visual eye-openers, comfortable chairs, and curated ambiance. Studding  SoHo’s Belgian blocks are  indoor and outdoor furniture, lighting fixtures, abstract Cuban paintings, mirror and sculptures. Sometimes it does […]

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Stefan Beauvais & Ben Moon at 3Squared

“It’s a travesty that we’ve arrived at this place where we compartmentalize everything and separate everything instead of recognizing the connectivity of things” -Ben Moon   3Squared Gallery does justice to the psychedelic—to the Fractal– yet again. Decorating its cave like proportions with the likes of  Stefan Beauvais and Ben Moon is curator Marina Dojchinov. These […]

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The Beauty of Resin, at 80 Wooster

I learned a few things by attending the Collaborative Art Fair at 80 Wooster in SoHo last Thursday. First: I’m seemingly drawn to organic creations made of resin, and second: Resin evokes organic imagery for a reason. Drawn immediately to Maria M. Mohiuddun fractal-like evocations— flowers, concentric petals and shapes—made from what appeared to be waxed […]

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Intellectualizing Fashion: Philipp Plein afterparty NYPL

Injecting a seemingly superficial NYFW with scholarly class, the historically pivotal New York Public Library apparently hosts supreme spectacles of music, ambiance and fashion trends. The Phillip Plein designer’s after party, Monday February 13th, enjoyed a ton of celebrities, bumper cars, two auditoriums brimmed with beats, sequins, feathery eye-lids, Paris Hilton, and too much more. […]