mom!

mother's day is always a hard one for me. even though she's been gone for a long time, i miss her every. single. day. she was such an amazing women & i am happy to have had her for the short amount that i did.

one of my favorite memories of my mom was in the early 1980s. now, we lived in a well, no easy way to say it, a shanty style apartment. it wasn't fabulous but she made it home.  it was located at the end of the cemetery.  it was a muggy summer in rural pennsylvania & my mother lay in our "front yard", if you could call it that. really it was a small patch of grass next to the parked cars.  she was in her bikini on one of those little lounge chairs you buy for the beach. slathered in a mixture of baby oil & mecuricome. for those of you too young to remember, mecuricome was a dark red antiseptic that contained mercury. it came in a tiny bottle & you would dab it on cuts etc.  she would pour the whole bottle into the baby oil, shake it & apply liberally. she was aiming for the "cher" tan....

she loved to read & her summer "novel" was mommie dearest.  i brought her out an iced tea & sat with her for a few minutes and she turned to me & said "from now on i want you to call me mommie dearest"!  i laughed and told her she was cuckoo.  later that year i either read the book or saw the movie, i can't remember which, but i recall thinking, why in the everloving world would she want me to call her mommie dearest?  i never did figure it out.  

i love you mom.

the story-tellers, part 48

diana ross, studio 54, 1979

cher dancing, studio 54

bianca jagger making a quiet entrance into her studio 54 birthday bash, 1977

david bowie, studio 54, 1976

jerry hall with andy warhol photographed by david bailey, studio 54

patti hansen photographed by anton perich, studio 54, 1977 

brooke shields & debbie harry, studio 54, 1978

halston, bianca jagger, jack haley jr. liza minelli & michael jackson, studio 54, 1978

diane von furstenberg at studio 54 for the party in honour of egon von furstenberg’s book, ‘the power look’,  25th september, 1978

jerry hall in see-through lace bodysuit, studio 54, 1974

tanya tucker parties at studio 54, july 28, 1979

(one of the original bad girls!)

new year’s eve studio 54, 1978

the stories they could tell!

pump up the volume

sam rollinson photographed by kacper kasprzyk & styled by tom van dorpe for v magazine #83.

covers

giorgio moroder photographed by hedi slimane for dazed & confused, june 2013.

julianne moore photographed by helena christensen & styled by april hughes for rika magazine #8, spring/summer 2013.

karmen pedaru photographed by alexi lubomirski for vogue germany, june 2013.

david frampton photographed by ben harris & styled by kenny ho for article #1.

a tiger never loses sleep over the opinion of a sheep

stella tennant photographed by josh olins & styled by cathy kasterine for i-D, summer 2013.

smart suzy

suzy menkes, editor of the international herald tribune sat down with fern mallis for an interview at the 92nd street Y. among the topics discussed were john galliano:

"it's a tragedy. we know that creative people have all sorts of demons," menkes said. "i would never say that i love hitler in any shape or form ever, and i don't know many people who would. that's not to say that somebody with such brilliant talent shouldn't be given some kind of second chance. but how do you do that is difficult."

it's so refreshing to voice such frank opinions. read more of her interview at wwd. (you will love her advice to kanye west).

tucson mountain retreat

tucson mountain retreat by DUST architects. tucson, arizona, usa. pretty perfect.

philographics

london based genís carreras has paired complicated concepts with uncomplicated shapes to create a cutting edge philosphy dictionary. carreras has launched a kickstarter with this pitch:

"it takes the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy 28,250 words to explain the woolly concept of relativism. it takes genís carreras 32 words and a single image. if you ask me, he doesn't even need the text." comments suzanne labarre.

they are pretty genius....now if he could only figure out everything else for us!