Fashion Week 2009 favorites

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CAROLINA HERRARA

OSCAR DE LA RENTA

I have to say we have definetly come a long way, clean silhouettes, fitted garments, just a really clean cut compared to previous shows – and I must say ALL of Oscar De La Renta’s line ROCKS!

Please have a Seat

Gabriel García Márquez

The result after a feud between the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, onetime best of friends, had all the elements of a literary classic: accusations of betrayal, jealousy and adultery, and a brutal encounter 31 years ago when things turned bloody as shown here in 1976. A black eye by former crony Mario.

Japenese Stencil

To reflect on the Spring season.....I share this with you.

A Year Without Toilet Paper

A family decides to live the farmish life with no emenities-basically cutting down on emenites-well just go to my village in India for that!

West Side Highway

New York has long been a frustrating place for Mr. Gehry. It has taken him decades to land a major commission here, and now the IAC building joins a string of high-profile towers, all part of an effort to transform a noisy strip of the West Side Highway into a glamorous waterfront promenade for the kind of wealthy socialites who once scorned him. Three luxury high-rise apartment buildings by Richard Meier, with tenants like Martha Stewart and Calvin Klein, are a 10-minute walk to the south. A much-anticipated residential tower by the French architect Jean Nouvel is beginning to rise just across West 19th Street.

Frank Gehry’s first building in New York. It is on the West Side Highway in Manhattan.

Lobby.

Horsey

"Is that a horse's ass or just my reflection in the window."

Don't hate us Americans!

Sadly if I could choose another place to live it would be south of France or Zurich, and of course India.

Jared Kushner

A young up and coming person to watch.

Jared Kushner, 26, bought a trophy newspaper. Now he’s learning how to run it.
Mr. Kushner, the scion of a troubled New Jersey real estate family, who is also a full-time graduate student, had dabbled in Boston-area condominiums, not publishing, while an undergraduate at Harvard. The sum total of his journalism experience was writing an article about dorm food for a student magazine. In the short time he owned The Observer, Mr. Kushner had found little time even to meet with Mr. Kaplan.
All most people knew about Jared Kushner pre-Observer was that his father, the real estate investor Charles Kushner, had endured a spectacular fall. Once a major donor to New Jersey Democratic politicians, he served nearly a year in prison in part for hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, then showing a tape of the tryst to his sister, who had instigated a tax investigation. (Courtesy of NY Times)