Beauty News Exclusive – A Give-A-Wei for our Readers!
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CP Curio: Tempting Fate
By title="Email Katie Calautti" alt="Email Katie Calautti"> Katie Calautti
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When an established model-turned-fashion photographer (you may recognize him as one of the America’s Next Top Model judges) turns his lens on adorable newborn baby seals, then offers up personal group tours of the resulting photography exhibit, what’s a pop culture and art-savvy New Yorker to do?
If you’re anything like me, you rush to the gallery and get in line. Call me shallow. Such was the case with Nigel Barker’s “A Sealed Fate,” which took place on the outskirts of the West Village, at the 401 Projects, and was open to the public Friday, July 25 through Sunday, July 27. Those lucky enough to arrive for one of the three daily tours hosted by Barker received an extra-special gift: an hour-long personal account of his very passionate cause. |
Sale Mail
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For all of us shopaholics, finding the best bargain is almost as fabulous as finding that oh-so-adorable little black Dior dress we’ve been eyeing since last month’s Vogue. And now, sale shopping has never been simpler – free email service Shop It To Me acts as our own personal shopper to notify us, its users, as soon as the clothing we’ve set our sights on hits the sales rack at major and boutique retailers. It’s as easy as signing up on shopittome.com. |
CP Style: Support Your Local Starving Artists
By title="Email Ashley Goldsmith" alt="Email Ashley Goldsmith"> Ashley Goldsmith
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One of my favorite things about New York is the shopping in SOHO. I’m not talking about the pricey boutiques where you may have to sell your first born for a pair of designer shades. But rather the fabulous street scores you can find on just about every corner. When it comes to jewelry and T-shirts, most “sidewalk vendors” create the pieces themselves adding one-of-a-kind charm to their goods. Well my darlings, I have found the motherland of all unique hand-made street scores. Next time you’re enjoying brunch with the girls in SOHO, head over to the Young Designers Market on Mulberry St. A gymnasium packed with designers eager to share their designs and the inspiration behind them. You’ll find wall-to-wall handmade jewelry, shoes, hats, clothes, handbags, etc. The charm of the market is that you are buying directly from the designer, which makes you appreciate your purchase that much more (you can also haggle prices a bit, shhh). |
A Girl in the Beauty Department
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Baze showing off her “pampered pout” on an “I Tried It” Tuesday |
We got the chance to speak with Baze Mpinja, Glamour magazine Beauty Writer-Editor and The Girls in the Beauty Department blog contributor, about beauty and the city.
It’s summer in the city. What are your summer beauty essentials? - An elastic ponytail holder – I don’t bother with my hair when it’s crazy-humid outside. |
CP Style: Lauren Merkin is Workin’
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Lauren Merkin Char Zebra linen clutch ($200) |
Fashion-savvy city ladies (say that three times fast) are always looking for that statement bag that will get them stopped at least three times on the way to dinner and then even more in the restaurant. I don’t know anyone who can get enough of, “I just love your bag!” If you aren’t hearing these words enough, we have something for you: Lauren Merkin Handbags. Eye-catching fabrics and timeless designs are what make women fall in love at first sight.
Merkin is just as intrepid as her beloved handbags. In the summer of 2002, she found herself with an MBA, but without the creative job she craved, so she whipped out her Singer. After creating three bag styles and a portfolio of samples, she cold called buyers at top Manhattan boutiques and by the end of the spring of 2003 Lauren Merkin was one of Bergdorf’s best sellers. |
Pool Palace Part 3: Hotel Gansevoort
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The pool at the Gansevoort Hotel is unknown by few New Yorkers, but actually getting your name on the list and past the pool doorman is the caveat. This rooftop pool is the mother of them all and unless you’re the requisite hotel guest, being someone or knowing someone is your only chance of lounging at the top. At one point, my ultra-bronzed Manhattanite neighbor (who comes here when she is so over The Hamptons) asked me, “Who do you know to get you in?” Enough said.
Aside from the actual scene here, the pool itself is fabulous. Its home in the Meatpacking District offers 365-degrees views and 45-foot pool is actually big enough to swim. Beautiful people and meaty-bachelor party-types down $15 signature cocktails in the water where music is actually piped in below. The service is spotty and my cocktail waitress was suddenly charming when my company switched from my pretty gal-pal to a pair of Brit boys. But you go to the Gansevoort for the scene, not the service. |
CP Curio: P.S.1 MoMA Warm Up
By title="Email Ashley Goldsmith" alt="Email Ashley Goldsmith"> Ashley Goldsmith
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When’s the last time you got a tan at an art gallery? Dug your toes in the sand of your favorite nightclub? What if I told you about an urban beach? A place where you can enjoy being in the sun with your friends, contemporary art, live music and a diverse group of people.
P.S.1 an affiliate of MoMA is one of the largest non-profit art centers in the U.S. Every summer P.S.1 launches their Warm Up series, an event housed within an architectural installation and celebrated by live performances and DJ sets from around the world. Select architecture firms are asked to create their interpretation of an urban beach. This year Work Architecture Company created P.F.1 (Public Farm One) – a working farm, with a variety of vegetables and plants. P.F.1 will act as an interactive bridge between outside and inside, with multiple zones of activity and a refreshing pool at its center. |
Rooftop Pool Palaces Part 2: Empire Hotel
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The Pool Deck, at the UWS’s newly refurbished Empire Hotel (the rooms are lovely, BTW) has one-upped the whole rooftop scene and offers its hotel guests only (wink) two levels of ultra-elevated outdoor space with uncompromising views – both on the inside and out.
The rooftop at The Empire is like a non-slutty version of Vegas right in Manhattan. The cabanas are a dream, each pimped out with flatscreens, refrigerators, iPod docking stations and extra-cushy, big-enough-for-two loungers (if you really want to get cozy, you can even draw the curtain). This level also offers loungers to the devoted sun-worshiper and cushion-y papasans for sipping cocktails. Spa services are also available on the roof, so that you can get your rubdown al fresco. The upper level is where you’ll find the plunge pool. You won’t be swimming laps in this bad boy, but it certainly does the job in the city’s sweltering heat and beats any day at John Jay. The Empire Hotel |
CP Curio: A New Hive
By title="Email Ashley Goldsmith" alt="Email Ashley Goldsmith"> Ashley Goldsmith
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Imagine a triangular archway covered with jars of honey. As you make your way through you are transported to a room taken from the 1920′s. Sketches of honeybees adorn the walls and you can smell mother nature all around you. An old wooden desk sits beneath a map of the world, the corners of the room covered with trees and a single beehive. A chest of drawers filled with thousands of different insects, sea shells and precious rocks, like you’re viewing someone’s personal collections. In the middle of the room is a single table topped with a magnified beehive and hundreds of thousands of honeybees.
A New Hive, a non-profit organization created to raise awareness of the importance of honeybees and the art of beekeeping, has collaborated with several artists to create this installation hosted by Earnest Sewn Co. in the Meatpacking District during July. Honeybees are disappearing from their hives all over the world – an astounding 70% have been reported missing. Did you know that honeybees pollinate a third of the food we eat, and without them our vegetable, fruit and nut supply could become scarce? I recommend checking out the installation for an insight into a bug’s life, but if you can’t make it to the exhibit check out www.ANewHive.org where you can watch videos and read about the importance of honeybees. From there you can help save the bees by making a donation. WHAT: A NEW HIVE Installation Series |
