dried dates

Sweetleaf-long island

Stopping for stump town coffee on our way to the PS1 just across the bridge from Greenpoint in Long Island.

The Gagosian Shop

damien hirst

At the Gagosian.

It was my first time at the Gagosian, located around the block from Central Park.

The magazine library they have is amazing!

Peter dropped off some more Corduroy Magazines and we took a look around.

My - Lucia - RetroSuperFutures

It's a bit of a love story really.

While in Toronto this summer, attending some weddings and meeting Peter's family, we took a stroll down West Queen street.
Stopping into to look at "Spectacles," I found all the sun glass frames that looked so similar to everything else I've seen.

That was, until I saw the Lucia sunglasses by retrosuperfuture.

I almost fell over! Just what I had been looking for. I tried them on and never wanted to take them off. Perhaps even consiered for a moment being one of those obnoxious people who wears their sunglasses inside, in clubs and even in the subway.

Then i though again.

I was prepared to buy them until the price tag stopped me.

It's now November and not a day had passed where I didn't think about them, talk about them or long for them to sit on top on my nose.

Everyday the sun came out I would sigh and say,

"would sure be lovely to be wearing Lucia's right now"

Peter was growing tired of entering every sun glass shop so that I could look around dismally at all the unexciting frames, then promptly leave the store saying, "they're no Lucia retrosuperfutures."

I've never seen them in any other shop than the Spectacles store on West Queen street in Toronto.

I finally found them online for an amazing price and asked politely if my parents would purchase them for me for my 25th birthday sneaking up.

being the amazing parents that they are, I now walk all over NYC with them on, even when the skies are grey.

Thank you mom and dad!

Guy Bourdin

-In Between-

GUY BOURDIN

An exhibition that showed some first glimpses of Guy's never seen before work (1928-1991).

I've been yawning quite a lot at some of the recent shows we've been to but this got me giddy with excitement.

Peter had sent me a book with Guy Bourdin's work for my birthday in Korea two years back and I've loved his classic and beautiful work ever since.

Needless to say, I was thrilled to be a plus one on the invite list.

We arrived at the Payne Whitney Mansion across from Central Park and home to the French Embassy's cultural services. I thought perhaps we were stepping into a French Palace.

The collection of guests was inspiring in itself. More than half the room was French and everyone looked incredibly elegant. Champagne was the drink of choice and went well with how posh everything was.

The following pictures do not do this event justice. I shouldn't even be posting them, they are so unimpressive!

However, this was one of my favourite New York events I've been to and so I'd like some sort of documentation of the evening.