abbe diaz’s NEW BLOG
OK, seriously?! We’re going to try this again, one last time.
According to some emails, mobile texts, and Facebook messages, it would appear that several regular PX This visitors completely missed the memo. So here’s the revised edition:
Until the release of PX Me (Summer 2011 Spring 2012), this website will henceforth be updated only intermittently (approximately once or twice a week). Abbe Diaz’s new (daily) blog is now at:
[Full details are located here.]
Thank you!
Okay, yeah yah, there’s a lot to absolutely despise about fashion, we all know this. But, every once in a thousand lifetimes or so, a great designer/label comes along with a collection that kinda reminds us all why we got into this ridiculous business in the first place. No big surprise this season it’s: Christopher Bailey of Burberry Prorsum.
What can we say? His shit is dope.
And yesterday at 4PM London time, Burberry did the smartest thing any person in Fashion doesn’t usually have the brain cells to conceive— it hired a genius computer geek and ran a live feed on the internets of its Spring/Summer 2011 runway show.
OMG, hallelujah! High Fashion, meet High Technology; High Technology, meet Moron Idiot Johnny-Come-Lately (aka Anna Wintour).
One look at this collection had us feeling both invigorated and forlorn. Invigorated, because it’s really great to see fashion making a semblance of sense every once in a fucking while. Forlorn, because we realized that in comparison, New York really sucks right now. Did you seeee the shows this season? Holy cow, we really suck, what an embarrassment. We have a famine of beauty, hunny— a FAMINE OF BYOOTEE!
On the up side, however, our models are MUCH better walkers— yup, even the regular non-super variety. Wooo child, even if you’re not into fashion at all, watch this show anyway just for a gander at the poor lanky clods. (Ohhh dear, maybe you should have stayed in bed for less than $10,000 today, sweetie.)
Anyhoo, the video directly at Burberry has far better quality, or check out the handy yootoob version offered below if you’re too lazy to click over. Enjoy!
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For a factual, in-depth, and uniquely insightful peek into the world of high-fashion, read PX This – The Revised Edition featuring true-story encounters with such luminaries as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Azzedine Alaïa, Mohamed al-Fayed, Graziano de Boni, Ann Demeulmeester, Marc Bagutta, and so much more…
okay yah, i have a very strong and twisted love/hate relationship with fashion, we all know this. bad me, bad me— it’s Fashion Week right now and i couldn’t care less.
BUT! i gotta admit, this was a good one.
sigh. yes, my photos suck and my stupid BlackBerry video thingie turned out to be all jiggly jumpetty and the size of a postage stamp. so i found this other video on the interwebs from like last year or whatever (sure, it’s "old" but at least you can get a better look at all the great clothes). so shoot me.
"asians love my work…" hee eheee. well, there you have it.
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For a factual, in-depth, and uniquely insightful peek into the world of high-fashion, read PX This – The Revised Edition featuring true-story encounters with such luminaries as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Azzedine Alaïa, Mohamed al-Fayed, Graziano de Boni, Ann Demeulmeester, Marc Bagutta, and so much more…
Yeah yah, it’s NYC Fashion Week. I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m totally flattered by the e-mails and Facebook® messages and whatnot, looking for my usual remarkably insightful and brilliantly sparkly perpspective on the whole rigmarole— but uhh… rilly?
Come on, you knooow you don’t want to get me started on this topic, do ya now? God forbid you end up all jaded and inured about all the glamour and "fabulosity," yes? How in the world would you ever be able to stand yourself?
Here, just look at all the pretty pictures instead:
Siiigh. Therrre you go, alllll better now…
*With very special thanks to Marc Bagutta
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For a factual, in-depth, and uniquely insightful peek into the world of high-fashion, read PX This – The Revised Edition featuring true-story encounters with such luminaries as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Azzedine Alaïa, Mohamed al-Fayed, Graziano de Boni, Ann Demeulmeester, Marc Bagutta, and so much more…
The industry of Fashion, as you might presume, is plagued by pretty much the same kind of politics, opportunism, machinations, and bullshit as just about every other high-stakes form of capitalism in the world (including F&B, natch). So, far be it for us to advocate Anna Wintour‘s upcoming big annual whoopdedoo, Fashion’s Night Out. (Please, don’t even get us started…)
We would, however, like to strongly encourage you to do whatever the hells you please. Blind ignorance and stoic incomprehension is what fuels the economy after all! (♪♪ Got to have a J.O.B. if you wanna roll with me… ♪♪)
To that end, we bring news of a nice fusion (fooshion) between food and fashion (get it?) event for this momentous evening— namely:
The BondSt – Fashion Night Out Black Carnival
BEWITCHING HOUR BEGINS ON BOND STREET!
BONDST restaurant joins designers and friends including ROGAN, OAK, The Smile, Archetype Showroom & Hester Street Fair to be a part of the first annual Black Carnival, an outrageous neighborhood celebration sponsored by 42Below vodka in support of Fashion’s Night Out, on Friday, September 10, 2010. Between 6PM‐11PM, when all of New York’s most stylish denizens roam the city in search of fashion, fun and retail therapy, Bond Street between Bowery & Lafayette will be transformed into a celebration of the dark (& humorous) side of fashion – a carnival of black tents with games, music, cocktails and revelry. Noho friends and neighbors will all be present, providing unique experiences to be discovered up and down the street and throughout the dark bazaar. BONDST will set up in a tent in the carnival to sell Spicy Crispy Shrimp and Sushi Hand Rolls. The new Japanese restaurant will also stage a ring toss game with sake bottles. The prize for getting a ring on is a free drink in the BONDST lounge. 3 rings for $1 – come join us!
"A celebration of the dark (& humorous) side of fashion," ha ahaa. Awesome! How can you resist?!
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For a factual, in-depth, and uniquely insightful peek into the world of high-fashion, read PX This – The Revised Edition featuring true-story encounters with such luminaries as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Azzedine Alaïa, Mohamed al-Fayed, Graziano de Boni, Ann Demeulmeester, Marc Bagutta, and so much more…
Former “Maitre d’ to the Stars” to Release Second Book
Here’s a "blind item" for you:
Which restaurateurs are none too pleased with the impending release of PX Me – The Sequel to PX This? Worse yet, the timely upcoming launch of PX This – The Revised Edition just happens to coincide with the recent openings of two high-profile Manhattan restaurants. Anonymous e-mails sent to this website seem to indicate some ‘characters’ are indeed up to their old shenanigans. Some things never change!
But some things do change! For the better, even. Like for example: PX This – The Revised Edition! Now with enhanced content and photos!
And to celebrate the forthcoming launch of PX Me – The Sequel to PX This coming in the Summer of 2011 Spring of 2012, the e-book version of PX This – The Revised Edition is FREE! [Print version coming soon!]
This is a limited time offer— so get your FREE e-version of PX This – The Revised Edition for your iPad / Kindle2+ / netbook etc NOW! Hooray!
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Until the release of PX Me (Spring 2012), this website will henceforth be updated only intermittently (approximately once or twice a week).
Abbe Diaz’s new (daily) blog is now at: abbediaz.com
Fashion Week is Over? Oh yeah, that’s right, I slept right through it. Darn.
Well… huh… but it’s my turn to blog today. Now what am I gonna do? ‘Cause… I had this great… ahem… Fashion video I wanted to share. Y’know… in honor of… ahem… Fashion Week! ‘Cause…uh… right now it’s Fashion Week in… uh… Italy! Yeah! So there! I mean, sure, technically it’s a 2009… ahem… Fashion video, but… uh… there’s nothing wrong with honoring the uh… Classics! Yeah, that’s it!
No? Well… did I mention it’s my turn to blog today? That means I got the keys, and I’m driving on this autostrada. So sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. I’ll even… uh… take the… uh… "top" off for you… ahem…
Fashion Week is over? OMG, did I sleep through it completely?! Goddammit.
OK, so I’m a little late – shoot me. (Or pay me to blog, so I’m more punctual. Whichever!) In any case, I was supposed to post this awesome excerpt from PX This – The Revised Edition. Coming soon in the Spring of 2010
[*warning: Eats, Shoots and Ladders Leaves freaks please CLICK HERE and HERE before reading any further. then take that favorite book of yours and stick it up your ass. thank you!]
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2003. 7:01AM
… ann-demeulmeester looked taken aback, perhaps she was surprised i speak english. the assistant looked totally amused though, she snickered in her nostrils and everything.
oh but the highlight of the trip! was azzedine-alaïa again this time he fed us omelettes and salad. he is sooo cute i just want to scrunch him up and swallow him like a dumpling.
marc told mr.alaïa i made my long chocolate geld-iaz wool halter mock wrap dress— which, by the way, was so smokin, caroline the head big cheese for alaïa and some other random buyer-lady there inquired how they could buy it. and mr.alaïa flashed me a BIG SMILE and said: “ohhh ah-beeee! tres biennnn!” i tell you i could have dropped dead ecstatic right there.
then the next big highlight! was marc and i going to the RitzCarlton to meet some fancy Lady-ofSomeplace from england she was phoning and leaving messages for marc all week long asking to meet him we have no idea why.
so marc and i get there and she and her super cute 20something daughter are sitting having afternoon tea with some dude he was very sweet and funny he made jokes about KFC and krispy-creme how he can’t live without them and how he “owns one of each” because he has given them so much money.
the next thing you know he is saying oh! he is a shop owner too just like marc! he has a little boutique in london ahah haha ahahaa “have you heard of Harrods?” he asks. i mean can you fucking imagine. then here comes the maiterdee with business cards for him and the shop owner dude hands one to marc as he is scolding him for not staying at theRitz.
it was MOHAMED AL FAYED.
i mean. when did life become like this exactly can i ask you
mr.al-fayed touched me warmly on the shoulder as he stood up to leave so i concentrated really hard to suck all his luck if he suddenly gets hits by a speeding bus you’ll know why.
see. things like this you can tell peoples and i think they just wouldn’t believe you ahahahaha imagine me dropping this story on the piglets.
finally last but not least was big highlight#3 marc and i went to a dinner with the big willies from Valentino. it was at Davé and i actually got to meet davé he is the restaurateur that was in isaac-mizrahi’s Unzipped in the scene where isaac is chillin with galliano and leon.talley and they are mocking on donna-karan.
anyhoo so graziano the president of ValentinoUSA was a gigantic sweetie pie and he was in looove with me he admired my dress and told me i am “beautiful” and “elegant!” okay can we back up for a second i said the PRESIDENT of VALENTINO admired my dress. all the way from the other end of the table he halted ALL CONVERSATION to say “i’m sorry but i just haaave to ask who makes your dress?”
by the way i had the seat right next to the new head designer of Valentino he was a cutie face his name is damiano (“dum YAHno”). see i do not even know their last names. how is it even comprehensible i am on a first name basis only with a president and head designer of Valentino? i told damiano how azzedine-alaïa complimented that very same dress and if that was not the moment to be feelin oneself i tell you maybe there never is.
the only thing that ruined it was Chicken, Ferret’s wife…
***For more on this story, read PX This – The Revised Edition and PX This Too – Coming soon in the Spring of 2010***
hey did we mention it’s fashion week ?
betsey johnson with kelly osbourne narciso rodriguez @ boomboom patrick mcmullan ric pipino boom boom room wyclef jean for donna karan patti smith for LnA + MAC @ Milk
**with many thanks to ricardo garcia
Hey, is it me, or is this feeling like the longest Fashion Week ever?!
Chadwick Bell by Natalie Kates for the stylecurator.com.
OMG, you’re not going to believe it – it’s still Fashion Week. Can’t ya just die?
The Rouge Coco Chanel party at The Mark Hotel.
**With many thanks to Patrick McMullan and Shala Monroque.
Yeah, guess what – it’s still Fashion Week.
The Ford Models party at Rose Bar
**With thanks to Ricardo Garcia
Yup, it’s Fashion Week all week.
GQ and the CFDA at the "Best New Menswear Designers" for 2010 Celebration – by Natalie Kates for stylecurator.com
Yup, it’s Fashion Week.
The Paradise Garage collection by Patricia Field with the Keith Haring Foundation – hosted by Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny
= "personne extraordinaire"