Susan Kirschbaum has written features - covering trends, fashion, and art -- for various publications including Harper's Bazaar, London Times, New York Observer, and New York Times since the late Nineties. She has worked as a web editor for both fashion and art concerns and as a founding editor to Fashion Wire Daily, when it served as a wire service to the Associated Press. She has written both synopsis and forwards to photography books by Steidl Dangin. Currently, she is a contributing editor to Whitewall - a seasonal art magazine - that sets new visual and story telling standards to cover the art world. She also writes for Purple, the French fashion magazine.
Her first novel, WHO TOWN, a dark social satire is now being reviewed by several publishers through rock star agent Robert Guinsler at Sterling Lord Literistic.
(All photos on this blog are taken by Susan Kirschbaum on her Canon SD850 digital point and shoot, unless otherwise noted - please credit all photos accordingly)
Ryan McGinley Exhibit, April 3 - May 3, 2008, Team Gallery, 83 Grand Street
Last night, Team Gallery on Grand Street, Soho NYC
Photographer Ryan McGinley, grinning, freshly scrubbed
Brown bangs pushed to the side, open, welcoming
He almost anonymously traverses the legions of well dressed fans,
Several boys with boys, just beyond twenty in great fitted jackets with fantastic big collars, one French, with high Woody Woodpecker hair and ornate stone rings
Model Agness Deyn quietly circles in striped shirt,
Her skin glimmers like porcelain cream
Then, sexually inspired shooter Terry RIchardson always in black/red flannel.
Lingering outside, stand McGinley's band of straight white brothers
Fellow artists Aaron Young, Dan Colen, and Nate Lowman
Nate, in tangerine Garfield (the cat) tee, dark jacket, and what looked like Pumas with red stripes.
This exhibit -- "I Know Where the Summer Goes" -- features sixteen kids,
Title taken from the B side of a Belle and Sebastian album
Kids trekked all over the country with McGinley, inspired by scenes from vintage nudist mags circa the Sixties and Seventies
Who could say these images are not optimistic, eternally free?
Devoid of judgement and finally, thankfully away from Nan Goldin themes of drugs and sex in rooms, spontaneously shot,
They always seemed to leave stains in my mind.
Later, on the Bowery... some place called "Bar X,"
For Ryan's after party.... the Virgins play
Lead singer in white tee, fitted black jacket, and black and white checked scarf.
Ryan McGinley's work is always interesting and tells some sort of story you want to write out in a poem. I really take a liking to how Laura (Thurnderstorm) was taken. I also like the last one.
Check out two Brits who are cool hunting all over the globe.... Mr. and Mrs. Smith... just like Brad and Angie when they had to sneak into hotels under fake names... Ooh, la, la...http://blog.mrand mrssmith.com
"It's never been more important for me to respect a president's ability to handle foreign policy and to be a good listener and an open negotiator. Those are qualities I didn't think about in the past, but now, it seems crucial to the success and even the survival of our nation. Also, I cannot endorse a president who does not support women's rights to the fullest possible extent." Faran http//:www.nylonm ag.com
Who is "Candy" with Anna Wintour in the CFDA photos? I guess it's true that the ugly kids in school get their revenge as grown ups in fashion. They are both "bark, bark!" You are kidding about them as fashion icons, right?
Candy Pratts Price is the Executive Style Director of Style.com. She just won the Eugenia Sheppard (CFDA) Award for fashion journalism. While Candy's not a writer, she's got an eagle eye as a market editor so deemed a trend maker. Fashion loves her because she makes or breaks "looks," as in collection pieces. OUCH! on the revenge comment...
Thanks Lollie! Do keep reading and spreading the word on the page. Re: the hats, Philip Treacy's creations are like luscious cherries on gorgeous cakes. Each one, one of a kind.
Glenn O'Brien, new co-Editorial Director of Interview is exceptionally talented. I have a lot of faith in his vision and looking forward to checking out the new issue in September.
Do I care about Madonna, how could you not! While I'm no slave to her rhythm she is a remarkable woman breaking all former generations rules for what a woman of 50 should act and look like. That being said, how much longer does she have to be our pop princess? Is it still cool to be wearing bodysuits with tights when you're 60??http://media.uber .com/images/60x45 .jpg
Merci Lucille! Je comprende. Tu t'en fou de la vie ici' mais quand meme, tu lis le page. Souvent je m'en fou de la vie ici' aussi. Beaucoup de la betisse! xo!
keep up the good work <" To be a star you must shine your own light, follow your own path and not be afraid of the darkness, for that is when stars shine brightest."> peace 2008
