What Happens When You Try ‘Top Chef’ at HomeWhat happens when people who barely know how to handle a knife attempt last week’s Quickfire Challenge on their own? Salad on a stick, for one thing. Watch the video and feel free to try this at home.
See Artist David Ellis’s ‘Percussive Cockfight’Last night, Brooklyn-based painter and video artist David Ellis presented Hell’s Angel vs. DJ RoyOwl, a “percussive cockfight” between a mechanized drum sculpture and a D.J. in a bird costume.
Video Store Tour: Inside John VarvatosMenswear designer John Varvatos describes his new store at 315 Bowery as a “cultural space” a generous term for what was once the dirtiest, punkest club in the East Village.
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Pitchfork Launches Video Site for Non-Reading Music FansNow that text and still photography have been made all but irrelevant by online video, popular music-review Website Pitchfork, this morning, has launched Pitchfork.tv, the Internet’s first-ever source for music videos.
Glamorous Celebrities! At, Um, Wollman Rink…In which our Tim Murphy attends “Skating With the Stars — Under the Stars” and accosts celebrities like Donald Trump, Johnny Weir, and Christopher Meloni with his camera crew.
Video: Inside Shane&Shawn, Nolita’s Newest Shoe StoreWe’ve been treated to a video tour of Shane&Shawn, Mulberry Street’s sparkling new shoe boutique and home to Shane and Shawn Ward’s eponymous line of men’s and women’s shoes.
Something Old, Nothing New for Young HairstylistHairstylist Susan Palchak-Essenpreis began to wear vintage clothing for a role in a high-school play and never stopped. “If I wear something new, I don’t feel like myself,” she tells the Video Look Book. Watch and see the Balenciaga bag Palchak-Essenpreis would risk her life for.
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Inside an Apartment in the New PlazaNew York’s real-estate writer S. Jhoanna Robledo recently toured an apartment in the newly renovated Plaza, and our cameras went along. Once the crown jewel of New York hotels, the Plaza went condo in 2005, and its permanent residents enjoy all the amenities of hotel living. This two-bedroom rental is only $16,500 a month, and comes with a mosaic-tile bathroom and maid service. And if you want a drink, the Oak Bar is right downstairs.
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Lauren Conrad Thinks ‘Hemlines Are Coming Up a Little Bit’Wait! Don’t do your spring shopping without watching this highly informative video of Hills star and “fashion designer” Lauren Conrad sharing her spring fashion tips with Us Weekly.
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Video: New York Women on Hillary Clinton
Is a vote for Hillary Clinton an act of feminism? Should she have cried? Is it more important to have the first black man or the first woman president? These are the kinds of questions that Democratic-primary voters have been asking themselves during the most riveting election season in decades. According to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, women are evenly split between Clinton and opponent Barack Obama. More women than men also believe that the media is tougher on Clinton than on her male opponents. But what do New York women think? We put these questions to several of them in Union Square yesterday and found that Clinton cannot take even her constituents’ votes for granted.
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Video: Watching ‘Project Runway’ With the FinalistsWhile you were having your own Project Runway viewing party last night, Jada Yuan took a camera crew to the TRESemmé party at the Tribeca Grand. Jillian, Rami, and Christian talked about the onset of sudden fame, and Sweet P discussed the ins and outs of being a decoy at Bryant Park. Watch the video for more season-four secrets!
Video: Bravo Hosts Project Runway Finale [NYM Video]
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Designer Solomon Eversol: Champion of the Handlebar MustacheIn the latest installment of the Video Look Book, reporter Nicole Hunt catches up with Solomon Eversol, a designer who’s discovered a whole society of people who have handlebar mustaches just like him! In addition to his natty facial hair, Solomon’s sporting a cool makeshift ascot made from a seventies tie and a signet ring scored from eBay, and apparently there’s a story behind that one. Best to let him explain — watch for more.
Rapper Sheek Louch Brings Beef to Wes AndersonGetting in on the response-video blood sport, Sheek Louch—the comic relief in the NYC gangster-rap survivor clique the Lox/D-Block—has taken the game to Wes Anderson.
10 Beloved Characters, 10 Ignoble DeathsVulture takes a look at ten other characters whose ignoble deaths made us shake our heads and think, He deserved better.
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Coby Kennedy Just Doesn’t Want to Look Like a HipsterIn the latest installment of the Video Look Book, our Nicole Hunt caught up with Coby Kennedy, a car designer with some intense hair that causes people to “bug out” a bit (he doesn’t understand why, however — “it’s just a haircut,” he astutely notes).
In Williamsburg, You Can Wear What You Wore When You Were 10Graphic designer Eric Parzynski is one of those lucky souls who generally works from home, and you know what that means: He’s spending a lot of time in his skivvies, which he admits is “pretty rad.” When our Nicole Hunt caught up with him, he was sporting a snug hockey-team jacket from when he was 10. “You live in Williamsburg, you might as well be able to wear everything,” he explains. Watch the Video Look Book and check out his “sometimes I shower, sometimes I don’t” style.
Filmmaker Levi Abrino Gets Shot Through the Heart (and Out of a Cannon)As far as we can tell, there have been very few, if any, movies made about the romantic troubles of human cannonballs — and that’s reason enough to see Levi Abrino’s haunting and lyrical Lonely Bliss of the Cannonball Luke.
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Fashion Week Exhausting Even to ‘Teen Vogue’ EditorToward the end of Fashion Week, Amy Larocca crossed paths with Mary Kate Steinmiller, an editor at Teen Vogue. A Fashion Week veteran, Steinmiller claims that “you don’t even realize you’re going from show to show because there’s so much adrenaline.” However, she did concede that wearing heels for days at a time was rough: “Tomorrow, it might be a flat day.” See whom Steinmiller spotted at Miss Sixty by watching the Video Look Book.
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Harriet and Amy’s Fall 2008 Trend ReportAt the end of every Fashion Week, New York fashion director Harriet Mays Powell and fashion writer Amy Larocca gather to discern the major trends and styles coming out of dozens of runway shows. “Long and lean is the new silhouette for fall,” says Harriet. What else to look for in store windows? Watch the video before you go shopping.
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‘Times’ Fashion Editor Gets Off Herrera’s BlacklistNew York Times fashion editor Karla Martinez was looking forward to the Carolina Herrera show when Amy Larocca and our cameras saw her earlier this week. “We haven’t been invited for the two years that I’ve been [at the Times],” she said. “I think there were some bad reviews that had been written in the past.” Scandalous! Watch the Video Look Book for more hard truths about Fashion Week.
Video: Leven Rambin Gets Tough at Tommy HilfigerNew York’s Jada Yuan took our cameras to Tommy Hilfiger yesterday at Lincoln Center and heard from the designer himself as well as his more recognizable fans.
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Mourning Fashion Week’s Classier PastSavannah M. Clark is a former stylist and college professor who still comes to Fashion Week even though no one wears hats and gloves anymore. (Her hat, of course, is fantastic.) Clark considers herself “one of Carolina Herrera’s favorite customers.” Watch the Video Look Book to see what she buys.
Video: Glamour and Gowns at MarchesaNew York fashion correspondent Fabiola Beracasa went to the Marchesa presentation yesterday, and our cameras tagged along to see beautiful people and red-carpet-worthy gowns.
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Parsons Student Contemplates Cool at Marc By MarcKenneth Baenchantha is a student at Parsons who took advantage of Marc Jacobs’s generous free ticket offer to his alma mater. Outside the Marc by Marc Jacobs show, Amy Larocca found Baenchantha questioning his roommate’s fashion advice and hoping Fashion Week would go high-tech. Watch the Video Look Book for more undergraduate yearnings.
Video Look Book: Kenneth Baenchantha [NYM Video]
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Get the Look: Bobbi Brown at Brian ReyesNew York beauty editor Aja Magnum ventured backstage at the Brian Reyes show, where beauty legend Bobbi Brown was hard at work, creating an outdoorsy, sporty look for girls who’ve been out and about in the country. Think gently flushed cheeks, powdery tones, and windswept brows — yes, even your brows can get windswept. Watch and learn.
Beauty: Bobbi Brown at Brian Reyes [NYM Video]
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Chicago Shopgirl Flies In for Marc by Marc JacobsOutside the Marc by Marc Jacobs show yesterday, New York’s Amy Larocca met Katy Noonan, a salesgirl at Marc Jacobs’s Chicago store. She was wearing her boss’ clothes, of course. But she also repurposed a Second City icon to make a necklace. Watch the Video Look Book for more about what they’re wearing in the Midwest.
Video Look Book: Katy Noonan [NYM Video]
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At G-Star Raw, Good Denim Makes for Good AssIf there’s one thing you need to know about G-Star jeans, it’s that they make your ass look good. Or that was the consensus among the attendees at the G-Star Raw show, from Tyson Beckford to Damien Fahey to Duran Duran, who went as far as to note that the denim even makes “your other bits look good.” In this backstage video, reporter Jada Yuan surveys the crowd’s collective bottom, makes notes of Ryan Adams’s $20 shoes, and catches Dennis Hopper’s freaky runway narration. Click to watch.
Video: Backstage at G-Star Raw [NYM Video]
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Video: Resurrecting the Flapper Backstage at Monique LhuillierNew York’s Jada Yuan took cameras backstage at Monique Lhuillier to capture the preparations for the designer’s flapper-inspired show. The makeup artist sought “poetic glamour” with you guessed it a smoky eye. The hairstylist nixed short-haired girls. And the designer herself had a preshow freak-out that lasted five days. Watch the video to see the drama for yourself.
Video: Backstage at Monique Lhuillier [NYM Video]