very sloppy blog updates! here are two photos from last week. we went to the maison pourcel restaurant opening last week, the first photo is from the patio on the second floor, where we spent most of our time. bizarrely, the first floor of the restaurant was so packed you could hardly move and the second floor was completely empty, save for us and a lonely bartender who obligingly filled our glasses with more and more champagne. afterwards, we went to the nike TRIUMPH party on the bund, eventually we poured ourselves into bed.
we leave for our trip to the states/canada in exactly 8 days! i am so excited to get out of this country for a while – save for a quick weekend in Korea a few months ago, i haven’t left the country since CNY. we have a very busy schedule whilst in the states, and we’re managing to fit in visits with a ton of family members from both sides plus friends and friends and wondrous places and things to eat and see. excited!!!
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so my friend abe deyo texted me over the weekend and asked me what i was doing on saturday – i said i was mostly free but had some things going on, and i got a message back saying “how would you like to meet john galliano and be backstage at the dior show?” uhhhh, yeah, ok!
so i turn up on saturday and find that dior has set up a massive, half block long building right on top of the bund. crazy! the gig turned out to be 2nd photo assisting roxanne lowit, a lovely lady with the craziest portfolio. the entire experience was total madness, basically like everything you think about fashion in your brain but right there in your face. soooooo… kelis played the afterparty, the personalities in fashion are fantastic and crazy and hilarious, and you can see more on my flickr set HERE.
also, here are some things i learned:
a) the fashion world is way way way crazier than the advertising world (duh).
b) bernard arnault is not “bernard arnault”, but MR ARNAULT, always.
c) john galliano is amazing!
d) you have to rub stuff on a model’s legs before they walk. maybe something to do with the shine, but also because some of them have that gross anorexia hair.
e) everyone associated with dior is really, really tall.
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PS. took these photos on my crappy dinky tiny little sony cybershot, i think there’s something wrong with the focus…. wish i had taken more photos!
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fucking crazy show, man. huge weekend, more photos soon.
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more photos on SMARTSHANGHAI, peep them sometime on monday afternoon xo.
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it’s been REALLY cold in shanghai the last couple of weeks, with slow flurries and freezing misery. i’ve really been slacking on doing anything except for huddle in bed with the cats and john during this cold snap, but now that the weather has turned (it’s an amazing 23 degrees out today!), i’m back and ready to go go go.
this weekend is going to be very fun, two shows lined up for friday and saturday that i’m very excited for. tonight is DJ VADIM & YARAH BRAVO at shelter – i’ve actually seen them play together more times than i can count, the first time in calgary in 2003 and probably nearly every year since then at least once, either i have good timing for where they tour, or they tour a fuck of alot. in any case, they’ve always been so fun live, love seeing yarah bravo rock it onstage with her antics, love seeing vadim with his ridiculous outfits and skillllls. tomorrow night will be fun too – very different, seeing ST.VINCENT at YYT as part of the JUE FESTIVAL line up.
you can expect photos from both shows after the weekend – after a brief CNY holiday/post CNY hangover lapse, i’m back taking photos for smart shanghai, so check their photo galleries as well… you might be in them! xx
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this time of year is always filled with chinese new year celebrations, everyone’s having some kind of party and the weekends are a madhouse of bopping around and indulging in too much. on friday, we dropped by the Nike Year of the Tiger Cortez release party, with a performance by PET CONSPIRACY, a puppet show and more. afterwards, we hit up rodney and natasha’s Central Studios CNY bash and then stumbled over to shelter to see KIDFRESH play bananas. his music was a-maaazing, peep his blog HERE.
on saturday, i went to the jellymon cny dinner, they held it at this amazing private kitchen in XJH, one of the best chinese meals i’ve ever had, and not only was the food fantastic, but the jellymon family are such warm, funny, wonderful people – it’s so great to see a fresh creative agency with young, amazing talent. sitting down to dinner with all of them really made my evening, i’m really looking forward to seeing what great things they come up with in 2010.
also on saturday, john robinson’s house party! i’ve uploaded a flickr set here and that’s about all i’m going to say. if you’re looking for photos from my personal collection of that evening, just email me! rooahhaa.
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W+KSHANGHAI had our annual CNY dinner earlier this week, and there were performances, lucky draws (2nd year in a row that i haven’t won – total bummer!), speeches, alcohol and the like. it always feels so good when the entire agency gets together to have fun – there was a salsa performance, kungfu demonstrations, and my favourite of the evening, a really really amazing bitboxland music performance with LED screens, neon outfits and awesomeness. love working with such a creative, hilarious, talented group of people. happy 2010!!
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had such a great time at BADTASTIC VS BANANAS! we had a bit of a late start but the place was bumpin’ by the time it mattered and thanks so much to everyone who made it out. hurrah badtastic!!
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