Welcome Nicki + Amie!

It’s Official

Nicki Bidder will be joining Starworks as Managing Director and Amie Witton-Wallace will be the new Communications Director. Nicki was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of Dazed and Confused Magazine for the past 8 years, and Amie was Alexander McQueen’s Worldwide PR Director for 12 years.  Starworks London gets stronger.

Source: WWD

Barack Obama Song!

Must Have 45

The guys at Turntable lab have released a reggae jam for good ‘ol Barack. The review on their site says it short and sweet: “Best. Campaign. Song. Ever.” The singer, Cocoa Tea, actually rhymes John McCain with John Wayne.

To hear the song (and purchase it), click here.

East of Havana hits TV

Sundance Channel airs East of Havana this Friday, May 30th.

For anyone who knows me, you’ve heard me ramble about beautiful Cuba for years and all the years of research that went into making this documentary. After a sold out 2 week run at NYC’s IFC theater last year, East of Havana is now due for its TV broadcast.

The DVD date is still undetermined (but in the works), so please set your TIVO’s for Friday, May 30th at 10pm, if you care to watch it again and again.

More info for EOH found on the channels home page this week at SundanceChannel.com.

Official site: Eastofhavana.com.

Manhattan-henge

Set Your Clocks

(View from 66th and Broadway)

Twice a year Manhattan takes on the effect of a modern day Stonehenge (where large vertical rocks were found in in the Salisbury Plain of England, the sun rises in direct alignment at the summer solstice.) On Wednesday, May 28th the sunset will occur directly in line with the Manhattan city block grid - exactly 28.9 degrees from the true east-west. So the sunset will look amazing, something like this:

(Manhattan-henge view from 34th Street)

Every cross street will be illuminated for the last 15 minutes of daylight. For the best views check out 14th, 23rd, 34th, and 42nd streets, as they have little to no obstruction from the East River to the Hudson. Stand as far east as possible. And if you miss it tomorrow, there will be another Manhattan-henge occurring July 12th.

Kate Moss + AP Bash

Kate’s Wedding

(Takin a break on the balcony at the AP bash)

I got to DJ a super cool party for Kate Moss thrown by Agent Provocateur recently held at the Milk Studios in New York City. The event was called WHITE WEDDING in which the idea was Kate marrying AP via a concept piece created by Photographer Nick Knight. The entire Starworks New York office was enlisted to work the event. Not a bad way to spend the night.

(Self-portrait before the event)

(Our helping hand Katie stuck on elevator duty all night)

Most guests were greeted by our elevator hostess Starworker Katie Rudik (pictured above) who works on and off in our office in between college. We squeezed her into an Agent Provocateur outfit which as you can tell fit her like a glove. She kept telling me when the elevator doors opened, she shook her hips to my music, but was bummed when the doors closed, and she descended again to pick up more guests. Sorry Katie! But you looked awesome.

(Actress/Producer Lake Bell. Julia Restoin-Roitfeld with boyfriend Magnus. The Misshapes)

(Designer Sari Gueron. Designers D and Ricky. Agent Provocateur founder Joe Corre)

(Genevieve Jones and Julia Restoin-Roitfeld. Designer Robert Tagliapietra, Sally Lyndley and desinger Jeffrey Costello)

(AP’s Naughty Playlist)

AP is one of those clients you love to take direction from. Their taste is a little bit of British Rock, a little dirty selection of Vintage Sex Songs (bad girl tunes), a little Country, a little Northern Soul, and a little 50’s American Rebel Rock — with some ska spirit intertwined somehow. Here’s a vibe of the music I dropped that night.

1- “Noir et Blanc”- Brigitte Bardot
2- “Bonnie & Clyde” – Serge Gainsbourg
3- “This is Radio Clash”- The Clash
4- “Big Spender-” Peggy Lee
5- “Back in Baby’s Arm’s”- Patsy Kline
6- “I Was Made For You” - Zooey Deschanels’ She & Him
7- “Runaround Sue”- Dion
8- “Dancin’ Party” - Chubby Checker
9- “Mr. Postman”- The Marvelette’s
10- “You Never Can Tell” – Chuck Berry
11- “King Size Papa”- Julia and her Boyfriends
12- “A Message to You Rudy”, The Specials
13- “Loaded”, Primal Scream

Read more on the event at Fashion Week Daily / Let Them Eat Cake.

All Step & Repeat photos by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images North America

All other photos by Jauretsi