3.1 phillip lim + SW + Hollywood

3.1 phillip lim is now open in West Hollywood!

Why Los Angeles? And specifically, why West Hollywood?“It’s where I hail from! I had to represent the West Coast! To me L.A. is like the new frontier—a sorta gold rush if you will. And the mixture of locals and the newly transplanted are creating this interesting future for the city. The decision to be on Robertson was really determined by the particular space that we fell in love with…it was calling to us.” - Refinery29.com interview by, Christene Barberich

STARWORKS teamed up with 3.1 phillip lim to help launch the 5,000 sq foot space last Thursday, June 19th, which houses the entire collection including menswear, women’s kid by phillip lim, the organic Go Green Go collection, accessories and all collaborative efforts. Lim obsessed ladies Camilla Belle, Emmy Rossum Kate Walsh and Jennifer Morrison were all on hand at the N. Robertson opening spponsored by Veuve Clicquot.

(Becki Newton and Jennifer Morrison)

(Camilla Belle)

(Emmy Rossum)

Teen Vogue’s Jane Keltner and Carlos Lopez, Glamour’s new West Coast Editor James Patrick Herman, socialite and designer Magda Berliner, and powerhouse stylists Jessica Paster and Tara Swennan all attended to celebrate and support Phillip Lim.

After the opening, the party continued on at Bar Marmount where Ugly Betty’s Becki Newton and Robbie Williams joined in the fun and Camilla Belle danced the night away to the tunes of DJ Dirty Hands.

Joy Gryson + CFDA

In less than two years of existence, GRYSON, designed by the talented, Joy Gryson, was nominated for the 2008 SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR ACCESSORY DESIGN.

I don’t know how to say it in words. It’s a great recognition of everything we worked so hard for. The fact that all the amazing people in the industry recognize how much we’ve grown and learned makes us so proud. - JOY GRYSON (FashionWeekDaily - May 19, 2008)

June 2, 2008

Held at the New York Public Library, celebrities and fashion designers attended this years annual Council of Fashion Designers of America awards.

Joy looked radiant in her Costello Tagliapietra dress and her signature Becca handbag in a new and bold, electric blue. Where and when can we get this bag?! Rumors have it it’ll be up for auction…details to come.

CONGRATULATIONS JOY GRYSON!

WOMENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR

Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein***

Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough for Proenza Schouler

Marc Jacobs

MENSWEAR DESIGNER OF THE YEAR

Michael Bastian

Thom Browne

Tom Ford***

ACCESSORY DESIGNER OF THE YEAR

Michael Kors

Tory Burch***

Marc Jacobs

SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR WOMENSWEAR

Kate and Laura Mulleavy for Rodarte***

Thakoon Panichgul

Alexander Wang

SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR MENSWEAR

Patrik Ervell

Tim Hamilton

Scott Sternberg for Band of Outsiders***

SWAROVSKI AWARD FOR ACCESSORY DESIGN

Philip Crangi***

Justin Giunta for Subversive Jewelry

Joy Gryson

THE GEOFFREY BEENE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Carolina Herrera

THE BOARD OF DIRECTOR’S SPECIAL TRIBUTE

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg

INTERNATIONAL AWARD

Dries Van Noten

EUGENIA SHEPPARD AWARD

Style.com’s Candy Pratts Price

(*** denotes winners)

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

AP + Vienna + LIFEBALL

I don’t even know where to begin…LIFE BALL 2008…what a ride…

Tara at check-in at the Double Tree Hotel where we received our boarding passes. Our wild trip started Thursday, May 15th at the Double Tree Hotel before we boarded the Austrian Airlines private plane to Vienna for the 16th Annual LIFE BALL 2008.

This year’s theme: Landing on Planet Life Ball. Gery Kreszler, organizer of LIFE BALL, chose the theme to represent outsiders and aliens in society and of course, the guests dressed accordingly as extraterrestrials and some form of alien or robot. Two things I saw a lot of this weekend:

Make-up and actually, not “no smoking” but smoking. In my mind, I thought, please, no smoking but even though the signs may say it, it surely wasn’t followed.Tara and I met the ever so talented Aubrey Chung, make-up stylist and fellow New Yorker. A frequent attendee of Life Ball, Aubrey guided us throughout the event and was always looking after us. We HEART Aubrey!

Aubrey in the middle

And ironically, we found out Aubrey did Costello Tagliapietra’s make-up during their last two fashion shows - small world…Aubrey performed his magic on our Agent Provocateur Testimonial for LIFE BALL, EVE and she looked gorgeous. An Austrian reporter asked EVE what she thought of LIFE BALL and she responded saying how much she supported the cause and that in her “past life, I was a hippy so I am all about love.”

But I’m completely jumping ahead of myself. The day we landed, Friday, Tara and I were greeted off of the plane by a long red carpet and the paparazzi.

Of course, it wasn’t for us so sweeping by wasn’t all that difficult! We were quickly shuttled off to the hotel where we got ready to head over to the MINI COOPER photo shoot with Joe Corre.Some place on the top floor of a warehouse and parking facility, we found them…them meaning, the biker models, cuffed inside the MINI COOPER …and Joe happily being cuffed next to them!

After the photoshoot, Tara and I headed to City Hall where the big extravaganza was taking place. The preparation for such a huge production was insane. I’ve never seen anything like it - imagine 40,000 people coming to City Hall to watch this performance and the make-up artists told me that they were doing over 200 models for the entire performance. The infamous celebrity stylist Danilo, was in charge of all hair for the show and Bobby B oversaw all make-up. It was truly wondrous to watch them all in action…

A glimpse of the theme for the Agent Provocateur show on Saturday…

Friday night was the welcoming cocktail party where I had the honor of meeting Mick Jones from the Clash and Big Audio Dynamite. He was excited to be performing on stage with Joe Corre on Saturday. Also, attending was Debbie Harry sitting in a corner with Jody Watley. Both Debbie Harry and Jody Watley performed on Saturday and were powerhouses on stage.

On Saturday, it was preparation. We had the press conference where Linda Evangelista and Kim Catrall spoke with Joe Corre and Gery Krezsler and Kevin Frost of amfAR. Linda will always look like the supermodel she is and Kim shocked us all when she broke out in German causing applause and admiration with her grace and kind words. Kevin Frost, President of Global Initiative for amfAR commented that when they asked Kim Catrall to attend they almost didn’t expect she would be able to attend since she was touring with her new movie Sex and the City however, she only asked one question about attending, “What time should I be there?”Saturday night was intense…to give you an idea of the size of this event, here is an image of the red carpet leading to the stage. With about 40 thousand people watching outside and television crews airing this internationally.

One of my favorite parts of the show was watching Chicks on Speed, I saw them last at the MOMA in New York City during a POP RALLY event and saddened to see only two of them perform their energy with Amanda Lepore was phenomenal.

Here are more images from the night…

Signing off…from Planet Life Ball…

Twenty8Twelve + WWD

(Twenty8Twelve by S. Miller as seen in WWD)