The Beijing Olympics are a fading memory now, but according to i-D’s Tricia Jones, New Yorkers can thank the 2008 sports fest for the fact that the Soul i-D exhibition is up right now at Christie’s. Based on the book Soul i-D, which compiles the best of i-D magazine’s special projects, the Soul i-D exhibit [...]

AnOther Fashion Book, a greatest hits compilation of the fashion photography that has been featured in AnOther Magazine and AnOther Man over the past eight years, makes its stateside debut today—and we have Karl Lagerfeld to thank for it. Well, not entirely. “It was actually Karl who came up with the idea of doing a [...]

Just when we thought the whole trendy “I Tried To Be Terry Richardson But All I Got Were These Lousy Glasses” phase had fizzled out, something is going on with spectacles. Jenni Kayne had oversize plastic frames, Antonio Azzuolo used 60’s and 70’s Italian deadstock, and Scott Sternberg borrowed metal ones from Silver Lining Opticians. [...]

Friday night’s dramatic dip in temperature was no impediment to the style crowd’s nocturnal missions. Despite a punishing wind sweeping off the Hudson River, a crowd of Studio 54-like proportions swarmed the entrance to Milk Gallery, bidding to get into tar magazine’s party celebrating the self-styled “thinking” publication’s second issue. “My name is Philip-Lorca diCorcia,” [...]

Donatella Versace can add international do-gooder to her resume. The blonde-and-bronzed designer visited the school she funded in earth-quaked Sanjiang, China, yesterday with local celeb Jet Li. (We’d like to make a joke about leather uniforms, but would be guilt-ridden about mocking charitable works.)
An overzealous bouncer either manhandled or protected a semi-scrubby Brad Pitt at [...]

After a doozy of a Thursday night—six parties in five hours left me beyond taxi-poor—the art world was ready to kick the tar out of the Frieze Art Fair (that’s a pun you’ll understand in a sec) on Friday. That evening, Neville Wakefield and Evanly Schindler’s new art rag, Tar, was fêted at an underground [...]

*And for once it’s not his own. More fashion week notes from the editorial director and publisher of Dazed & Confused