But what else is transpiring in Fresh Sodom? Well they're all flocking to the Meat Packing district like the proverbial sheep to the slaughter. Me thinks Rei Kawabuko mis-calculated, what do you think? Agencies (Walter Schupper), boutiques (Jeffery), restaurants (Markt) and Amy Wesson have been rushing into that unnatural vacuum. Don't you miss Amy. You really ought to get your boss to resurrect her career. I mean she is The Punk Goddess he channeled for his show. Fessen, which is down the street from Amy’s loft, is poised to be the boite of the moment this Fall, though the food and attitude is cumulatively horrid. Let’s foil that. Sam Schaeffer, Anna Wintour’s son-in-law (though not for much longer is the tales of Adulterous Anna are true) is slated to open a spot in the Hotel Chelsea. Let’s patronize him because he is subtle which is the true sign of a budding maven, non?

Natane, Shiraz with nightlife impresario Kariem.

Kariem finally opened his own venture. Its called Halo. Can you believe that? That’s so ZZZZZZZZZ. Then again maybe its time to call a truce because he’s been pulling in the punters, love, he really has. He got Jennifer Lopez’s birthday party and you know what that means. Puffy Daddy, Benny Medina, assorted sports stars, Mariah Carey.... All very Page Six non?

Puff Daddy and Mary J. Blige huddling at LOT 61

In the meantime, Men’s Fashion Week, that supreme oxymoron came and went and made no impact on my consciousness whatsoever, except for:

1. The ludicrous scenario of leaving the Nautica presentation in an air-conditioned luxury bus thoughtfully provided by rapper Jay-Z for us punters to survey his Roc-A-Wear line. Only catch is I was the only punter on the bus. Got there. Saw the Mob. Skipped the show in favor of the ORFI presentation on 51th St. which was genius. Natalie from Interview, Roger & Taeko from Staff USA, Scott from the design house in question,emerging designer Zia Ziprin, Daphne from Bruce as well as dashing mobs of chic young Japanese and Crypto-Europeans all made the vista. Are you visualizing? I was dying to find out why Stella Ishi dropped Stephen Sprouse (here we go again) but y'know, it would have seemed like rubbing salt, which you know I would never! The evening's highlight? Jamil Gs is a status sucking wanker but his video installation of nubile naifs floating on a sea of digital effects ruled! I love ORFI. I'm going to sell my soul to them.

David LaChapelle and couple of supporters.

And 2. I did sort of feel David La Chapelle’s birthday bash at Beige. (oooh now there’s a great title for a Beige VIP room. Bash! Say it with me). David really was feeding off the merger of the spill over from the TALK launch party and the mobs of unsupervised model boys drifting around town looking for uhmmm...chaperones. I apparently missed Kate The Great which was a shame cause I want her to know I haven't taken sides and I truly tried to get the dirt on the much delayed L'il Kim CD cover that La Chapelle had shot but it seems Mr. Daddy, or PD or whatever he’s calling himself these nights was not feeling David’s visual and might be relegating them to inner sleeve status.

L'il Kim

Taste is a dictatorship non? I mean given all that frightening surgery she's had, Kim probably wants all the fashion leverage she can earn right this minute since Foxy Brown was the one who drew first blood with her CK campaign, an occurrence that should have been Kim’s. But what do I know. My tastes are hardly mass are they?

Heather Donahue from The Blair Witch Project savoring the joys of civilization.

I mean that Linda Blair Witch Project thing that has been hyped to high heavens?. It sucks. It really does. There is no witch. Just silly unspectacular looking people running around in some woodland screaming their heads off about compasses and maps. I kept thinking...cell phone. Walkie-Talkies. 1999, The Communication Era..Hello.. But I bet its going to inspire a whole Helmut Lang collection because it was so rustic and rustic’s the only place left for him to go.

Cecilia and James from the Visionaire clique are always ready for their close-up.

Lest I forget, your amour in absentia, Stephan Gan is launching a new magazine called V, said to be in the spirit of Visionaire but more mass. And they are openly declaring that their only competition might have been Surface as if victory is a foregone conclusion. Riley, I assure you remains solidly unamused. He’s telling his roster of photographers its me or V. And what does that say about Flaunt. Essentially that they (Flaunt) haven’t got it. Why is everybody trying to be the Purple of NY? Don’t they know that this conceit is futile. Speaking of conceit, I have a three petit mysteries for you. Which edgy, danger-skirting young photographer had that mega-shoot with a veritable music legend and showed up so pharmaceutically uhmmm...altered and messy that he basically forgot the legend's name. Our legend was not amused and stalked off the set and only the most pronounced coaxing could get him back on the premises.... And which used-to-be supermodel ruined her comeback cover with that ultra-hip new magazine by insisting on having a car and driver remain at her disposal throughout the whole photo-shoot. She then then alienated everyone when she took said vehicle for a joy-ride to ...New Jersey (???)... Finally all the demi-monde is abuzz with rumors about that certain power publicist who had a total public meltdown in the Hamptons at Jay-Z's arriviste' party. I mean friends and foes are talking ...nervous breakdown...pyschotic episode..career crushing public collapse. That is until her next party...

Please write quickly and deftly and tell all concerning the inevitable bad behavior and signature shady goings-on that charactersized the Coutures. Are they really going to slash John’s budget? That threat is made every season non?

The eternally majestic Carmen Kass.

You do have to give to up the wicked, viscous, visceral genius that is Carmen Kass for LITERALLY pulling off that 7-minute parachute excursion. Did Amber lose weight?

The man who gets all the babes: Lenny Kravitz.

What’s this about Kate Moss and Lenny Kravitz boffing? Let’s hope he does not get too attached because you know and I know that this is quite the fling for good old Kate. Can you imagine how terribly French its all going to be when Lenny, Kate, Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp all congregate in the same back room. I’m calling Naomi tomorrow cuz now that she is back in your bosses’ good graces I want to find out if she eked an ad out of it. What’s your perception? In the meantime I command you to deliriously work those genius post-Cazal glasses Iast saw you rocking. How do you do the things you do je ne sais pas ! Mwah Mwah and Mwah, cuz I've always been an over-achiever.

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