Different Places!!!!
a short one before Vegas
PRISCAVera shirt / Tibi trousers / Camper shoes / Glynit bag / Miu Miu sunglasses
I have been on the lookout for a slightly transparent chartreuse button down shirt. I can’t find one! I picked up this PRISCAVera shirt from Desert Stars Vintage at Shop 86 in Greenpoint over the weekend. They also had a lot of 90s Morgan de Toi mesh tops (blast from the past from the British high street).
I am going to wear the shirt with my Tibi Crispy Nylon Winslow Pants. I love these trousers because they have snap buttons on the inside that allow you to adjust the length depending on the shoes you are wearing or how much you can tolerate your pants dragging on the floor on any given day.
Something about the yellow sunglasses and patterned shirt feels appropriate for a Las Vegas trip - maybe I’m channeling Hunter S. Thompson. Maybe I just want to look like a Eurotrash side character in season 2 of Sex and the City (the best season).
The other week in the laundromat I felt compelled to read Moby’s entire Wikipedia page. I had completely forgotten about the South Side remix with Gwen Stefani - which, incidentally is not available on any streaming platforms and was not the album version. I might have to buy the CD single.
Since then, I’ve been hearing Moby everywhere I go. I kicked off my Memorial Day weekend by having my quarterly Rolo’s Lasagna - they were playing Moby and The Cardigans. The next day on my walk back from the vintage store in Greenpoint, new shirt in hand, some sign painters were sitting in the sun listening to Porcelain.
On Saturday, like every other bitch in New York and her dog, I caught the last day of the Domenico Gnoli exhibit. The textures on these paintings in person were incredible. He mixed sand into his paint.
L-R: Curly Red Hair, 1969; Armchair 1968
Robe Verte 1967 - This wasn’t part of the exhibition but is close to my vision for the chartreuse green shirt I have been dreaming about.
After the exhibition I had pancakes at a nearby diner, Viand, and then caught the 6 train back downtown to restock my Manic Panic dye and mooch around in the pouring rain.
For some poolside reading I picked up Richard Hell’s first novel, Go Now, in Codex books - look left as you exit and you’ll see the John Varvatos store that used to be CBGBs. The book was signed and the clerk told me that he had come in a few days ago and started signing all of his own books without asking. How punk of him!
Clockwise from top left: What I’m bringing to Vegas - Go Now by Richard Hell, Chanel green eyeshadow in Jade Facetté, Manic Panic Electric Pink Pussycat hair dye, Ilia green shadow stick in Filigree, Miu Miu pink and yellow sunglasses, Biodance PDRN mask to de-age me by 10 years, Beauty of Joseon Centella mask in case I get too much sun
I will leave you with one of my favourite scenes from Showgirls, which I rewatched today while packing (PSA it’s on Tubi, my favourite streaming platform)
“Different places!!!!!” Maybe I’ll start to respond in this manner when people ask me where I’m from.
This scene was shot at the Peppermill. I went there a few years ago and my friend was served the biggest omelette we’d all ever seen.
My friend’s absurdly large omelette at the Peppermill
Okayyyy I’ve got a plane to catch. See you next week!