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"I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it and I love it!" — bearded high-heel enthusiast André J., on being in Paris during Fashion Week. [Fashion Week Daily] More »
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Saturday, as I headed to the Tent at Bryant Park for the Rosa Cha (Brazilian swimwear) show, kept looking up at the sky. Hurricane Hanna was due in New York — Fashion Week be damned! — and I was worried that my pink open-toed sandals were a bad idea. It was fairly sunny when I left my apartment, overcast when I got to 42nd Street, and once I got inside the tent it started raining so hard that people were looking up at the "ceiling" and saying things like, "How waterproof do you think this thing is?" For just a moment I thought about what would happen if the tent roof caved in and everything — the fashionistas, the Ruby Slippers on display, the plasma screens, the lights, the models, the runway, the editors, the free M&Ms — all got drenched in torrential rain. Needless to say, it'd didn't happen. But I did stand on line for 30 minutes to get the privilege of standing in the back row at the Rosa Cha show, where Noted Fashion Photographer Nigel Barker was in attendance! More »
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When you think about it, the pairing of Patricia Field and Payless Shoes makes perfect sense. The stylist for Sex And The City was once known for her crazy, colorful eponymous downtown store where clubkids and drag queens could shop for the kind of mesh/pleather/day-glo ensembles not found at Banana Republic. It was a little tacky, pretty cheap, and lots of fun, which describes Payless Shoes, too. Last night I dragged Moe to the launch party for Patricia Field for Payless, where we saw Ms. Pat Field herself (at left) as well as Andre J., the bearded muse seen in French Vogue. We drank, we tried on shoes, we went home in a wheelchair. Plenty of pictures, after the jump. More »
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The New York Times interviewed our favorite muse, André J., for the Sunday Styles section, and we've learned all kinds of interesting things about André! André was born in Newark, N.J, does not consider himself a cross dresser ("I'm just expressing myself and not hurting anyone and taking myself to a place where I want to be, a place where the world is beautiful") and keeps a journal. He was raised in a "loving single-mother household in a housing project" and then moved to L.A. for "the sex and the fame." A stylist recommended that Bruce Weber shoot André, and André traveled to the photographer's Montauk compound from Manhattan via bus. But André didn't know he would be on the cover: A friend called and broke the news when André was on his way home from church one Sunday. French Vogue editor in chief Carine Roitfeld swears: "There is not a special message in the cover, I just loved it." But we've been thinking: Is the cover sending the message, "It's fabulous to be yourself!" Or is it saying,"If a black model wants to land the cover of Vogue, she'd better grow a beard" ? More »
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French Vogue is better than American Vogue in so many ways, but never has it been more obvious: U.S. Vogue needs more bearded drag queens! For instance, André J. He's a muse who used to work at the Patricia Field store and graced New York Magazine's look book. And now he's posing with Carolyn Murphy on the cover of an influential fashion magazine! Would Anna Wintour ever allow such a thing? Check out his adorable pix, after the jump. Plus: Carolyn Murphy and a teenage boy with his pants down! More »
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