Hi Hi Hi…oh my gosh, been so busy this week…shooting street style…family in town…shot two parties…did some great vintage shopping i.e. scored an awesome military parka, flannel shirt, and cool old brown leather camera bag…saw old friends…made new ones. Last night I was out at the Creative Time slumber party at the Ace Hotel – Casey Spooner and Lauren Flax DJed and Patrick Cleandenim rocked a live performance in the middle of the dance floor. Me to Casey Spooner – “Remember when Ministry of Sound flew you guys to London on the Concorde to sign your record deal?” Casey – “Yeah.” Me – “That was awesome.” Me to Brian Wolk of Ruffian – “Remember when you guys sent all of your models out wearing sheer black polka dot body stockings?” Brian – “Yeah.” Me – “That was awesome.” I’m paraphrasing here of course but only slightly. I swear I’m great at party conversation… xx Mr. Newton
Hey – when Vlad Roitfeld curates an art opening it sort of feels like being backstage at a runway show…except with less naked people running around and not so much yelling into headsets. Other than that though it’s pretty similar. Last night at the old Essex Street meat market on the Lower East Side…xo
Hey – I hope everyone had a great weekend! Mr. Newton went out in New York on Halloween night…xx
Last night on the Lower East Side, Yves Saint Laurent decided to rent out an old Gothic synagogue and throw a Parisienne-inspired masquerade party. It was the launch party for their new fragrance (itself rather conveniently called Parisienne), but despite all of the Left Bank window dressing this party felt like nothing so much as old school pre-recession downtown NYC. A luxury brand (YSL) paid for a full open bar…the suits mingled with the models, hipsters, and misfits…Mr. Newton and Bronques shot photos…the MisShapes and Alexandra Richards played awesome music…and everything seemed right with the world for one night. Vive la fete! xxx
Hey – Mr. Newton was out in New York this week…in the West Village at the Six Scents fragrance event…hosted by Hank Holland and friends…series two in the ongoing charity-based fragrance initiative. xx
If you guys are in New York tomorrow night you should get at this. I’m going and my friend Chase is hosting and the kids from Dez Multimedia (who designed this site!) are spinning rad disco and italo shiz. A new secret back room on the LES – look for the door that says “no admittance” back by the bathrooms. Put a donk on it. xo
Hi – it’s Sunday afternoon at the Mr. Newton HQ. The team and I are getting ready to fly out to Paris on Tuesday/29th. (The team consists of two people – me and myself. Getting ready consists of – a laundry mountain. Just FYI.) Before I leave town though I want to post as many of my photos from New York Fashion Week as possible…I’ll be posting photos from Paris next week…but no sense in letting these New York photos just sit on my hard drive…I want to get them up here so you guys can see them! Here are my photos from Fashion’s Night Out. I mostly wandered all over Soho and the West Village that night…my first stop was the teenVogue runway show featuring a performance from The Pretty Reckless, i.e. The Tay Momsen Band…I then hit up Opening Ceremony’s block party and store party on Howard Street (they were selling Band of Outsiders bow ties out of an old truck while the DJs banged “Party In the U.S.A.” by Miley – fun times)…then I wrapped up the night hanging with my pals at the Prada store party featuring The Rapture. xx Mr. Newton
So we’ve just recently finished with another Fashion Week show season here in New York…the women’s S/S 2010 ready-to-wear shows. I was around at lots of shows and parties…and out and about snapping street style shots as well, of course! Just today in fact, the cool kids over at Refinery 29 are using my photos for a feature they put together about the best street style looks this season in New York. I’m going to also recap my NYFW photos here at Mr. Newton – including photos that never ran on Refinery. For starters, here are my photos from my first party this season – the Supreme Models party on the night before the shows started. It was a great rooftop party in West Chelsea…and some Mr. Newton favorites like Ranya and Daiane were hanging out…but with the September shows it’s always a bit strange how abrupt the transition is between beach and shows, the end of summer and the beginning of fall. xx Mr. Newton
