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Rick Owens Men’s S/S 2011

Photo Olivier Zahm

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Dries Van Noten Men’s S/S 2011

Video Caroline Gaimari

Louis Vuitton Men’s S/S 2011

Photo Olivier Zahm

Mary Charteris and Robbie Furze from The Big Pink at the Vice party, London. Photo Bella Howard

Opening of Le Bain at The Standard Hotel hosted by Andre Saraiva & Andre Balazs

Photo Andre Saraiva

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Moncler and Pharrell Williams cocktail at Colette

Photo Stephane Feugere

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Adam Kimmel Men’s S/S 2011

American heroes are abundant these days, but one of the most original artists of the last 30 years is Snoop Dogg. He has single handedly reshaped the English language and created a personal style that is its own animal. For my 2011 Spring Summer collection, I decided to go Doggy style. It’s Compton via Italy. Plush cotton silk blends, satin bomber jackets, cashmere sweater football jerseys, jersey mesh, light cashmere shirts, ultra soft cotton twills lend to my luxury signature. I developed custom bandana prints in cotton silk for linings on hoodies, blazers, collars and as other accents throughout the collection. For the first time, I’ve employed the peak notch lapel on blazers, a signature of the Snoop. The lapels roll with an ease and elegance that make them versatile and pimpnotic. Capped off by new accessories - Panama hats, silk ties, workboots, high-top sneakers and suede wingtips it’s a collection that is down with uptown. Text by Adam Kimmel and Photo Olivier Zahm

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The new Balenciaga shop on Rue de Varenne, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm

The staircase inside the new Balenciaga shop on Rue de Varenne, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm

Josephine de la Baume and Olivier Zahm, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm

Yves Saint Laurent Men’s S/S 2011

Photo Olivier Zahm

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The chandelier at the Salon Opera of the Hotel Intercontinental at the Givenchy Men’s S/S 2011 show, Paris. Photo Caroline Gaimari

Givenchy Men’s S/S 2011 show, Paris

Video Caroline Gaimari

Uffie and Jefferson Hack at the Moncler and Pharell Williams dinner at La Perouse, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm

Carine Roitfeld’s necklace designed by Salvadore Dali, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm

The Rassle performing at the Memory Motel for the afterparty for the opening of Cynthia Rowley’s new Montauk shop, Long Island. Photo Angela Gaimari

Alex Gartenfeld’s new apartment gallery

Joe Kay and Grayson Revoir at Over Before It Started, the first show at West Street Gallery, a project space curated by Matt Moravec and me in my new apartment. We invited Grayson Revoir, Kon Trubkovich, and Daniel Turner to present works that deal with a newly inhabited space. Daniel Turner worked as a guard at the New Museum, where he was prohibited from leaning against the wall because of the marks his body would make on the clean wall. From there he began making cloud-like site-specific wall drawings using materials like the dirt on his shoe. Grayson Revoir designs structures in the mode of outdoor furniture that is treated until it assumes human qualities. The piece he contributed uses metal hardware to simultaneously puncture and decorate it, rendering it useless. With four pencil charcoal drawings, Kon Trubkovich re-makes video stills from his visit to an abandoned prison whose surveillance methods preceded closed-circuit cameras. The drawings are scattered about the gallery space to create the effect of perambulating a cell. Text Alex Gartenfeld and Photo Sam Falls