In Pictures: Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week, Spring 2009 Collections

I’m not sure how it started but, last night at a wonderful little shindig in the East Village, Nichelle, Matt and I started talking about Jem and the Holograms. (Nichelle was right: it’s J-E-M, not G-E-M.) If you were a little kid in the 80s, you might remember the Jem theme song, “Glamour and glitter, fashion and fame. Once you’re a Jem girl, you’re never the same!” Anyway, so, I’ve totally got that song stuck in my head as I write this post and upload a couple pics from two Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week Spring 2009 Collection events. Additional pics are on my Flickr. (Pssssst!!! Click Finney’s book cover to find out how to look fabulous for less.)

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THE BUDGET FASHIONISTA
5th Anniversary Bash
Housing Works Thrift Store
September 8, 2008
New York City

Highlights: More than 500 people showed up including that guy Carson from Queer Eye! The shindig was the week’s 1st event celebrating a fashion blogger. Woot! Fellow native Midwesterner (and Jem girl!) Kathryn Finney started The Budget Fashionista; she’s been on TODAY, Good Morning America, E! and CNN. Go Kathryn!

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RALPH LAUREN
Celebration of Saks new men’s shop featuring the Black Label Collection
Saks 5th Avenue
New York City
September 4, 2008

Male models. Champagne. Cocktails. Appetizers. Delicious!! That sexy blasian Jem girl, Christine Miller, went with me. (Me and my friends are Jem girls ♫♪♪♫♪♪♫♪) Christine and I are both creatives in the city. I write words on paper; she speaks words on stages. I guess the highlight of the night had to be the girl-on-girl discussion that ensued after Christine asked me about her play “Baby Cow.”

CHRISTINE: Is there anything you thought could improve in the play?
ME: Well, there’s this one part where you’re fucking your husband and you’re playing “his” role. You say something like, “Ohhhhhh, Chris. Yeeeeah, Chris.” For a while, I thought YOU were fucking a woman named Chris because it wasn’t clear to me who was who.
CHRISTINE: Sooooo, you thought I was fucking a woman wiith a strap on??
ME: Yes.
CHRISTINE: [laughing] … Because you’re a dirty whore?
ME: Exactly. Yes. That’s the first place my mind went.

Stay tuned!!! Coming to a stage near you: a two-woman play called “The Baby Cow & The Dirty Whore.”  ;-)  On a more serious note, if you live in New York and you’d like to see Christine’s Baby Cow, definitely check it out. She’s hot. She’s blasian. She’ll flash you her boobs halfway through the play. I think there’s a performance coming up in October. Check www.babycow.org for more info.