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Le 21ème – New York’s Best Street Fashion Site

Do you read The Sartorialist or occasionally take peeks at lookbook? Meet the new Sheriff in town: a photoblog called Le 21ème Arrondissement.

It all started in Seattle in 2008, when photographer and fashionphile Adam Sinding began taking photos of the fashionable denizens of his adopted hometown and posted them on his now-famed photoblog. Years later, in 2011, Sinding moved to New York City, enabling him to capture and curate an elite fashion scene that was on an entirely different level than that of the very provincial Seattle.

Adam’s work has been featured by Elle Magazine, mega-influential blog Refinery 29, Mary Claire, ELLE Japan, and New York Magazine. Just last week, The W New York Times Square hotel and Elle Magazine hosted an event to kick-off fashion week called Scene On The Street, a photo exhibit curated by Elle Fashion Editor Sydney Wasserman which featured street fashion photos from Le 21ème Arrondissement.

Here is a taste of what you’ll find on Le 21ème, as well as some photos from the event:

The Scene On The Street photo exhibit is viewable at the W New York Times Square’s Living Room until February 29th.

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Thursday, February 9th, 2012 Fashion, Gotham, Out and About, Photography, Seattle, The Web Comments

Appearance and Respect

“Mr. Greenfield first grasped the importance of appearances while trying to survive the Holocaust. When he was 14, he and his father, mother, two sisters and a brother were taken from their home in Pavlova, in what was then Czechoslovakia, and later delivered to Auschwitz.

He was assigned to wash clothes in the camp’s alteration shop, and one day he accidentally ripped an SS officer’s shirt, an affront for which he was beaten. The officer threw the shirt at Mr. Greenfield, who mended it and started wearing it instead of the uniforms the other prisoners wore. From then on, he said, the guards and prisoners began treating him with respect.

“He looked like a somebody,” said Jay Greenfield, 52, Mr. Greenfield’s oldest son and the executive vice president of the company, Martin Greenfield Clothiers, explaining that his father attributes his survival to that shirt. The rest of Mr. Greenfield’s family perished in the camp, though he did not find that out immediately and spent two years after the war looking for them.”

A Tailor, Called Upon by Designers and Politicians – The New York Times

Monday, November 8th, 2010 Design, Europe, Fashion, Featured, Gotham, History Comments

Artist in the Spotlight: Winston Chmielinski

The fine folks at The Society Global highlighted an upcoming New York artist, Winston Chmielinski. Instantly, he’s one of my favorites. Culturites, you have good taste!

Artist’s Website: www.wi-ch.com

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 Art, Design, Featured, Gotham, Must. Have. Comments

Star of David

Organizer #1: What about different food options for the luncheon, (thoughtful pause) what about kosher food?
Organizer #2: Good idea, but how will we be able to tell who wants to eat kosher?
University staff: We could just make black armbands with the Star of David on them. (collective gasps in the room) What?

–Columbia University

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Featured, Gotham, Humor Comments

Single Digits

I don’t think I’ve ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never ‘before before’.

-Fred Varjak

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Featured, Gotham, Quotes Comments

Bliss

Holly Golightly: Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am? 
Fred: Yes.

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Conversations, Gotham Comments

For All The Right Reasons

Holly Golightly: I’ll tell you one thing, Fred, darling… I’d marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money? 
Fred: In a minute. 
Holly Golightly: I guess it’s pretty lucky neither of us is rich.
Fred: Yeah.

Friday, April 24th, 2009 Conversations, Featured, Gotham Comments

Cool Sweater

Came upon this in some random photo album on Facebook while wasting time: the coolest vest ever.  Okay.  Maybe it would be cooler if it was Luigi (from Super Mario Bros.) instead of a pirate.  Still, good attempt:

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Saturday, April 4th, 2009 Design, Fashion, Gotham, Must. Have. Comments

The Classics

[Kramer lying on couch, reading.]

Jerry: Are you reading my VCR manual?
Kramer: Well, we can’t all be reading the classics, Professor High Brow.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 Gotham, Humor Comments

Madoff: Humanity’s Paramount

Psychologists wonder why people are endowed with the ability to learn the part of Hamlet or understand calculus when neither skill was of much use to mankind in the primitive conditions where his intellect was shaped. [...] The solution: we use our intellects not to solve practical problems but to outwit eachother. Deceiving people, detesting deceit, understanding people’s motives, manipulating people–these are what the intellect is used for.

Perhaps Bernard Madoff, as the glorious product of human evolution that he is, should be praised for having outwitted others to the tune of billions of dollars.

Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Business, Featured, Finance, Gotham, Philosophy Comments

Flowing Pixels

Street art, NYC:

flowing

Via Kanye West.

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 Design, Gotham Comments

Nas ft. Keri Hilson – Hero

This is the most mind-blowing track I’ve heard all year:

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It’s off Nas and DJ Green Lantern’s The Nigger Tape. (Mixtape download link here.)

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Featured, Gotham, Music, Must. Have. Comments

Thank you Bernard Madoff

Thank you Bernard Madoff.

Now all of my mother’s half-brained friends who mindlessly watch ABC’sThe View are going to think that hedge fund managers are shady. Your newsworthy fraud is now so widely-discussed that Elizabeth Hasselbeck has felt the need to weigh in. Great PR for the industry.

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Finance, Gotham Comments

Staten Island Historians Piece Together Genealogy Of Wu-Tang Clan

NEW YORK—In what many are calling the most comprehensive study of its kind, Staten Island historians Robert Wilburn and Charles Tinsley have successfully traced the lines of the infamous Wu-Tang Clan all the way back to 1993 A.D.

The monumental undertaking, which is being hailed as a major breakthrough in the field of hip-hop genealogy, used a series of historical records—including Wu-Tang Forever, Iron Flag, and 8 Diagrams—to piece together the group’s vast and intricate ancestry.

In all, nearly 300 descendants of the Wu-Tang Clan were identified and cataloged by the two historians, including Buddha Monk, Hook Ninja, K-Blunt, Tommy Whispers, Kryme Life, and Trife Da God.

“During its height, the Wu-Tang Clan acquired a great deal of wealth and notoriety,” Wilburn said. “One need only look at Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s dental records to get a sense of the incredible treasures they possessed.”

Staten Island Historians Piece Together Genealogy Of Wu-Tang Clan – The Onion

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 Gotham, Humor Comments

GREAT NEWS (If you love Michael Bloomberg)

This is awesome.

I, for one, welcome our new Bloomberg overlord.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Gotham, Politics Comments
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