Irving Klaw

the photographer of bettie page and june king's catfight. i'm bidding for these pics on ebay so i can frame them in my future bathroom. wheee

Merriweather Post Pavilion

The new album by Animal Collective. Finally, after a few drinks, it moves!

The Jitterbug

Ne-Yo

"Mad"

Wow. A friend- who calls it "sensational"- told me today that he came home from last year's Decibel festival, high on ecstasy, and listened to Ne-Yo's album five times in a row and decided, "that's my number one of 2008."

My man

I stole this picture from his Myspace. He was in Amsterdam.

Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli (10 September 1890 – 13 November 1973) was an influential Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, she dominated fashion between the two World Wars.[1] Starting with knitwear, her designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaborator Salvador Dalí. However unlike Chanel she never adapted to the changes in fashion after World War II and her business closed in 1954.

There are so many amazing anecdotes in her biography, it's stranger and better than fiction. She created the shade "shocking pink," and that's not the half of it.

Madonna, Cannes, 1991

Wearing vintage-look (probably Gaultier) lingerie to Cannes in 1991. My favorite era for her, the Blonde Ambition/Girlie Show tours. Channeling Dita Parlo in "Justify My Love," making people angry with Steven Meisel's Sex photographs, being an unapologetic bitch/businesswoman in Truth or Dare, being frank and humorous about "Human Nature":