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Posted Apr. 1, 2008,
Bevy Smith Reports: "I Thought I Had Died and Gone to Heaven" at the M.A.C/Heatherette Party
By Bevy Smith
When I die, I want an after-life party, but not just any party -- I want cotton candy and pink popcorn served; I want an open bar with pretty pink concoctions; I want everyone to show up decked to the nines, girls with their faces beat, enough makeup to rival any drag queen; men suited and booted; major music; I want an extravaganza! Well, last week at the unveiling of the M.A.C/Heatherette line, I thought I had died and gone to heaven!
How could Richie Rich, Traver Rains and John Demsey know what would make me happy? It was like they read my mind! They served up all of the above encased in glitter -- glitter makeup inspired by a disco ball. And there was no discreet dusting of sheen for them -- no, we are talking chunks of shiny metallic madness. Think arts and crafts glitter glue for your face, and don’t be scared!!! As if that weren’t enough, they are giving you lashes, but not just any lash, patent leather lashes. They come in two versions, “She’s Good” and “She’s Bad,” and guess which one Ms. Bevy loves? “She’s Bad” has a fishnet texture, so you know I had to have them! Leave it to the boys to continue the madness with their packaging. Remember good ole Bubble Tape, the bubble gum that came in a faux measuring tape container? That’s the container for their pressed powder compact. Genius! How’s that for taking the old hood saying “all you want is hard d*#k and bubble gum” to a whole new level!
Posted Mar. 26, 2008,
About Last Night... Heatherette, M.A.C & PAPER Party at Kiss and Fly
By Caroline Torem Craig
It was a sea of 10,000 + maniacs last night. Who were all these uninhibited starlets and harlots!! God, there wasn’t one sourpuss in the bunch! I should have known, given the legion of hip followers of Heatherette and M.A.C. who teamed up for a special line of Heatherette maquillage.
Teyana Taylor and Mick Rock
Posted Jun. 15, 2007,
More Fun at the Colette Luncheon and Pink Martini Concert!
By Kim Hastreiter
WOW I'm exhausted today. Wednesday was a wild one. First we hosted a luncheon at Indochine celebrating the tenth birthday of our fave shop in Paris, Colette. Sarah Lerfel and her mom (and shop namesake) Colette hopped over to New York for the occasion and it was SUCH a fun crowd. It was a great mix of artists, DJs, designers (young cool ones mostly), socialites and hipsters who all respect Sarah's eye and vision and wanted to come celebrate her. We had a great table of friends of Sarah -- many of whom I also knew.
Brian Kaws (the artist, see his photo below) was across sitting next to Supreme's James Jebbia who just became a dad! To my left was Weiden and Kennedy guru John Jay, and to my right was fabulous designer Thomas Brown, who I introduced to my Portland friend Thomas Lauderdale, who was playing at Carnegie Hall that night with his group Pink Martini (that's a whole other story to come!). I think Brown should dress all the Pink Martini guys actually.
Posted May. 17, 2007,
Frisco Day Four
By Kim Hastreiter
Whew. I'm writing this quickly as I'm heading to the airport soon, but yesterday was another fantabulous jam-packed day. We started out at 9 .m. meeting our crew for the day (filmmaker Cheryl Dunn, my friends from Target -- Minda, John and Paul -- and of course, our tour guide Ben Ospital from MAC) at this amazing little spot in the Ferry Building called Boulettes Larder for breakfast (see photo at top left).
We were greeted by Boulette, a Puli dog, owned by BL's two wonderful proprietors, Amarylis and Laurie, who sat us in their amazing hearth/kitchen and cooked us an incredible breakfast as we stared out the window at the ferries and the Oakland Bridge.
We then hopped in a car and headed over the GG Bridge to Sausalito where we met Kathy and Robin Baily, who own the incredible Heath Ceramics, an amazing 1940s sun-filled ceramics factory. They produce dishes for restaurants such as Alice Waters's Chez Panisse and Slanted Door and fab shops like Moss. They are also famous for their awesome tiles, which you may recognize if you've ever eaten at the restaurant Hiro in the Maritime Hotel. They're gorgeous. The designs were all done by Edith Heath in the '40s and Robin and Kathy (who bought the factory from Heath four years ago) have respectfully and meticulously continued the tradition of manufacturing and design that she started. I love this stuff and actually own a whole gorgeous set of Heath at home that I eat off of every day. After an amazing tour, where we saw the tiles and dishes (see photo, above right) made, fired and glazed by workers (many of whom had been there for over 30 years), we went crazy shopping, of course.
Posted May. 16, 2007,
Frisco Day Three
By Kim Hastreiter
I'm completely exhausted from running around yesterday, but it was a really fun day. I started the day off welcoming a few friends, Minda and John, who'd flown in from Minneapolis to join me in my crazy Frisco inspiration tour. We started out at the farmers market for breakfast, which consisted of ripe perfect peaches and homemade -- yes, homemade -- cottage cheese... I'm telling you, these food people are crazy here.
We then hopped over to the studio of the designer Yves Behar (he's the cute guy pictured at right), who gave us a fantastic tour of his company (called fusebox)'s headquarters. He is really a nice guy and I'd never really known all the stuff he has designed, but he showed us everything -- from his dildo designs in progress to his rubber shoes to his new chairs to watches to water bottles. But the most exciting thing we saw was the new super-inexpensive laptop design he created for the brilliant Nicholas Negroponte's "One Laptop per Child" project. I'd heard about this for quite a while, but to hold this $100 laptop in my hands (see photo at right), and see how cool it it and how amazingly it works (it's kind of like a mix between an iPod and a computer), was fabulous. (Read about the project here.) The deal with these laptops is that they are being sold in mass quantities to governments of countries in Africa and other nations where the kids live in villages with no electricity (or limited electricity) and have never even seen the Internet. Don't ask me how it works, but the computer itself actually creates wireless networks so all the kids can communicate with each other (with video and sound!) and can surf the net. It's AMAZING and is a huge success so far. 