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iplaudius
01/27/09

In reply to America's Designer Photographed With Transsexual!
I’ll never forget seeing Amanda Lepore at the Slide some years ago, where she was the MC for some amateur "dancing" contest. I think she was wearing stickers. Two of them.
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momo
01/27/09

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It was a DIFFA benefit at Jeffrey. I was there. Jason's cool, and hating on Amanda just shows you as fucking provincial.

More pics here: [www.manhattanoffender.com]
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BowlingForDollars
01/27/09

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Wu-whee!
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Baroness
01/27/09

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Yeah, Dan Savage is all, duh, reporters are gonna report, but all the mockery from his commentors.. it's kind of mean. Extended immigrant families like his from Taiwan have some powerful family ties and bonds. I've seen it before, my Asian friends' families are rather tight.. to the point of strangling, sometimes. And that's for the straight ones. Besides the immense pressure to succeed, I'm sure Wu had been doing a delicate dance there, and perhaps in the euphoria of his coup let down his guard a bit, didn't think about it.

When I was at (his) art school, it was always the Asian students slaving away til midnight, every night. (I was gone by cocktail hour). Often their tuition was paid by the extended family pooling resources, and expecting extremely hard work and..fealty in return. It's complex, but it's not just yer Uncle Bob hearing it. Anyway, hope this turns out to be a good thing for him- and maybe for the family too. They should be nothing but extremely proud of him.
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fuzzywhat
01/27/09

@Baroness: Really? That educational experience sounds more like my father at MIT in the 60s than Asians at art school today. When I was at RISD, most of the Asians (not Asian American, like myself) came from extremely wealthy families, went to fancy boarding schools, and though most were equally as hard working (except for a handful of Korean girls who would rather shop and giggle in groups) as every other student.

I don't see these familial bonds and pressure as playing a role in his coming out or lack thereof, from my experience (which again, is slightly different as I was born and raised in the U.S., but my extended family is in Taiwan) it's more of the generational and cultural barriers that is the problem. Who wants to explain to their grandma that lived through World War II that her grandson prefers penis? And yeah, they're all nosy as hell too. But I agree, it will probably turn out to be a good thing for him.
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Baroness
01/27/09

@fuzzywhat: I hear you. My experience was twenty years ago, if that makes a difference.. I must say too that MIT is one thing.

To send your kid to ART school at huge expense is another. There's a leap of faith there that perhaps for the kids I knew was added stress. They had more to prove perhaps, fashion is not like engineering, say. The kids I knew weren't wealthy, their immigrant parents often had small businesses in Queens.

I felt great empathy for those kids-were they working in the library til midnight to avoid going home? They never took the time for fun, it seemed. But I'm sure they excelled at whatever they did in their career.
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MisterHippity
01/27/09

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Is it possible to "out" a fashion designer?

Isn't that kind of like revealing that a Rastafarian smokes pot?
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Johnny_Rocket
01/27/09

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What what? He's gay?! But he's a fashion designer! Just can't be!
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VoxPopuli
01/27/09

@Johnny_Rocket: I know - this information could really hurt his career!
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Mount_Prion
01/27/09

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Those look like the lips that fly off Jessica Rabbit and zoom across the club to kiss Valiant.
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everfade
01/27/09

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Joan Rivers is looking a mess lately.
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saythatscool
01/27/09

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Alternative hed:

Wu Bang Man?
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GuyBitchy
01/27/09

@saythatscool: Nice.
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contradicto
01/27/09

@saythatscool: That gets my heart.
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televisionarie
01/27/09

@saythatscool: Can I marry that headline?
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VoxPopuli
01/27/09

@televisionarie: Only in Massachusetts or Connecticut.
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Perhaps Not
01/29/09

@saythatscool: Oh, well done indeed. Quite nice.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
01/21/09

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god. no. please, again for the love of god not mark rothko, modern art's most notorious suicide - the only interesting thing about rothko is that old saw about how he ran into andy warhol on a street corner in soho and recoiled in horror, the old world meeting the new - for the love of christ when will people stop picking a notorious depressive who did the same damn painting... for YEARS.. as their favorite modernish artist, just because his paintings are colorful, recognizable and have no subtext until you read his biography? please, just make it stop

that being said - do you think smith will paint the white house, pink? no?

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disslexic
01/21/09

In reply to Deborah Needleman Is in Cahoots With New White House Decorator
From left to right in photo:

Michael Smith (self-important douchebag)

Charlotte Moss (NYC interior designer; kind of a nice woman, but a snob)

Thom Filicia (good guy; loses weight with the "pickle diet" he invented. If you smell garlic and dill, you know he's nearby and hungry.)

Deb Needleman (smart, funny--but a constant conniver and vicious gossip)

William Yeoward (Brit dealer in overpriced decorating crap; charming con man)

Celerie Kembel (interior designer; dessicated spawn of Palm Beach; retard)

Had to work at a shelter mag for a time (with Deb also on staff) so I know this junk.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
01/22/09

@disslexic: oh, god - I'm changing my screen name to Kelerie Cembel (interior designer; dessicated spawn of Palm Beach; retard) immediately.
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Private Hangnail
01/21/09

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Staffers at the Reagan White House used to call Nancy Reagan Mommy or The Hairdo with Moods. I only wish I could have that effect on people.
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Iceland Spar
01/21/09

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His unique talent is marrying Old World pedigree with a clean Californian sensibility. Think about what a grand English country house might look like if it were owned by a beach-loving movie executive who grew up worshipping the studios, and you get the idea.

This reminds me of the time I went to the Whitney to see a Terrence Koh exhibit that the Whitney described as combining the baroque and the minimalist. Based on that experience, I think its pretty likely that the Lincoln Bedroom will soon look like this:

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saythatscool
01/21/09

@Iceland Spar ★: Ahhh you're just trying to blackball her.
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saythatscool
01/21/09

@saythatscool: or him. damn
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Kid Twist
01/21/09

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Just invite the Trading Spaces crew in to give the Obamas some thrift store couches and glue paper towel tubes all over the walls.
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Hydroceph
01/21/09

@Kid Twist: It bothers me that I know exactly what you mean, and furthermore, know exactly which designers would do it.
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bytememehard
01/21/09

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That's not Queer Eye's Thom Filicia in the middle? hmm
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Hydroceph
01/21/09

@bytememehard: Thank you! I could not for the life of me remember his name. I suppose that's part of why no one's heard from him for a while...
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Trixie from Toronto
01/21/09

@bytememehard: That's what I thought? Is it?
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