Milk Gallery presents Diplo's 128 Beats per Minute

Neon lights slicing through mist and disappearing. Turning a mirrored corner. Catching a glimpse of beautiful people. City streets twinkling beyond the glass. If there were no tomorrow, we’d be nowhere else but here…

That was Saturday’s afterparty at Le Bain, but it could have easily been captured as a moment in time and added to Diplo’s 128 Beats Per Minute. Until April 11th, Milk Gallery presents photos from the book, which features photography by Shane McCauley and a foreward by Alexander Wang.   

As you might imagine, Milk + Diplo + ShaneMcCauley + Alexander Wang > epic. Take epic and raise it some Mad Decent (Diplo’s record label) and you get just a glimmer of the launch party, which was studded with power players both in person and in the photos on display. We were spoiled by the cornucopia of stylesetters. Not surprisingly, there were sheer skirts galore and several partygoers with skateboard in hand. One trend that we loved was the varsity jacket on both men and women. Our favorite moment of the night occurred with the photos as the backdrop for a (very) slow motion dance-off between a tiny fascinator-wearing girl and a floor-length tunic, giant headphone-wearing guy.

Check out this exhibition at Milk Gallery while it lasts! And, for the full version, you can pick up 128 Beats Per Minute either at Milk or at Urban Outfitters.

Katie Gallagher at Milk Made

We kicked off Fashion Week yesterday at the Standard with the Katie Gallagher FW '12 show, "Silent Soil." The professed sylvan motif gave life to what we would imagine to be the garb of space age wood nymphs. High-collared asymmetrial shearlings were our favorites - they were the most successful use of flattering lines and surpising mixes of materials. Several of the less structured looks led us to focus upon the ubiquitous leggings, whose curving lines delineated between sheer and opaque fabric. Otherwise, we saw empire waists, below which material billowed widely. Black, cream, and beige were the dominant colors, although we appreciated the bright pop of green or blue eyeshadow encircling model's eyes in the style of futuristic sunglasses.

Stay tuned for coverage of Herve Leger's Lincoln Center runway show and street style shots tomorrow, as well as more live tweeting!

We will also update on our current experiment - getting StyleShifter or one of her StyleSetters photographed by a street style photographer, looking fashionable but not over-the-top attention-seeking crazy. We are taking suggestions on what we should wear to accomplish this goal!

Lesson 1 - Apparently, this will not work: awkwardly lurking about such photographers with our own industrial camera whilst towering enormously upon six inch heels, brilliantly red lips pouting.

Lesson 2 (based upon observation of others) - This will work: wearing an inappropriately prom-like white lace dress with a black silk tie at the waist and costume jewelry. And no, lesson #2 does NOT ring of bitterness.