Postcards

Vesuvio bakery on Spring street in SOHO  is an iconic bakery storefront is an iconic New York image.  Vesuvio  opened in 1920 and has been my go to for chocolate chip cookies for years.  Every time I go home I go for my cookie fix hoping that the store has not been replaced with an H&M or Old Navy. 

 

Directly across the street is the ever so hip and cool Joe & the 

Juice. A bit of modern and the old.  I washed the cookie down with a healthy juice. The best of two worlds.

MET part two -- tea and everything else

So on  my solo day in New York City at the MET (Favorite  museum)  I treated myself to afternoon tea at the Petrie court cafe and wine bar which overlooks central park.  My intention was to sip tea and read but I just  mostly sat and listened to all the conversations around me.  There was a  french couple seated next to me having a very heated but not angry discussion in french.  I imagined that they walk across 5th avenue to have lunch every day in the cafe and always sit at the very same table.

The tier looks empty when there is only one person but everything was super good.

Silence please

I am loving the whole "quiet event" scene  that seems to be trending again right now.  While taking a stroll in Soho,  New York we came across this outdoor "quiet event" movie pictured below  held in the courtyard of Basilica of St. Patrick Old Cathedral on Friday nights.  This is going on all around the city.  I am so loving this concept.  

A silent disco, silent yoga, silent movie or silent rave is an event where people can dance or listen  to music or watch a movie with wireless headphones. Rather than using a speaker system, music is broadcast via a radio transmitter with the signal being picked up by wireless headphone receivers worn by the participants.  A growing trend in big cities where noise ordinances and other limitations have encouraged event goers to get creative.  In NYC thousands of people head out to silent events each week.

Having your own headset allows you to  have control of the volume and totally focus on listening to the movie.  You don't have to listen to people talk,  or chomp on popcorn.  Want to talk to your neighbor just take your headset off, have a conversation and you are not disturbing anyone watching the movie.  Since it is outdoors less noise pollution.

  

 

   I haven't tried silent yoga  yet.  Soon I hope.

We decided to go down to Fat village art walk this past Saturday.  One of the featured events was a silent disco. I didn't think twice about it, we paid the $5 fee and got out onto the dance floor.  It was super goofy and fun all at the same time.

Put your headphones on and the sounds of the party pulse to life. You choose what to jam to with a simple flick of a switch. The blue, red, or green light on each headset shows which DJ other party go-ers are listening to. Sway along to the same song as your friends or tap to your own tune

The MET part 1: Fashion is art

On a recent trip to New York, I  had a full day to myself at the MET- Metropolitan Museum of Art.  One of the best museums on the planet seriously, I love the place it never gets old..  I was super excited because I would be viewing the Costume Institute spring 2016 exhibition, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,  which explores the relationship between the handmade and the mechanized in the creation of haute-couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear.  In a word AWESOME.   As a lover of art and fashion this exhibit was out of this world.  I loved the opportunity to look closely at so many stunning and ornate pieces of art.  Every costume in the exhibit is complimented by wall text that explains exactly how it was made.  The exhibit normally runs from May 5 to August 14 but has been extended to September 5.  As usual pictures never quite do justice to what you see with your own eyes. 

Karl Lagerfeld (French, born Hamburg, 1938) for House of Chanel (French, founded 1913)
Wedding ensemble (back view), autumn/winter 2014–15 haute couture

Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton, spring/summer 2012.

Christian Dior (French, 1905–1957)
"Vilmiron" dress, spring/summer 1952 haute couture
French

A Gareth Pugh creation made of plastic drinking straws, hand-cut and attached individually.

A Gareth Pugh creation made of plastic drinking straws, hand-cut and attached individually.

An evening dress of ostrich feathers by Hubert de Givenchy for House of Givenchy, from 1966-67.

A dress made with a 3-D printer by the Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, known for her sculptural works.

From left, two evening dresses created decades apart — 1968 and circa 1935 — by the French designer Madame Grès (a.k.a. Alix Barton), alongside a 2010 ensemble by Iris van Herpen

Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, autumn/winter 2012-13.