Comme Des Garcons’ new guerrilla store “Black” has opened in NYC under the Highline over-walk. Black celebrates CDG’s 40th anniversary, revisiting avant-garde designer Rei Kawakubo’s early days when the color black served as her nom de guerre. Prices are sick from $120-$660. Mostly women’s stuff, but some of the Ts and drapey pants are unisex.
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Potty mouth Lily Allen takes on a self-P.O.V. tour in new video Fuck You, and she basically fucks with everybody along the way. It’s one of those “I Hate Everbody” days…know it too well! This is the the third international single release from album It’s Not Me, It’s You.
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Alexander McQueen has gone multi media mad with a new short for his men’s Spring/Summer Collection. Directed by photographer David Sims- “The film represents a journey as artistic ideas metamorphose into their physical manifestations, and as the artist himself submits to the painstaking process of invention.”
www.alexandermcqueen.com

Audacity of Huge, featuring Chris Keating of Yeasayer, is the new single from the UK electro duo, off forthcoming album Temporary Pleasure (out August 17), featuring guest vocals from The Gossip’s Beth Ditto and Super Fury Animals’ Gruff Rhys. SMD is probably best known for dance floor burners It’s The Beat and Hustler.

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THURSDAY 25
Joan Rivers Live

Legendary comedian and Celebrity Apprentice winner Joan Rivers brings her live stand-up act to Off-Broadway’s Gramercy Theater. Rivers presents an evening of her newest and most outrageous riffs on Celebrity Apprentice, Hollywood, pop culture, and more.
The Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd St, NYC, 7:30pm & 9:00 pm, $25-$40, www.ovationtix.com
Roberto Cavalli Sample Sale

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WEDNESDAY 24

Legendary punk rocker, shirtless sex symbol and BFF to David Bowie, Iggy Pop chats with New York Times critic Ben Ratliff about his life, work and new record Préliminaires- inspired by New Orleans jazz and the novelist Michel Houellebecq’s book The Possibility of an Island. Iggy says, “One of the most moving songs of […]