So I meant to write about this a few weeks ago, but I got busy and then I left town, so I was gonna let it slide. But I just got back from a pretty fun event that was held for the release of the latest issue of Interview Magazine, now helmed by Fabien Baron and New York staple Glenn O’Brien… couldn’t decide between that link or this one, a clip of his 80’s cable show TV Party. (The ill ska proto-version of ‘Tide is High’ that Blondie performs sealed it.) So I figured I’d mention it, even though it’s been covered, the expectant sphere of people have already read it, and for God’s sake, McMullen, it’s already on the stands! But still… The new issue has some great stuff in it, all handled in a clean and serious layout-style that Fabien Baron usually brings to projects, but the content forms the framework - O’Brien gives us a surprisingly wordy Kate Moss interview, there’s an excellent talk with le Maison Martin Margiela that will put you up to speed with your girlfriend, a frank Woody Allen interview, and an interview with artist James Nares that includes an awesome photo of Nares suspended above a canvas, painting while hanging from a wire, Mission Impossible-style. Plus a lot more. And for the print-nerds, the metallic cover is the first usage outside of Europe of a printable silver ink that comes very close to looking like foil-stamping.

The release party was at The Standard Hotel New York, in the totally molested meat-packing district up on 13th and Washington. The building isn’t actually open for business, or even complete. Actually, it’s sort of a construction site, and I’m told it was a crazy bit of business to get it legal enough to allow people to enter for a party. After skirting around some pretty lenient fire marshalls who insisted the party was ‘at capacity,’ we got an elevator ride from two construction workers to the 18th floor, a huge unfinished space with amazing views all around.

Check the photos:

Construction site for real.

Crazy plywood elevator adventure.

Amazing views from what’s going to be the 18th floor when it’s finished. This is looking north…

…And this is looking south.

Patrick Li, Fabien Baron’s daughter Arielle, and Yuki Iwashiro, my lady! Arielle wrote a nice piece on Italian FIAT heir/Italia Independent Lapo Elkann.

Now this is a shame: my camera suddenly went ‘macro’ and this photo is out of focus. Fabien Baron with his daughter, and Yuki.

This helmet should have been flooded with crystals like a Sidekick.

That was sorta half-assed Gawker-style, I’ll get down to some better posts soon.

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