NYC Fashion Spring 2009

The latest trends and insider perspectives from New York's Spring 2009 fashion week.

photos courtesy of Don Ashby, Olivier Claisse, Greg Kessler, Marcio Madeira Style.com
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Outdoors Water Fountains

"Peter Sarsgaard on the Group Insanity That Settled Over the Cast: Director Sam Mendes says there definitely was a kind of shared insanity that affected the cast during the filming of “Jarhead.” Asked to share a personal example of what Mendes was referring to, Sarsgaard said, “I keep telling them about other people, but Jake reminded me of one that I did. I wasn't drinking for the first half of the movie because I was trying to get fit quickly, because for 'Flightplan,' I kind of didn't care what physical shape I was in. It's not like I gained weight for the movie, but sometimes I'll lose weight for a movie. I had a couple margaritas... Jake started drinking beer at that point and I had some margaritas, maybe only two or three. And there was a thing that was like a fountain in the middle of the courtyard. We're staying at this not-very-nice hotel that had like a fountain and it looked like it could be a pool, but it was not actually a swimming pool. And he says I finished my margarita and I put it down. He said he was in mid-conversation with me and he said I just walked over to the edge of the pool and with all my clothes on, just walked into the pool and went underwater for a little bit and then came up and walked into my room totally wet. And he said he was in the middle of talking to me about something. So that actually happened, I realized, and I sort of blocked it out”. Source: movies.about.com

"Weil's designs have been worn by all kinds of celebrities from Clarke Gable to Matthew McConaughey. The Rockmount pearl snap was even the shirt of choice for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of Brokeback Mountain. We figured it was Wrangler.

Apparently, he managed to reach the ripe old age of 107. We wonder if he followed the Ernest Borgnine fountain of youth method? Source: www.stylelist.com

"Brokeback Mountain, before it is any other thing, is essentially a pastoral, a hymm to the outdoors and the outdoor life and living in a tent with the one you love, surrounded by the rugged beauty of the craggy mountains all around.Ledger and Gyllenhall are (after a fashion) the spiritual descendants of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, mourning a diminished frontier and seeking to leave civilization behind". Source: txreviews.com

Michael Cera (Someday Soon)

A musical video featuring images Michael Cera in "Arrested Development", "Clark & Michael", "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" interview, etc., and the songs "Just a kid" and "Someday Soon" by Wilco.

Reese and Kirsten (best and worst dressed)

Reese has been chosen as one of the Ten Best Dressed of 2007 according to People Magazine.

THE SOPHISTICATE

2007 brought out the best in Reese Witherspoon. From her spectacular Nina Ricci gown at the Oscars to her simple black ensembles on the streets of L.A., this mother of two shows us less is definitely more.
Source: www.people.com

BEST STRAPLESS
Reese Witherspoon showed that single is sexy in her yellow Nina Ricci dress at the Golden Globes. Source: www.people.com

KIRSTEN DUNST
The fashion-forward star took a misguided look back with a vintage gown and flowered headband at the Met Costume Institute Gala in New York City in May.
Source: www.people.com

Michael Cera (I'm always in love)

A musical video featuring images of "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist", starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings, and the song "I'm always in love" by Wilco.

Peter - Free time as Father

The 37-year-old—who last year relocated to Park Slope with his actor wife and their baby girl, Ramona—is about to unleash that scene-stealing charisma in a production of The Seagull at the Walter Kerr Theatre, opening September 25. A few weeks before his Broadway debut, Sarsgaard spoke to us over the phone from his Brooklyn townhouse.

Time Out New York: It sounds like you’re multitasking. What have I caught you doing?
Peter Sarsgaard:Right now I’m making some meatballs. I have the mixture put together and I’m thinking I’m going to make the balls a little bit smaller than usual. I’m thinking Ping-Pong size.

TONY: Mmm…meatballs. Not a bad way to spend your free time.
Peter Sarsgaard: In my free time—that’s a phrase that doesn’t really exist. Most of what I do in my free time these days is, you know, be a father.

TONY: How are you liking Park Slope so far?
Peter Sarsgaard: Very much. The West Village, where I had lived, paid a price when the Gansevoort Hotel and all those things went in. A lot of taxi traffic and a lot more paparazzi.

TONY: Why not use a disguise? Ape suits are pretty cheap these days.
Peter Sarsgaard: Whenever I see somebody in sunglasses and a hat I always assume they’re famous. [Pauses] An ape suit? That would really throw them off.

TONY: Totally. Speaking of costumes, I assume this production of The Seagull finds you in bird garb, shouting, “Caw! Caw! Caw!”
Peter Sarsgaard: Absolutely. And dropping clams onto rocks to see if they split open.

TONY: Your Tony Award awaits. Do you have any preshow superstitions?
Peter Sarsgaard: Am I superstitious? I mean, I’m Catholic—so yeah, deeply. But I have done things that were a little OCD, yes.

TONY: Like what?
Peter Sarsgaard: I’d have to say something a certain number of times. Sometimes I’d say it loud enough so I could be overheard. And then I couldn’t explain it to anyone.

TONY: Has it ever freaked out your costars?
Peter Sarsgaard: The only person who commented on it was Chloë Sevigny. She tells people it’s something I do all the time. I don’t think it is, but I certainly did it around her on Boys Don’t Cry.

TONY: What was it you were doing?
Peter Sarsgaard: I’d say “motherfucker” five times. And then, if I was asked about it, I would act like it didn’t happen.

TONY: Awesome. Did you do anything to prepare for your big make-out scene with Liam Neeson in Kinsey?
Peter Sarsgaard: We did a movie together called K-19: The Widowmaker. That’s how we prepared for it. You know, it’s funny. You constantly end up in strange situations with people as an actor—and you just do it. God knows they’re paying you enough.

TONY: But as a straight guy, wasn’t it hard to go through with it?
Peter Sarsgaard: It wasn’t as hard as, say, running around with all my gear on in Jarhead. I’d rather go for an awkward moment than physical exertion any day. The only thing that I think [male actors] get freaked out about when they have to do something like kiss a guy in a movie—when to their knowledge they’re straight—is that they’re afraid they’re going to be turned on. And if you’re not afraid that you’re going to be turned on—meaning that you know what you like—then really it’s not that hard.

TONY: After the SNL appearance, has it become difficult for even you to say your last name the right way?
Peter Sarsgaard: You mean without a pirate accent? My name has always seemed very normal to me. And it’s not hard to say. It’s phonetic. Whereas Gyllenhaal, for example, it’s perfectly understandable that you wouldn’t come out with that.

TONY: Yeah, it’s sort of like, “Buy a vowel!”
Peter Sarsgaard: I mean, there’s loads of consonants right in a row at the beginning—G-Y-L-L, still no vowel. The double a at the end is just to let you relax after going through all those consonants.
TONY: You hooked up with Maggie just because she also has a double a in her last name, didn’t you?
Peter Sarsgaard: [Laughs] Yeah. I don’t know. No.
Source: www.timeout.com

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