Weekend update

It was quite the scene at Bergdorf Goodman this past Thursday for the official launch of 'New York Look Book: A Gallery of Street Fashion' by Jake Chessum and Amy Larocca. The fifth floor of the store was jammed with revellers as Jake and Amy were upfront and central totally swamped signing copies for attendees. The best thing about the shindig was that many of the people included in the book were invited and were present to add extra colour to an already stylish crowd. Spotted in the mix were Nancy Jo Iacoi of Orchard Represents, Michael Norseng and Alison Unterreiner of Esquire, Phil South from the Small Darkroom who's digital wing Picturehouse was responsible for alot of work in the book and photographers Spencer Heyfron and Kevin Trageser. Many thanks to Jake for the invite it will be great to see what opportunities open up for him as a result of all this exposure. Stay tuned maybe there will be some lessons for us all.

How fortuitous it was that Begdorfs was only round the corner from 41 East 57th street as I was also able to get myself warmed up for the above by getting to a couple of the buildings gallery openings. First up was Simon Norfolks 'I Met A Stranger From An Antique Land at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery. The artist was in attendence and also spotted was frequent Norfolk commissioner Kathy Ryan photo director at The New York Times Magazine. Then it was down too the 6th floor and the opening of the Lars Tunbjork show 'Office' at Cohen Amador where Lars did the decent thing signing the books I had brought. Spotted here was David Strettell the proprieter of Dashwood Books.

Friday night saw the Mrs and I at Found Magazines 'There Goes the Neighborhood Tour 2007 !' For those of you unfamiliar with Found I urge you to take a look see at the site and then get yourself along to the live show with the uber talented Rothbart brothers Davy and Peter. The duo have just started out on a country wide 65 city tour and will probably be somewhere near you over the coming months. Check the schedule here. I recently had the fortune on collaborating with Davy on an upcoming piece for GQ, read my full report here and discovered we had some mutual photographer friends two of whom, Michael Edwards and Jason Florio were spotted amongst Fridays full house.