SHOWTIME IN SOHO

Penelope Cruz on US Vogue Jun 11 Cover by Mario Testino, who just passed by in SoHo, NY. Unmistakable, his healthy sun-glow...

US Vogue June 11

Before, Joel Madden hanging out with his daughter and friends from LA at popular Café Gitane on Mott Street.

HAPPY HOLIDAY!

Its Memorials Day Weekend, unofficially the start of summer in the States. For me an 'ordinary' and 'unexciting' NY day, just having lunch in my favorite Cafe Minerva in West Village (displaying Brian Hamills pictures - NY based photograph legend), where I will spend the afternoon revising my beloved aunt´s master thesis. Woody Allen (his latest movie 'midnight in paris' already in theaters) keeping an eye on my work...

Cafe Minerva 304 West 4th Street, NY

I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR

Bill Cunningham New York Documentary is out now.
Just two things I would like to add:

'Money is cheap, freedom is very expensive', Bill Cunningham.

Get to see that movie and stop talking about fashion!

Bill Cunningham New York by Richard Press

HOME MADE HOME

After a too short night I decided to take advantage of the sunny morning, after 7 days constant rain in town, to make a "trip" to Brooklyn. Williamsburg is definitely over-hyped, its more like a construction oase for new apartments, between some basic vintage stores adorned by a kind of trashy arty crowd and of course weekend tourists, like me. Having been now entirely in Manhattan the past weeks I liked that subtle suburb feeling and the partial hilly streets.
NY´s Credo: Home Made. Everything you smell, eat, drink, touch...its simply home made: get a home made ice cream, self knitted lambs wool cabs, home made body lotion, home made pastries... Image the young arty new yorker sitting at home baking, knitting, cooking, harvesting - the new farmers of today! My dear grandparents, I spare you that!

Bakeri Brooklyn

...and true home made sweeties on East River facing the Manhatten skyline made my day!

DESIGN NEWS

The renowned ICFF started on Saturday at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Had the chance to get exclusively an exhibitor pass! That´s the great thing about New York, every second can bear a new true chance...Et voilà here are some impression, starting with an Austrian masterpiece:

Philipp Aduatz

British design: Dupenny

 

 

Lovely, the "Make a Wish" Rings by Bettina Nissen

And what we of course didn´t miss was the one of the after show parties in Soho, ended up...boozy.

KATE'S BUTTER

I am having my own homemade butter here in New York! Its 100% natural, no antibiotics, no preservatives, no artificial coloring or flavoring - only the wholesome goodness of fresh pasteurized sweet cream.

To get at Wholefoods Market

URBAN ISLAND

Catch some urban inspirations during your morning coffee...

West River Side in Manhattan: hung-over crowd snatching some sun

View to Manhatten from Staten Island

urban set design

Wall Street: Where looser become winner

Angelika Filmcenter New York in Soho

I have never experienced a movie, shot in New York, that closely...

GIVE ME EMOTION!

Yesterday´s cultural afternoon@MoMa (Kate´s Avenue Tip: every Friday from 4pm free admission) ended up with a posh aperitif@Salon de Ning rooftop bar in the luxurious Hotel Peninsula. Before ordering, the very first thing after the usual "How are you ladies?" was "May I have your credit card please?" Anyway, I was sitting in the midst of Manhattans' skyscrapers with 2 (the second was for the free ticket) glasses of wine. Sometimes you want to pay for emotions. And sometimes emotions are venal. After my 44$ drinks I decided to cancel dinner and take the M3 down 5th avenue to Greenwich...

Today´s springlike Saturday began with a walk through Soho to the opening of the Hester Street Market.

My absolute highlight of the day was at Morrison Hotel Gallery when I met Lynn Goldsmith there, guiding through the exhibition of her masterpieces and talking very personally about the shoots with Bob, Keith, Patti Smith, Debbie, Madonna, Bono...That was New York feeling pure. And sometimes you don´t have to pay for emotions. However, in both situations you have to be capable to release the emotions from inside your heart in the right moment...

 Thank you Lynn for the wonderful time!

SPIRIT & LOVE

Today I had my first Yoga Class in NYC! I signed on the renowned Jivamukti Yoga School. Except 'inhale and exhale' and didn´t really understand a lot but I exercised quite well...it was a typical "New York"-Class with blushing upside down positions. I definitely have to get a basic class for learning the headstand, crow, peacock...and some lessons in english zoology.

And for all mums on these earth I devote that lovely window, decorated at ABC, 881 Broadway in Manhattan! Some inspiration to bring spring time home that weekend, when the daughters and sons are making a visit that Sunday...

Double layered and accessorized with the sexy ear plugs HEAROS I will soon fall into a deep, warm and quiet sleep...

BEAUTY OF A RAINY DAY

Cultural feed: Ticket for the American Ballet Theater Opening Gala Spring 11 on 16th of May at the Metropolitan Opera House. First day of retrospective Savage Beauty by Alexander McQueen at the Met Museum. Stars&stories around the opening hyped the event, fulminated by the reveal of the princess wedding dress last Friday (incredible but true that lots of americans were watching the ceremony at 4 am local time and were doing home office that day)...everything perfectly staged. So is the exhibition: best mise-en-scène I have ever seen. Interior installation started in January and took 4 month.

Although its really cold and rainy I am having a cozy day...after the Met I had coffee with an lovely austrian lady living on 5th avenue on Upper East Side. The view from the balcony her apartment is amazing. The answers I get why I am here are clear...

My day will end with a dinner in my apartment. Pierre Björk will cook for me and his girlfriend. I am already enjoying my aperitive...

ESCALE À BOWERY

Lovely evening walk to Pat, passed by Morrisonhotel Gallery and discovered Ideal Glass with its sensational graffiti facade.

http://www.patriciafield.com/

www.morrisonhotelgallery.com

http://idealglass.org/

To do´s this week:
Lynn Goldsmith talks to public during her exhibition - Sat, May 7th
Saint Hollywood @Ideal Glass, April 14-June 15, 8 pm

And now: Good night - with a great view out of my room on the lighted Empire State Building...

ROYAL GIFT

Kate´s Avenue hot spot next week: Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 4, 2011–July 31, 2011
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor
  
http://blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen/ 

Savage Beauty Tote $20

ARRIVAL IN NYC

1st day in Manhattan - 2 film shootings - Glee/Law&Order.

 "There´s that dream about going to NY, once you are there everything will be different. Now its all about being curious."

HQ DIANE von FURSTENBERG