Thursday, July 06, 2006
The Meat...
...Packing District....astonishing what creative people can do with sheer space, no matter what its karma ..no matter how bad its former smell!
I seem to have missed the enire evolution of this City's Lower West Side, below 23rd Street, so that by the time we got back from Barter Theatre, a whole new chic and fabulous neighborhood was born and toddling around on all fours!
My first clue was when I went to a commercial audition downtown on 15th Street at House Productions and discovered the astonishing Chelsea Market for the first time! Never has there been a more charmingly clever use of old warehouse/factory space: shops, food markets, restaurants and boits, cleverly tucked into corners, floors, curves, crooks and cul de sacs of what had been a very ugly building, but now is so terrifically interesting and appealing, I can never go down there and not go in for at least a coffee....the Chelsea Flower Market is there...The Food Network has its central studios there...the clunky, large , rusted metal components of the original building are also all there, incorporated into the new design in such a way that the eye is constantly entertained and delighted. I love it there.
AND, every chic fashionista from Stella McCartney to Diane Von Furstenberg have shops and showrooms down there now,though DVF's is still under what looks like massive construction....chic, chic, chic! Little Pie Company has a cunning place, half in the Market, half on 14th Street, and every hip bakery in town has an outlet there.
New York City does not let any of itself go to waste or ruin, and if it does, it simply incorporattes it into its new look!
Peter and I saw THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, and it was such fun...how can one actress be so appealing, no matter what role she plays? Meryl Streep always has been and always will be my hero. She is yummy beyond yummy in this one. And looks utterly magnificent in her high fashion duds...as do all the women in the movie.It made me want to be rail thin and wear very very high Jimmy Choos...alas, those days are gone. But while watching this fun film, I was right there with them, and my feet did not hurt one bit!!!
So, DEVIL WEARS PRADA and The Meat Packing District of NYC! Somehow logically related in my thinking...it's all so chic and fashionable...so comfortably so.
One of the ways NYC has it over so many other imporant cities: it takes all its magnificence pretty much in its summer lazy stride and smiles while it prances...
i mean, really, what could be more insouciant than selling $2000.00 frocks in the same space where cows were once butchered and frozen for food?
New York City has always had a lot of "noive!", right?
I seem to have missed the enire evolution of this City's Lower West Side, below 23rd Street, so that by the time we got back from Barter Theatre, a whole new chic and fabulous neighborhood was born and toddling around on all fours!
My first clue was when I went to a commercial audition downtown on 15th Street at House Productions and discovered the astonishing Chelsea Market for the first time! Never has there been a more charmingly clever use of old warehouse/factory space: shops, food markets, restaurants and boits, cleverly tucked into corners, floors, curves, crooks and cul de sacs of what had been a very ugly building, but now is so terrifically interesting and appealing, I can never go down there and not go in for at least a coffee....the Chelsea Flower Market is there...The Food Network has its central studios there...the clunky, large , rusted metal components of the original building are also all there, incorporated into the new design in such a way that the eye is constantly entertained and delighted. I love it there.
AND, every chic fashionista from Stella McCartney to Diane Von Furstenberg have shops and showrooms down there now,though DVF's is still under what looks like massive construction....chic, chic, chic! Little Pie Company has a cunning place, half in the Market, half on 14th Street, and every hip bakery in town has an outlet there.
New York City does not let any of itself go to waste or ruin, and if it does, it simply incorporattes it into its new look!
Peter and I saw THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, and it was such fun...how can one actress be so appealing, no matter what role she plays? Meryl Streep always has been and always will be my hero. She is yummy beyond yummy in this one. And looks utterly magnificent in her high fashion duds...as do all the women in the movie.It made me want to be rail thin and wear very very high Jimmy Choos...alas, those days are gone. But while watching this fun film, I was right there with them, and my feet did not hurt one bit!!!
So, DEVIL WEARS PRADA and The Meat Packing District of NYC! Somehow logically related in my thinking...it's all so chic and fashionable...so comfortably so.
One of the ways NYC has it over so many other imporant cities: it takes all its magnificence pretty much in its summer lazy stride and smiles while it prances...
i mean, really, what could be more insouciant than selling $2000.00 frocks in the same space where cows were once butchered and frozen for food?
New York City has always had a lot of "noive!", right?
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