If you haven’t heard by now that black is back you’re hopeless because this makes the tenth time I’ve quoted Hotel Chelsea resident, Sally Singer. But this is the last time, I promise. At least until blue is the new black.
"This black is not to erase yourself or to look thinner or to look like an urban soldier. It's more sensual, textural," Sally Singer, Vogue's fashion news director, told the press. "It's not `Matrix'-y black. This is cozy old black like `Italian grandmother's funeral' black."
Chelsea resident Luke Jude Joerger interviews antique guru, savant and artist Robert Loughlin and his partner, actor Gary Carlson. (Source: New York Press)
In the Oct/Nov issue of Complex producer Pharrell Williams is interviewed. The accompanying photos are from a session shot here at the Hotel Chelsea.
Two recent articles about photographer Diane Arbus mention her photo session with author Germaine Greer, which occurred at the Hotel Chelsea.
In the hot, humid summer of New York in 1971, not long before her death, when according to her friends she was in a deep depression, Arbus took a photograph of Germaine Greer, now anonymously captioned Feminist In Her Hotel Room NYC (see page 31). "It developed into a sort of duel between us," Greer told Arbus's biographer, Patricia Bosworth, "because I resisted being photographed like that with all my pores and lines showing!" Arbus arrived at Greer's room in the Chelsea Hotel on a hot, muggy day and immediately asked her to lie down on the bed. Because she was so tired after the publicity tour for The Female Eunuch, Greer complied - but only up to a point. "I stiffened my face like a mask."
Maybe David thought he would learn something by watching Arbus at work. If he did, he must have been disappointed because, as soon as they were both in my room in the Chelsea hotel, she ordered him to leave. She couldn't work with other people in the room. (Source: The Guardian)
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