This weekend, a slew of hipsters sparred on the racetrack, zooming to win the Arcade Derby (you know, the big arcade game where you climb into a faux car and “race” your friends). Who crossed the virtual finish line first? Guess right and win this hat… or don’t.
Fun Fun
Danny
John
Jordan
Josh
Click on the kids to find the answer!
[DANICA PATRICK - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Imaginary Socialite: I can’t believe it’s almost August. Pretty soon we’re going to be running around in The Tents again.
V is for Vespa: Yeah, you know what that means.
Imaginary Socialite: All-nighters with Aimee Phillips, spilling open Jeisa’s new It bag to steal her lipgloss, and air kisses from Hilary Duff?
V is for Vespa: No.
V is for Vespa: Fashion Week means it’s just six more weeks until another gorgeous underage boy decides to fall in love with me and then totally break my heart.
V is for Vespa: Such a tradition.
[CORNELIA GUEST - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
To: am.i@imaginarysocialite.com
From: mitra@ShirtGirl.com
Blood is the New Black is looking for models for its new website shoot. If you live near or in LOS ANGELES send a head shot and a full body shot to yl@bloodisthenewblack.com
The shoot is scheduled for the 14th and 15th of August in Echo Park from 8-5 pm
(and, you know, if it’s good enough for Teen Vogue…)
[KEREN RICHTER - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
FunFun: Hey, you should totally take my bag’s photo for real or fake.
Imaginary Socialite: Okay!
FunFun: But I have no idea if it’s actually real or fake. I got it at a flea market.
Imaginary Socialite: Well, let’s just ask everyone else and see what they think.
[DEBORAH GIBSON - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Cake: a band, a food, and a fun little mystery - whose yummy piece of frosted goodness was also super tarty? Click here to find out.
[RACHEL RAY - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Ali, 20
Ali has a middle name that could be a last name and a total obsession with ’80s and early ’90s TV. She comes from Connecticut. She likes doing art. She also shows up at MisShapes in Laura Ashley dresses, leading me to suspect she’s the long lost member of the Baby Sitter’s Club, or at least a minor minion of the Sweet Valley High unicorns. Super lovely.
[ANNE M MARTIN - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
First Cory Kennedy, now this. Why don’t we just make Steve Aoki the Arts & Life editor and hand Sunday Styles over to Petty Luxury, and get this whole thing finished…?
[ALI KAY - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Meanwhile in Cory Kennedy news, the Cobra Snake muse scored her very first New York Times mention today in Sunday Styles, in a story about teenage interns. The hard-hitting story pops the deeply disturbing question, “What happens when your intern becomes your girlfriend?” Well, it either means you go to jail, or, in Cory’s case, you get even more famous.
I won’t lie, I would have absolutely slept with my unbelievably cool boss when I was sixteen, except 1) I didn’t have a job, much less an unbelievably cool boss, much less Mark Hunter 2) I didn’t have a grown-up body yet, either.
Sigh.
[ROSE LUARDO - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Finding your way in the city is a little like high school: your status bag is your lunch tray, your favorite party is your caf table, and your clique is your world. And last year, when a new boy and a new job and an old idea of The Life I Should Have collided in my gut, I felt like a transfer student in my own city.
My first night at Luke & Leroy, Jordan was in the DJ booth. He was covered in fake blood and getting real air-kisses, and around him the kids seemed to bow. I didn’t even realize he noticed me, until the next day.
“Hey new girl,” he MySpaced, “I heard you’re a major fashion princess. We should talk; style is my life.”
The next week at brunch, he sat next to me. “Are you having fun?” he asked, and I shrugged. “I don’t think I fit in,” I admitted. And Jordan took my hand and said, “None of us do. That’s the whole point.”
Then he swiped my plate and ate the rest of my pancakes.
[HAPPY BIRTHDAY JORDAN SILVER - YOU'RE STYLIN...]
Susie Castillo (left) was Miss USA.
Vanessa Minillo (right) was Miss Teen USA.
Susie Castillo is a current VJ.
Vanessa Minillo is a current-ish VJ.
Susie Castillo is engaged.
Vanessa Minillo is dating a divorcee .
But Gawker still gets them confused.
(let’s see how long it takes them to fix it)
[DAMIEN FAHEY - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Fun fashion fact: 8th and Ocean man-eater and Abercrombie model Heide Lindgren was discovered at a Britney Spears Concert in Florida. The fact that she now gets twice as much airtime on MTV as the elder Ms. Spears is purely coincidental, and also, kinda sad.
[SEAN PRESTON SPEARS FEDERLINE - TRUST ME, HE'S NOT THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE]
Let’s mix things up a little.
This bag was spotted last night on the Lower East Side. The accessories director of a very awesome magazine was toting it. It is completely and totally real. Your challenge, then is to name it, designer and style.
Bonne chance!
[LIZ WALKER - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
The Legend of Frere Jacques Gumballs Sinclair, a story by Geordon Nicol.
“We were driving back from Miami and we stopped inside this crazy candy factory on the side of the road. We were exhausted and even though we were hungry, we weren’t really excited about the candy. We fell in love with this porcelain doll because she was so over the top and crazy. But she wasn’t for sale, so we had to smuggle her out of the store and into our car, and now she lives in a jar in our apartment!”
Ta da!
[ANDREW WK - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Acoustic guitar girl Anna Nalick looks a lot like a certain starlet. This is funny because
a) Anna’s new album is called “Wreck of the Day.”
b) Anna writes all her own songs.
c) Anna has never been dehydrated.
d) Insert your own joke here.
[STEPHEN KING - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
A Public Service Announcement for Today Show readers:
The segment you saw this morning on custom jeans was all about Earnest Sewn. Strangely, the name “Earnest Sewn” wasn’t mentioned on TV, despite the 2 minute clip shown on air about the wonders of custom jeans. Perhaps style contributor Bobbi Thomas was so denim-focused that she assumed everyone already knew about the very popular jeans. Perhaps Matt Lauer secretly loves Levis best. Regardless, E.S. pants are in fact wonderful, and wonderous, and they looked cute on TV too (as did Bobbi and Matt, natch).
[SCOTT MORRISON - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]