Imaginary Socialite

[HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL THE STYLE TRIBES - BACK IN THE CITY BEFORE THE COUNTDOWN…]

Kate may rule Lafayette St, but here the buildings belong to Daria…

And all the mannequins in the windows look like Leigh…

Meanwhile, the Horrors are the latest pop pinups…

Chocolate space eggs go with everything…

And the walls don’t have ears, but they do have Spring ‘07 prints hanging side-by-side with nude oil portraits.

In […]

one. “Verboten,” I tell my mother as she steps into the elevator.

“What do you mean?” she asks.

“You’re not allowed to use the elevator. It says so in our hotel room.”

“Really? Why?”

“I don’t know mom; this is Europe. Maybe it’s to conserve energy or something. Come on, keep up.”

And so we take […]

Is this purple Longchamp…

a) Part of the Slominski exhibit at the Museum Fur Moderne Kunst

b) Real and from my last trip to Paris

c) Fake and from my last trip uptown

d) Stolen from the Scissor Sisters, who are staying in my hotel

[AXEL HOEDT - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

My lip gloss cost one euro and it made me think of this:

*How My Little Ponies smelled a little like sugared plastic when first pulled from their box.

*That time in college, when I slept in the Vogue editor’s bed and her cat pushed my thighs with her paws to wake me.

*A sky blue crayon […]

[A supermarket in Frankfurt, Germany. Because it’s fun.]

Imaginary Socialite: I love how waffles come already baked in packages, like cookies. Omigosh mom, look at these heart shaped waffles!

Mommy Dearest: That. Is. Bizarre. And look at the little display picture on the package, of the couple eating heart waffles together. Very […]

I am under the weather and over the water so no wonder I’m confused. The shimmers on the river match the shivers in the air, and also suck: every two seconds I’m shaking.

“Take this,” says my mother in her newly practiced German and I’m swathed in her faux fur cape, so black it […]

Hi, you’ve reached the Imaginary Socialite.

I’m off to Karl Lagerfeld’s homeland to play in the snow for the week. If I can find a cafe with amazing hot chocolate and wireless, I’ll check in before New Year’s.

If not, see you at the party.

xoxo IS

[HEIDI KLUM - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

I just want you for my own

More than you could ever know

Make my wish come true

All I want for Christmas is you

[TWO THUMBS UP - FINE HOLIDAY FUN]

Yet another reason why my street is the best: check out the graffiti on the wall - MK was saying, “no, you’re prettier” to Ashley. And now… um… she’s not.

[JESSICA CAPSHAW - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

It’s a black Jeep and everything is too big - the seats, the pedals, the Starbucks cups that my friends leave in back.

After a Connecticut parking lot my dad makes me trade. I drive down the highway and hate him for swapping my music, Stones for Beatles, Dylan for Chapin, Christina […]

Damien Hirst is not Damien Loeb

Damien Loeb is not Lisa Loeb

And Lisa Loeb says, it’s Friday!

Runners up, with huge love to the Boy’s Sewing Club:
David Bailey is not Christopher Bailey
Jamie Johnson is not Jack Johnson
Elle Woods is not Elijah Wood

[MAUREEN COX - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]

Fact: In a past life, I was an actress.
Fact: I love good musical theatre.
Fact: There is almost no good musical theatre.
Fact: Spring Awakening is so blackly beautiful and bizarrely fun you might just get addicted.
Fun Fact: Composer Duncan Sheik, Yesterday Crush Marieke, and the Imaginary Socialite all went to the same boarding school.

Check it […]

I have never met Caroline Trentini, but I saw her once at Urban Outfitters. And really, any girl who can buy a Luxx dress for $48 can keep up a MySpace profile.

Still, this looks a little dubious: she’s friends with some questionable “models”… but also with the real Sasha… and she just looks […]

Jollyon, 23

Past: Vespa-riding male model.

Present: Painting student in the East Village.

Future: Imaginary Socialite illustrator.

Always: Puts up a hell of a fight.

[PATTI BOYD - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]