As a South Carolina native, it is always a special pleasure to hear about artists who have walked the same sidewalks as myself, and whose voices have bounced around the same walls of the same cafes and pubs. When a…
Mel Washington
Tag: 2013
Bette Midler’s Hulaween Party at Waldorf Astoria
Actress and multi-Grammy award-winning singer Bette Milder’s annual Hulaween party took place at the Waldorf Astoria hotel this year, with the theme “Halloween in the Big Easy”. Midler – wearing a dress lavishly decorated with a lace umbrella in the…
NYFW S/S’14 – Zang Toi: the elegance of ballet; the intrigue of darkness
Ballet is where Zang Toi gets influence for his new collection for spring/summer 2014. Forget about bright colours or wild prints, instead the Malaysian-born designer offers upscale clothing with uncompromisable tailoring, ultra-luxurious fabrics and a touch of darkness. We couldn’t…
NYFW S/S ‘14 – Harlem Fashion Row: diverse inspirations from Shanghai to Brooklyn
This year Harlem Fashion Row – a movement engaged with increasing diversity in fashion and presenting emerging designers – presented four very different collections on Friday night at Jazz in Lincoln Center. The show opened with Deidre Jefferies’ new collection Espion.…
NYFW S/S ‘14 – Rebecca Minkoff: the downtown romantic goes to Latin America
New York-based designer Rebecca Minkoff showed a highly anticipated spring/summer 2014 collection in Lincoln Center on Friday. Her new looks are influenced by famous Latin American women, from Bianca Jagger and Frida Kahlo to Carolina Issa and Alice Dellal. The…
The Meaning of Life
Brooklyn-based dream-pop duo The Meaning of Life just issued the video for the first single of their debut EP “Play Fuego”. Starting with the words “The cosmos is a joke” the video of “Laura V” praises the glam with Venetian…
Palmiro Dechevski solo exhibition in Plovdiv for six years HebrosArt Gallery
Today I had the pleasure to go to the opening of the new solo exhibition of my uncle Palmiro Dechevski, celebrating the 6th birthday of Plovdiv Gallery HebrosArt. Palmiro graduated in Krakow with majors in scenograrhy and graphics. He mixes…
The protests in Bulgaria for Dutch ZoomIn.tv
Even though I’m studying hard for exams I ended up doing reports from the protests in Bulgaria for the largest distributor of online video-news in Bulgaria – ZoomIn.Tv.
Check out the first two videos I did. The first one in collaboration with Boyan Christov.
Interviews from the protests in Sofia, Bulgaria against the government (video)
UPDATE: My videoreport from the protests in Sofia got published last night on the frontpages of Adbusters and OccupyWallStreet.Net. I’m so proud to show the protests in my country over the largest activists/revolutionary websites in the world! Thanks to everyone that made this possible. Watch the video below.
This Saturday for my first day in Sofia I ended up on the protests. Here is the video we shot with Boyan Hristov. The super awesome editor I’m so thankful to desires to stay anonymous. Anyway – thank you.
The video runs on HD and has English subs for your convenience.
Yvan Rodic’s new book signing party @ Le Bain was great
Last night I attended the book signing for street-style/travel blogger Yvan Rodic’s new book “Travels with Facehunter”. The party, organized by The 88 – the awesome NYC bespoke digital agency where I’m doing an internship now – and sponsored by…