Graffiti artist, international nightlife entrepreneur and L'Officiel Hommes creative director, André Saraiva, has defined the chic set's late night antics with clubs like Le Bain in New York and Montana à Paris. For his next adventure, Saraiva will open his famed Le Baron, a favorite Paris hotspot (there's also an outpost in Tokyo) of fashionistas and fun-loving glitterati, in London. "I've always had a love affair with London," says Saraiva.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/07/11

The central tenet underlying Y-3's fall/winter 2011 collection might seem like an oxymoron—"Traveling means coming back home," an observation straight from Yohji Yamamoto himself—but Yamamoto, no stranger to contradiction, knows what he's doing.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/08/11

Everything about the three-piece indie-pop band The Drums suggests downtown cool, so it was a little surreal bumping into them backstage (the only place that offered a break from nearly-100-degree temperatures) at last weekend's Bonnaroo music festival.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/20/11

The Hamptons might seem an improbable setting for New York artist Aurel Schmidt, whose excruciatingly detailed drawings typically involve figures saturated with maggots, condoms, and general detritus.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/20/10

Oliver Zahm, magazine publisher, love machine, and night creature has devoted his life to building the Purple brand. Now he brings it to the gallery.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/10/10

Riccardo Tisci has two sides—he can be quite dark, or rococo bordering on the razzle dazzle.This season, which would he choose?  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/27/10

Aliina Astrova is a writer, curator, performer, and musician (sometimes at the same time!) and  founder of a nomadic gallery. Not bad for a 20 year old!  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/26/09

The lyrics of "Let's Go Crazy," the first song played in Prince's 1984 film Purple Rain, are meant to provide an inspirational lift: "If you don't like/ the world you're living in/ Take a look around you/ At least you got friends." These lines sound particularly weighty booming from massive speakers in front of an IMAX-size screen surrounded by thousands of Prince fans in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/07/09