This is going to be my claim-to-fame for a while so I’m gonna break it down into sections and milk it. Plus, I don’t want to bombard you with too much text and not enough pics – I get chatty when I’m excited. I’m gonna start with my celebrity sightings while in NYC. There actually weren’t many, oddly enough.
SIDE NOTE: A couple years ago while in the city, my husband and I and a couple of friends of ours stumbled upon the ‘True Grit’ movie premiere. We stood there like idiots and watched the biggest names in Hollywood stroll out of the theater and head to the after party. Some kind folks that happened to attend the showing but couldn’t go to the party handed us a couple tickets. The four of us decided to be bold and just walk into the party like we belonged there (and like we had enough tickets). We ended up being successful and standing next to DeNiro and Damon and Bridges and Brolin (all very short, mind you) and loads of other names that I can’t even remember. Even on my last trip to Manhattan in the summer I ran into Simon Doonan (aka My floral-shirted HERO).
Needless to say I was expecting to see oodles of famous faces since they were all technically gathered in a very small radius. But other than a few stylists and street-style pic regulars, somehow I only saw a handful of celebs and heard that Victoria Beckham was in Prada on Fifth Ave right before I walked in. I did see one of the fashion bloggers that I follow from eat.sleep.wear. And in the front-row of the Monique Lhuillier show I spotted Kate Mara and Nina Dobrev of the Vampire Diaries (and on the cover of every magazine this month).
Outside Lincoln Center, my husband pointed out an older gentleman with a camera and called him Bill Cunningham. He would have said this about ANY older gentleman with a camera but he happened to be correct his time! If you don’t know who Bill is (which I didn’t until after I watched his documentary called Bill Cunningham New York), he is the original street-style photographer (even before the Sartorialist) and he is the most interesting person I have learned about in a long time. He simply takes pictures of fascinating people – whether they are in Gucci or Gap. I followed behind him like a fool trying to decide if I should tell him how great he is. But just as I was building up my resolve, a lovely older woman with a camera approached him and said just what I was thinking. His response: he grimaced and shooed her away. He doesn’t believe he’s a celebrity and isn’t caught up in who’s who of fashion, which makes him awesome. I am a little upset he didn’t photograph me while I was right there, but maybe he was on his lunch break….
