Girl, You So Well Spoken!

q: what do you get when you mash together robin black: magazine editor/photographer and makeup artist extraordinaire, brett bailey: haute couture [cyber-]stylist, and oscar lima: designer du jour?

a: an unending well of amazingness. 

step 2? throw me into that mix. then add some outrageous metal headpieces, dresses fit for the haus of gaga (no, really, oscar is her costume designer), and makeup that would make miss jones herself swear she'd seen that face before... now, you've got the cover of the new tough's issue #3...!

you see, on super bowl sunday, instead of toting chips & dip to someone's house for a day of beer and football, i was picked up at approximately 1:15pm by a self-described "asian girl with tattoos". gorgeous, spunky, and carrying bags of health food snacks (well, if you want to call the vegan chocolate chip cookies we annihilated "healthy"...), she wore a simple chain around her neck that said "ms black"-- a complete contradiction as this girl is anything but simple...

hours later, i headed to work with a plastic baggy full of polaroids, feeling higher than a skid row crackhead. we had just made magic. if this is how it starts (my dream, that is)-- with robin and oscar and brett and grace jones makeup and 4 hours of listening to "warm leatherette" and "nightclubbing" whilst growling at the camera... if this is how it starts then i look forward to the climb...

the issue is coming soon. have fun with these crazy polaroids robin snapped for fun in the meantime! oh, and don't forget to check out issues #1 and #2 of the new tough online!

pssssst! check out this article on robin & the new tough in dazed digital!

good food, good wine, good company at rh in the andaz west hollywood. 

the chef served us up a smorgasbord of small plates that included a little bit of everything on the menu: pan fried oregon mushrooms served with garlic and sea beans... endive salad served with hudson valley cured duck breast, walnuts, and sliced pear, in "la nogalera" walnut oil... perigourdine poached egg with field mushrooms, foie gras, and black truffles... lompoc farm leeks in a vinaigrette topped with shaved black truffle, fresh goat cheese, and crispy applewood bacon... niman ranch roaster veal sweetbread puff pastry served with artichokes, bacon, shallot and madeira wine sauce... lobster open ravioli in bisque sauces... market fresh fish served on a bed of sauteed vegetables... slow-braised beef cheek with button mushrooms and rainbow carrots... 12-hr-cooked boneless suckling pig with artichokes & rosemary jus... homemade crispy hudson valley duck leg confit with sauteed potatoes, green onion, and garlic paisley... warm chocolate cake (a la mode, so i barely partook), rum baba, and pineapple mint sorbet...

contemporary french cuisine made from locally-grown ingredients. and it is definitely safe to say that i wasn't partaking in a vegan diet that night. 

oh, and i've decided that when i'm sick of modeling, i'm retiring and becoming a foodie. 

[images courtesy of mr. felipe]

...a bespoke tailor with impeccable tastes, personality for days, an eye for snapping foodie pictures, and the most amazing set of un-manscaped eyebrows i've ever seen. 

yes, pictured above. with my bum. 

oh and, you should read his blog. 

DatNewCudi.com: Dan Black Feat. Kid Cudi - Symphonies Remix from DP on Vimeo.

kid cudi is growing on me. like a frightening little fungus. but i do not appreciate the title of this song being "supa dupa". there can be only one "supa dupa" and it is a song by big sean. hmph.

...I went to the JoyRich LA 2-year anniversary party @ Bardot. The people were cool, the music was fresh [and, no, I'm not just saying that because my friend Patrick (aka DJ Paserock) was spinning]... I was snapped by Laura of DimePiece Designs for her blog, The Paradime (above image). Next stop? Being snapped for her next season's lookbook (yes, Universe, that is a message for you).