life is fab: artsy-fartsy

I felt like such a grown up last night when I attended my first artsy-fartsy gallery opening event! The exhibit was called Pictures for Photographs and featured the candy-colored and erotic works of British photographer Miles Aldridge. Knowing very little about the photographer and his pictures, I was pleasantly surprised to see that his style was right up my alley- and I really dug it all! Check out his site to see some of his work and you'll see what I mean--totally Neon Tea Party-worthy.

There were lots of artsy-fartsy types floating around, including Vogue's Hamish Bowles! We also spotted a cutie black girl that was on Top Model ages ago. The Fashionista.com girls were there too, but this I didn't know until I read their post about the event this afternoon. Danggg!

My favorite part of the exhibit was the grouping of photos of lips: super glossy cherry red lips eating spaghetti with a silver fork, icey blue lips smoking with dry ice, a pair drinking a fizzy beer from a brilliant green bottle and one pair of fluorescent purple lips licking another.

Morg and me with the lips:



Us kids with Miles:



Love this shot too, though it wasn't featured at the exhibit:



Din afterwards at Room Service in Chelsea:


(Obv wearing the neon necklace and the owl dress.)

If you want to check out the exhibit, it's on display until June 20th at the Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23rd Street 2nd Floor, NYC.

Peace, Love and Neon,
Marisa