As of today, the fashion crowd in NYC has a new go-to dining establishment, The Standard Grill at Andre Balazs’ recently opened Standard Hotel, just under fashion’s other favorite new spot, the High Line.
Fashion publicists, designers, stylists, and editors have been flocking to the restaurant’s previews the past couple of weeks and we got our taste on Friday (at a table next to Pat Field!)
Random side note for those of you who watched this season of Make Me a Supermodel, Mountaha is totally waiting tables there.
We expect that many an industry event will be held at the spot and we can’t wait. And of course we’d be remiss if we didn’t give you guys a couple of our amateur critic recommendations: the “million dollar” chicken with smashed potatoes, the haricots verts salad (with a cinnamon twist), and pretty much anything on the dessert menu - though we were partial to the chocolate milkshake and Snickerdoodles combo.
Now we just need for the beer garden to open so we can pretend to work off our sinful eating with a wicked game of Ping Pong.
Girl Crush: We’ve had a major one on Kim Gordon since our days of reading Sassy. Time and this video have only made our hearts grow fonder. {Style}
Winner!: My soccer team won its championship game last week and I took home what I though was a pretty kick ass trophy for Brooklyn co-ed soccer. But it would not impress this art director. {TheMoment}
In Memoriam: Alexander McQueen’s sequined Isabella Blow dress is going for $1098 - it was originally $7390. {Gilt}
I Wanna Be a Supermodel: But I never will be. So if you think you can, you should probably apply to Elite Chicago’s online modeling competition. {Elite}
Catherine Malandrino Logs On: The designer and Make Me a Supermodel judge has a new website. It’s really colorful and pretty, just like her clothes. There’s a shopping section now, too. {CatherineMalandrino}
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During the last couple Fashion Weeks, you were like to spot either Tyson Beckford or Niki Taylor with a camera crew in tow, since they were filming Bravo’s Make Me a Supermodel.
Now, you can add Nicole Trunfio to that list, since she’s just been brought on by the show as “a mentor to the female models.” The Bravo press release also says you can count Catherine Malandrino in as a judge, whom you might remember from an earlier episode of Project Runway.
We’re a little surprised Nicole took this gig - We wouldn’t have pegged the skateboarder and summer housemate of Gemma Ward as the reality TV type, but hey, does anyone on television surprise you anymore?
Because we watch too much television, we have been waiting for this:
The arrival of Holly Kiser on New York Model Management’s website.
You may remember Holly from her reign on Make Me a Supermodel, the super-boring Bravo reality show that we managed to watch half-drunk and mostly exhausted as we collapsed from nights of parties.
Holly managed to beat out four gorgeous boys - and the votes of thousands of gay guys - to win the title. Can her early success replicate that of Amanda Laine, the winner of the V a Supermodel contest that ran on the internet last year - who went on to open Lanvin - or Alice Burdeau, the winner of Australia’s Next Top Model who booked Proenza and Louis Vuitton?
It’s still too soon to tell, especially since NYMM has a really strong group of girls, but nobody who’s massively famous - yet.
It’s also worth noting Holly isn’t the first reality contestant the agency’s taken on - they’ve also got “Corinne” Hatch - whom you may remember as actually being Britt from America’s Next Top Model.