It’s no secret that Papierdoll is based out of Brooklyn. We love the boro because once you get out of Manhattan it’s nothing but open roads and cheaper Chinese food. Many people think that Chinese food has its origins in San Francisco, Beijing, or Manhattan’s Chinatown but the process of creating Chinese food actually started at Yen Yen in Kensington Brooklyn (that’s the story that we’re sticking to). They make the best mooshoo, chicken in garlic sauce (brown rice of course), scallion pancakes and lo mein. This post is losing direction, so let’s refocus. Somehow someway the folks at Louis Vuitton found out about the boro via Takashi Murakami and started selling real Louis Vuitton bags kind of how the fake ones are sold, you know on the fold out tables in front of venues. Marc Jacobs managed to cross the Brooklyn Bridge and remarked that he:
“never bought a fake anything, not a fake tooth, a fake suit or a fake Coca-Cola, I am 100 percent real.”
Others at the event include Kanye West, Eva Herzigova, Julien Schnabel, Kristin Davis and many others. Somehow they managed to keep all the “street people” who naturally inhabit the fringes of Brooklyn, don’t worry Bloomberg has two more years in office, it’s only a matter of time before the real upper class hit Williamsburg, hipsters you’ve been warned. Till then here are some photos from the event and I’ll be posting my snapshots later today. Btw, for anyone who is interested in the exhibit, it is set to run from April 5 to July 13, 2008. For more info click here.
photos: Steven Eichner for WWD