Benefit of the Season: A Toast To Wishes Event Raises Over $170,000

Edited by Samantha Lim

Right before everyone jetted off for the Thanksgiving holiday, we witnessed a grand act in charity by the young people of New York City.  The second annual WishNYC: A Toast To Wishes event raised $175,000 (that’s a LOT of wishes) with the help of over 500 of Manhattan’s finest 20-and-30-somethings at hotspot LAVO rocking out to 4AM’s DJ Theory.  Find out more about the amazing party and how you can help after the jump. 

KirillWasHere Wins PaperMag’s Best Nightlife Photographer Award!

Edited by Samantha Lim

Congrats to our favorite nightlife photographer Kirill Bichutsky of KirillWasHere for winning PaperMag‘s 2011 Best Nightlife Photographer Award!  Considered our next of kin at FashionIndie, it hasn’t been long since our days of sneaking into parties together (via the DJ) so we could booze for free and he could snap our friends in their most candid moments.

New Photos! Pretty & Plastered #1

Edited by KirillWasHere

Hello Fashion World! Some of you may know me, but most of you probably don’t. My name is Kirill and I am the party guy behind the lens at www.kirillwashere.com. This is my first time blogging about fashion, which I can honestly say I know nothing about. I don’t know current trends or who’s going to be hot next season. but what I do know is what looks good.

Introducing The Sonorasaurus Rex

Edited by Alex Kazemi

Designed by and made for DJs. Sonorasaurus Rex is a serious iPad DJ offering that meets the demands of professional and casual DJs alike. Rex sports two independent decks, each with their own dedicated effects module, cue points, jog, pitch controls, level meter, parametric EQ and gain adjustment.

KirillWasHere And The Wicked Style Inspirations of NYC Nightlife

Edited by Nicole Vardo

If Kirill was there, then it was definitely the party of all parties! Aside from his bizarrely bad ass party and photography skills, it has come to our attention that there is some serious style going on through out these drunken wild affairs. Since I’m always on the look out, here are this week’s top 6 Kirill Party style photos (and yes, that is the one and only Drake)!

Are You Runway Ready? Submit Today for Your Chance to Show at NY Fashion Week!

Edited by The Fashion Web

Once again, the Women’s Mafia is hosting an un-missable New York Fashion Week event, including our signature Fashion Show & Fashion Week Kick-Off Event. This September the Women’s Mafia Fashion Show will feature the winners of our “Are You Runway Ready” contest, in an exclusive show at Tela Design Studio on September 9th, 2010.

Established and up-and-coming Women’s Wear designers are invited to submit an application and low-res images of Spring/Summer 2011 looks through the link below. Only a few select designers will be chosen to win coveted spots in a Women’s Mafia Fashion Show and a PR and Branding package worth over $10,000. Runners-up will win a profile on Womensmafia.com. Submit by August 13th to Marcy@womensmafia.com.

In order to be considered, please include all of the following information in your email:

• Name of the Line
• Name of Designer
• Why should you be chosen as a featured designer for the Women’s Mafia Fall/Winter 2010 Fashion Show? (150 words or less)
• Are you participating in any other NY Fashion Week events?
• How many collections have you produced?
• 5-10 images of your designs for 2011
• Will you have at least 12-15 new looks ready to choose from by August 25th?
• Contact information (Email, Cell, Website)

We’ll see you on the runway!

Enjoy some images from recent Women’s Mafia Fashion Shows and Last Years “Are You Runway Ready?” Winners:

NBC Feature on Last Fashion Week’s Show

Pics from our summer Fashion Show with Engie Hassan

Q&A with winner Shauntele

Q&A with winner Ardistia

The Women’s Mafia Fashion Show at Bryant Park

Think You’re New York’s Next Great Nightlife Photographer?

Edited by Saynt

SKY ROOM, a hot new nightlife spot will be hosting an Open Call for an in-house event photographer and they asked me, Daniel Saynt and a panel of celebrity judges to pick our favorites. Details after the jump…

Congrats To Aaron K For Winning L Magazine’s ‘Newcomer Of The Year’ In Their Nightlife Awards!

Edited by Hillary Frazier

Congrats to Fashion Indie BFF and ‘Out With Aaron K’ columnist for being named the ‘Best Newcomer’ in New York City Nightlife according to L Magazine. Thanks to everyone who voted for Aaron for this award, he definitely deserved it for being one of our favorite party people!

Check up L’s writeup on Aaron’s win

All Dressed Up With No Where to Go

Edited by FashionIndie

With Le Royale, The Annex and Santos Party House closing up parties left and right, where oh where will the NYC party kids go?

FASHIONINDIE: We Do Nightlife So You Don’t Have To

Edited by Hillary Frazier

Ouch. Friday night at Ruff Club, someone I don’t know was a little too drunk (no, not me, a guy, a friend of friends), passed out into me, and I fell down 5 concrete stairs, and by fell, I mean tossed through the air, flipped over backwards, and landed on my face…stood up bleeding, took a cab home, and woke up in the morning looking like this, among other bruises.  Needless to say, we think we do a pretty good job at keeping your nightlife interesting, telling all of the crazy stories of our 5am nights, and luckily, you don’t have to wake up looking like this.