Tom Ford will be divulging his biggest inspirations, along with his vision for the future of his company. The fashion mastermind will be guiding listeners through key icons in fashion and in his own life, too.

Get a peek inside Tom Ford’s head. Don’t miss it!

Link Love: Luxury Daily

My criteria? First I had to love their products, secondly they had to have
more going on than champagne cocktails…and if they were a part of a larger group –like a block party– so much the better! This is a subjective sampling, if you think I’m missing something let me know!

	EVA NY 355a Bowery NY, NY 10003 http://www.evanewyork.net 2129253890 http://www.facebook.com/evastore http://www.twitter.com/evanewyork EVA NY Presents Stefania Pia jewelry and installation LOVE ME Sound Installation by TV Baby and cocktails
	Ferality 62 Clinton Street New York, NY 10002 http://www.feralityshow.com 212.387.8540 http://twitter.com/FeralityShow FASHION’S GUIDE TO THE LOWER EAST SIDE: From new shops on the block to tried and true LES veterans, a collection of the neighborhood’s most exciting boutiques play host to residents and visitors alike. Stop at Ferality, 62 Clinton St, to pick up your neighborhood ‘map’ complete with detailed ‘scavenger hunt’ instructions … and a list of prizes!! We’re all winners this far downtown with drinks and designer appearances to encourage you along your way. Stops include Peacocks, Szeki, Ferality, Alife and Live Fast – just to name a few.
	Helmut Lang 819 Washington Street New York, NY 10014 www.helmutlang.com 212.242.3240 http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/HELMUT-LANG/86794406197?ref=ts TWITTER.COM/HELMUTLANG Helmut Lang will create a festive block party atmosphere inside and outside their Washington Street store along with blogger Cobrasnake. Expect a host of cool games, prizes and other special surprises. DJ’s Harley Viera Newton and Cassie Coane will provide the music for the evening and East Village’s Death & Company will bring their signature cocktails to the celebration.
	IF SOHO NEWYORK 94 Grand Street N.Y. N.Y. , NY 10013 http://IFSOHONEWYORK.com 212-334-4964 Designers appearing: Eddie Borgo and Ohne Titel, plus there will be a live music performance. Name will be announced later.
	International Playground 13 Stanton Street New York, NY 10002 http://www.internationalplayground.com 2122292700 http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/New-York-NY/International-Playground/123458531024460?ref=ts&ajaxpip http://intlplayground Special LIVE performance by Afrobeta at 9pm. Meet designers Ernest Alexander, Mary Meyer, Tara St. James (Study), Helena Fredrikkson, complimentary cocktails and DJ 6pm-11. Outdoor courtyard open. Customs giveaways and special FNO shopping incentives.
	INVEN.TORY 237 Lafayette Street New York, NY 10012 inventorynyc.com 212.226.5292 http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/INVENTORY/65965777153?ref=ts twitter.com/inventorynyc.com INVEN.TORY is a fashion boutique of more than 40 curated brands that include both men and women’s clothing, footwear and accessories. The brand mix changes constantly as brands and styles are sold out and replaced by newer arrivals. Our product includes on trend and fashion forward merchandise at opening pricepoints, as well as special collaborative cuts and vintage pieces that are sold only by INVEN.TORY. All our products are carefully selected or designed based on emerging and contemporary trend setting styles.
	Jeffrey New York 449 W.14th Street New York, NY 10014 jeffreynewyork.com 212-220-8630 Personal appearances by designers L’Wren Scott, Jason Wu, Nicholas Kirkwood, and Monique Pean. There will also be a personal appearance by celebrity Christina Ricci. Denim event hosted by the designers of Current Elliott. A menswear trunk show hosted by designer Devon Scott. Exclusive limited edition black leather messenger bags by Proenza Schouler available for $250.
	Kirna Zabete 96 Greene Street 10012, NY NY http://www.kirnazabete.com +1 212 941 9656 http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-NY/Kirna-Zabete/53465834388?ref=ts http://twitter.com/KirnaZabete Alexander Wang, Proenza Schouler, Thakoon, Peter Som, Jason Wu, Aurelie Biderman, Chrissie Morris, Elise Overland and more will be at KZ to meet clients and launch exclusive products. Proenza Schouler made mini PS1 wallets, Thakoon: wave print top and tap pants, Jason Wu: owl scarf, Aurelie Biderman: swan feather earrings, Peter Som: fashion-y cocktail napkins, Elise Overland: sleek jersey tunic, Chrissie Morris: leather belts. Kirna Zabete designed a limited edition leather IPAD case. All launching in store and on-line exclusively at Kirna Zabete.com. Still having fun after 11 years!
	OAK 28 Bond st. New York, NY 10002 http://oaknyc.com 212-677-1293 http://twitter.com/oakbond Join us for OAK’s interpretation of a mall. Make your own charm necklaces at the Surface 2 Air kiosk, shred t-shirts with the ladies of LNA , and then stop over at OAK’s stand for a special surprise. Come play dress up with us in our fashion photo booth. 7-10pm. Drinks and D.J’s of course. Welcome to the OAK Mall, now get ready to shop.
	Opening Ceremony at Ace Hotel - Show quoted text - 1190-1192 Broadway New York, NY 10001 http://www.openingceremony.us 646-695-5680 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Opening-Ceremony/69725163490 http://twitter.com/openingceremony Opening Ceremony will ring in Fashion’s Night Out with a French flea market staged in the lobby of the Ace Hotel. Inspired by the famous Les Puces de Saint-Ouen market in Paris, the French flea market concept coincides with the launch of France as O.C.’s country of focus for 2010-2011. Brands will have their own flea market booths with exclusive items and designers will be present to meet with fans and enjoy the festivities. Participating brands include agnès b., Alexander Wang, Band of Outsiders, Deyrolle, Joseph Altuzarra, Keds, Ladurée, Patrik Ervell, Proenza Schouler, Rodarte, and more.
	Partners & Spade 40 Great Jones St New York, NY 10012 http://www.partnersandspade.com 6468612827 Partners and Spade, Vena Cava and Subports are teaming up for Fashion’s Night Out to present a Fashion Outsider’s Fashion’s Night Out. We will be hosting one of a kind wearable items, hand made by people not in the fashion industry. The items for sale will be on display and for sale at Partners and Spade On September 10th, 11th and 12th and sold online via subports. Opening celebration 6-8:30pm
	Patricia Field Boutique 302 BOWERY NEW YORK, NY 10012 http://www.PATRICIAFIELD.com 212-966-4066 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Patricia-Field/75822181733 http://www.twitter.com/HouseofField Patricia Field is hosting the second annual Vogue’s Fashion Night Out event. This time bigger and better. The legendary downtown boutique will stay open from 11 am until 1 am !! Fabulous gifts, gorgeous people, beauty makeovers for everyone at our special eyelash bar, cocktails, refreshments by Cafe Bustelo and more. Stay tuned for updates on this event . Cocktails to be enjoyed by guests 21+
	rag & bone 119 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012 www.rag-bone.com 212.219.2204 http://www.facebook.com/pages/rag-bone/93647368759 www.twitter.com/rag_bone rag & bone is teaming up with fellow Mercer Street retailer 3.1 Phillip Lim to co-host a street party featuring food, drinks and a live DJ. Designers Marcus Wainwright and David Neville will be on hand to help SoHo shoppers style their Fall looks. Special guests include Revlon’s Global Artistic Director Gucci Westman who will perform mini-makeovers, and one of Revlon’s Global Brand Ambassadors (who will it be??). Look forward to seeing you there! peace and love, rag & bone
	Scoop NYC 875 Washington Street New York, NY 10014 www.scoopnyc.com 2126911905 facebook.com/scoopnyc twitter.com/scoopnyc Scoop NYC and EDUN have partnered up to treat you to an evening in honor of Africa. Meet Ali Hewson at the EDUN pop up shop while sipping Tusker Premium Lager. Jaleel Bunton from TV on the Radio will be spinning and we’ll also have a special performance by South Africa’s BLK JKS. EDUN/Scoop NYC encourage you to join Ali and bike it for the night! Ride a bike to the event and EDUN will feature those with the best bike style on their blog! The first 100 EDUN shoppers receive a free gift and the Van Leeuwen Ice Cream Truck will be giving out free scoops to the first 200 Scoop shoppers!
	Vena Cava Partners and Spade NY, NY 10012 http://partnersandspade.com 646-861-2827 Vena Cava, with Subports, will be hosting a Fashion Outsiders Fashions Night Out Party at Partners and Spade from 6-9. We will display one-of-a-kind, handmade items, created especially for the event by people who have no connection to the fashion industry whatsoever. Curated artisans include: a scientist, an Oklahoma farmer, Grandma Sherry, An MTA worker, Lisa’s Dad, a policeman, a tree, people in prison, toddlers, and many more. All items will be for sale exclusively at Partners and Spade during FNO, and for one month afterward on a website created by Subports. Proceeds will benefit charity.

LINK LOVE:My top 15 for Fashion’s Night Out

Breathless Brad Boles has been busy rubbing some very ritzy elbows this weekend and is more than happy to share the dish. Me? I wish I was really on vacation! –S.H.

Friday night saw a return to Almond, the tony East End, boy’s-night-out hotspot in the Hamptons where I dined with Catherine Saxton (the fabulous PR maven who handles all of Ivana Trump’s ups and downs) who is a houseguest of Cathy and Rick Hilton.

FYI… the Hiltons have done an amazing job reinventing their glamorous Fordune estate in Southampton. It is completely bathed in white and teal and flooded with light. When I was there recently, I had a wonderful encounter with TINKERBELL – yes, you heard me right – as in Paris Hilton’s famed Chihuahua!

Bling to ding…

After dinner it was off to Lilly Pond for a sexy performance by none other then my “The Real Housewives of New York City” titled babe, ”The Countess” Luann de Lesseps. The best part of the evening: LL Cool J had a banquet room filled with his posse. Go figure…those two in a room so small from Bling to Ding?

Don’t ever believe that the rich aren’t still rich.

On Saturday it was off to Polo… for some perfect weather and perfect people! It’s one big cocktail party with nobody really watching the game. On one arm, I had the ever-divine Adrian Arpel, and on the other, her time-challenged daughter Lauren Arpel. I was trying to get Madame Arpel to buy a helicopter. As everybody knows, the Montauk highway is a nightmare in August. Can you imagine if we had landed on the Polo field?

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LINK LOVE:Money Matters- Cultural Clash In The Hamptons From A Countess to LL Cool J and One Supermodel

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I know, coz I was there!

In those days the fashion was all about: parachute sportswear jackets, shell-toes, air maxes, Air 180s, Nike structures, huraches, Lacoste, Jag, Country Road bags and embroidered jumpers, Sportscraft, Polo, Guess jeans, tailored shorts, tennis wears, Caribee backpacks, Jazz and New West aftershave, Kangols, Stussy, puffer jackets and vests, checkered/tartan button-ups, Timberland boots, Jordan and other fly shit too. 

*These were the days before: the internet, graffiti t-shirts, graffiti spray paint brands, special paint caps, digital cameras, every man and his dog emceeing about beer and bitches…and the death of vinyl deejays.

These were the days of: swapping flix through snail mail, TDK tapes, walkmans, catching loops to thrash insides, 30 ml markers, raven oil, making mix-tapes, underage drinkin’ in the park, The Source, Rap Pages, Hip Hop Connection, Sprayed Conflict, Melbourne cops trashing pieces, Blitzkrieg, Recovery, IGT, Hype, Central Station, Zest, Vapours, Yo! MTV raps, going to good hip hop clubs to hear ragga, funk and hip hop,local releases only on tape and vinyl, Plasticotes, touch-ups, Krylons, Snapple, secondhand bargains, rolling cats in the city for their sneakers and racking everything in sight before the big stores got with the program.

Some of the key players in the Australian hip hop music scene were: MAMAS FUNK, AKA BROTHERS, PURE MINDED POETRY, ORGANIZED RHYME, PAC, INTENSE QUALITY, FINGER LICKIN’ GOOD, RED EYED PEEZ, HOMEBREWED, SOUND UNLIMITED POSSE, DEF WISH CAST, FONKE KNOMADS, GROOVE TERMINATOR, FRENZIE, CODE OF ETHICS, MC QUE, ACAPULLO GOLD, DELTA, RUEBEN, SUEZ, DECYPHER, TOWERING INFERNO, GEN ONE, HAMS, FELICITE, KATCH, NIGEL, A.S.K, FLAK, KRISY, TASH, DEDLEE, FX, DAMSEL,POSITIVE DIRECTION, ASWAN, RUFFNEXETT, SEANY B, RAISE, BLUNTED STYLUS, EXCEL, SOUP, THA FORMULATORS, IDEM, RFK, HILLTOP HOODS, TREY, MOSTYN, SIA yes the Sia who now is doin’ big tings in the UK and to the old heads, let me know the few I may have forgotten, but believe me, there won’t be many more coz we truly were an underground, small scene. Also send in your flix from the 90s!!

Dedication and passion. Searching. Fun. Street. The essence. Underground.

Here’s some flix I dug up from this era…I was living down south, in Adelaide and Melbourne at the time so it’s a lil’ bit biased. Also I was too young for the birth of hip hop music in Australia in the 80s so don’t hate- I’m just droppin’ some knowledge on the era I lived. Stay tuned for more! *Note-this post is just talkin bout the MUSIC scene at this time.

PART ONE- THE EARLY 90s

DELTA- after battling some b-boys in Adelaide '94

TASH and GEN ONE at The Core Magazine office 1993

Jimmy, RANSOM, PAC, MERMA-Melb. 1992

FLAK, QURO, MADCAP -Finger Lickin' Good. Adelaide 1993

Sound Unlimited Posse- Sydney 1990

Straitup Fam-MAMAS FUNK, PAC, RANSOM- Melb. circa 91

MC DAMSEL- Melbourne 1994

TASH and DAMSEL live on 3PBS radio. Melbourne 1994

DJ EXCEL- live on 3PBS radio. Melbourne 1993

GEN1, MERMA, BOOTS, PRIZM-Check 1,2 Radio show. ADEL. 94

KRISY and members of INTENSE QUALITY-Melbourne 1993

, KANO 1993?]

LAM, MIKE, MISHAPAM

HILLTOP HOODS-original line-up. ADEL 94

TREM and BRAD STRUT- Melbourne 94

Long hair was the haircut of choice on Melbourne writers back then!

PROWLA and MC QUE- Melbourne 1994

ORGANIZED RHYME PROD. Melbourne 94

, SUEZ Melb. 94?

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RED EYED PEEZ, MERMA- Adel 94

RAPHBLANK TM Melbourne 1994

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LINK LOVE:The Golden Age of Aussie Hip Hop

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The big weekend of the summer had plenty gossip to share and breathless Brad Boles was front and center in his pursuit of all things fabulous and gossipy —S.H.

Multiple Real Housewives, one diva, a rock chick and her boyfriend, a beauty maven, a newly christened male cougar, and 100 Russian hookers! All in between BBQ’s and events… so how was your weekend?

First, I need to pass on a very HOT tip:

Just this afternoon, as I was having lunch at 75 Main Street in Southampton I ran into Kelsey Grammer and wife Camille. Now, it looked to me as if that is not a couple filing for divorce anytime soon… just sayin’. Don’t forget that Camille is rumored to be appearing on the new “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” I can’t wait to see how those Cali ladies compare to my New York girls.

Cover Girl Kelly:

The Fourth of July cover of “Social Life” magazine is a big deal out here. Smart of them to choose the super-gorgeous, Kelly Killoren Bensimon of “The Real Housewives of New York City” as this week’s cover girl. The inside of the magazine isn’t too bad either as there happens to be a fabulous picture of me at the art opening of “Social Life” creator and man about the Hamptons, Justin Mitchell.

Listen to Sharon Haver and Brad Boles on BlogTalkRadio’s Focus on Style Talk:

Kelly was honored with a fabulous party thrown in her honor at Justin’s gorgeous house. You know that Kelly looked as perfect as ever on her cover and in the flesh.

LINK LOVE:The Hamptons Gossip from Real Housewives to Hookers and everything in between from Brad Boles

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Blog Talk Radio Episode 1: July 4th Weekend Round Up- Celebrities, Fashion & Beauty with Sharon Haver & Brad Boles

Welcome to Sharon & Brad's first episode of FocusOnStyle- Talk Radio. Do you believe it, that crazy queen had tech difficulties with our first try on Blog Talk Radio?

It’s been quite an action-packed holiday weekend with Brad Boles in the tony Hamptons and Sharon Haver in downtown Manhattan. From celebrities to family adventures… they’ve got your dish and tips.

Problem: Where’s Brad? Talk about surprises when you’re live! Brad lost his phone connection and Sharon talks about some stylist gossip from back in the day until Brad turns up. Like the story about the model who tried to chew off the stone from her mega ring in the bathroom and the kooky security guard who would carry the gems to the photo shoot… pretty wacky.
Never a dull moment with these two and they certainly do have the gift of gab!

Lot’s of gossip, funny stories, thrift shop fashion tips, and with Brad… some weekend celebrity name dropping from Katy Perry to Martha Stewart to Adrien Arpel to Warren Buffet‘s sobering tips, and Brad’s claiming to be now be cougar for the first time. Take a listen…

LINK LOVE:Blog Talk Radio- Listen to Sharon and Brad’s First Live Episode of FocusOnStyle Talk

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What a relief! Gemma Ward’s modeling hiatus wasn’t for the typical drug or eating disorder rehabilitation! Oh no, Ward has spend the past several months filming the dramatic Australian film Black Balloon with co-stars Toni Collette, Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford and Erik Thomson. The film tells the story of a boy named Thomas (Wakefield) who moves to a new home and is forced to take care of his autistic brother Charlie (Ford) while his mother (Collette) rests due to her pregnancy. Thomas faces adversity caring for his brother, which allows him to embark on an emotional journey. Along with the support of his girlfriend Jackie (Ward), Thomas is able to better understand and appreciate his brother.

It might sound a bit like a combination of Radio, The Waterboy and Simon Birch, but I was definitely the lame-o choking up while watching the trailer. My excuse is that i’m simply so glad to see Gemma Ward back in action! Black Balloon opens in select US theaters Friday!

Thanks Fashionista!