Music Muse: Alison Mosshart

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

Rock’s baddest bitch has to be VV A.K.A. Baby Ruthless A.K.A. Alison Mosshart. The first byname came by way of her mainstay indie blues band The Kills. She and bandmate Hotel A.K.A. Mr. Kate Moss A.K.A. Jamie Hince met aurally through a hotel wall kind of like in this Standard Hotel film. Her second sobriquet came with her lead singing/electric guitar wailing role in Jack White‘s supergroup Dead Weather. Her look has natural swagger – she’s a boho glam bombshell that can somehow camouflage as one of the guys. Give her a leather, a fur, a fringe, a native print, a plaid, a ripped tee, she knows what to do with it. Her jaw can cut more hits than her two bands combined. If you haven’t met her before, meet our Music Muse: Alison Mosshart.

MUSE OF THE WORLD: Jessica Simpson Goes Stiletto Diving, Anna’s Army on the March and Paz de la Huerta Goes Pow at the Boom Boom

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

- “Pop star” turned “reality star” turned “designer,” Jessica Simpson is introducing (I guess) flippers into her vast shoe empire. You know, for those times you need a decent heel when scuba diving for buried Marchesa dresses. [The Cut]

- The Wall Street Journal‘s profile on Vogue editrix Anna Wintour is enlightening. Not only does she explain the mag’s “backbone” (“I think we have a Vogue vocabulary, and there are certain people we like to have as the backbone of the magazine—Vogue‘s signposts.”) but there’s also this handy dandy graph identifying each and every vertebrae of that backbone. One vertebra, however, is in rehab in Arizona right now. [WSJ]

INTERVIEW: Lorenzo Martone’s Housewarming Gift Suggestions

Edited by Saynt

RANDOM: Terry Richardson at the Standard Hotel

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

Fame photog Terry Richardson looks like he’s having a little too much fun…shot by Olivier Zahm.

MOMENTS OF STLYE: Jared Leto

Edited by Corey Moran

Jared Leto and pals Terry Richardson and Olivier Zahm were caught hanging out at the Standard Hotel in NYC, and I can’t help but notice the amazing pieces the Requiem For A Dream actor has on. I am in love with his General Idea jacket (obviously because they were my favorite show this Fashion Week), and the combination of the all black look with the gold on his Creative Recreation sneakers is really the icing on the cake! Jared Leto is coming back strong, and at least this time he’s doing it in style.

via Style

RANDOM COOL: Vending Machines Stock Bathing Suits at the Standard Hotel

Edited by Monique Montagnese, Contributor

Quicksilver is making good on the dictionary definition of their name and making bathing suits quickly available to visitors of the Standard Hotel though vending machines. This means one less reason to skip the pool, go skinny dipping and one more reason to spend your money. Selling for $75 these shorts will cost you a bit more then a Diet Coke, but you have to admit it’s a good idea and will surely show up in other hotels. For now its available at four Standard Hotel locations, but no word on bikinis being sold so ladies, you might be skinny dipping after all.

RANDOM COOL: Marco Brambilla’s “Civilization”

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

The newly-opened Standard Hotel in New York gives you a glimpse of heaven when you take the elevator up to their rooms and a glimpse of hell on the way back down to the lobby. Created by artist Marco Brambilla, “Civilization” is a video mural based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, that scrolls in synch with the movement of the 18-storey hotel’s elevators.

You can watch a the high res version of the video here.

Written by Wicked Halo