The Past is So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

A celebrity wearing sunglasses indoors is usually trying to hide something....too many late nights out in a row, a black eye, bad Botox....but last evening, on the Lower East Side, celebrities were to be forgiven for donning dark glasses. In fact, they were encouraged to do so. Carrera, the company synonymous with big gaudy sunglasses that are all over vintage 1980s movies (as well as the faces of Gwen Stefani, Paris Hilton and Daniel Craig) took the wraps off its vintage collection at a party at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, a one-time temple turned shrine of all things cool and hip. Among the big names to pop in to see the collection—and to check out a special performance by 1980s punk icon Deborah Harry—included Taylor Momsen of Gossip Girl and actor Danny Aiello. Other attendees included model Jamie Burke, singer Dani D, rapper Lil Mama and fashion designer Patricia Field.

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Blondie Beckons from the Bowery

Singer Debbie Harry belted out a bevy of her crowd-pleasing hits at the Bowery Ballroom last night, during a salute to the career of her late friend, artist and designer Stephen Sprouse. One-time neighbors, Harry and Sprouse came to know one another during a very different period in New York's history, one in which the word "gentrification" was not on anyone's lips, certainly not anyone living on the Lower East Side. Sprouse, of course, went on to design bags and accessories for retailers from Bergdorf Goodman to Louis Vuitton. And indeed, Vuitton, under the watchful gaze of creative director Marc Jacobs, has unveiled a limited-edition line of new Sprouse-inspired items, several of them emblazoned with Sprouse's trademark graffiti art. And though these pieces will likely sell out fast, to borrow the words of Ms. Harry, many New Yorkers will be determined to get their hands on them "one way or another."

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