be prepared

it's not as complicated as it looks,

well, actually it is, 

but if you're good at it

you make it seem like it took practically no thought at all...

like it just was thrown together,

last minute...

"this old thing?"

and really, that's the key.

it's almost like, well, imagine Macy's at Thanksgiving...

they throw a bunch of balloons down the street,

have a few marching bands show up (randomly?)

and one or two celebrities who just happened to be walking down the block

(at 7am on a holiday)

call over some t.v. news cameras who were probably not doing anything anyway,

and BOOM!

there it is, for the entire world to see...

it looks simple, but the things that are great, should.

it's when it's done so precisely perfect,

to within an inch (or millimeter) of it's life,

that then the ones who have been constantly at work for maybe up to a year, or more,

can kind of relax,

and let it happen...

because by then, it's been thought, rethought, thought over again, and second thoughts have been double, triple even quadruple checked so as to ensure there will not be anything that will make this anything less than perfect.

of course, i am talking about the Thanksgiving Day parade for fags, aka, The Black Party,

which of course is just thrown together last minute, right?

well, if you are literate and got this far,

you know i am joking...

but there are other backstage hands at work that are also busy preparing for the very best show on earth to make jaws drop and spirits (as well as penis') rise.

my sister/designer/couturier/stylist extraordinaire David Dalrymple who is never one to just sit still, has developed something to make us all breathe a sigh of relief this season...his take on the classic Tom of Finland leather looks not only update and refine the old school leather ideal, they also make it wearable for a younger generation of kids who have pushed the leather look to a new horizon, sporting sneakers instead of boots, as well as infusing the inspirations we not take for granted, and their own brand of street style which, before now, was almost taboo among the leather community.

but David hasn't abandoned the iconic images all together and sold his soul to the devil, instead, he has just made the classics more wearable by introducing softer hides of lamb skin leather to harnesses, jockstraps, shredding underwear, jocks and t-shirts to look as if they had been worn out and used since the first Black Party, and even adding sequins and hints of color to make admiring eyes catch the light of everything the disco ball shines on. ( www.patriciafield.com )

it looks easy, it looks like you had it forever, maybe it's so beat up that you only wore it so you could just trash it on the way out, but trust me, these couture shreds are not to be discarded, unless of course, you're just unlucky enough to have someone swipe them out of your clutches in the back room...

and with Honey Dijon (https://twitter.com/HONEYDIJON ) spinning from 6am on, that shouldn't be a problem, as everyone will, i'm sure, be spinning on the dance floor instead...

werq-it-out Honey!

 shot today in Davids midtown studio on another Black Party legend, Jacob Blumer,  (https://twitter.com/BlumerJacob) aka, Adam, from the Black Party spectacular some whore photographer did for Next Magazine, years and years and years ago (when it still looked good...)











 

special BP gift:

click, copy and paste for a Black Party xxx-clussive screen saver...or print it out for wrapping paper, book covers, whatever gurls!