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On June 18th, I will perform at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio to help raise awareness and funding for breast cancer research.
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If you can donate $50, SFH will thank you by mailing you a copy of my SFH poster.
If you can donate $100, I will autograph this poster in June and SFH will mail it to you after the show!
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Update and video added April 4th:
The television show Cake Boss on TLC chronicles the family run Carlos Bakery of Hoboken, New Jersey and the cakes they make, many of them extreme. First run episodes are on Monday nights; and the Monday March 28th episode showcased bakery owner Buddy Valastro and his employees (several of them family members) making seven cakes for Isaac Mizrahi's show during New York Fashion Week. Isaac appears several times during the show, and there are also four glimpses of Johnny Weir near the end of the Cake Boss episode. All of the appearances are only a few seconds long and all of them are during the last five minutes of the episode. The first glimpse is before the show begins with a glimpse of Johnny standing with his agent Tara Modlin; the second is a quick shot of the cakes being paraded down the runway with Johnny clearly visible in the front row; the third is at the end of the fashion show where Isaac walks down the runway to applause and waves at Johnny; and the fourth and last glimpse is as the credits roll Johnny and Isaac pose for photographs.
Here are video clips of Isaac's episode of Cake Boss (no Johnny):
A source for the full episode of Cake Boss here!
Another source for the full episode here!
I have provided a few sources; however there are many more articles, interviews and photos than are included here. There are also many more articles, photos and videos on the Blogs I wrote for the individual shows Johnny either walked in or skated in.
Johnny Weir walked in Adrienne Landau's show, his final event of New York Fashion Week 2011. The pieces he wore were of his own design; therefore, although he has worn his own designs (as have other skaters) as costumes while skating, his collaboration in this show was also his own fashion design debut. While Johnny Weirtweeted a number of times about this and other shows he took part in this week, his excitement at debuting his own creations is most evident here:
The Indashio show was streamed live, but the stream cut off before the end of the show, and some of us were not able to watch it at all anyway. JEKitten1 was kind enough to post two videos of Johnny Weir walking in the opening of the show!
'Uncut' videos above and directly below (Johnny at 3:01) posted by inkcosmetics.
For Elise Øverland—whose clothing appeals to the type of chic jet-setters who frequent St. Moritz and Gstaad—presenting her fall collection on ice seems like the most natural idea in the world. And roping in American figure-skating champion Johnny Weir to skate a solo afterward (to the beat of “Dirty Love,” his dance track that reached number one in Japan last month) is the obvious accompaniment. “What I’d been doing felt repetitive,” explains the Norwegian Øverland of her previous, customary runway shows, “so when I was offered use of any space at the Standard Hotel, I thought the rink would be a fresh idea.”
But the unconventionality doesn’t stop there. Øverland has commissioned an old-fashioned ice-sculpting company in Pennsylvania to dig up ice from the bottom of a lake and drag it to land by horses, before chipping and hollowing it into a sculpture of the female form that will be positioned in the center of the proceedings. Models clothed in shaggy fur and stretch leather catsuits will stand around motionless, Vanessa Beecroft–style, while a troupe from the Ice Theatre of New York weaves in between them, as if in warm-up mode, until the lights dim and the rink clears on cue for Weir’s entrance.
“Figure skating isn’t thought of as a fashionable sport,” admits 26-year-old Weir, who’s known for his oft-controversial, peacockish fashion statements on and off the ice. (They’re so attention-grabbing, perhaps, that they’ve helped land him his own reality show. Today’s he’s followed around by a five-person TV crew.) “[People] think it’s tacky and over the top, so I love that Elise is bringing her original, modern vision to it.” For his performance, Weir will don Øverland’s stretch leather pants and a weighty, flamboyant coat. The rest of the collection is inspired by the ice rink itself and features long black-and-white fur coatdresses alongside swirling, psychedelic-print jackets with patterns based on “futuristic ice cubes.”
“I grew up in a skiing environment, so I never understood chiffon,” says the eccentric former costume designer, whose outerwear-meets-sport-on-ice spectacle can be viewed—unlike traditional Fashion Week events—by the public from Washington Street and the High Line. “Maybe it’s the Viking in me that feels this is right.”
--Esther Adams, February 10, 2011 6:51 p.m.
FilmMagic photos by Ben Hider and Skip Bolen from this show available by clicking here!
