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Two more days until this fabulous educational fashion exhibition closes for the season! Check out the Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Courtesy of the Anna Wintour Costume Institute.

If you a true coffee afficionado AND you live in NYC, most likely you know about this Mudruck! Personally, I'm a huge coffee person and I've been hooked on this mudtruck coffee since 2002. It's just the best coffee on a go!

No matter how busy you are and how fast-paced NYC can take over your life, always find time for a date with your husband:)

For me, America always meant New York City. I associated everything 'American' with New York City - skyscrapers, wall street, broadway, times square... What is America for you? The nail color featured in the video is Big Apple Red by Opi - a perfect shade of red!

Have you noticed the book stores have been closing recently around America? In New York City alone just recently closed two oldest book stores that used to be so beloved in their neighborhoods and among the new yorkers. Why is that, you think? Do you think digital media would eventually replace print? Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlisaKrutovsky on Instagram: http://instagram.com/lisusha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alisakrutovsky on Tumblr: http://heelsandbikes.tumblr.com/ Love bicycling as much as I do? Follow my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ilovebik... and Tumblr: http://bikeholic.tumblr.com/ to stay put with the biking culture of NYC! Wanna know what I do when I don't vlog? Check it out: http://alisakrutovsky.com/

I shall NOT miss it! And you shall NOT as well! Jenny Shimizu, Helmut Red campaign. Photograph by Mark Seliger. September 13, 2013 - January 4, 2014 FIT will be hosting  A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk exhibit, and you should NOT miss it! I've visited many events organized by the Museum at FIT and I've always found them fabulous (like the one about Daphne  Guinness  and/or the Shoe Obsession one)   as much as educational like The Designers & Books Fair 2012 and/or Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar ) You just can't go wrong with any of their exhibitions. They don't do them often, but if they do - they are always worth the attention. Last January I've joined FIT as a student , where I'm taking computer graphic design courses. I love the atmosphere of the school and often people-watch during the breaks. Everyone's so unique in the personal style. In the lobby of the school every so often the new wo...

I really wished I was in Paris  last week, and not because for all the reasons I love this city - including the Parisian fashion . The world’s first annual film festival dedicated to fashion, style and beauty that continues to shake up the old rules of fashion by shifting the focus from still photography to moving image - the fifth edition of A Shaded View on Fashion Film - took place is at Centre Pompidou in Paris, one of my favorite exhibit halls in the city! A still from 'Fashion Golden Eighties', directed by Olivier Nicklaus Claude, 1979. Photography: Guy Marineau

Follow me this Sat 10/28 on Twitter - I'll be live-tweeting from the Designers & Books Fair 2012 at Fashion Institute of Technology . Can't wait to meet and listen to the top designers who represent Architecture, Graphic Design, Fashion, Landscape Architecture, Product/Industrial Design, Urban Design such as Elaine Lustig Cohen (Graphic Designer and Artist), Tom Geismar (Graphic Designer, Chermayeff & Geismar), Hilary Greenbaum (Graphic Designer, Whitney Museum of American Art), Prem Krishnamurthy (Graphic Designer, Project Projects), Alice Twemlow (Design Writer, Co-Founder and Chair of D-Crit MFA Program, School of Visual Arts ), and Hal Rubeinstein (Fashion Director, InStyle) 

If you are in NYC this weekend, don't miss out to meet more than 35 U.S. and European design book publishers and booksellers and hear the leading designers talk! Fashion Institute of Technology is hosting Designers & Books Fair 2012 on Saturday and Sunday. Designers & Books Fair 2012: The world's many design celebrities

The last place I'd go for fashion to would have been the South Street Seaport Museum , but as I've learned last week:  1) never underestimate the fashion scene in New York City 2) fashion can be found in the most unexpected places  3) there's still a lot I don't know about New York City - and keeps surprising me...  Last week I was doing some research when I came across an interesting blurb about a Fashion Night Out event at the South Street Seaport Museum and I thought that they might be joking as this is the last museum I could assume would be doing a fashion event. But they did, and they had a reason for that.  The museum's exhibit "Made In New York" featured the local aspiring designers - the graduates of Parsons School of Design . Of course, one should take into consideration that the South Street Seaport Museum is not MET, so the exhibition is not of the same grandeur. It's on a smaller scale, but nevertheless, a very interesti...

I can't believe I'm so behind on some of the coolest and free fashion events that there are in New York City - the Museum at FIT events. Last time I was there was for the Daphne Guinness amazing exhibition of personal fashion collection, much of which was a dedication to her favorite Alexander McQueen.

Just as you can never have too many pairs of high heels and pairs of jeans in your closet, you can never have too many stylish books adorning your coffee table. I doubt there's a household that does not have coffee table books - well, at least one.  Personally, any family and/or individuals I've ever visited had at least one or two books gracing a coffee table. From history, nature and travel to fashion and photography  books. One can tell a lot about a person by the selection of the coffee table books - whether it's an artsy and/or a travel aficionado individual. Could I say that one can tell a lot about a person by the books he/she has on a coffee table? I believe - you sure could...

As I've promised you in my previous blog , where I talked about the still art works that were showcased at the Scope Art Show New York , here are the audio and video works from the galleries from around the world. What was interesting is that last year I haven't noticed much of these formats at the show. This time around, however, the audio and video works were prominently present at the art show, and I really enjoyed some of them. There's some good stuff happening on the art scene right now. The digital media has made its way onto the art scene - that's official! I'm very excited to see what happens next year...

Here's a thing - I'm very artsy. And if I had more time on my hands, I would have been designing something by now - fashion, ads, book covers... It's truly a pity that I'm not utilizing my one year of Graphic Design education at Oregon State University, my one year Desktop Publishing / Graphic Design program at School of Visual Arts in New York and my Copyright Advertising program at Georgetown University in Washington, DC - all of which I've finished with a great idea of doing something artsy.  I used to be so immersed into the whole designing process that when I first started to freelance in PR in 2002, I actually offered the 'services' of designing brochures, posters, websites. One of which was actually used for a brochure at the Art & Design School of Art in New York. Yes, those were the times when I actually did it. Now it all comes down to painting or collaging in the Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator in a spare moment of the sudden free ...