Avenue Magazine

Anna Pei is architect legend I.M. Pei’s grand daughter. Their close relationship steers her life calling: archival work and the preservation of memory.

photo by Matthew Avignone

Town and Country

How the Pope of Trash became a national treasure. A profile of John Waters.

photos by Douglas Friedman

The New York Times

A look at the Moma Design Store, where art and commerce blur so fully that people walk around observing product like art and art like product.

The New York Times

A retail review of the Hollister store.

Town and Country

How Spiritual Snobs became the new One Percent

TED

An open-source project is striving to create the world’s first fully digital organism. Here’s a peek inside the tricky process that could bring us to a better understanding of life itself.

New York Magazine

That night in 2007 when I slept in a luxury loft. “I jumped at the opportunity to spend a night there… to find out what it’s like to live in the high-rises that are sprouting up all over my neighborhood like stalks of white asparagus.”

The New York Times

A look at where finance guys go to stay sharp, the Thomas Pink store on Wall Street, right before the 2008 crash. I was confused why everyone was so rich except for me at the time, but then I discovered that 75% of the money wasn’t real in the first place.

Out Magazine

In 2011, I had the privilege of profiling Justin Vivian Bond, the groundbreaking performer, singer and artist. V had just changed her pronouns and announced herself as trans — using V and Mx — way before it was a thing. I think this article was the first (if not one of the first) that honored this freedom of expression, marking the beginning of trans visibility.

New York Magazine

For men, the modeling industry isn’t so glam. A look into the hectic, surprisingly hardscrabble lives of aspiring male models.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Broadway Show

For the hit Broadway show, my collaborator Amanda Duarte and I were assigned to come up with the playbill for the fictional show Hurt Locker the Musical. A parody of a Broadway playbill? The knives came out.