After unloading at the Bowery hotel I headed over to our NY office in Soho. The streets were absolutely mobbed. Its NY fashion week which brings with it the weird and wonderful fashion brigade with a lot of pushing and shoving in every store. There seemed to be an urgency about shopping. Perhaps there is going to be a clothes shortage sometime soon.

 

Had a martini in the new Crosby hotel then had to rush to get to Tracey Emin’s show opening ‘Do not abandon me’. A collaboration with the famous British artist Louise Courgeois who was 98 when the two of them created the pieces and sadly died this year. Tracy found it a little strange to be opening a collaborative exhibition with a person who is now deceased. The works were as expected from Tracey, powerful pieces. Large male and female forms and genitalia depicted in coloured inks, incorporating small female figures and slogans sketched by Tracey.

Afterwards we went to dinner in a private room at the Standard. Tracey had a great bunch of mates including one of my heroes, the film maker John Walters who created the transvestite Divine in film vehicles such as Pink Flamingo’s, Female trouble and Hairspray.

Back to the Bowery and bed.