pa pa pa parties

Fashion week parties are the best. I went to a few this season and had a ball. My faves this summer were the male model agency parties. I was sick all through fashion week but bore through illness in the name of... well, boys.

I always get excited for these parties and rarely turn one down. They are so different depending on the agency and location of the soiree...

One party was at L'Etoile club and served only whiskey or vodka. This was a "cool kids" party - everyone was dressed to the 9's and dancing to poppy tunes while checking themselves out in the wall mirrors.

Another party was at a small corner bar where everyone spilled out onto the street and the drink of choice was beer. Everyone was in casual wear having a great time laughing on the street and sneaking away to smoke one. It was very laid back and the most fun of all the get togethers.

Whether at clubs, bars or plain old on the street, the parties are way fun... So much fun that I decided to host my own a couple of nights ago.

I gathered up the usual gang and sent out invites for the newcomers and was very pleasantly surprised when a group of Brazilians showed up that included Max Mota, who I've been dying to shoot for a while. Max's latest campaign is Dior and can be seen on Avenue Montaigne at the store's front windows. He was super cool and even better looking in person.

But Max wasn't the only cute Brazilian present by far. I had already met Junior, a friend of Max's, once before but didn't really remember how hot he was until the second time around. In fact he's so gorge that mid party I got an urge to shoot him right there and then, so we did. Nothing better than an improvised 3 am shoot!

I have pics from the model parties but have them on another memory card that I left at home and now I am in Italy... so more pics to come later. For now here are a couple of the pics from the improvised shoot with Junior - gotta love that fish eye lens!