one aspect of rome that i never doubted my love for was the architecture.  the fact that the eternal city is the site of the world's most influential and groundbreaking baroque art & architecture was what made up my mind to study there in the first place, and in coming to new york i feared that i would be stuck among ugly masses of steel and glass.  lucky lucky me then that i spend three days a week in the soho cast-iron historic district, complete with the corinthian columns, decadently ornamented pediments, and other overdone design elements i embarrassingly love so much.

the haughwout building (above on the far left and below) is known as the parthenon of cast iron and ever-so-conveniently is just a block down from the studio.  fun fact, it was styled after a venetian palazzo and contained the first-ever passenger elevator. woohoo.

below is work sweet work.  we share the first floor with a cranky freight elevator and an apartment of male models, who stop by on occasion to prove that zoolander was a work of non-fiction.