Johan Lindeberg is a man on a mission. Since launching his contemporary label, BLK DNM, in February, he has opened a pop-up store on Lafayette Street (which, he revealed to Style.com, is now a permanent retail address), and published the biannual BLK DNM Gazette, featuring the brand’s collaborative efforts with his posse of downtown artist and filmmaker friends. The Swedish designer also has a forthcoming unisex fragrance . Today, he unveils one more addition to the BLK DNM family—sunglasses. The look of the limited-edition, unisex styles is very Lindeberg. Created in collaboration with the nearly 100-year-old eyewear brand, Moscot, the shades are sleek and jet black—just like the frames he regularly sports. “I didn’t want them to look too preppy,” Lindeberg told Style.com of the three different options. Each style rings up at $295.

The collection will be available starting tomorrow at the BLK DNM store, located at 237 Lafayette Street, NYC, and online at moscot.com and BLKDNM.com.
—Kristin Studeman

Photo: Courtesy of BLK DNM

Poolside with Diddy? Check. Naked with Chloë Sevigny? Check. On stage with Joss Stone? Check. During his 20-year vocation for a celebrity photographer because the likes of GQ, W, and Vogue, Michael Thompson has acquired way to some of the maximum legendary names in Hollywood and the melody industry, from Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts to Sting and Britney Spears. The proof’s in his new paperback, Portraits.

Pride of place—the cover—goes to the star Thompson remembered most fondly out of entire the celebrities he’s went with: Diddy. “He arrived on set by a monster building in Malibu, with the entire entourage and it was just a crazy daytime,” Thompson told Style.com at Bar Basque final night, where he commemorated the book with friends, including Leelee Sobieski and Adam Kimmel (upon, with Thompson), Glenn O’Brien, Marcus Wainwright, David Neville, and Gucci Westman. “He forever comes to the set with one motif in idea and this period, it was arrange of Great Gatsby, done in a P. Diddy way.”

That’s the Diddy way. The Thompson direction? “I attempt to establish a loosened atmosphere during cilia and makeup, so it doesn’t feel favor working apt the dentist to obtain photos done,” the photographer revealed. “I wanted them to lose themselves in the process.” There’s one of special note he’s hoping ambition undergo namely process soon: Robert De Niro. “If he would open himself up to a large still conference, it would be splendid,” Thompson said with a laugh.

—Kristin Studeman

Photo: Shaun Mader / Patrick McMullan

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-Tall espadrille wedge with chain detail

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-Comes in black

-Heel height: 5.25″ with a 1.25″ platform

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PRODUCT DETAILS

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Chain Wedge Sandal, $64