VMA AWARDS: DULL SHOW, YEA RIGHT!

Thank music heaven VMA's returned home--back to NYC! What a lineup of spur-of-the moment unpacked events! Kudos to Janet on representing MJ glowingly and Madonna for the heart-stirring mark of respect. I will dare NOT highlight Kanye's look-at-me buffoonery. Mr. MSR ears perked up for good quality music and honed in an edited eye on knockout fashions.

Music's best talents pulled up in flashy rockish and glittery looks! The ladies went micro mini and bare sheen leg while the men went sharp-suited and simple!

Side reflection: Jay-Z and Alicia thank you for exciting a deeper appreciation for my city. NY'ers stand tall!

My favorite style moments of the evening:

Solange, great understated glamour in the one-shoulder number.

Diddy, don't care for this pigeon-toe stance. However, highly appreciating the sharp-fit black white-edged suit. Also loving the jazzy patent-glossed footwear!

HOV'... you're so B-R-O-O-K-L-Y-N and the look, so time-appropriate. The swagger, tilted Yankee fitted (urban term for baseball cap), and relaxed layering gets my approval!

Taylor Lautner represented a Tom Ford appeal on last night’s VMA reds. A very subtle finesse and low-key flamboyance I would comment. Well done Taylor!

VANITY FAIR: CONSISTENT POWER DRESSERS

You awake with eye crusts or maybe drips of drool firmed on the lip brim. What's your first course of morning action? If by any chance you won a spot on Vanity Fair's juried '09 International Best-Dressed List , I guarantee you're coordinating statement looks at the crack of dawn. Reading certain considered fashionista names on VF's list puzzled me. Like ???

Some distasteful, uninspired and far-out fashion players made the cut and it just didn't rest well. I came to the conclusion, the individuals held clout or some power handling among the Vanity Fair empire. I digress. The list included scores of style-wielding ladies and sharp-attired gentlemen.

MSR is celebrating the guys who starred the coveted list !!!

Lapo is my MAN! BTW: He reads MaleStyle Review!

LENS: THIS WEEK IN STYLE

Last night NYC shocked and brighten with Kanye West + G-Shock watches @ Cipriani Wall Street !! I always reckon an Kanye-involved event! How? Normally average-attired patrons, come deck out in their bestest (sp) of threads!

For this edition of T.W.I.S. check the finessed tastemakers , Kanye summoned to celebrate G-Shock Press event!

LUXURY CINEMATIC ADVERTISING

Sunday reading of NY Times' Style section turned on a lightbulb. Annie Leibovitz's incontestable talents sparkled, while glossing over Louis Vuitton's current bag campaign (pictured atop) starring astronauts Sally Ride, Buzz Aldrin, and Jim Lovell. Although critics may discount Lebovitz's credits, lets be frank, her storytelling moving images we just are not not seeing by the droves--especially in fashion advertising. 

During studies at F.I.T. (Advertsing/Marketing major) , a professor penetrated the idea "a successful advertisement must always grab and engage ones emotions on several levels." I would say Louis Vuitton's Annie campaigns champion the professor's creed. 

Annie Leibovitz X Louis Vuitton ad campaigns.

LENS: THIS WEEK IN STYLE!

With summer in the air, easy, breezy, and comforting looks always make the cut !!

Even the kids are summer hip and fresh !!!

LENS: THIS WEEK IN STYLE

Even with a pouty expression Yeezy,  the punctuated accoutrements offers a cool gentlemen appeal with your suited look. 

Nothing gets style dashers out like a rooftop NYC party. Over the weekend an awesome-upon-awesome party was thrown for writer and bon vivant Lesley Blume (sporting Jackie O frames)!! This capture highlights the ultra-swag partygoers imparted! 

June Ambrose--Style Architect to the celebs--premieres a glamorized version of the Safari trekker. Mr. MSR digs a woman with boldness and confident strut to boot. 

My POPPA displaying a somewhat disheveled swagger at last week's 50th anniversary for the Four Seasons Restaurant! What a night!!!! Sidebar: The jeans are RL Purple Label if you were wondering.

Menswear designer Yigal Azrouël serving 'rocker chic' with and bevy of glitzy women for an event, honoring GQ creative director Jim Moore, at Barneys New York last week. (Jim, congratulations on the Eleanor Lambert honor you will  receive tonight at CFDA Awards.) 

STEVE MCQUEEN: STYLE LEGEND

The past few days I have spent immersed in Ralph Lauren's 40th Anniversary fantastic tome. Every time I delve through the giant sheets either a new thought or visual gem unearths. Another style pioneer bubbled my mind seeing the youthful Ralph Lauren -- of course well-together in a aged leather bomber atop his signature visual-detailed monogram knit sweater.

The pioneer is none other than "The King of Cool" Steve McQueen. The academy award-nominated actor epitomizes the term cool. Known for his fast-and-furious flair with cars and motorcycles, the in-demand actor knew how to coordinate a wardrobe.

MSR wanted to pay ode to a style legend who never appeared not with-it, but always relevant and effortless in appearance.

See for yourself...

LENS: THIS WEEK IN STYLE

From last week into this week nice and springy weather has sprouted a crop of well-dressed peeps. I had the opportunity to cross path with most of the subjects portrayed. I just kept giving uprising thumbs!!!

No underneath captions from Mr. MSR, so birth your own speech points because I'm still speechless !