Above: Photos by Anne Menke, Julien Capmeil, Warwick Saint, Platon, and Kenneth Cappello, on the block tomorrow at Milk.

Tomorrow night, the Milk Gallery in Chelsea will display the works of some of the world’s most famous fashion and art photographers to benefit relief efforts in Haiti. Hudson brings you a preview show, ABOVE.  Photographers like Patrick Demarchelier, Tierney Gearon, Ellen Von Unwerth, Mario Sorrenti, and Alexei Hay have donated work, which will sell in silent auction at starting bids from $300-$1000, all proceeds going to Rose Charities. Rose fund doctors and relief efforts help the people left behind, now that the media frenzy has faded.

Of course, trendsetters will be out in full force , swilling back cocktails, but many will also be armed with checkbooks to help a vital cause. (FOTORELIEF, Thursday, March 18th, Milk Gallery, 250 West 15th Street, 7-10 pm)

Rosson Crow — the 28-year-old artist — knows how to invade a space so you’re immersed in atmosphere. Case in point, Crow — born in Dallas, Texas and now living in Los Angeles — opened a new show called “Bowery Boys” at Deitch Projects last week. She created giant tableaus of popular New York bars and hangs, from the Cock, a renowned East Village boys’ pick-up joint; the subway stops along the Bowery; the new top floor lounge at the Standard Hotel (formally known as “the Boom Boom Room”); right down to artist Kenny Scharf’s Cosmic Cavern in Brooklyn. The latter, opened  this summer in Bushwick, Brooklyn by Scharf in the same space as his studio, hosts impromptu parties every six weeks or so for artists in the know.

At the opening, Crow, who also designed her own fabric in black and red to match her large-scale paintings, worked with designer Zac Posen, who added the appropriate lady cowgirl bustle. The artist herself presided like a Southern dame at a high cocktail as she greeted guests with a warm “pleased to meet you” smile. But don’t be fooled. Her work also deals not only with the so-called glamour of night spots, but the loss and destruction of such shiny places. Perhaps that’s why she blurs the lines, uses drips and blends that confuse the subject. Still they’re neon and make us, to quote R.E.M., “Shiny, bright, happy people.”

Rosson Crow, at Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street NYC, until March 27th.

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Fit for a Queen… Alexander McQueen’s latest

The late Alexander McQueen’s design team told the international press that the designer was spending long days and night before his death perfecting a collection around a theme of the “Dark Ages.” Little did they know that McQueen was experiencing his own dark days. By the fateful discovery of his suicide, the collection shown the other day in Paris was nearly finished. “Eighty percent done” said his sewers.

So we can believe what had been presented consisted of pure McQueen. As is obvious, these dresses and ensembles are too beautiful for words. Like some beacons of another regal time fit for birds of paradise, the workmanship can be deemed a final regal bow before heaven.

Mumford and Sons is an English indie folk band born and bred from London. The band formed in late 2007 and came out of the folk scene with other artists such as Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn and Noah and the Whale. The band’s debut album Sigh No More released late 2009 in London and in America this past February. This is the video for their new single “Winter Winds” which happens to be my favourite off the album!

Looks by Andrew Gn, saved by embellished buckles and sexy straight lines

Two designers truly stylish gals turn to each season– YSL’s Stefano Pilati and Andrew Gn– took a turn for funeral rites in the past couple days in Paris. Pilati, who sent out mostly dark frocks (some with capes) and long dark trousers with black or white blouses topped with a thick gold chain — think rosary beads– told the press “It’s about protection.”

How sad! If fashion cannot provide an escape and freedom, we might as well all hide under our blankets with flashlights. Ironically, Pilati shone in those looks that departed from his cloaked motif: here a canary yellow ensemble and violet dress with Seventies tie.

Andrew Gn excels more with his black ‘Puss in Boots’ idea. He creates belts with excellent rhinestone studded buckles and straight collars indicating a serious dame with a naughty edge. Still, again, in the odd moments of color: the romantic periwinkle blouse or red one-shouldered frock, he took it home.

Hopefully springtime in Paris will not seem as cloudy in the days to come.

Stefano Pilati in PROTECTIVE mode