You can always tell what kind of party it is by the expressions on the faces of the people. Smiles, stress, bulging eyeballs, preening: you just have to look for the signs. Here, Hudson shows out takes of some of the “it kids’ of fashion week including designer Zac Posen, who hosted a party with Purple Magazine at the Standard Hotel; model Irina Lazareanu, who proved a much more modern choice at the Alexander Wang store opening than the act that followed, Lauren Hill of the Fugees. Someone in the crowd shouted, “What is this 1995?” Also seen in slideshow are stylist Masha Orlov, Franco V (in tie and vest), and Ashley Ruprecht — the Don Hill’s door vixen — in a hat she created.

There was some buzz this week that Daryl K, the queen of downtown cool in the Nineties, was going to show a full collection, after many seasons absent from the runways. The other night, at Chelsea Piers, she made her comeback pairing skinny trousers and boots with incredible sweaters, in prints and colors, as well as well constructed jackets. I couldn’t help thinking that the jumpers and jackets might look even better with Hudson jeans. (Pictured here, some of the pieces that can be mixed and matched with Hudson.)

Often Fashion Week can become a repeat of the same old looks, even from big talents. So it was refreshing to check out the new line Whit from Whitney Pozgay, who has designed for both Kate Spade and Steven Alan.

Call it Sixties French coquette meets American it girl spirit. Pozgay debuted her line in a gallery space filled with Ross Bleckner’s colorful paintings, which served as a nice rainbow power punch behind classic lines and lady like designs. Pozgay used vintage fabrics and feminine forms, perfect for the stylish young jet setter. Also to note: the tunics, blouses, and jackets would look fantastic with Hudson jeans!

How many hipsters can you pack into a room? Milk Studios in a pairing with MAC cosmetics called “Mac and Milk” decided to test the limits when they booked hot band, the National, to perform a concert to kick off fashion week in NYC.

Deleon tequila signed on as the bar sponsor and while some of the young folk seemed willing to try the drink concoction of coconut water and tequila, others from the older guard, like photographer Sante D’Orazio and Don Hill’s owner Nur Khan went for straight tequila. They might also draw the conclusion that this band sounds an awful lot like Bauhaus.

“Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures focuses on the artist’s cinematic portraits and non-narrative, silent, and black-and-white films from the mid-1960s. Warhol’s Screen Tests reveal his lifelong fascination with the cult of celebrity, comprising a visual almanac of the 1960s downtown avant-garde scene.” –This is the intro to the exhibit running at MOMA until mid March.

The films, showing Warhol’s voyeuristic fascinations, feature the gals he dubbed “Superstars,” like Edie Sedgwick and Nico. The show also brings us to others Warhol dubbed interesting like music interpreter Lou Reed, poet Allen Ginsberg, and author Susan Sontag.

Early films included in the exhibition are Eat (1963) and Kiss (1963–64). Twelve Screen Tests in this exhibition are projected on the gallery walls at large scale.

Here’s a funny thing to ponder in this time of internet based interaction: Warhol made himself a social curator of people, picking characters who specifically appealed to him. But today, people self curate with web pages, blogs, and even their Facebook pages. That fact makes this exhibit a poignant and interesting relic.

Andy Warhol, Motion Pictures, until March 21st at MOMA 11 West 53rd Street, NYC.

Adrien Brody in LA wearing the Straight Leg in Winchester.

Fergie spotted in Dallas for Superbowl XLV wearing the Lace-Up Skinny in Cure.

Now that the week has hit a temperature high of forty fahrenheit and we’re all mistakenly thinking Spring has arrived early, Wool and the Gang — a knitwear label and now knitting collective — decided to get some birds together at New York Standard Hotel. The trappings: spiked hot cider and hot chocolate. The goal: to get New York lassies to buy Wool and the Gang knitting kits, now 15% off at the Standard shop.

These aren’t just your regular wooly women. Started by Lisa Sabrier, a former model from the Swiss Alps and dancer/photographer, Carolyn Main, a Kiwi from New Zealand, Wool and the Gang created hats, scarves, and snoods (yes, you read correctly!) that were once the rage of Paris. They caused so much buzz that Colette decorated the windows with their wares.  It all started when the two gals went searching for carefully tended sheep in Peru. Scarves made from baby alpaca feel divine!

If you’d like to try to knit one yourself, check out the instructions for the “Foxy Roxy” in the large knitting kit — $149– with five balls of yarn with which you can play. Of course you can provocatively tie that scarf around a tee and your Hudson jeans! The New York showroom and studio will be planning more knitting parties like the one shown here. For more info: WOOLANDTHEGANG

Just a couple nights ago, winds blew ice through Manhattan and made for some slip sliding on the streets. But, that did not stop Basta Surf designer Samantha August from debuting her swimwear line’s cool video — shot by artist Olivia Wolfe — at  a spirited cocktail party at the Tribeca Grand Hotel.

August — whose Seventies inspired bikinis could be the perfect secret under a soft Hudson tank and blue jeans–splits her time between Gotham City, Australia, Los Angeles, Miami, and Sayulita Mexico, where the vid was shot. Model Julie Henderson and skate dude Mark Oblow star in what Wolfe described to me as: “Fun and friendly, not sex kitten bikini. We surfed, shot, and ate guacamole for a week.”

(To note: Oblow, now Creative Director for the skate brand Gravis, was manager of the Quicksilver Skate Team.)

From the frozen streets of NYC, this sure looks like sunny fun to us and a great choice of undergarment for Hudson beach days. Click: OliviaWolfeforBastaSurf

Artist George Condo’s twisted looking portraits capture attention of all who see them, including singer Kanye West — who asked Condo to paint an image of him in mid sex with a white woman for his latest CD — getting West’s work banned throughout America.  Such images, along with a cockeyed Queen Elizabeth and others might shock, but Condo’s latest ventures: caricature-like golden busts and huge abstracts that take the viewer to psychedelic realms, lure us in just as strongly.

Check out the slideshow above for details.

(George Condo, “Mental States” at New Museum, 235 Bowery, until May 8th, 2011.)