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The fashion mavens pick the brain of one of their idols.

Of the dozens of Sonic Youth songs I’ve obsessed over during the band’s iconic 27-year history, “Kill Your Idols” evokes the most personal memory. The band’s punk classic took on new levels of irony for me while interviewing Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore at their SoHo loft many years back. “Yes,” Gordon deadpanned, or “No,” with a sort of bored roll of the eyes, when asked questions that, I hoped, would illicit profundities from an artist I’d revered as an art-punk goddess. It was a good lesson for my young fan-boy self: Even your heroes can have a bad day. That must’ve been the case, as she’s been an engaging interview subject on subsequent occasions throughout the years.

A fresh icon in the making, “Paper Planes” firebrand Maya Arulpragasam throws a few more curveballs our way.

Adrift in an exquisite 19th-century palace, a lone beauty queen loses herself in the reverie of this season's intricately detailed frocks, which get the royal treatment. See full gallery. Photography by Kurt Iswarienko. Styling by Elizabeth Sulcer.

Everything’s gone green -- and god, is it ever boring. And let’s face it: Deep down, we know we’re all doomed, anyway. The ideal backlash maneuver, of course, is getting yourself behind the wheel of a glamorous Italian machine and torquing your way to high-speed nirvana. For those who are already in possession of their own little piece of automotive history, the new Monticello Motor Club offers up a sort of spa/playland package: At their facility, just 90 minutes outside of New York City, they will garage and pamper your designer chariot while you’re off dealing with all that banal life stuff; when it’s playtime, they’ve got 4.1 miles of glorious, custom-designed track for you to burn up, and a staff of professional drivers on hand to make sure you don’t actually hurt yourself.

It can safely be assumed that nearly every building along Hollywood Boulevard has been turned into some kind of hot, celebrity-populated nightlife spot -- and yet, here’s another! Muse Lifestyle Group (of Ivar, Nacional, etc.) has taken over the historic Fox Theatre, and is offering party monsters 13,000 square feet of rollicking room, amid extravagant interiors by design bigshots I©RAVE (Koi, Pangaea). There will also be an adorably named on-site restaurant, Sweet Love Hangover, with nouveau diner eats and a retro ’60s vibe. As Hollywood hangovers go, here they’ll be more inspired by Cuervo than by Cupid.

A severely primped crowd of Draconian style stars rule New York Fashion Week, but Yigal Azrouël is not one of them. Instead, the Israeli designer took a deviant step at last fall’s presentation, with a collection that broke loose from the confines of hems and darts and pin tucks. For his debut menswear presentation, Azrouël chose to focus on the unfinished aspects of his pieces, honing and perfecting a refreshed, relaxed, lived-in feel. Azrouël himself referred to the collection as “perfect imperfection,” a careful concentration of tousled fabrics, asymmetrical cuts and minimally groomed models. Even the doyen of fashionable extremity, André Leon Talley, dropped in and gave his nod of approval.--Bryan Levandowski