Lee Ronaldo, the guitarist for long-running and highly influential indie-noise outfit Sonic Youth, has oh-so-very-casually mentioned that the band's recent shows in South America were "certainly the last for a while." Dudes in plaid shirts and tattooed baristas are going to have a rough week. 

Iconic '80's punk rockers Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have announced that they’re dunzo after 27 years of marriage. And while this is a blow to those who believe in ever-enduring love, it has music fans abuzz that this may mean a split for Sonic Youth. Relax! Plenty of bands have stayed together after members breakup.

Scott Sternberg brought a taste of his SoCal stomping grounds to Milk Studios Saturday for his SS10 Fashion Week presentation for Band of Outsiders and Boy. Models were outfitted in Sternberg's classic Americana-meets-prep-meets-California cool. Blazers for women were shrunken, while cuffed khaki shorts and cropped trousers were cut on the loose side. For men, suit jackets, relaxed button-up shirts, slim-legged pants, and bomber jackets were fashioned decidedly more trim. Thanks to a jam-packed crowd, the beach scene was matched by notably warm interior temperatures. But that didn't dissuade the likes of Jason Schwartzman, Kirsten Dunst, Leigh Lezark, and Rachel McAdams (the latter of which has been attending shows with Anna Wintour, generating rooms of a Vogue cover in the works) in a Boy bandage skirt fresh off the SS10 line among other A-listers from paying their respects to Sternberg.

Sonic Youth is still ever so relevant within the world of music. Thank God! With only flickers of promising hope from young musicians, one is always prone to retreat to familiar and sublime melodies. That being said, I was so happy to say yes to an invite to hear the band’s new album, The Eternal, out June 9 on Matador Records. Coincidentally, my best friend -- the lovely and always chic Miss Kristin Vincent -- hosted the listening party at her Lower East Side bar, Home Sweet Home -- submerged within the confines of the building’s basement, speakeasy style.

It was back during last fashion week that I first made note of Kim Gordon’s latest non-musical endeavor: a clothing line called Mirror/Dash. The brand is likewise the brainchild of Gordon’s friends Melina Wansbrough (who honed her sartorial skills at Mayle and Sari Gueron) and Jeffrey Monteiro (an alum of Derek Lam); meaning, the singer and artist is in good company. Inspired by French chanteuse Francois Hardy, Gordon had, at the time, crafted just one look -- a slim-fitting, military-inspired wool coat. Well, come February 16, fans of Gordon’s can peruse her latest collection of Mirror/Dash looks, which hit Urban Outfitters that day.

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

Rock goddess Kim Gordon is no slouch when it comes to style. She can perpetually be spotted sitting front row at shows like Marc Jacobs season after season, not to mention she always looks stunning. So, it’s little surprise that the Sonic Youth frontwoman has focused her inimitable fashion sensibilities in the form of Mirror/Dash, a label that borrows its name from a band Gordon once had with husband, and bandmate, Thurston Moore. So far, the line only includes one limited edition look: The Hardy Jacket (as in French chanteuse François Hardy).

“The spectator makes the picture,” said Marcel Duchamp. We didn't really get it either, mind. But, in her latest art show at K.S. Art in TriBeCa (across the street from Knitting Factory, appropriately), Sonic Youth bassist and Otis Art Institute graduate Kim Gordon makes sense of the dadaist statement.