I believe I have successfully stretched the boundaries of “fashionably late,” considering Fashion’s Night Out occurred over 3 months ago. Regardless, I pulled this out from the archives, so here we go. FNO’s timing this year could not have been better; not because we were finally in NYC to experience it, not because my girlfriend had recently secured a job at a major fashion magazine, but because I had just secured a new camera from eBay! Shamelessly capitalizing on the listing mistake of seller tahoerealtor5, I managed to secure the legendary Yashica T4 super for the meager sum of $50 ( the going rate for a T4 is  for upwards of $250.) For those of you that just googled “Yashica T4” and were wondering what could possibly make that plastic 90’s point-and-shoot worth anything near $50, say hello to Mr. Terry Richardson. In reality it’s actually the Carl Ziess lens that give the camera its mojo, but for all intents and purposes the T4 can attribute its fanfare to Terry, so what better way to break it in than to emulate that full-frontal-flash style (minus the penises and vaginises…I’m just not there yet OK)

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The night started off great, with the ladies modeling their…modeling off of the popular iPhone emojis. Considering that I have remained steadfast in my refusal to embrace emojis, I will leave it up to you to guess which ones they picked (spoiler alert…I am not impersonating any emoji, just making myself turn insanely red)

And then we realized that staying in would be more fun than going out, and things got a little weird.

And somebody (see: Lauren)  had the great idea to doll Oli up in lipstick

And Oliver may, or may not have retaliated.

Here’s to next year