Our favorite subversive jewelry designer — designing jewelry such as human hair earrings, ear tips and gun pendants — Jules Kim of Bijules is having a trunk sale at Eva NYC this Thursday, so if your accessory repertoire is missing a snake nail ring, then this event’s a must-attend!

Bijules Nail Ring

Bijules Curved Bar Ring

And if you can’t attend, check out the Bijules website.

Savage Beauty, the Alexander McQueen exhibition, kicks off May 2nd at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City with a fantastical gala hosted by none other than Anna Wintour. Vogue Mexico reports that:

This will be an opportunity to remember the talent, emotion and the tragic romance that marked the work of those who many consider one of the great artists of the last five decades. The exhibition, curated by Andrew Bolton and produced by Sam Gainsbury and Joseph Bennett, the duo responsible for the production of the vast majority of parades McQueen, includes approximately 170 pieces, including clothing and accessories from the archives of the brand in London and the house Givenchy in Paris.

The museum will be divided according to the ideas and concepts that inspired McQueen fashion. Romantic Gothic , for example, show his passion for history, the Victorian Gothic fascination with opposites like life and death or light and darkness. Romantic Nationalism reflect his interest in British and Scottish history; Romantic Exoticism that had influenced the designer cultures and faraway places as India and Japan, and Romantic Naturalism interest in wild nature, so evident in his latest collections of shoes “lobster” or printed fabrics with natural motifs and water.

The exhibition will open to the public on May 4, 2011, and run through July 31.

[Via Vogue Mexico]

“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.

Photo Credit: First Thought Films / Zeitgeist Films

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Find out much more about Bill and about the film at http://www.billcunninghamnewyork.com. 

WATCH THE TRAILER: http://zeitgeistfilms.com/billcunninghamnewyork/trailer.html

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THREAD, our favorite traveling indie designer showcase is back this Sunday at the Horton Event Space from 11am to 6pm, and this time, with MORE fab giveaways, art, a nail and massage lounge and a blogger style off. Your truly will be competing with four other bloggers by styling models on model blocks with designer swag from participating designers, so if you’re in S.D., come by and say hi! (And shop! Check out the illustrious list of designers here.)

RSVP here.