The first leg of The Creators Project, a globe-trotting arts and music initiative from Vice magazine and Intel, debuted on a sweltering Saturday. Over 3,500 New Yorkers packed in at Milk Studios to view shows from Interpol, Gang Gang Dance and The Rapture and art from Radical Friend and MOS Architects.

Patti Smith does not lead an unexamined life. She's made a career of blurring the lines between her personal life and the public sphere. Patti Smith and Steven Sebring: Objects of Life, a collaborative show at the Robert Miller Gallery in Chelsea, places several of her personal objects, including her Polaroid camera, a childhood dress and Robert Mapplethorpe's slippers, on display.

Andy Warhol's early, hand-drawn illustrations don't garner as much attention as his iconic Pop art, but he was a regular contributor to Harper's Bazaar throughout the 1950s and '60s. Last night, the magazine unveiled "Andy Warhol: The Bazaar Years, 1951 - 1966″ in the Alexey Brodovitch Gallery at Hearst Tower.

"You think that no Warhol rock had been left unturned, but, frequently, in a Warhol retrospective there might be one illustration," said curator Charlie Scheips.

For artist Greg Lauren, a garment defines a person as much as the other way around. For example, a Cub Scout uniform is like a totem, marking the wearer as a would-be hero. "I was never a Cub Scout," Lauren says. "[But] I knew that the shirts were endowed with some kind of heroic image. All the patches meant something, and made me feel proud to wear [the shirt as a child] even though I didn't do the work to earn them."

Lauren's newest solo exhibition, "Alteration," is on view through November 1 at the gallery space at 28 Wooster Street, which was recently home to the Guild & Greyshkul gallery. The installation includes 40 paper sculptures that Lauren hand-sewed into replica to-scale clothing using his mother's old sewing machine.

When Bronx bride Mildred Carty was searching the Web for affordable wedding options last month, she came across a quirky option that didn't involve a church or city hall: Getting hitched, Vegas-style, in a New York City storefront.

"Wedding Chapel," the latest incarnation of Grand Opening, a Lower East Side-based collective that reinvents their artists' space every three months, now offers both quickie weddings and mock ceremonies for adventurous couples looking to tie the knot, or just have some fun.

The terror attacks of 2001 were supposed to mark the "end of the age of irony," Graydon Carter famously said, and of course, after a requisite period of sadness and gravity, it all came roaring back, snarkier than ever.

With declining art prices, now is the prime time to invest in art. WSJ's Elva Ramirez speaks to art consultant Franklin Boyd at the New York Armory Show about strategies for spotting good art deals.

British designer Gareth Pugh, one of six emerging designers who collaborated with perfumers Symrise to create a new collection called Six Scents, said that “gloss” and “patent leather” best described his collections. His answers were part of a 20-page questionnaire that was the first step in his collaboration with perfumer Emilie Coppermann.

Tomorrow, Christie’s London will auction off an unusual collection of avant-garde fashions that each make a political statement about a moment in time during the last half century. The lots contain over 250 pieces from the personal collection of Katy Rodriguez and Mark Haddawy, owners of Resurrection, a vintage boutique with locations in New York and Los Angeles.

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It should come as no surprise that the Chanel Mobile Art Installation, a traveling exhibit that opened in New York's Central Park today, features this homage to a classic Chanel quilted purse.

The exhibit, honoring the 50th anniversary of the iconic Chanel purse, is housed in a temporary structure that some observers have said looks like an architectural handbag, or a spaceship or a pavilion from a long-past World's Fair. Conceived by Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld and designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, the structure required nearly two years of planning to come to life. The exhibit premiered in Hong Kong in March, then traveled to Tokyo. It will spend three weeks in New York, before heading off to London, Moscow and Paris.

Designers often begin their collections with a mood or inspiration board. Like haute magpies, designers gather images, trinkets and scraps that resonate with them and tack them onto a board to help them better visualize ideas for their clothes. As inchoate themes start to take shape, sketches and fabric swatches may be added.

A month before her collection was due to make its New York fashion week debut, designer Erin Fetherston gave the Wall Street Journal a peek into her design process. Fairy princesses, dragonflies and images of dreamy models were sifted into what became Ms. Fetherston's Spring 2009 collection, titled "East of the Sun and West of the Moon."

About three weeks before fashion week starts, the offices of casting directors, stylists and designers are flooded with show packages containing cards of models that agencies want to promote for the bi-annual runway shows. Model cards are meant to provide basic stats on available models for hire: A typical card features photos of a model, his or her measurements and contact information.

In the last few years, the show package has evolved from a simple informational tool to an industry art form.

Chanel fans and fashionistas will soon be able to live a high-style life in homes designed by Karl Lagerfeld.

Mr. Lagerfeld signed an exclusive deal with Dubai Infinity Holdings to design 80 homes in what aims to be the most fashionable address in the world, the man-made Isla Moda ("Fashion Island") in Dubai. The development will include a mix of penthouse apartments and two- to four-bedroom homes.

If you had a collection of old magazines, would you spend over $50,000 on a box to house it?

The Visionaire Goyard trunk will house the magazine's first 50 issues in a hand-made trunk.

That's how much Visionaire magazine – a publication where design, marketing, style, trends and art intersect – is charging for a special Goyard trunk designed for its collectors.

This summer, Visionaire will also offer 10 complete sets of its first 50 issues in the Goyard trunks for $150,000.

Maverick Dutch designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have cultivated a reputation for showing whimsical clothes in highly theatrical runway settings. So when London's Barbican Art Gallery approached the duo for a retrospective, the quirky designers wanted to do something playful. The result: A three-story playhouse showcasing dolls dressed in miniature Viktor & Rolf designs.

When One Laptop Per Child's little green laptop starts up, its Linux-based Sugar user interface plays a four-note ditty, composed by the band U2, that stands for the letters O, L, P, and C. This is one indication of how important music is to the computer's mission.

At the International Contemporary Furniture Fair more than 600 exhibitors from 38 countries showed the latest innovations in products and materials for homes, offices and commercial spaces.

Contemporary art consultant Franklin Boyd gives a tour of the New York Armory Show, one of the world's largest fairs for new art.