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Let Life Rule.
Assembling Hollywood's finest and popping bottles of Dom Pérignon, rock God Lenny Kravitz gets behind the lens that's had a focus on him for decades and generations, offering us his most
intimate portrayal yet. And no reservations are required for this event where you'll have none. All for a party we just wish we were on the list for.
The man himself Harvey Keitel in designer frames and a suit even Winston Wolf would be jealous of, hanging on every word of Lenny's daughter Zoe Kravitz and she he over a couple of glasses.
As she to the nines laughs, modelled next to fashions finest and the great Susan Sarandon looking just as beautiful and just as beautiful as she did when she six shooter shot onto our screens and drove us off a cliff with Geena Davis for the iconic, way before
its woke time, 80's baby, 'Thelma and Louise'. Captured perfectly in a shadowed moment of privacy as she takes in the eclectic and creative crowd around her for the afterparty. And then there's Lenny himself, hidden behind the capturing camera as on reflection
his daughter, his muse Zoe as beautiful as Eluthera gets ready in a lightbulb bordered vanity mirror for the party of parties in this flashbulb moment. Showing that throughout this curated collection of prestige never giving in to pretentiousness, the soulful
rocker even surrounded by the finer things knows what's most important in life and to his himself.
New York, London, Milan and now Tokyo's fashion future forward Harajuku district of Shibuya. Crossing over in the same week Basketball champions, Canada's own Toronto Raptors and the
James Harden and Russell Westbrook dynamite duo of the Houston Rockets came to town for two NBA Japan games for the land of the rising sun, this black box dropped in the middle of neon, temples and a 1964 stadium being refurbished for next years Tokyo 2020
Olympic Games is full of beautiful black and white photos for the perfect portrait. All culminating in a serious tag all selfie that could even give the Academy Award one of Ellen's taken by Bradley Cooper featuring the likes of Brad Pitt and Meryl Streep
a run for its Oscar gold. As concrete strong as the industrial pillars that support it and drunk off a feeling you might find in the bottom of the same Perignon
bottles you can sip and clink on if you can run the tab. The 'American Woman' singer flying away to the Far East shows he doesn't just have an artists eye for writing moving music like his latest, greatest 'Raise Vibration' album, or making a drumming kid
on The Ellen Show's dreams come true. Are you going to go his way?
Letting love rule like it aint over 'till it's over this brief but brilliant, epic exhibition will leave you with photographic memories long after your red room time there has developed. "If you think this is just a party, then you are mistaken", Lenny says in a welcoming video to this night of your life. "If you think this is just a place, then you are misinformed," he says about this non descript location that looks like something off the Hollywood Hills. "In places like this a guest list becomes a list of ingredients", he continues in that smooth as Dom unmistakable delivery. "An uplifting assemblage of individuals who have a connection, an attraction, and a common spark ready to ignite". Fizzing in a tonic of the "blindingly famous" and "profoundly obscure". Not to mention the "shamelessly original", the "quiet genius" and all kinds of "crazy" and "smart" and vice versa. Lenny has mixed a blend of "inspiration so alive you can practically touch it...taste it" in this ensemble 'Assemblage' all the way down to the last sip of Perignon as the ice in the bottles bucket begins to melt along with the strength of the heavy eyelids of everyone in black and white attendance. It's quite the prolific portfolio from the eclectic artist in this electric city of creation. Raise a glass, because here's to him. Lenny Kravitz, raising vibrations all over again. How about another round? The world is waiting at the end of the bar. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
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