Like a well rested snow leopard, TI has come out of hibernation, to shake off all that seclusion and sloth that winter breeds to roam the streets of NYC night and day, hiss hunting. It has not been too hard as the streets of the city seem to be spewing hipsters and tipsters in every which direction. Take Saturday night for instance, when TI and a company of pals roamed all the way from the Lower East Side through the East Village to wend our way up to Chelsea. Before reaching the final destination, we happened upon a company of Goths on First Avenue, led by a nervous young man in a genius patent leather jumpsuit (Nicholas would have blanched) before turning a corner and espying Lou Doillon carousing with Julia Restoin-Roitfeld. All that was compounded by an earlier invitation to come see what Ezra Petronio of Self-Service was up to for his next issue. TI knows but cannot leak a molecue of that hiss because the specialness of that upcoming issue is the heights as they say. What we can say is we're keeping those Euros in our wallet because the way things are sliding, pretty soon all of Paris will be slumming through NYC as if NYC were New Berlin. It makes you wonder...what is national identity anymore? Does it make sense to invest in that ideal when building your publication? Or is it this market all being fed by a population of 10,000 commited urban nomads? TI did gather the following night at The Bowery Hotel that Vogue Paris intends to be even more French in that upcoming issue. It is to be a Gallic extravaganza complete with "Made In France" beauties placed front and center. But who could those be? As the month winds down with the next Vogue Italia not being such a suspense (click TI's back button)...maybe the new game should be Vogue Paris. All hail the spirit of newness and nowness blowing through fashion's corridors right now. Beat Bollinger, boasting that ineffable handsomness is now romping on set with Meisel for that cool little campaign and that is exciting. And as has become our idee fixe, we end this fast forward survey by spying on that work-in-progress... the new Interview magazine. Are they done building the team yet or is there one more bold-faced name still on their poach list. The chicest French stylist in the trenches might want to tighten her trench coat!