GREATEST: Chris Black’s New York

In the post-social media era, “curation” is a term overused more or less to the point of meaninglessness. We curate our Instagram feeds, our bookcases, our closets. When we are all curators, none of us are.

Chris Black is a rare exception—a bona fide curator in the realest sense of the world. His impeccable eye and well-heeled, high-low sensibilities have cemented him as a Twitter icon of sorts, sounding off on everything from art, design, and celebrity to early-aughts emo. Black’s feed is one-stop shopping for everything from the holy grail chelsea boot to pithy commentary on the latest paparazzi shot of Justin Bieber. The East Village-based writer and editor serves as the “resident Cool Guy” of New York Magazine’s The Strategist and has contributed regularly to outlets like Vogue and GQ. Add to that a podcast and his need-to-know creative agency Done to Death Projects, which counts Stüssy and Thom Browne among its clients and there’s hardly a realm Black doesn’t touch in one form or another. 

On the heels of New York Fashion Week, Black lets GREATEST in on some of his crucial downtown haunts and post-Labor Day looks.