Bjarne’s blow-out giveaway

On Valentines Day, waves of unruly hypebeasts (the more consumerist incarnation of the hipster for those in the know) descended on Red Bull Arts New York, the pop-up exhibition space, for The Purge. This one-night-only event was the climax of the Norwegian-born artist Bjarne Melgaards fashion week send-up, The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment. The Purge was said to be Melgaards way of ridding himself of his designer clothing collection (and some items of his own new line), among them pieces fr