Summer Guide 2008 - The Look Book Goes Tanning in the Sheep Meadow -- New York Magazine

Look Book Gets a Tan

(Photo: Alyson Aliano)

Benito Olenski, Soccer Player
Are you trying to tan?
Me? Ha. No.
Then why are you here?
Jay [here], Leroy [here], and I are all staying in the same hotel room, and it’s sweaty and hot and crowded in there.

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