STUFF is a storytelling project about an extraordinary slice of history and the people who defined it, using Kim’s singular edit of art, fashion, design, photography, books and ephemera as a lens. On these pages you’ll meet Kim’s amazing friends: at an all night party in the basement of an East Village church with Keith Haring, a private art sale with Jeffery Deitch in Phyllis Diller’s kitchen, or a dinner at Trader Vic’s with Salvador Dali and Joey Arias. In Kim’s New York, a leopard print Fiorucci look catches the attention of legendary photographer Bill Cunningham and sparks a lifelong friendship. A chance run-in with Kim’s neighbor Steve McCurry has her witness the creation of the defining image of 9/11. And a trip with her mother to buy a dining table from George Nakashima, sets off a devotion to patina as a form of personal history.

film by Waylon Bone

KIM HASTREITER, the beloved troublemaker and champion of downtown New York, is best known as the co-founder of the iconic, indie, PAPER magazine. She calls herself a cultural anthropologist, but in today’s terms she might be better described as a multi-hyphenate artist who excavates big wild ideas from all corners of culture and brings them to life. Kim has spent the last 50 years amassing a deep and iconoclastic collection of stuff. STUFF is more than a memoir; it’s a loopy, joyous, chaotic ride through the last half century of cultural chaos in the greatest city on earth.