DESIGNING DJ

Spin City: There he was, interior designer Karim Rashid, a vision in white tonight behind the bar at Krem, only he was mixing house music on three turntables and a laptop at i4design magazine's summer release party. Rashid, a.k.a. DJ Kreemy, rocked the house full of fellow designers in town for the annual NeoCon World's Trade Fair at the Merchandise Mart. "I could [deejay and design] till I die," he said. I don't think the host, i4design publisher Mitch Obstfeld, rented the club for that long. Hey, Rube: "In New York, no one would notice my pink suit," DJ Kreemy said. "In Chicago, everyone commented on it at NeoCon." Kreemy favors pink or white because of their high energy and optimism. But black is a bummer. "It's the urban uniform of architects," he said. Too bad he didn't have time for the "Devil in the White City" architectural tour before he jetted off to Paris.