It had been eight years since Drew Katchen, a 32-year-old Web producer who works for a major media company in New York, had been in touch with an old friend of his from his home state of South Carolina.“She was cool. I always really liked her,” he said. Mr.... READ MORE»
It had been eight years since Drew Katchen, a 32-year-old Web producer who works for a major media company in New York, had been in touch with an old friend of his from his home state of South Carolina. “She was cool. I always really liked her,” he said. Mr. Katchen was delighted one afternoon when a message from this individual, titled, “Flashback,” popped into his Facebook... READ MORE»
“For me, a legend is someone I look up to and I respect and admire, and I guess I’m not there yet for myself,” said designer Marc Jacobs humbly on Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Pratt Institute Legends award benefit, where he was one of the evening’s... READ MORE»
The island of Capri—which takes up only 4 square miles of the planet—has given us the Capri pants, the Capresi salad, the rocky passageways of Faraglione, the Villa Malaparte, Somerset Maugham’s The Lotus Eater and now Town and Country editor Pamela Fiori’s book In the Spirit of Capri, filled with history and images of Capri through the... READ MORE»
Big week for the fashion... READ MORE»
Tina Brown was up to her old tricks on Tuesday, Oct. 21, hosting a luncheon for 50 with hubby Harold Evans, honoring fashion dowager Donatella Versace, at the couple’s maisonette near the East... READ MORE»
Self-described “hedge fund chick” Julie Macklowe’s outfit at the Whitney Museum Gala on Monday, Oct. 19, consisted of the following: a blue and black minidress with textured bodice and leather skirt, otherwise known as Look 17 of Rodarte’s fall ’09 collection; thigh-high Louis Vuitton leather boots with zippers up the sides, identical to the pair worn by Madonna in the brand’s fall campaign; and weighty diamond... READ MORE»
On my way to meet the Last Crack Hipster, I bought a soda at a bodega around the corner from where he lives in Brooklyn. I must have missed him by a minute. The bodega sells crack pipes, too. Most bodegas in the city do. The pipes used to be disguised as glass tubes, corked at both ends, containing tiny roses. No one bought them for the roses. Now they come in the form... READ MORE»
In July of 2007, comedian Michael Showalter was at a bar in Park Slope doing stand-up about an unwitting experience he’d had with a prescription drug called Seroquel. The scenario: Mr. Showalter couldn’t fall asleep one night thanks to some noisy construction outside his Flatbush Avenue apartment, so his girlfriend suggested he take one of these pills she happened to have lying around. “It’s a chill-out pill,” she told him, reassuringly. “It’s... READ MORE»
In March of last year, The Atlantic published an essay by Lori Gottlieb titled “Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough,” which Ms. Gottlieb wrote when, in her idealistic search for the One, she found herself alone in her 40s with a son she had via a sperm donor. A book based on the article will be published in February and has already been optioned by Tobey Maguire for Warner Brothers,... READ MORE»
Is a Ph.D. required to land a cooking gig at the White House? Is it compulsory to have kissed—at age 7—Fidel Castro (even though his beard smelled of sour... READ MORE»
The TeenVogue Handbook: An Insider’s Guide to Careers in Fashion offers advice and real-life success stories about breaking into the fashion industry. “I hope for kids that they will just be totally inspired by the stories of these people making careers out of nothing in a way,” said TeenVogue editor... READ MORE»
Would you be grossed out if you caught, say, Emma Watson making goo-goo eyes at, for example, Harry Dean Stanton? The concept of young ingénues dating older gentlemen is nothing new. Many a gal has turned a blind eye to sagging flesh and wrinkly bits in order to vouchsafe her financial security. We can all handle it as long as there is an ulterior motive. When there isn’t, we tend to get... READ MORE»
It was Monday, Oct. 12, 8:30 a.m., and on the set of CBS’s Early Show in midtown, the socialite eminence Evelyn Lauder and the actress Elizabeth Hurley were sitting in the green room, getting their hair sprayed, their lips painted and their faces dabbed with... READ MORE»
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but when it’s as gusty as it was on Wednesday, Oct. 7, some kind of warning, or maybe a protective shield, might have helped. But the weather didn’t stop the stars from coming out to the American Ballet Theatre’s fall gala at Avery Fisher Hall, with their typical disregard for... READ MORE»
Size matters. But if you don’t have it, just trick people into thinking you do with a little cleverly constructed fabric. That’s the promise of the new Body by Calvin Klein Jeans—retail price, $79.50—with their “body-defining fit for an enhanced profile.” With some padded-fly trickery, Body Jeans presumably gives guys the optical illusion of more horsepower underneath their... READ MORE»
By 12 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, all the free tours of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant were full. The tall chain-link fence gate was open, and there were families and couples and single people standing around. Many of them had different-color neon stars stuck on their jackets or tshirts, which indicated both that they had secured a place in an Open House New York tour, and what time the tour... READ MORE»
"What's odd is that a trial is a certain amount like a movie set, it becomes your real life. And I think it's going to be really odd for all of us that it's over," Astor chronicler Meryl Gordon said Friday, a day after the verdict was announced in the trial of Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall. "I've already heard from some of the other reporters by phone, and we all have to go... READ MORE»
There is now a large bronze apple on the median of Park Avenue at 52nd Street, just west of the Seagrams building. The apple is large enough to notice, but not so large that someone giving directions to the apple would say, “You can’t miss it.” This is the Pomme de New York, which means the Apple of New York, but also sounds a little like the French for... READ MORE»
Last week, in the basement of the American Institute for Architects, in a room that looks like a bunker designed by Le Corbusier, an audience waited to hear NYC Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe speak. Benepe is one of this year’s recipients of the Center for Architecture Award, and the lecture was organized as part of The Center’s Architecture Week 2009. ... READ MORE»
Maria Esposito came to the 18th Annual Take Home a Nude silent charity auction for the New York Academy of Art, held at Sotheby's, on Wednesday, Oct. 7, with five girlfriends, one of them a serious art collector who thought the others would like it if they gave it a try. Ms. Esposito had never been to an art auction before; the only advice her collector friend gave her before sending her out... READ MORE»
October 20, 2009
On my way to meet the Last Crack Hipster, I bought a soda at a bodega around the corner from where he lives in Brooklyn. I must have missed... READ MORE »
October 27, 2009
Self-described “hedge fund chick” Julie Macklowe’s outfit at the Whitney Museum Gala on Monday, Oct. 19, consisted of the following: a blue and black minidress with textured bodice and... READ MORE »
November 03, 2009
It had been eight years since Drew Katchen, a 32-year-old Web producer who works for a major media company in New York, had been in touch with an old... READ MORE »
