Lydia Hearst

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Lydia Hearst will reportedly make an appearance on Gossip Girl! Lydia Hearst on Gossip Girl! [P6]  read more »

The Observer's version of March Madness entered a new phase at midnight last night when votes were tabulated for the Final Four face-off in our Socialite Slapdown contest.

The contest—which gained a bit of heat last week when Page Six reported on socialites' efforts to stack the votes in their favor—closes with four finalists: Publishing heiress, model and bag-designer Lydia Hearst faces off against socialite/style writer Derek Blasberg, and Lauren Davis, socialite and Vogue editor, faces off against Peter Davis, the mocialite-loving ... style writer!  read more »

The recently married publishing heiress Gillian Hearst-Shaw has closed on a condo in the 41-story Midtown building where her sister Lydia lives. Ms. Shaw paid $1.65 million for a 32nd-floor apartment in the Sheffield building at 322 West 57th Street, city records show. The Sheffield is just a stone's throw from Hearst's corporate headquarters and the offices of Town and Country magazine, where Ms. Hearst-Shaw has worked as an editorial assistant for over a year since her reality show was not picked up.  read more »

Lydia Hearst, the comely, blonde 23-year-old model and heiress, has bought her first apartment. According to city records filed today, she spent $1.49 million in late December for a high-floor apartment at Sheffield57.

Why did she choose a midtown condo conversion instead of, say, a Village studio? “You know, I do love being downtown,” she told The Observer from Hollywood, “but 57th Street? You have Central Park, and it sort of feels like the real Manhattan, at least the way Manhattan looks in the movies... And, of course, it’s right next-door to the Hearst Corporation,” the triangle-paneled new tower designed by Sir Norman Foster, built above the six-story structure that Ms. Hearst’s maternal great-grandfather, William Randolph Hearst, finished 80 years ago.  read more »

On a sunny Tuesday morning in early January, a strange noise was echoing through Ally Hilfiger’s apartment, a one-bedroom condo located in the faddish badlands of SoHo’s western frontier. “It’s the tailor,” said Ms. Hilfiger, motioning toward a closed door from her cozy perch on a white Art Deco love seat.

Before the interruption, Ms. Hilfiger, the 22-year-old daughter of the designer Tommy Hilfiger who herself dabbles in design and fine arts, had been describing a sentiment she shares with a small subset of female New Yorkers: women who are born of wealth, committed to various charitable causes and creative pursuits, but who claim they are weary of the flash of Patrick McMullan’s cameras, in search of a more … bohemian sensibility. These are not Upper East Siders with pageboys and pearl chokers, sitting on museum boards but living below 14th Street, in their own Petit Hameaux replete with easels, dress forms or turntables.  read more »

Though the L.A.-based designer of Rock & Republic, Michael Ball, has expressed disdain for the Bryant Park tents in the past, he had no problem showing there on Saturday, Feb. 2.  read more »

The Michael Awards—the big black-tie fashion-industry smoochfest that gives out awards and raises money for the National Children's Leukemia Foundation—won’t be held until May 7th, but at this early date! The Transom can now exclusively reveal 2007’s model of the year: Lydia Hearst.

“It’s basically the Oscars of fashion,” she said, while picking away at a lobster roll yesterday at a café in the Time Warner Center.

Okay so, had she prepared her speech?  read more »

Heiress and socialite Lydia Hearst, who had been linked with musician Cisco Adler, has a new man.  read more »

For those who may have missed yesterday’s Page Six Magazine, here follows a quick rundown of some of the issue’s highlights:

Just when it started to seem like fresh book ideas from eager-beaver magazine assistants had all been exhausted, Anna Godberson burst upon the literary scene. The 27-year-old writer from Berkeley, Calif., who was an assistant to a literary editor at Esquire for four years after graduating from Barnard, has landed her new teen novel, The Luxe, on the Times best-seller list. Ms. Godberson’s novel, about a teen socialite at the turn of the 20th Century, has allegedly attracted interest “from TV producers, leading to whispers that it could be the next Gossip Girl.”  read more »

An awful lot has already been made of the catty feud between Designers for Darfur’s Malcolm Harris (a.k.a. Malcolm Sirrah, à la Oprah/Harpo) and model-heiress Lydia Hearst. Here’s more! Mr. Harris just wrote a lengthy letter to Gawker responding to today’s news, which suggests that he put Ms. Hearst’s name on his party invitations without her consent. (In short, the letter states that Ms. Hearst, whom he calls a fellow co-founder of the organization, agreed to the terms of his deal. “Lydia and I both have always known the deal - the trade was simple - we do "all" the real work and you use your name to promote the events,” he writes in the nearly-500-word epistle.)

We asked Ms. Hearst for a comment, but she had none. Instead, she said, she plans to write about it in her Page Six Magazine column in two weeks.

We did, however, get a comment from a source very close to the 23-year-old lovely.

“She did the first party; it was a lot of work and it wasn’t well organized enough,” the insider said of the kickoff fête. Held on the last day of last year’s Fashion Week, Mr. Harris apparently told Ms. Hearst that it was going to be held in the Bryant Park tents, but it ended up being at midtown nightclub Roseland Ballroom. “He was saying, ‘George Clooney this and Angelina Jolie that,’ but it ended up being just Lydia having to do all the interviews alone.” For a subsequent party, the source said, Mr. Harris told Ms. Hearst it would be held at the Gramercy Hotel with Anderson Cooper. After she sent her regrets, saying she was unable to attend, he allegedly kept her name on the press materials and invitations for the shindig—oh, and it was actually held at Club Runway at 2 a.m. and 100% Anderson-Cooper-free. “These events started out with a great idea but ended up at 27th street clubs, so she didn’t think it was doing any good, especially for people in Darfur,” the source added. “She just wants to get over it and go on to the future. Lydia didn’t mean to cause anyone any upset or harm. [Mr. Harris] thinks if you’re against him, you’re against Darfur. She just didn’t want to be associated with his association. He’s not Darfur.”

Those kooky new Trojan condom commercials on TV, which magically turn a dirty hog into a beddable dude after he picks up a condom, may work for some people—like, for example, the frat boys who regularly recognize Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively on the street. But when it's time to recruit a more well-heeled consumer to the joys of Trojans, Gillian Hearst-Shaw is the lady for the job.

“Before I was married, I was very picky and selective about who I chose to get intimate with,” she told The Daily Transom at a recent dinner party benefiting ACRIA, an AIDS charity.  read more »

We just had breakfast with Lydia Hearst at the Puma store on Union Square West, where the 23-year-old socialite-model was introducing a bag she has recently designed for the athletic gear company. The heavily-zippered tote, which is offered in both pewter and black-and-blue, also features a large metal carabineer. This addition, according to the press release, reflects “Lydia Hearst’s luxurious but playful style.”

Wearing a tiny gray Hervé Léger dress—luxurious but playful, to be sure—under a black leather jacket, Ms. Hearst came in sporting a new bright blonde do. (She apparently had to dye her beeline locks for a commercial she’s shooting this weekend in London, but for what or whom, she couldn’t say.) “I’ve actually been working on this project for about six months now. I was in London and I just had tons and tons of materials. I wanted something that felt very similar to leather, but at the same time was green and affordable for everybody,” she said of the $125 carryall, which, indeed, looks something like patent leather, but feels like plastic. (This marks the second bag Ms. Hearst has designed for Puma; the first, a similarly shaped number, is called French 77 Racket Bag.)  read more »

In today’s Observer, Spencer Morgan profiles publishing heiress Lydia Hearst.

“I always keep my legs together and wear underwear,” she tells Spencer. “I’m a lot more conservative than the Hollywood counterparts are. I’m an East Coast girl.”

Follow the link below for Lydia on clothes, food, sleep, and what it's like to be a Hearst.

Lydia Unleashed [NYO]

The great-granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst drinks beer, eats meat and walks barefoot on bearskin.  read more »

Looking through Lydia Hearst's column in Page Six Magazine this weekend might have brought on a case of deja vu. In an item titled "Craziness at Cavalli," the magazines model-heiress diarist writes:

Last week, [Ed.: emphasis added] I flew from New York to Florence with three other models—Jessica Stam, Theodora Richards and Erin Wasson—to shoot the Roberto Cavalli for H&M ad campaign. It was surreal.  read more »

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On Monday, July 30, the Transom caught up with model-socialite Lydia Hearst at the Angels & Kings bar in the East Village, where she was judging an American Idol-esque event called Karaoke on the Rocks. “I love karaoke!  read more »