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Brooke, Chace, Chloe! Freebie-Seekin' Famous People Flock to Smartphone Soiree

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:07:22 -0400

During a promotional party for the new BlackBerry Tour smartphone at the Thompson Lower East Side on Wednesday, July 9, famous freebie seekers Brooke Shields, Olivia Palermo, and Erin Lucas, among many others, had the opportunity to get the gadgets personally monogrammed. Et tu, Fern Mallis?

“That’s so sweet,” actor Chace Crawford said to a friend who showed off the freshly etched initials on the back of his phone. “I love to BBM!” Mr....

Sarandon's Shmatte, Chloe's Fridge Find New Home in Tribeca as Housing Works Expands

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:26:22 -0400

Here's one winner of the Big Bad Recession: Housing Works! The organization, which works to combat AIDS and homelessness, has announced that its Tribeca store, located at 72 Warren Street, will be moving to a new location at 119 Chambers Street on Friday, July 31.

The new store will be four times the size of its current digs. Pictures of the bi-level space show floor-to-ceiling windows with natural light and wood-paneled...

Proenza Schouler Designs ... a Magazine! Leather Lass Sevigny Jumpsuits on to Cover

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:11:32 -0400

The actress Chloë Sevigny wore a fitted, leather jumpsuit with a silver zipper down the front and red lipstick as she walked into a party for A Magazine Curated By Proenza Schouler at the Soho Mews space on the evening of Monday, July 13. She made a beeline for designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, who had awarded her the cover.

“I’m trying,” said Ms. Sevigny when the Transom complimented her sartorial...

George and Harry: Our Special Correspondent Gets the Royal Stiff-Arm at Star-Studded Manhattan Polo Classic

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:23:24 -0400

I’m not a big fan of dressing up like a prepped-out Hamptons dork.

Yet, there I was, sporting the obligatory blue blazer, linen shirt, khakis, and suede moccasins, desperately trying to fit in with the stuffy upper-crust crowd watching British scion Prince Harry take on Argentinean stud Nacho Figueras at the star-studded Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic on Governor’s Island on Saturday afternoon, May ...

Adam Moss's First (or Second) New York

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:43:23 -0400

In this week's Observer, New York Magazine editor Adam Moss talked to John Koblin about his use of coverlines, telling him, "A piece of music can’t all be big moments. It needs big moments and small moments."

And sometimes, it even rhymes.

This week's New York features a cover package called My First New York, that starts with a curtain-raising essay by Adam Sternbergh about his first memories of New York ("murder, mayhem, killer...

Chloe Sevigny, Miss East Village, Waxes on Changing Nabe and Embattled Beatrice

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:20:02 -0400

The actress Chloe Sevigny arrived at the long-standing Kiehl's store at 109 Third Avenue on Thursday, April 9, in petal pink lipstick and a black minidress with eyelets along the side, exposing little circles of fair skin.

Ms. Sevigny, 34, who lives just three blocks away, was asked to host the celebration of Kiehl's 158-year-old history with the unveiling of a few renovations (mostly small) at the flagship store to make it look even closer...

For Sale: Chloe Sevigny's Refrigerator, Kelly Killoren Bensimon's Sneakers, Chuck Schumer's Tie

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:21:14 -0500

On Saturday, March 7, a beaded vintage evening jacket belonging to Real Housewives of New York cast-member Alex McCord will be auctioned off at the Tribeca Spring Preview Housing Works sale.

"It's a kind of bolero jacket with beads all over it," Ms. McCord told the Daily Transom about the jacket that she bought at an estate sale about a decade ago. "It's a very old piece that has been cared for over the years...

The Week in DVR: Big Love for Big Love, Comedy Central's New Funnyman, Truffaut's Blows

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:54:05 -0500

Monday: Big Love
Since you were busy watching the Oscars on Sunday night, chances are you missed Big Love. That's okay; we miss the show a lot ourselves. Still, when we have watched it this season, Big Love has been fantastic. For all the press that the casts of Mad Men and Lost rightly get, doesn't it seem like everyone is quietly napping on Bill Hendrickson and his lovely wives? The lack of...

Fashion Roundup: H&M to Open 225 Stores This Year; MTV's House of Style to Return?; Chloe Sevigny vs. the Sock Man

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:53:07 -0500

H&M has reported strong growth in 2008; the Swedish chain plans to open 225 stores worldwide and add 7,000 jobs this year. [WWD]

Pierre Berge, the longtime partner of Yves Saint Laurent, is getting ready to finally sell off the late designer's highly prized art collection, which took over 30 years to acquire and includes works by Picasso, Mondrian and Matisse. [Vogue UK]

Bloomingdale's announced that it will begin to hold monthly open-sees--the first being...

Morning Memo: Martha Stewart's Bad Luck; Kirsten Dunst Spotted Snogging Drew's Ex; Spike Lee Defends Barack Obama

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:54:52 -0400

Martha Stewart has been the victim of natural disasters this summer. First, Ms. Stewart's farm in Bedford, N.Y. was struck by lightning earlier this summer, and now her East Hampton home on Lily Pond Lane was also struck with a bolt, which fried her stereo system and her electronic driveway gate. [P6]

Kirsten Dunst was spotted making out with Drew Barrymore's ex Justin Long at Sunset Junction in LA, where she seems to have returned...

The Fashion Industry Wants a Piece of Olympics Pie

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:18:44 -0400

It's the most fashionable Olympics ever! The fashion industry--usually more well known for lack of nutrition than for athleticism--is now angling for a piece of the Beijing Games. Ralph Lauren outfitted the entire U.S. team for both the opening and closing ceremonies; Lucy Liu posed for an "Olympics"-themed spread in Harper's Bazaar in which she boxed, shot arrows, and weight-lifted handbags in evening gowns; on this week's episode of Project Runway, contestants designed outfits...

Morning Memo: Chloe Sevigny, 'Eco-Nazi'? Angelina Jolie Pregnant With Twins

Thu, 15 May 2008 09:22:33 -0400

Chloë Sevigny has turned into an "Eco-Nazi" with her anti-plastic-bag ways. [The Cut]

Gossip Girl News! The guy who plays Dan's father, Rufus, thinks Dan and Serena make a "a very hot couple" in real and Gossip worlds, which is kind of ew. Meanwhile, GG's lead torturer Michelle Trachtenberg was in fact the torturee in her private Los Angeles high school. [People, Daily Intel]

Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has moved into an apartment on West 66th Street...

Morning Memo: Meryl, Liz and Katie Get Poetical; Four Seasons in Power-Lunch Comeback?

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:37:49 -0400

Tom Freston has put Andy Warhol's East 66th Street apartment on the market for $38.5 million, according to Page Six. The 12-room, six story apartment was originally bought by Mr. Warhol for $310,000 in 1974; Mr. Freston bought the property in 2000 for $6.5 million. [P6]

Thanks to Eliot Spitzer and Ashley Dupre's infamous rendezvous, the Mayflower hotel's gift-shop has seen a major boost in sales due to people buying up souvenirs adorned with the...

Swede Sensation: 21 Club Shudders as Adams, Sevigny Encase Buttocks in Snug Euro-Denim

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:37:42 -0400

As guests arrived at the 21 Club on the evening of Friday, March 28, for a party celebrating the opening in Soho of Acne Jeans’ first American store two days earlier, the Stockholm-based label’s creative director, Jonny Johansson, sat cross-legged in a plush red banquette, talking with the Transom about denim.

“If you had to choose one garment today that’s the most important garment in fashion, I would say it’s a basic...

Misshapes to Go Digital (Soon!)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:03:14 -0500

The expansion and promotion of the Misshapes's je ne sais quoi continues apace. After months of planning, construction and a few obligatory hiccups, the downtown-dwelling, party-deejaying, trendsetting trio’s official Web site will launch, they say, as early as next week. The group hopes that by cutting the digital ribbon in the midst of all the mayhem at Bryant Park, the fashion-minded site can tap into the event's publicity machine.

“There were...

Vice Photo Editor Gets Solo Show, Exhibits "Weirder" Images

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:19:29 -0500

On Thursday, Jan. 17, Manhattan photographer Patrick O’Dell sent a message to his friends on MySpace urging them to come to the opening of his first solo exhibit.

“I have a fear this is going to be like my birthday or whenever else I invite everyone I know to something and like 4 people show up...I've already had bad dreams about it,” he wrote.

On the contrary, Mr. O’Dell’s opening Saturday...

Chloë Sevigny Pretends to Have Drug Problems for Harper's Bazaar

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:53:01 -0500

There’s something undeniably alluring about Chloë Sevigny. The moment we met her in director Larry Clark’s Kids, her unique sense of style came wafting off the screen, securing her place in the fashion zeitgeist. Even now, on HBO’s Big Love, the 33-year-old actress manages to make polygamy attractive—perhaps it has something to do with those just-rolled-out-of-bed eyes. So cool her vibe and refreshing her style, it almost seems like she could do no...

Chloe Sevigny Shops at Kiehl's to Relieve Dry Hands, Address AIDS Worldwide

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:15:05 -0500

On Saturday, World AIDS Day, New Yorkers marked a grave occasion in the usual fashion: with retail!

Among those who turned up at the Kiehl's store on Third Avenue, where motorcyles adorn the windows and a portion of the day's proceeds went to the cause, were Dina and Alli Lohan (Lindsay is so last year). Chloe Sevigny, in massive leather Cloak coat and gray knit beret, ducked in to do her part, gamely posing...

Meet the Wuz Girls

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:43:27 -0400

It’s the light, a kind of fire in the eyes, sometimes flaming, sometimes smoldering. It’s a gravitational force, sucking the attention of anyone around. It makes a decent actress seem great. It’s elusive, and not for sale. It’s natural, organic, innocent yet vaguely dangerous. And, like the best things in life, it’s fleeting.

It’s It: the thing every girl wants, only some girls have, and no girl gets to keep. A...

Von Trier Tackles Slavery; Still Hasn't Visited the U.S.

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:00:00 -0500

Lars von Trier’s Manderlay, from his own screenplay, is the second installment of Mr. von Trier’s “American” trilogy following Dogville (2003), and is said to have been “inspired” by Jean Paulhan’s “Happiness Is Slavery” (the preface to Pauline Reage’s Story of O—purportedly a true story of Barbados slaves who unsuccessfully begged to be re-enslaved, then killed their former master and moved back into their old quarters). Mr. von Trier has transposed this perversely retrogressive...

Imitation of Christ, Minus Two

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:39:00 -0400

Tonight's hopping Imitation of Christ show featured many of the usual suspects passing through its metal detectors. (Which is a bit odd, really. Was the hipster fashion crowd expecting... terrorists? Gang members?) Still, two faces were notably absent. The first was Vogue fashion news editor Sally Singer; the second was hipster fashion queen Chloe Sevigny. In Ms. Singer's case, The Transom can think of a million reasons for her absence. But as for Ms. Sevigny,...

Mr. Skin Invades Sundance

Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:00:00 -0500

As the Sundance Film Festival kicks into high gear, Jim McBride's operatives will be watching. They will sit through the endless screenings and premieres and scrutinize them with the zeal of an up-and-coming Miramax executive waiting to score his first important acquisition. High on their list will be Angela Robinson's D.E.B.S. , a film that, judging from its promotional photo, will somehow involve gun-wielding teenage girls in pleated plaid skirts; Stephen Fry's 1930's period...

Chloë Sevigny

Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:00:00 -0500

New Queen of the Indies-Shattered Glass, The Brown Bunny, Dogville-wants to be … Nicole Kidman

Pardon the phrase, but Chloë Sevigny was blowing my mind. Ms. Sevigny, star of Shattered Glass and The Brown Bunny, was calling from an undisclosed airport lounge where she was talking about fear. "I think I just have to not be afraid to challenge myself and to take on roles that I might be afraid of." It was...

My Vagina Monologue

Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:00:00 -0500

The other night I saw a TV commercial where two guys wearing overcoats go to a "streaking party." Five beautiful women wearing bathrobes open the door. The guys flash them; the women look down at the men's equipment and don't react. The guys get nervous and close their coats.

You can't get through one day these days without a reference to penis size. It's always been talked about, of course, but previously there was at...

Sayonara Toronto! Thanks-I Think

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:00:00 -0400

Heading into last week's homestretch at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival, I began to realize, somewhere between The Best of Youth , a six-hour challenge about an embattled Italian family told against the unraveling social and political events of the last 40 years, and The Saddest Music in the World , one of an endless array of Canadian bores, with Isabella Rossellini playing a Winnipeg baroness and double amputee (I couldn't make this...

Vincent Gallo's Bunny Trop

Sun, 08 Jun 2003 20:00:00 -0400

Vincent Gallo posed a question. "Would you want to go see your movie with 3,500 people?" the shaggy-haired, fierce-eyed filmmaker asked, his sinewy voice piercing the Art Deco stillness of Petrossian. "Just think about it. Would you want to go see your movie with 3,500 opinions?"

Mr. Gallo clanked his fork against his untouched plate of grilled octopus. "It's not a good thing to do," he said. "It's better to stay in your own delusion....

Chloe Sevigny's Big Brother Paul Quits Commodities, Spins Platters

Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:00:00 -0500

A few years ago, Paul Sevigny was an average Wall Street guy in a suit who knew nothing about Manhattan nightlife. He got up at 4:15 a.m. to catch a train from Connecticut. Now he can be found at the same hour, still wearing a suit, but playing records at nightclubs until dawn, when he goes home to his East Village apartment and sleeps. The 29-year-old is known in the gossip columns as the...