Overheard in the Front Row of the Honor Fashion Show
During our continued observance to bring you everything non-fashion-related to Fashion Week, here is what we overheard on the front row of today's Honor show at Lincoln Center. Read More
Fabiola Beracasa
Shindigger: Five Floors of Art in Tribeca
At the New York Academy of Art's Tribeca Ball, the city gathered to honor--and possibly buy!--the work of academy students, displayed over the academy's five floors. This wasn't idle gazing: Naomi Watts was spotted deep in conversation with several young artists. "I bought something downstairs! It will make a lot of sense to my children," Read More
Why Georgina Bloomberg Stays Out of Politics, and Fabiola Beracasa and Moby’s Best Dog Stories, at the Humane Society Gala
The Humane Society is not a hypocritical organization -- and so the cuisine served at its benefit gala Wednesday night was, fittingly, vegan. (Munching on seitan chops, The Observer barely missed the meat and cream.) The event packed 525 animal lovers, including Topper Mortimer, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Hunt Slonem, Sharon Bush, and co-chairs Amanda Read More
Ladies Room Confidential
In the essay "If You Sprinkle," from her new book How Did You Get This Number, Sloane Crosley writes about a project she undertook while studying at Columbia. She visited ladies' rooms around the city. In a bathroom at a Chinese restaurant, she ran into an old friend; at a bathroom at Henri Bendel's, a Read More
They’re Slacking: Prima Donnas Pick Pants for Met’s Opening Gala
On Monday, April 12, at the Metropolitan Opera's opening-night performance of Rossini's Armida, the Transom decided to sort the famous people who truly enjoy the cries of Renée Fleming from those who come for the fashion spectacle that the event has become ever since Yves Saint Laurent became the official sponsor three years ago.
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Models Mob the Met!
The theme of this year’s Met Costume Institute Gala—i.e., the Oscars of the East—was “the Model as Muse,” and the weedlike mannequins floating up the red carpet in weapons-grade shoes and teensy get-ups appeared only moderately more human than the “superheroes” that inspired last year’s ball.
Molly Sims called her elaborate gold Dolce & Gabbana Read More
Fashion Week’s Brave Face
At Diane von Furstenberg’s afternoon show on Sunday, Feb. 15, the front-row guests simply would not settle down—but perhaps everyone was simply thrilled they didn’t have to put their sad faces on in sympathy for the economy. “We need this!” said Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn, glancing around the tent at Bryant Park. “We need Read More
Elise Overland Calls Her Presentation More of an ‘Event’; Bring on the Open Bar!
Elise Overland's presentation on Valentine's Day was not exactly a presentation in the traditional sense. The models, wearing mini dresses, leather gloves and colorful lambskin blazers, spent time standing on a platform, but also took three walks down a runway throughout the course of the hour and a half "presentation."
Ms. Overland had warned us that Read More
Young Socialites Leaving the Parental Nest–Or Not
Ambitious twenty- and thirty-somethings in New York working in creative fields are living with their parents instead of getting a place of their own, reports Page Six Magazine. The magazine cites the celebrity examples of socialites Fabiola Beracasa, 32, and Charlotte Ronson, 31, who just this year left their respective parents' lush residences--socialite Read More
Harvey Weinstein Banking on Americans’ Love for a Good Cry
"I hope you brought tissues," said Brooke Geahan, whose Accompanied Literary Society hosted a screening of Stephen Daldry's The Reader at the Tribeca Grand on Monday, Nov. 24. "It's a crier!"
Mr. Daldry's film is an adaptation of German writer Bernhard Schlink's bestselling novel starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, and 18-year-old David Kross. The Read More
What Did Everyone Do on Halloween?
While Allison Sarofim's annual Halloween party took place the weekend before Halloween, most people celebrated on the actual day since this year it fell on Friday--and there were plenty of masquerades and balls for New York's socials to attend. Some stopped by the several parties going on around town, while others camped out Read More
Bleeding for Zaha: Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld Can Only Hope to Contain Her
In an age where Damien Hirst errata have joined gold and United States government bonds in the shrinking pantheon of safe investments, can contemporary art still be dangerous?
More to the point, can contemporary art be dangerous when it's held in something of a polyurethane uterus, a haute-culture billboard designed by deconstructivist goddess Zaha Hadid, Read More
The Transom in Print, Oct. 15, 2008: Socialite Halloween!; Kim Hastreiter’s Book on Geoffrey Beene; Chris Wilson’s Tall Tale
Irina Aleksander called around to find out the costumes prominent New Yorkers are wearing this Halloween. Celerie Kemble's going to need a lot of hairspray!
Ms. Aleksander also moseyed down to Diane von Furstenberg's meatpacking district store, where the fashion empress was throwing a party for Paper mag's Kim Hastreiter's new book about Geoffrey Read More
Crash Virgins
“I have zero investments, for better or for worse,” said 26-year-old Ben Zoltowski, a senior print project manager at the advertising agency McCann Erickson. “I feel like New York is already difficult enough to live in financially! I’m used to living paycheck to paycheck and living frugally, because we sort of have to. Most of Read More
The Best-Dressed at the New Yorkers for Children Benefit
Sep. 17, 2008 The Best-Dressed atthe New Yorkersfor Children Benefit
On Tuesday, Sept. 16, the post-work crowd on 42nd Street was treated to a procession of coquettish cocktail dresses and floor-sweeping evening gowns worn by Manhattan's uptown set as they exited their chauffeured cars--or pedicabs as we saw in the case of one unfortunate Read More
