8 a.m. Gay couples will protest the city's Marriage Bureau at 1 Centre Street. 8 a.m. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's board of directors will meet at 1 Liberty Plaza. 8:30 a.m. Implications of the mayor's long-term development plan are discussed by the chair of City Planning Commission at a Crain's New York Business breakfast Read More
These past five days in Bryant Park, the anyone-can-be-a-celebrity theory embraced and air-kissed—with tongue!—its own cousin, the anyone-can-be-a-clothing-designer theory. The errant lovers weren’t even paying attention during the lip-lock anyway. They were too busy keeping their chins down and their eyes wide for the strobe-like love of camera crews. Ahoy, it’s Olympus Fashion Week, attack Read More
These past five days in Bryant Park, the anyone-can-be-a-celebrity theory embraced and air-kissed—with tongue!—its own cousin, the anyone-can-be-a-clothing-designer theory.
The errant lovers weren’t even paying attention during the lip-lock anyway. They were too busy keeping their chins down and their eyes wide for the strobe-like love of camera crews. Ahoy, it’s Olympus Fashion Week, attack Read MoreWho Stole the Silverware?
Serial Numbers Hold the Key If you're going to sell stolen silver-or stolen anything, for that matter-it probably helps to know in advance where the items were stolen from, as a mother-and-son team discovered on May 14. They had visited the Silver Fund, a store that specializes in Georg Jensen silver, at Read MoreWednesday 18th
Fashion Week backwash: Ptooey! It used to be that Daisy Fuentes was the de facto spokesmodel for our Latina sisters, but then J. Lo and her monstrous rump took over the MTV airwaves …. Anyway, today that staggeringly successful post-post-feminist magazine, Lucky , helps Ms. Fuentes launch a new clothing line, and we'll Read MoreOn a recent Friday evening-when I should
have been on a date or seeing The Royal Tenenbaums again, or, at the very least, sitting alone in my apartment listening to the Knicks lose to Indiana or Charlotte or whomever it is they lose to these days- I found myself at Brooks Brothers. I'd actually been glad Read MoreI have a friend who, with the onset of the painted-on pants of the mid '90's, took upon himself the imaginary responsibility of issuing licenses to wear butt-hugging garments. (People forget there was a time when pants had no lycra !) According to a set of admittedly arbitrary standards, he might be forced to revoke Read More
