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Socialite Tattoo- thusiasts Say: Thank God It's Friday!

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:00:30 -0400

One weekend later this summer, the tattoo artist Friday Jones will trek out to the Hamptons town of Amagansett to the summer home of two Upper East Side art collectors, who are clients of the Manhattan-based interior designer Wayne Nathan, who invited her out for the trip. The plan is for Ms. Jones, who is covered in tattoos and has wild long hair dyed various shades of red, to set up temporary shop, offer...

Think Lydia Hearst Regrets That American Psycho Video? Guess Again!

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:41:27 -0400

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg was a little more than fashionably late to the reopening of the Guess flagship store in Soho on Wednesday, July 22, which she was cohosting with the Marciano family—almost an hour, to be exact.

The store had been updated with large circular light fixtures and bright red shaggy rugs.

As the clock struck 8, models and celebrities began streaming into the store. Selita Ebanks, Lydia Hearst and other top names from the Ford...

Ouch, It Hearst! Lydia Skips Her 4th of July Party; Gallstones Blamed

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:15:24 -0400

The door at the Social Life Estate party in Watermill on Saturday, July 4, was airport-security strict, allowing only 150 people inside. Guests circulating under the Art Deco–style lanterns strung around a large pool included Real Housewife Kelly Bensimon, clad in a white, floor-length dress; actors Parker Bagley and Nick Stahl (of The Terminator); editor Devorah Rose, wearing vintage Maggie Noris Couture, and publicist Kristian Laliberte. But there was one very noticable absence: hostess...

Lake Rings Our Bell at Whitney Art Party

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:14:03 -0400

As guests arrived at the Whitney Art Party at Skylight on Hudson Street on Wednesday, June 17th, the coat check was crowded with young men and women who unwillingly had to wear a jacket due to the cold weather. Socialite Lydia Hearst had just stopped by to say hello. “I have a plane to catch at 5 in the morning so I have to go home!” Ms. Hearst said.

Standing on the cement...

Va-Va-Vroom! Lydia Hearst's Racy Bus Ads Yanked in Chicago, Dallas and Seattle

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:30:51 -0400

Perhaps sometime in the last week, you were strolling down a Manhattan street when you looked up to see the image of an attractive blonde reclining on the side of a New York City bus.

Upon closer look, you might notice the patent leather green platforms on her feet, the lacy see-through underpants, the hand resting suggestively below her pierced naval, her breast spilling out from underneath an open book covering her chest, the necklaces...

Paula Froelich's Mercurial World: 'Society Is Pretty Much Dead,' Says Sassy Page Six Vet

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:00:00 -0400

Gossip writer Paula Froelich opened the front door to her one-bedroom Soho apartment on a recent evening, wearing a flattering emerald dress with puffy sleeves and woolly, moccasin-style slippers.

She had one hour, she warned, before she had to run out and meet Daily Candy founder Dany Levy and socialite Gigi Howard for an 8 p.m. dinner at Minetta Tavern. But she wanted to make sure the Daily...

‘Beautiful People’ Ooze With Confidence at Overcrowded Paper Magazine Party

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:38:58 -0400

So many revelers turned out for Paper magazine’s annual “Beautiful People Party” at the Maritime Hotel’s Hiro Ballroom on Thursday, April 9, that even A-list heiress Lydia Hearst was turned away at the front door.

So, she took the back door.

The waifish 24-year-old model had been having dinner with her publicist, Ryan Brown, at chef Tadashi Ono’s Matsuri restaurant inside the hotel. After dinner, the pair headed for the...

Miles of Smiles! Hearst Sisters Heading to Egypt to Help the Children

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:05:58 -0500

At 1:10 p.m. on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 3, the 24-year-old model and socialite Lydia Hearst was racing around her apartment, making sure she had everything she needed for her big trip to Egypt. The car to the airport was coming in 20 minutes.

“I’m just doing a final double-check of my luggage,” she told the Transom. Ms. Hearst and her sister, Gillian Hearst Simonds, will be spending a week in Cairo...

Socialites Come Out of Hibernation for Patrick McMullan at Elaine's

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:49:08 -0500

It's been a long, cold, economically devastating winter, but at Elaine's on Tuesday night for Patrick McMullan's party celebrating his 20 years with Interview magazine, the crowd was partying as though the events of the past few months were a bad hallucination. Or maybe everyone was hibernating in St. Barths, Tulum, Vermont, upstate New York, Paris? In any case, with Fashion Week looming, the party people—socialites young and old, the models, the notable PR...

Fashion Roundup: Anna Wintour Dresses Adele; Madonna and Her New Man in W Mag; Farewell, Pet Fashion Week

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:44:39 -0500

Anna Wintour styled British singer Adele in a black Barbara Tfank dress for the Grammys last night; Hamish Bowles was Adele's date. [Fashionologie]

The new face of Myla lingerie, a position previously occupied by Lydia Hearst, is model and party girl Poppy Delevigne. [WWD]

The male model that Madonna has been spotted with lately appeared in a photo shoot for W magazine with her. [Jezebel]

Pet fashion week has been canceled this spring, but the...

Lydia Hearst's Internship Almost As Exciting As James Frey's!

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:00:06 -0500

It looks as though former Page Six columnist Lydia Hearst's internship at BlackBook was, in the style of James Frey's recent visit to Gawker, more of a one-day joke/publicity thing than a long term joke/publicity thing (their former intern, Ryan Adams, stuck around long enough to get his own column!). Ms. Hearst's brief return to the publishing universe consisted of staring intently at a computer through a pair of chunky glasses, stuffing and delivering...

Lydia Hearst's Family is Very 'Sophisticated,' Doesn't Mind French Playboy Spread

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:32:06 -0500

When we saw Lydia Hearst’s French Playboy cover last week, we wondered what the extended Hearst family might think of the young socialite's nude spread.

According to Ms. Hearst's publicist, who stressed that he only represents Ms. Hearst, not the whole family, the Hearst bunch is in fact very supportive of her modeling gigs. Nude or not.

"Her family is very close and has always been very supportive of Lydia,"...

Page Six Magazine's Liam McMullan On New Column: 'It's Going to Be More About What I See Than What I Do'

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:17:27 -0500

As we learned from the Village Voice's Michael Musto, Liam McMullan, whom The Observer's Spencer Morgan profiled in June, will be replacing Lydia Hearst as a columnist for Page Six Magazine. We gave Mr. McMullan, son of nightlife photographer Patrick McMullan, a call to find out what we could expect from the weekly dispatch, the first installment of which—a chronicle of his Halloween activities featuring a stop at the Accompanied Literary Society's masquerade—has already...

Lydia Hearst Wears Her Protest Against Page Six

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:50:48 -0400

In 2003, Britney Spears wore a cut-up baby T (remember those?) with the words "Page Six Six Six" stretched tightly across her chest and showing off her pierced navel. The outfit was a protest against the New York Post gossip column by which she felt burned time and time again.

The celebrity and socialite worlds have since seemed to adjust to Page Six's often chilly, sometimes ruthless, items about their love lives and family...

Page Six Calls Lydia Hearst a Liar

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:13:56 -0400

Yesterday, Lydia Hearst resigned from Page Six Magazine due to what she claimed was a fabrication that appeared in her column, The Hearst Chronicles, on Sunday.

In the column, "Blood Dispute," it seemed as though Ms. Hearst was turning on her family's empire:

Hearst Corporation, which my family owns, continues to host parties even as it folds magazines like CosmoGirl. From an objective point of view, it seems excessive. The crash in the '80s...

Lydia Hearst Ditches Her Column at Page Six Magazine

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:37:53 -0400

In her column in Page Six Magazine this week, socialite Lydia Hearst declares a 'shame on you' on her fellow socialites for continuing to party and worry about their wardrobes despite the current state of the economy. And while on the subject, Ms. Hearst even turns on her own family's empire:

Hearst Corporation, which my family owns, continues to host parties even as it folds magazines like CosmoGirl. From an objective point of view,...

Morning Memo: Angelina Jolie's 'Restless' Kids; Lydia Hearst Serious About the Economy; John McCain Militant (About Ribs)

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:30:27 -0400

Angelina Jolie has trained her brood well. She told Italian Vanity Fair, "I am still restless, but do you know that my kids are the same way? We were in France these last few months and after a while they started asking when we could get back on a plane." [R&M]

Imported socialite Peaches Geldof, who recently implied that she and Chester French's Max Drummey would likely divorce, got close to Donald Cummings of The...

Crash Virgins

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:11:06 -0400

“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 us have to!”

Mr. Zoltowski, who lives in Williamsburg, went to Ithaca College...

Morning Memo: Chace Crawford Digs Palin; Lydia Hearst Soldiers On; Lauren Conrad Becomes an Author

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:31:41 -0400

Chace Crawford is no East Coast elitist! The Gossip Girl star told reporters that Sarah Palin is "quite attractive" before refusing to "talk politics." [US Weekly]

Lydia Hearst is expected to continue with Fashion Week, despite being sent to the hospital for kidney stones on Tuesday. [P6]

Reality show queen Lauren Conrad will be writing a series of three young adult novels for HarperCollins about "a girl who moves to LA and stars in...

Look Out Below! Interview Throws Party in André Balazs's Still-Unfinished Standard Hotel

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:12:43 -0400

As far as Fashion Week parties go, Thursday night's Interview magazine relaunch party at the yet-to-be finished Standard Hotel in the meatpacking district will be hard to top. The Standard is still a construction zone—exposed wire, plywood laid down for walkways, DJs in hard hats—and the effect was very much early '90s East Berlin, except for all the New York darlings wandering around, thrilled at the prospect of a new party venue. ...

At Tara Subkoff Party, Lydia Hearst Muses on Wearing White After Labor Day

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:24:48 -0400

On Thursday evening, a crowd of very well-dressed people gathered at the private club Norwood on West 14th Street for cocktails and a screening of a film directed by Tara Subkoff to promote her new line for Bebe. The film—"inspired from my favorite film noirs from back in the day," Ms. Subkoff told us—starred model Lydia Hearst, whom we found upstairs posing for photos on a white chaise alongside Ms. Subkoff.

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Tara Subkoff Maintaining a Busy Schedule During Fashion Week

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:04:30 -0400

Despite selling off Imitation of Christ last year, the label she founded with Matthew Damhave, actress and fashion designer Tara Subkoff continues to be a presence during fashion week. (Even when she's not making topless models push vacuum cleaners across the floor.)

On Thursday, September 4, Ms. Subkoff will screen her third short film, Fame Fatale at Norwood, which she made for Bebe. The film stars Danity Kane's Aubrey O'Day and socialite Lydia Hearst. (In...

Fashion Roundup: The Richie Rich Girls; Philip Bloch Blocks Rachel Zoe; Agyness Deyn's Switcheroo

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:55:26 -0400

Aubrey O'Day, of Hairspray and Making the Band fame, will walk in Richie Rich's show for Hot Topic. Ms. O'Day also shot an ad campaign for the line with Lydia Hearst. [The Cut]

Rosanna Arquette was reportedly the friend who discovered make-up artist Paul Starr's body in his apartment on Tuesday. [Vogue UK]

Celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch has an advantage over Rachel Zoe because his new reality show on VH1 called Glam God...

Lydia Hearst Bares (Almost) All at Underwear Party

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:46:39 -0400

Last night, socialite, sometime Gossip Girl, and new face of Myla Lingerie Lydia Hearst hosted a cocktail party and fashion show to celebrate Freshpair.com's 6th Annual National Underwear day. (Every other day of the year is apparently not underwear day!)

Also in attendance at Espace were Russell Simmons and designers Izzy Gold and Richie Rich, as well as a bevy of reality television habitues: Elle contributing...

Fashion Roundup: Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone's Vacation with Kate Moss; Eva Mendes' Topless Ad

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:04:39 -0400

Marc Jacobs and boyfriend Lorenzo Martone—whom we still think are not married—vacationed in Ibiza with Kate Moss and her mom, Linda. Ms. Moss's daughter, Lila Grace, was on hand to snap the party photos. [Fashionologie via The Cut]

Diane von Furstenberg is teaming up with the Andy Warhol Foundation to create a resort 2008 and pre-spring 2009 collections of swimwear and other pieces featuring the artist's prints. [WWD]

Eva...

Morning Memo: Lydia's Lingerie; A-Rod's Prenup; The Hilton Endorsement

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:38:50 -0400

The creative director of Myla, an upscale lingerie brand, said the company chose Lydia Hearst to pose in ads because of her "amazing dynamic energy coupled with an intelligent sexuality." Or perhaps it's because photos of New York socialites posing in garter belts will get you to click through. [NY Daily News]

Alex Rodriguez is scheduled to file papers today in Miami-Dade Circuit Court asking that the prenuptial agreement between him...

OMFG2: Lydia Hearst Is Not Engaged to Matt Rains

Thu, 22 May 2008 09:32:13 -0400

Despite Lydia Hearst's misleading Facebook profile updates indicating that she has gotten engaged to Matt Rains, Heathrette designer Trevor Rains' brother, her publicist tells the Daily Transom that she is not engaged. In an email, Alan Rish wrote:

She is NOT engaged.!!!! She was fooling around in her facebook profile, (she thought only her friends would look at it). She met Matt on the plane on the way to the Lifeball in Vienna...

Morning Memo: OMFG! Lydia Hearst is Engaged! Also, Leslie Stahl Channels Serial Mom

Thu, 22 May 2008 08:26:22 -0400

According to her Facebook profile, Lydia Hearst is engaged! After just one week of dating Matt Rains, Trevor Rains' brother, the twinkly-eyed socialite posted the update: "Lydia Marie Hearst Shaw went from being 'it's complicated' to 'engaged.' [Daily Intel]

While giving a commencement speech at the Jesuit-run Loyola College, Lesley Stahl said "pusillanimous," adding that "it doesn't have nothing to do with "p---y." She then tried to say that she said pussycat, but...

Morning Memo: No Cosmos for Kristin; Eastwood Thinks Clinton's a Million Dollar Baby

Wed, 21 May 2008 12:48:16 -0400

Kristin Davis, whose character on Sex and the City downs Cosmos, often gets sent the cocktail at restaurants, but never drinks them because she is a recovering alcoholic. [P6]

More secret weddings! Jessica Alba and her longtime boyfriend, Cash Warren, wed on Monday before the arrival of their first child. [NY Daily News]

McCain supporter Clint Eastwood thinks Hillary should hang in there. [NY Daily News]

Lydia Hearst...

Morning Memo: Johansson Wants Her Makeup; Jacobs Wears Warhol's Wig

Tue, 20 May 2008 08:46:26 -0400

Graydon Carter gets the full Devil Wears Prada treatment in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, a movie based on Toby Young's subtly titled book about his experiences working at Vanity Fair. In the film, the editor-in-chief is played by Jeff Bridges and named Clayton Harding. [P6]

Lydia Hearst says that GG's Michelle Trachtenberg is her BFF while wearing nipple tassels. (Just click through...) [Daily Intel]

Scarlett Johansson reportedly refused to...

Morning Memo: Tom Ford Banned in Italy; Hear Scarlett Sing!

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:28:24 -0400

Lindsay Lohan doesn't want her "girlfriend," Sam Ronson, talking to people, gets upset when she ignores her. [P6]

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

Natalie Portman got peed on by a dog in the West Village. And there is a photo! [NY Post]

Tom Ford's "vulgar" advertisements have been banned in Italy. [WWD]

Go here to listen to one of Scarlett Johansson's leaked tracks from album,...

Socialite Slapdown: The Final Four

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:43:54 -0400

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,...

The Hearst Sisters Bunk Up in The Sheffield

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:24:28 -0400

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...

Lydia Hearst Buys First Apartment, With Citizen Kane Poster, Great-Grandpa's Desk

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:35:47 -0500

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...

The Fauxcialites

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:17:06 -0500

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,...

No Beauty Rest for Simmons! Hip-Hop Mogul Mugs With Lydia Hearst At Rock & Republic Ratf*ck

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:45:11 -0500

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.

It was a standing-room only spectacle. Socialite Lydia Hearst, wearing a sheer white deconstructed dress, had to be hoisted up over the runway to the front row, where she clacked away at her BlackBerry and made hand motions at hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons across...

Lydia Hearst to Get 'Model of the Year' Laurels; Plus, Sneak Peek at Richardson Shoot for Perry Ellis

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:33:57 -0500

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?

“No, no,” said...

His and Hearst: Loopy Lydia Dallies With Prep-School Pal

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:42:44 -0500

Heiress and socialite Lydia Hearst, who had been linked with musician Cisco Adler, has a new man. She met Joe Barney, né Joe Freimuth, also an aspiring musician, at their Wilton High School five-year reunion. “They ran in a similar crowd in high school and just sort of reunited,” a source said. “They’ve been together ever since.”

As for the skeleton key tattoo she got on her forearm, a symbol of membership...

This Week in Page Six Magazine...

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:49:50 -0500

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...

Lydia Hearst Insider Responds to Invitation-Gate

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:56:07 -0500

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...

Gillian Hearst-Shaw Overcame Her Fear of Condoms; Hopes You Will, Too

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:50:38 -0500

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...

Lydia Hearst: 'Support My Bags'

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:53:28 -0500

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...

The Ridiculous Life of East Coast Girl Lydia Hearst

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:06:41 -0500

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...

Lydia Unleashed

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:47:18 -0500

Lydia Hearst leads a ridiculous life.

She is a successful model—despite being 5 feet 7 inches short. She often has her pick of runway shows and photo shoots around the world. In the past two months, modeling has taken her to Paris, London, Florence and Los Angeles. She designs handbags for Puma, and is putting finishing touches on a line of Puma fitness wear. She sometimes stays up all night looking...

Is Lydia Hearst Recycling Tuscan Tale?

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:40:53 -0400

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.

For starters, Roberto held the shoot at night, inside his Italian...

Lydia, Oh Lydia: Hearst Heiress Tells Of Tuscan Travels

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:36:47 -0400

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! I’m an avid karaoke singer,” Ms. Hearst, 22, said, looking glam (despite broken-down air-conditioning) in straight auburn hair and a form-hugging dress of minute proportions. “Unfortunately, I’m traveling so much I don’t get to sing it...