Don’t mess with Alexander Wang. This message was more than clear. KCD guarded their most sought-after invite with a check-in process worthy of the North Korean border. Street photography happened 20 yards from entry gates. Photo I.D. required. Read More
In February 2009, a young-looking man appeared in the audience of the Marc Jacobs Fall-Winter show, one of the most exclusive at New York Fashion Week. He was not a director, like Marc’s friend and frequent guest Sofia Coppola, or a famous singer, like Madonna, or an actor, but his handsome, androgynous face was already familiar to tens of thousands of fans online. And there he was, in the pantheon. Fashion-show invite lists are feudal and loaded with meaning, and that man’s arrival at Marc Jacobs meant: I am now Anna Wintour’s peer.
An unlikely peer he was. Read More
As a nice break from Googling "Simpsons' Characters" on the Internet and ending up on some weird porn site, Milan-based artist Alexsandro Palombo has taken a stab at turning our beloved Homer and Marge into more classy representations of themselves.
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After the departure of Christian Dior's antisemitic creative director John Galliano earlier this year, rumors were a'swirlin that designer Marc Jacobs would leave his brand name at Louis Vuitton to go take the position at the equally high-end fashion house. But he didn't! Why not?
Well, as he told Vogue this month, the reason he didn't leave Louis was because he's just not that into couture design.
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The hotel guests at Dream Downtown had suitcases, satchels and children piled up next to the check-in counter, waiting interminably for a chance at a room, and as they did swirls of fashionable men and women speed-walked by without a word or a look—they were headed to the last big event of the week, the after-party for Marc Jacobs and his spring and summer collection. The hotel guests ventured an occasional glace at the well-attired cohort with the mysterious wristbands, striding confidently toward the tucked-away area in the back, but mostly they slouched on pieces of luggage and scratched at purple eyes, unknowing of the scene unfolding out of sight. Read More
The top spot at Christian Dior has been empty since John Galliano's rampage in a Paris cafe, but the search is apparently over. And the pride of French fashion is going with an American.
So we already know that the most powerful (business)woman in the city, Mary Ann Tighe, works in real estate. What about the city's most powerful homosexuals, both female and male? That was the subject of the latest issue of The Observer, "New York's New Power Gays," and a good many of those on the list work in our beloved industry, including, arguably, our city's No. 1 gay, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Read More
"Sofia, Sofia!" the cameramen cried at the entrance of Lincoln Center, the venue for Monday's CFDA awards. Ms. Coppola had just arrived. "Kirsten!" they yelled. "Marc!" they yelled. "Sofia! Sofia! Sofia!" they yelled. Then Mr. Jacobs and Ms. Dunst went with Ms. Coppola to the left, to have their picture taken, and Thomas Mars--the lead Read More
“I don’t talk to the fuckin’ press!” Kanye West told The Observer.
We were standing in front of the titan of pop music at a party to celebrate artist George Condo’s first retrospective, “Mental States,” which opened last Wednesday at the New Museum. This is no small show. In fact, it’s a tour de Read More
"I don't talk to the fuckin' press!" Kanye West told The Observer.
We were standing in front of the titan of pop music at a party last night to celebrate artist George Condo's first retrospective, Mental States, which opens today at The New Museum. Condo is known for painting his subjects as wild-eyed gaping clown faces, Read More
Sometimes, the best things in life really are free.
Steve Ross, head of the Related Companies, is one of the city's most influential developers--he is hard at work on Hudson Yards and Hunters Point South, among so much else--as well as one of its richest, worth $3.4 billion, putting him at No. 277 Read More
One Madison Park is the sort of project that, for better or worse, could only have been dreamt up during a real estate boom. The super-slender, super-tall condo tower was the work of two out-of-towners teaming up with some run-of-the-mill architects who actually turned out a pretty nice building, one that has altered the Read More
Natalia Vodianova has been given the lead role in a film version of Albert Cohen's 1968 novel Belle du Seigneur, opposite Jonathan Rhys Myers. [Vogue UK]
The Local, a New York Times blog, has begun doing street style videos. Says Lewis the hipster: "This is a vintage Wrangler jean shirt." [The Local]
The dinner was called for 8 p.m. The hosts were casually dressed, as was the help. One guest, a young man, who didn't know the hosts, arrived in what could only be described as hot pants. He sat down and put his BlackBerry on the well-set dinner table as if he were at a Starbucks. Read More
A whisper of advice for would-be Fashion Week show-crashers: judging from the line for the elevator at Milk Studios last night, it's probably best to skip Lincoln Center altogether and head down to 15th Street instead. Milk had five separate presentations planned for 7 p.m. on their 8th floor, and when we arrived around 7:10, the line Read More
