Evelyn Y. Davis, the octogenarian corporate gadfly, is best known for yelling at Lloyd Blankfein, the C.E.O. of Goldman Sachs. Last week, she showed a softer side at the shareholders’ meeting for Saks Incorporated. “We get along fine,” she said of Saks Inc. “It’s not as controversial as Goldman Sachs.” As is her habit in Read More
“I just threw my whole spring line in a bag, and I can mix anything with whatever—it’s all cotton, it doesn’t matter if it’s a little crinkled. It’s kind of thoughtless,” said Nicholas K designer Nicole Kunz. She’d recently gone on a 10-day textile hunt in India. “You know—we’re busy.” It’s as if Ms. Kunz, Read More
On the evening of Monday, Feb. 5, at Loft 19 in Chelsea, models with prim netted buns of hair strutted down a makeshift runway, wearing clothes by H Fredriksson: a beautifully shaped gray wool herringbone pouf-sleeved dress; a black-coated denim jean paired with a black wool caftan coat and silk charmeuse shell; a royal blue Read More
CARRIE: I have 309 days left until I slide into my white gown and float down the aisle in front of 200+ guests at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia. But I don't yet have a white gown. I am anxious and jumpy. "I was leaning towards this Reem Acra dress," I say to anyone who Read More
At 10 a.m. each morning at Lord & Taylor, everyone stands at attention—even the woman at the Chanel counter who has been polishing a Kate Moss poster on the marble—and the loudspeaker plays “The Star-Spangled Banner”: “Oh, say can you seeee …. ” Some employees hold their hands over their hearts. Then there is the Read More
At 10 a.m. each morning at Lord & Taylor, everyone stands at attention—even the woman at the Chanel counter who has been polishing a Kate Moss poster on the marble—and the loudspeaker plays “The Star-Spangled Banner”: “Oh, say can you seeee …. ” Some employees hold their hands over their hearts. Then there is the Read More
Confront your holiday bloat! Do it now! Spring merch is already starting to hit the stores; meanwhile, you need to hit the treadmill … and try not to break it--or eat it! It all started last September, when--egged on by well-intentioned Katie Couric–type people--you went on a post–9/11 comfort-food ingest-athon. Who can blame you? Macaroni Read More
Confront your holiday bloat! Do it now! Spring merch is already starting to hit the stores; meanwhile, you need to hit the treadmill … and try not to break it--or eat it!
It all started last September, when--egged on by well-intentioned Katie Couric–type people--you went on a post–9/11 comfort-food ingest-athon. Who can blame you? Macaroni Read MoreAIMEE: "Eees byooteeful!" says the sweet little seamstress in the Saks bridal department in Virginia, clapping her hands. Once I'm zipped and hooked and facing the mirror, there's a knock at the door and my entourage floods in: mom, dad, my Aunt Anita, my cousin Renie and Karina, the woman who runs the bridal Read More
Jan. 27, 2006 6:10 p.m. 11 pounds Lenox Hill Hospital When Jennifer Gallagher and Adam Fass looked into the dimpled face of their generously sized firstborn, they knew it was worth skipping out on ski season at their retreat in the Poconos. And now that he’s out of the womb, the hefty fella likes to Read More
Jan. 27, 2006
6:10 p.m. 11 pounds Lenox Hill Hospital When Jennifer Gallagher and Adam Fass looked into the dimpled face of their generously sized firstborn, they knew it was worth skipping out on ski season at their retreat in the Poconos. And now that he’s out of the womb, the hefty fella likes to stay Read MoreAIMEE: "Beautiful! Elegant! We'll ghjkflshgkhkhgjkfsd and hgfsdhlkh and BOOBIES and fhkdsahhjkl," the sweet little seamstress with the accent says to me, poking and prodding and pinning my dress all around me. I am trying very hard, but quite honestly, "boobies" really IS the only word I can make sense of and, incidentally, mine are just Read More
A rhetorical question: Is it possible for us in the media to report on gentrification without either cheerleading or, worse (though we’ll be more readily accused of this), coming off as the reverse-snob snobs that want everyone else to leave Williamsburg except for us and our friends? Witness The Times thanking Jehovah Wednesday for getting Read More
Nicole Miller thinks about mortality as she gets her hair did by Heidi Klum's ex Rick Pipino, just before her show begins. The creepy-yet-hot Canadian designing duo of Dean and Dan Caten sandwich Katie Holmes-dumpee Chris Klein at the party for the reopening of Saks mens' floor. Off the courts but still super-jazzed, Venus Williams Read More
The first in a series of what will surely become a regular feature. Ladies and gentlemen, a peek inside office life with Mr. Tom Scocca, the New York Observer's Off The Record columnist. At right: Mr. Scocca's desk, in a photograph taken just now, while he was in a meeting. MediaTom: Did you read Read More
