In one of the better openers of writing about nightlife characters, this one's up there. André Saraiva — the man behind The Standard's Le Bain and Paris/Tokyo uber-exclusive nightlife destinations Le Baron (coming this September to Manhattan!) — gets the profile treatment in the May issue of BlackBook. It begins when BlackBook editor Megan Conway arrives Read More
Outside the Frick Collection's Young Fellows Ball last Thursday, torrential rain added to the hothouse feeling of the evening's theme, Chinosierie. In the covered garden courtyard, tuxedo-clad waiters ferried flutes of Veuve Cliquot and tumblers of the evening's signature vodka cocktail, The Ginger Dragon. Fittingly, DJ Anton spun his tunes in the Music Room Read More
Tinsley Mortimer has made her first front row appearance at Fashion Week this morning amidst the cocktail crowd at Carolina Herrera. It was our first sighting of the Mrs. Mortimer at Fashion Week, leaving us to wonder if this is the beginning of her return to the public eye. Watch this space!
Another front row star Read More
Men's Fashion Week may have wrapped up in Paris on Wednesday, but a few New York gents invented an entirely new trend Thursday evening at the Park Avenue Armory: suits paired with duck boots. The Observer spotted several guys at the Winter Antiques Show's Young Collectors Night sporting the fashionably questionable but seasonally necessary Read More
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, Read More
We heard you're working on a reality show called The 10021 that takes place in South Hampton?
Yes, it’s basically a show about four New Yorkers living a kind of fashion lifestyle and about how their professional lives intersect with their social lives. It’s a reality show, but it is being done Read More
The crinkly-voiced neo-folkist graces the cover of the magazine’s April “Beautiful People” issue, in honor of which many beautiful New Yorkers Read More
When Park Avenue Peerage posted an item about the Young Fellows of the Frick Collection gala yesterday, the site’s commenters went a little nuts.
One commenter said, “Byrdie Bell rocks, nobody even comes close!“I have known Serena [Merriman] my entire life and the girl is 100% completely full of herself,” said Read More
This morning's Page Six item theorizing that Tinsley and Topper Mortimer may not be dying to hang out together at events like the Young Fellows of the Frick Midnight Breakfast should be an incentive for you to participate in our contest!
See, we're running a bracket competition (very NCAA!) to determine who our readers think Read More
Glamour-obsessed, entrepreneurial and hilarious, Kimora, the star of the Style Network reality show Kimora: Life in the Fab Read More
We’re no fashion expert, but we’re fairly certain that the clothes at Nicky Hilton’s Bryant Park show on Sunday were…bad. Ms. Hilton’s new line, Nicholai, had no unifying theme except shortness, and looked in moments to have been plucked from the sale rack at Forever 21. There was a white St. Tropez-looking bikini The Transom Read More
Derek Blasberg insists that he has nothing to do with SocialiteRank.com. In fact, it’s one of the reasons that Mr. Blasberg—he’s a sort of fashion-writer/socialite-walker hybrid who has oft been accused of being behind the dishy, girl-ranking Web site—went to India. To prove, once and for all, that he’s not behind the site. “Going to Read More
New York Press editors resigned en masse today in a dispute with top management over reproducing the riot-linked Danish Mohmammed cartoons. Editor in chief Harry Siegel's explanation follows: New York Press, like so many other publications, has suborned its own professed principles. For all the talk of freedom of speech, only the New York Sun Read More
