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By Dan Geiger 12/07/11 10:00am

The Lease Beat

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EXCLUSIVE: Victoria’s Secret Owner Adds 100K

Limited Brands Inc., an apparel company that owns several major retailers including Victoria's Secret and Bath and Body Works, has reached a deal to add nearly 100,000 square feet of space at 1740 Broadway, a building owned by Vornado.

Limited Brands will take floors 14 through 17 in the expansion and will now occupy about 500,000 square feet in the roughly 700,000 square foot property. The company, formerly known as The Limited, is represented by a team from the real estate services firm CBRE, led by CBRE's New York area Chief Executive Mary Ann Tighe and executives Eric Deutsch and Ken Meyerson.

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By Nate Freeman 11/15/11 6:46pm

Nightlife

Illo: Peter Arkle

The Wee Hours: Close Encounters, Heavenly Bodies at Victoria’s Secret Show

The first thing we noticed about the den of Angels was the smell.

Hours before the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, the creaky freight elevator in the Lexington Avenue Armory rattled up to the fifth floor. As the doors opened, a sharp tang of beauty-product acid smacked up against us, a collision of perfumes cut with a sweet whiff of lotions, the clouds of hairspray gushing from big bottles and wafting throughout the space. Past two aisles of models in pink gowns, beyond the couch where the most beautiful women in the world sat tonging mounds of salad with silver implements, was Karlie Kloss, a St. Louis native who, at 19 years of age, may be the most important model in the world. Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/11/10 7:43pm

Nightlife

A Candy-Colored Night of the Soul With Katy Perry, Paris Hilton, and the Victoria’s Secret Angels

The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show — an enormous, loud and lavish no-holds-barred explosion of sex and skin, wholly and unapologetically resplendent, soaked in excess, overflowing with sequins, feathers, technicolor stripes and oceans of fuchsia-tangerine blast-lighting — took place last night at the 69th Regiment Armory last night.

"Welcome to Club Victoria," a voice echoed over the Read More

By Chris Shott 6/01/09 11:26am

Bikini Babe Fernanda Motta Risks Modeling Career on ‘Thrilling’ Pesto Pasta at Le 55

Restaurants are notoriously risky investments, especially for a supermodel.

"I cannot come here," Fernanda Motta told the Daily Transom the other night at Le 55 in the meatpacking district, "because I love Italian food."

Despite the inherent danger—every carb-laden bite of pasta a potential career-ender for the slender, four-time Sports Illustrated bikini babe—Ms. Motta and her Read More

By Irina Aleksander 10/21/08 8:24pm

Fashion Roundup: Peaches Geldof Getting Divorced?; Fashionites Like Barack Obama; Victoria’s Secret’s Massive New Store

British socialite Peaches Geldolf reportedly plans to divorce her Harvard-grad musician husband Max Drummey, with whom she shacked up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn after a quickie Las Vegas wedding. [FWD]

The fashion and retail industries are funneling double the amount of contributions into Barack Obama's campaign than they are into John McCain's campaign, even though Read More

By David Foxley 11/16/07 7:59pm

A Spicy Reunion

Kanye West was sadly absent from last night’s Victoria’s Secret fashion show—where he was supposed to perform—at the Kodak Theater in L.A. Helping to fill the "College Dropout"’s void was a spectacular occurrence—a Spice Girls reunion. By the looks of this picture on the red carpet, it probably shouldn't happen Read More

By Staff 2/05/07 12:19pm

Fashion Week Freezes Over

Brrrr! PETA magnet and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour takes to the tents. Doesn't designer Lela Rose, former employer of Barbara Bush, look eerily like a Gore Girl? Nicole Romano presents a look suitable for Victoria's Secret "Angels" line. Silver foxes! Anderson Cooper and Charlie Rose en route to Diane Von Furstenberg, whom we always used Read More

By Staff 4/11/06 10:27am

High Heels: a Quentin Tarantino, Mad Violence Sort of Pain

ERICA: I've been agonizing over shoes for my wedding. Not the ridiculously priced $400 pair of shoes I'll likely buy to wear for my ceremony and pictures and then immediately kick off at the reception the moment no one's looking. It's the flip flops I plan to put on afterwards that have been keeping me Read More

By Ralph Gardner Jr. 12/05/05 12:00am

Loony for Lingerie on UES: Padded Bras ‘Very Sexy’-and Hot

Victoria’s Secret’s “Very Sexy” bra collection is flying off the shelves. Unfortunately, not everybody is paying for the push-up, padded, embroidered and bejeweled bodices. And by the way, “Very Sexy” is a registered trademark; it’s not simply a description of the garments given to police after a thief visited the store on Nov. 19 and Read More

By Jessica Joffe 8/02/04 12:00am

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 28th

Sake to me! We called Benihana's founder, Rocky Aoki, and asked him if he's ever gone sake-bombing. " Heh, heh, heh! That's some type of a trend for the younger generation , isn't it? Where they mix the beer and sake together?" Tonight, Rocky and his wife Keiko host a sake-tasting with sake Read More
By NYO Staff 6/21/04 12:00am

Mr. Dylan and Mr. Ricks

A couple years ago, Bob Dylan was playing a concert at Boston University. Backstage, the one man who could truly claim, if he so chose, to be Bob Dylan's biggest fan was waiting: the British literary critic and Boston University professor Christopher Ricks. Mr. Ricks, the acclaimed author of a shelfful of books on Milton, Read More

By Elon R. Green 2/16/04 12:00am

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 11th Fashion Week traipses on, leaving every female in its wake feeling bad about her body , except us (honey, an awkward silence would be comfortable in our body). It's been two days since Oscar de la Renta's show, and a week since we ruffled his ruffles by implying that he'd tacked on the Read More
By Noelle Hancock 11/03/03 12:00am

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 29th

It's boots season, ladies, but the city is also burstin' with balls , so keep your glass slippers by the front door. Tonight the Central Park Conservancy -the folks who keep Central Park beautiful and save the taxpayers a bundle-unveils a "Mystery and Masquerade" ball (costumes encouraged; black tie accepted), where you'll likely Read More