On the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Diane von Furstenberg debuted a collection at Fashion Week that she dubbed, perhaps appropriately, Beginnings. "Dawn has broken," the program reads. "She is brand new." The loaded title, and flowery text that accompanied it, made no direct reference to the tragedy, and for most of the Read More
For some, the news broke on Sunday night via fashion gadfly Derek Blasberg's Twitter feed: "Film publicist Peggy Seigel [sic] just barged into Vera Wang's living room to announce bin Laden is dead." This was some time after Mr. Blasberg was raving to The Transom about the YSL shoes that designer Stefano Pilati once gave Read More
At the opening of Armida at Metropolitan Opera on Monday, April 12, actress Chloe Sevigny told the Daily Transom that she was disappointed at the absence of Stefano Pilati, chief designer of Yves Saint Laurent, the company that has sponsored the event for the last three years. "I came to hang out with Read More
The auction of Yves Saint Laurent's art collection in Paris last night brought in an astounding $262 million, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the sale set records for works of seven of the major artists, including Henri Matisse's 1911 still life of cowslips in a vase titled Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose, Read More
Victoria Beckham will appear on the cover of Russian Vogue's February issue. [Vogue UK]
Barneys is rumored to be Read More
Socialite Maggie Betts hoped that there would be a secret photo shoot with a wind machine at the CFDA awards dinner last night and there totally was! [FWD]
Former Project Runway contestant Christian Siriano was asked to make a guest appearance on Gossip Girl, but he's still considering. [E! Read More
When French designer Sophie Theallet flew to New York 10 years ago, she’d planned to stay just a month. “I was thinking it was time to move,” she said recently, curled up on a couch in her apartment-slash-“atelier” in a leafy corner of Brooklyn. But then: “I fell in love with, uh”—she lowered her voice Read More
While the particular contents of the collection have not been revealed, it is rumored to be worth as much as $599 million, featuring works by Picasso, Warhol, Mondrian, Matisse, and Goya. Read More
Scarlett Johansson's brother, Hunter, who until recently worked for Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, has reportedly left to work for the Obama campaign. Now they can both have regular email correspondence with the candidate. [P6]
Even though Roman Abramovich reportedly paid Amy Winehouse $2 million to perform at his girlfriend Dasha Read More
Isaac Mizrahi's favorite hair pomade has been discontinued, so naturally he holed up in his apartment and made a lifetime supply of his own, to be called I-Hair. [P6]
Being married to Gwen Stefani means getting used to her untamed fashion sense, or as Gavin Rossdale puts it, "It's like marrying three different Read More
Mr. Saint Laurent, who died Read More
Yves Saint Laurent's funeral has been scheduled for Thursday at the Eglise Saint-Roch, a Baroque church in Paris according to Women's Wear Daily, with president Nicolas Sarkozy expected to attend.
Meanwhile The Daily Transom has received a statement from chairman of Christian Dior, Bernard Arnault, who said,
"Monsieur Saint-Laurent was the Read More
Designer Yves Saint Laurent died at home in his apartment in Paris yesterday at the age of 71. [NY Times]
Tatum O'Neal, who wrote a memoir in 2004 about her drug addiction, was arrested for buying crack on the Lower East Side on Sunday morning from a homeless man. [NY Daily News] Read More
