Beautiful women bombarded The Observer this past week at the premiere for Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman‘s directorial debut) and a screening of Desert Flower (which tells the story of Somalian model Waris Dirie), despite less-than-optimal weather at both screenings. Makeup guru Bobbi Brown came to Desert Flower prepared with tips for dressing in Read More
“No matter how much fun I may be having somewhere,” said socialite Melissa Berkelhammer, “merely knowing that at some point I have a 25-minute and 25-dollar cab ride to look forward to always looms over my head like this dark cloud.”
“There’s an enormous amount of energy on the Upper East Side,” said the PR Read More
In the front row at the G-Star Raw runway show yesterday, Tinsley Mortimer clearly enjoyed herself — though whether she was happier with the clothes or with a chance to show off her boyfriend, Brian Mazza, is unclear. Ms. Mortimer and Mr. Mazza, who has been variously described as a “hospitality executive,” “gatekeeper,” and “nightlife Read More
At a party and presentation last night for IMPROVD, The Observer spotted Paul Johnson-Calderon sporting a bit of an uptown/downtown ensemble: blazer and bow tie up top; cutoffs, knee socks and sneakers down below. And in the middle: black nail polish. “Goth is coming back, I think,” Mr. Johnson-Calderon explained, “So I did the Dior Read More
At the 10th-anniversary party for Style.com last night, it seemed statement jackets were the order of the evening: immediately upon entering the party, we ran across the artist Terence Koh, who was wearing an immaculate white one with befeathered shoulders. He looked a bit like an art-world angel — and he informed The Observer that Read More
“I think this is the most incredible day of all week,” Fe Fendi (the very Italian wife of Fendi scion, Alessandro) told The Observer on Friday. A risky conjecture to make on the second day of Fashion Week–but possible, given we were chatting at the FIT Couture Council luncheon honoring fashion’s high priest, Karl Lagerfeld. Read More
We saved our best material from Tommy Hilfiger‘s epic afterparty at the Met Opera on Sunday night for the Shindigger column in tomorrow’s paper, which is chock-full of Fashion Week gossip and intrigue. (Check it out!) In the meantime, here’s a little taste of what we said, heard, and witnessed:
–The reports of Kelly Osbourne‘s Read More
Tommy Hilfiger spared no expense for his 25th-anniversary show yesterday; the invitations were notably elaborate, the runway was flanked by Astroturf, and even the run-of-show lists were printed on heavy-duty paperboard. (And that afterparty, at the Met Opera? We’ll get to that later.) It paid off, at least if you measure success by front-row Read More
We caught up with Carmen Electra at the afterparty for Rebecca Taylor‘s collection yesterday at Hudson Terrace; Ms. Electra, despite the rain, looked lovely and nonplussed. “It’s not been traumatic to the hair,” she said, scrunching her mane with one hand to prove it. “It’s better if it gets a little damp.”
Ms. Electra had Read More
Though it didn’t make Pitchfork’s Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s (it was an honorable mention), it seems that Sonic Youth’s “Kool Thing” is poised to become the official theme song of fashion’s ’90s revival. We’ve heard it at two shows so far this week — Alex Casertano‘s and Charlotte Ronson‘s — and Read More
