In the interest of drumming up maximal funds—or "transparency"—Barack Obama‘s Presidential Inauguration Committee has released a chart (to be updated in real time) listing the names, employers, cities, and contributions of everyone who donates money to help make January 20 the best inauguration ever. The PIC won’t be accepting any more than $50,000 Read More
The Village Voice has laid off legendary fashion writer Lynn Yaeger. [Fashionista]
Cathy Horyn gets to the bottom of what’s wrong with Vogue. (Summary: The magazine has gotten sort of boring.) [NYT]
The clothing company established for Kira Plastinina, the 16-year-old daughter of Russian billionaire Sergei Plastinin, has officially Read More
Madoff-tainted Walter and Monica Noel managed to rent out Yemanja, their Mustique vacation home, to someone willing to pay their $55,000-per-week asking price. [P6]
People paid around $300,000 for the first pictures of Bristol Palin‘s son, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston. [The Scoop]
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs doesn’t think he Read More
With sales of high-end childrenswear up 50 percent in the last year, designers are set to introduce more fancy kids’ clothes to the market. [WWD]
The highly anticipated spring ads for Chanel (Heidi Mount posing in Karl Lagerfeld‘s home) and Marc by Marc Jacobs (a supine Daisy Lowe on a white bed) are out. Read More
The year 2008 began with an extravagant bang and ended with a painful, economic catastrophe-induced whimper. Here, we relive some of the highlights.
We started the year worrying that pom-pomed moccasin boots were here to stay. Thankfully, we now know they were not.
Meatpacking district original Florent Morellet failed to understand the Read More
After meeting a bunch of girls at Britney Spears‘s birthday party, the romantic Jeremy Piven sent a mass text message to all of them reading "Come to my room—whoever responds first gets me for the night." The lucky first responder was 23-year-old Ashley Chontos, who has been nursing the actor through his mercury poisoning and Read More
Last night, an already suspicious viewership tuned in to MTV’s latest spinoff-of-a-spinoff, The City, a chronicle of robotic LA-transplant Whitney Port‘s wan adventures as a Diane von Furstenburg "employee" in Manhattan. Along for the ride are "co-worker" and grasping socialite Olivia Palermo, who has apparently decided to trade in the crumbs of her Upper East Read More
A new documentary about Carla Bruni, which includes footage of the beginning of the ex-model’s relationship with the then-still-married President Sarkozy, will premiere in France on New Years Day. [Telegraph via Style.com]
High-end LA boutique Tracey Ross, which carried lines like Derek Lam and Thakoon, has shut down. [P6]
Spotted: Scott Read More
Chris Noth-owned Saturday Night Live hangout The Cutting Room will close on January 13th because of rent hikes, though it may re-open in another location at some point. [P6]
If you’re hanging out in Chelsea or Times Square on New Year’s Eve, P. Diddy (and Ciroc Vodka) will pay for your cab home. Read More
In response to daughter Lindsay‘s revelatory Christmas Eve Myspace dispatch, Michael Lohan finally launched his own blog at Mikelohanonline.com. Now that we think about it, we’re kind of shocked that it’s taken him this long. Though the site is only a couple days old, it already contains a wealth of content: There’s a Read More
