Everyone knows it’s not the friends you make on the way up but the ones you keep on the way down that matter. Recently ex-French Vogue editor Corine Roitfeld ran into a supporter on her way out of her son Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld’s art exhibition: Vladimir’s ex-girlfriend, supermodel Lily Donaldson. “Thank you so much for the Read More
Everyone knows it’s not the friends you make on the way up but the ones you keep on the way down that matter. Recently ex-French Vogue editor Corine Roitfeld ran into a supporter on her way out of her son Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld’s art exhibition: Vladimir’s ex-girlfriend, supermodel Lily Donaldson. “Thank you so much for the Read More
In New York sightings of celebrities are commonplace but sightings of a genuine royal are rare. At last night’s Retna opening while everyone was staring at Lily Donaldson and Amanda Hearst, a member of Monaco’s royal family slipped in so subtly that no one in the crowd noticed or seemed to care. No one even Read More
The first show of Fashion Week is always greeted with an air of excitement. But, still, a few words to the wise on the matter.
Wear flat shoes because you will be standing around – a lot. Wear clothing that can take you from New York’s freezing weather to the furnace — like, for example, Read More
Kate Betts has experienced her share of ups and downs during her years in the fashion world–and honey, we don’t mean hemlines.
After beginning her career as a hard-charging reporter in WWD‘s Paris bureau and rising to the rank of bureau chief, she was hired by Anna Wintour at Vogue, where she served as fashion Read More
Hayden Christensen, Eve and Russell Simmons were in the house for a Cinema Society party.
Although Cinema Society’s Vanishing on 7th Street’s screening afterparty at Beauty & Essex was not the official start to Fashion Week, it had the blessing of the God of Going Out himself, Russell Simmons. No Fashion Week could possibly begin Read More
It’s the New Year, and the Oscar race is on. On Monday, two events took place promoting Oscar-worthy pictures, a private lunch and talk for The King’s Speech and the New York premiere of Barney’s Version.
It was fitting that at a lunch given for The King’s Speech—the brilliant film about King George Read More
In New York City certain restaurants cater to a sophisticated European crowd, where droves of cashmere turtleneck-wearing men and beautiful women in tight black trousers seem to be transported for the night (you never see their kind on the subway). The Cipriani restaurants are the mothership and eating there means that you will dine in Read More
The moment sisters-in-law Veronica Swanson Beard and Veronica Miele Beard (both married to nephews of Peter Beard) first dreamed up their eponymous fashion label, Veronica Beard, they knew exactly who should be wearing their clothes. “When we thought of our ideal customer, we had Gwyneth in mind,” said the soigné brunette, Veronica M. The burgeoning Read More
