Gap has a disappointing new logo and that logo has its own Twitter account. [Twitter]
Stacey Bendet-Eisner, alice + olivia designer and wife of film producer Eric Eisner, is pregnant with her second child. [Page Six]
There is a giant leather cheeseburger displayed in the Fifth Avenue window of Read More
After the initial tweets of excitement, the fashion critics retreated to their laptops yesterday and wrote down what they thought of Sarah Burton’s first collection as the new creative director of Alexander McQueen, shown in Paris at the Palais de Tokyo. Below is a sampling of their reviews.
Cathy Horyn, Read More
In Paris today, the first Alexander McQueen collection was shown since the designer’s death earlier this year. The collection was designed by Sarah Burton, who worked under the late designer for 14 years. The complimentary reviews will be forthcoming, but here is the initial response from The Guardian: “Tonight Sarah Burton presented Read More
Courtney Love spent the last week of September posting photos of herself on Twitter. OK, yes, what else is new. Well, the props used in these photos–which by the way are not self portraits and were clearly shot by a friend–are many: an airport luggage cart, a Mac Book, glasses, tights, a Read More
Over the weekend, Guest of a Guest uncovered photos of mogul Barry Diller and wife Diane von Furstenberg lounging around their home in Western Connecticut with the designer’s daughter Tatiana and granddaughter Antonia. This must be Cloudwalk farm, the 19th Century estate the designer owns not far from the weekend home of Read More
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In the past, storytellers have marked the villains of their narratives with a hump or a limp, facial hair, a cigarette, a severe laugh, a harsh light, something black and well tailored or bright and dandified. The 20-year-old villain of The Social Network, which premiered at the New York Film Festival last Friday and will Read More
Retired FDNY firefighter Robert Linhart, 59, was busted outside Madonna’s Upper West Side apartment yesterday, with several signs strapped to his truck reading, “Madonna, I need you;” “Tell me yes or no;” “If it’s yes, my dream will come true. If it’s no, I will go. XXX.”
According the New York Post, Read More
According to friends, current and former colleagues, reporters who like him and those who don’t, the deputy commissioner of public information of the New York City Police Department is “a straight shooter,” “a kid from the Bronx,” “a fierce protector of Ray Kelly,” “a liar,” “a Catholic,” “one of the good guys,” “a bad guy,” Read More
Walking and talking on his iPhone didn’t seem to 29-year-old Kyle Supley like a particularly reckless thing to do on Waverly Place near Christopher Street in the West Village late on a Tuesday evening.
“I shouldn’t have had it out, probably,” Mr. Supley would later say when the Transom reached him by Read More
At 3:20 a.m. on August 8th, West Village police responded to a call from Tenjune nightclub–noted in the police report as “10 June”–on Little West 12th Street after a female clubgoer struck another patron with her high heel. The 31-year-old victim from Yonkers claims that 24-year-old Vera Gjokaj took off her spiky shoe and hit Read More
