Midwest power pop worth flying in for will be taking place in the suburbs of Chicago on Saturday, May 4. Shoes was one of the first groups ever to appear on MTV, and their basement-made debut, Black Vinyl Shoes, was dubbed by no less an expert than Ira Robbins “one of the finest home-brewed Read More
Hosts like ubiquitous party girl Hannah Bronfman, Mark Amadei and Maureen Nash lure the fashionably artsy crowd (think Kyle DeWoody, Arden Wohl and Bettina Prentice) to the Whitney Art Party tonight. There is an auction of contemporary pieces, but the PYTs are too busy preening for Billy Farrell’s cameras to bid, so if you want Read More
Longtime editor and longtime chain-smoker Lewis Lapham, who ran Harper’s for three decades before founding Lapham’s Quarterly, loves tobacco and will be discussing his romance with nicotine at the PEN World Voices Festival, a salon-style conversation on “Obsessions.” Back when the editor in chief of The Observer was an intern at Harper’s (i.e., pre-nanny city), Read More
Salvatore Ferragamo is celebrating 35 years of its iconic Vara shoe, the pump with a signature bow. The party features 21 “iconic girls,” from New York society staples Lauren Santo Domingo (dubbed the next Brooke Astor), designer Minnie Mortimer, Olivia Palermo and director Chiara Clemente to movie stars Camilla Belle and Lake Bell and supermodels Read More
Author Michael Hainey’s New York Times best-seller After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story will be fêted by Darren Henault and Michael Bassett at their home with cocktails and nibbly food. The book explores the mysterious death of Mr. Hainey’s father, who was found alone and dead in his car at age 35 from an apparent Read More
It’s debutante time at the 72nd Bal des Berceaux, where young women come out (to society, not out of the closet) under the high patronage of His Excellency François Delattre, the ambassador of France to the United States and Bertrand Lortholary, the consul general of France in New York. Over 350 fancy French and Francophile Read More
Novice green thumbs should hitch a ride to Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery (cue creepy music) for “TU-MULCH-UOUS AND TREE-MENDOUS,” a day of free high-grade mulch (sounds like a juice fast ingredient), free trees—provided on a first-come, first-served basis by the New York Restoration Project and MillionTreesNYC—and free gardening advice from Green-Wood horticulture experts. Each tree, Read More
Bubbles never lose their allure, even if we like to pretend, as we grow older, that they are only for children. The Gazillion Bubble Show, a 60-minute-plus paean to the beauty of bubbles that also takes place on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday and runs through December, will undoubtedly delight you whether you are a 7-year-old Read More
The cutesy-named “Purses and Pursenalities” luncheon benefits the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, and this year it honors five fabulous and oft-photographed faces: Betsy Pitts, Claudia Overstrom, party vet/party snapper Patrick McMullan, Susan Meyer of preppy shoe line JP Crickets and socialite/jeweler HRH Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia. The master of ceremonies is decorator Thom Filicia, who became famous on the reality show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and there are of course handbags by designers such as Stuart Weitzman, Cole Haan and Douglas Hannant to buy at the silent auction, so make sure your Gucci coin purse is well stocked with credit cards. Read More
The exhibit “Shanghai Glamour” illustrates the sultry style of early 20th-century women’s fashion in Shanghai through outfits, accessories, magazine spreads, advertisements and photographs from 1910 to 1940. Curated by Mei Mei Rado with an advisory committee of garmento gurus like Harold Koda of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Valerie Steele of FIT, the show—part Read More
