Vogue Says the Socialite is Dead

In this month’s 8-pound Vogue (we estimated!), William Norwich writes about a new trend: the disappearance of the socialite.

Apparently our city’s young women who’ve made their names attending galas and charity balls are suddenly opting to stay home these days. Why? Well, it seems that the weakening dollar has made the socialites want to Read More

Fashion Week Freezes Over

Brrrr! PETA magnet and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour takes to the tents.

Doesn’t designer Lela Rose, former employer of Barbara Bush, look eerily like a Gore Girl?

Nicole Romano presents a look suitable for Victoria’s Secret “Angels” line.


Silver foxes! Anderson Cooper and Charlie Rose en route Read More

New York World

George and … Hillary

Hillary Clinton spent the second weekend of August in the Hamptons and left with a half-million bucks, $100 of which was mine.

Nobody from the press, no photographers, were invited to the various fund-raisers.

But duty called. First, I needed some appropriate shoes. At the Ralph Lauren store, I scored some Read More

Gay-Marriage Issue Divides Generations

Cate Edwards got halfway through her sentence when the crowd at a gay-rights fund-raiser cut her off.

“While my father and I don’t share the exact same view on marriage …. ” John Edwards’ 22-year-old daughter had begun, and the room at the Sheraton New York erupted in applause. Everyone knew what she meant. “We Read More

Two in the Bush

The Bush twins’ pitchy, flighty vocal inflections still ringing in our ears.

First, “party girl” Jenna: “Ganny, we love you dearly, but you’re just not very hip.” And then the “smart one” Barbara: “Jenna and I are really not very political.”

The Bush twins, our American first daughters, one blond, one mousy-haired, one U. Read More

First Girls Go Wild

On Friday, Feb. 13, photographs of First Daughter Barbara Bush flopping like a wet noodle over the arm of Ecuadorian socialite Fabian Basabe at Sette on Seventh Avenue appeared on the front pages of the Daily News .

And into our usual Manhattan morning cup of steamed Schadenfreude fell a few drops of dismay, followed Read More

W.’s Sister-in-Law Schleps Tell-All About First Family

Sharon Bush, the estranged wife of President George W. Bush’s younger brother Neil, is planning to write a tell-all book about her two decades with the Bush family, The Observer has learned.

Ms. Bush, who lives in Texas, recently visited Manhattan to discuss her idea for the book with several publishing executives. She had a Read More