The Public-Relations Princesses

Lauren Davis, the golden-haired scion of a bottled-water fortune, was swooshing uptown in a cab from her West 30th Street office, discussing her job as the director of public relations for the fur-centric fashion house J. Mendel. Ms. Davis, 28, who has co-chaired the American Museum of Natural History’s Winter Dance for three consecutive years, Read More

Lizzie, Is He?

When the New York Post identified publicist Lizzie Grubman’s front-row companion at the Feb. 10 Alice Roi fashion show as her “new love,” they apparently hadn’t checked with his wife.

Ms. Grubman attended the show in a “Love” T-shirt and sat next to a man whom the Post referred to as “a financier named Jeff.” Read More

Carolona Herrera Asks Why Women All Wear the Same Thing

If we stay here, they will feel they have to stay until we are finished,” explained Carolina Herrera on a Friday afternoon (read: half-day) at her Seventh Avenue office. “Would you mind lunching at Balthazar?”

Mrs. Herrera’s car was waiting downstairs. Her brief appearance on the sidewalk caused quite a stir in the garment center. Read More