By Daniel Edward Rosen 12/07/11 2:30pm

power broker

Robert Cohen.

Robert Cohen / Robert K. Futterman

As Soho continues its 20-year transformation from bohemian enclave to luxury retail bazaar, brands like Apple and Uniqlo have added to the neighborhood’s near impenetrable aura of luxury and glitz by converting old spaces into fashionable shopping destinations.

But simply boasting a Soho address isn’t always enough for some retailers.To M.A.C. Cosmetics, which operated a storefront on 113 Spring Street for more than 15 years, foot traffic appeared enviously higher throughout the nearby Broadway corridor.

“They were definitely leaving some money on the table by not having all the footfall that Broadway provides,” said Robert Cohen, 39, a Robert K. Futterman & Associates retail broker who represented M.A.C. Cosmetics in its move earlier this year to Broadway. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 9/15/11 8:53am

Party Circuit

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Seth Weisman, Joseph Altuzarra

V Magazine Hosts the Black and White Ball

As Fashion Week draws to a close, the A-list of the industry gathered last night for V Magazine‘s Black and White ball. Guests partied at the top of the Standard Hotel, many (though admittedly not all) dressed in the evening’s thematic color scheme. Carine Roitfeld, Theophilus London,  Prabal Gurung, Linda Evangelista, Cynthia Rowley, Read More

By Elise Knutsen 7/26/11 7:46pm

Shindigger

Dominic Cooper and Paz de la Huerta

Eclectic Crew Turns Out for The Devil’s Double

“What you’re going to see today is equal parts audacious, shocking, um, decadent and wildly entertaining,” announced Lionsgate exec Joe Drake before last night’s screening of The Devil’s Double.

An eclectic audience—including Dame Helen Mirren, designer Cynthia Rowley, actress Zoe Lister Jones, Nicole Murphy accompanied by ex-Giant Michael Strahan, and dynamic duo Ice-T and Coco Read More

By Irina Aleksander 5/27/10 7:35pm

Now in Montauk: Cynthia Rowley

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, here is another sign that Montauk is now officially the satellite Hampton: Cynthia Rowley is opening a shop at 696 Montauk Highway this weekend, next door to the Memory Motel. In deference to the context, the shop will try blend in—there will be no Cynthia Rowley logos or Read More

By Irina Aleksander 6/03/08 2:02pm

Morning Memo: Gays Cruise Home of Cruise and Holmes! And Tatum Offers Free Legal Counseling to Her Dealer

Strand bookstore owner, Fred Bass, is "baffled and amazed" and Cynthia Rowley is "upset" that the city’s promotional agency, NYC and Co., shot the designer in the bookstore for the city’s "Just Ask the Locals" campaign, but advertised it as Midtown’s Kinokuniya Books instead. [P6]

Entertainment Tonight finally retracted the claim that Angelina Read More