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
Stefano Tonchi — the editor of W and, to put it lightly, a very sharp dressed man — stood unblinking at the DVF Studio in the Meatpacking District Wednesday night. His hand held no cocktail, and he waved off a number of the choice hors d’oeuvres: seared tuna, quiche, salmon roe. He posed for a few pictures and then talked to Read More
“Oh, I beg your pardon, sorry!” Tina Brown exclaimed to The Observer at the Diane von Furstenberg show yesterday. She was looking for her seat and, for a moment, had mistaken us for an assistant. “I’m not asking you for our seat assignment!” Ms. Brown did eventually find her placement — it was in the Read More
We, somewhat unexpectedly, spent Fashion’s Night Out in the Meatpacking District last night; we’d planned to head over to Soho, but after we saw the parties Diane Von Furstenberg and Catherine Malandrino were throwing, couldn’t tear ourselves away.
Ms. Von Furstenberg spent the evening flitting back and forth between her Washington Street boutique and fittings Read More
“I tell you, I Twitter. And the first day I Twittered, I got robbed. I had only sent two Twitters, and then I was in Madrid in a museum and I got robbed. So I Twittered, ‘I got robbed,’ and wow! Did I see the power! It was all over, and I felt so bad, Read More
“Ah. Good evening,” sighed Diane von Furstenberg at the podium at the start of the Council of Fashion Designers of America award ceremony last night at Lincoln Center. She was dressed in a fluttery blue dress with colorful stripes. “Everyone is in such a good mood.”
The awards at Alice Tully Hall were scheduled to Read More
Last night, Diane von Furstenberg announced the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s 2010 award nominees, and the names among the top categories are, well, somewhat predictable. Marc Jacobs (also nominated last year), Donna Karan, and Alexander Wang are competing for Womenswear Designer of the Year. Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Wang are also nominated in Read More
The night after the Academy Awards, where Barbra Streisand gravely told an audience of Hollywood personages that “the time has come” and handed the Best Director Oscar to Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to ever take the award, New York designer Diane von Furstenberg hosted a party at her meatpacking district store for International Women’s Read More
“In fashion, you’re either in or you’re out.” So says Teutonic temptress Heidi Klum at the beginning of every episode of Project Runway, currently unspooling its seventh season on Lifetime.
Achtung! If Heidi were correct, I would be out of a job and so would vast numbers of other fashionably employed New Yorkers. Thankfully, Mrs. Read More
America yearns for dirty details on the red-hot bold-name couple that is Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg. Today, the Post teases a von Furstenberg interview coming in Thursday’s Page Six Magazine.
What will Diane discuss?
Love:
“Barry has loved me unconditionally for 34 years.”
Loss:
“I did leave him, and I Read More
