In Milan, where fashion week is currently underway, Giorgio Armani recently decided to ban Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn from his show, which took place last night. Aside from the 73-year-old designer’s apparent displeasure with Mr. Horyn’s write up of events preceding the show (and, perhaps, an unflattering comment she made about one Read More
Italian fashion designers Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce have had a riotous weekend in New York. The two men have come to the city to reopen their D&G boutique on Madison Avenue, but they’ve also made plenty of time for partying at The Box, Bobo, Socialista and the Beatrice Inn. Speaking to Read More
The Transom has actually come full-circle to love the recent work of Alex Kuczynski; she writes a weekly column called The Critical Shopper in the Thursday Style section of the New York Times. In her eight months on the job, she’s trashed Sofia Coppola’s films, made fun of women who lunch without eating, questioned vast Read More
Though the discount department store Loehmann’s long ago sprawled into chaindom, with 47 stores over 17 states, most New Yorkers still think of it as their quintessential alter kocker bargain mecca, just as blowzy Filene’s Basement belongs to Boston and Sears is the broad-shouldered, slow-witted son of Chicago. But-and it does feel like a betrayal Read More
Location, we’ve been told and told, is everything. And in New York City, you’d be hard-pressed to find a retail establishment more cannily situated than the seventh-floor gift shop at the W Times Square hotel, which lies, not by coincidence, between the hotel’s bar and its bathroom, making it-like an umbrella salesman perched outside a Read More
Three years ago, Belgian food
suddenly swung into fashion. Restaurants sprung up in smart downtown
neighborhoods, introducing trendy audiences to moules marinière, French fries
dipped in mayonnaise and obscure beers brewed by Trappist monks. But it wasn’t
long before their customers moved on to the next big thing, and Belgian
restaurants met their … Waterloo. Read More
Three years ago, Belgian food suddenly swung into fashion. Restaurants sprung up in smart downtown neighborhoods, introducing trendy audiences to moules marinière, French fries dipped in mayonnaise and obscure beers brewed by Trappist monks. But it wasn’t long before their customers moved on to the next big thing, and Belgian restaurants met their … Waterloo. Read More
