LU is a french bakery company that makes those fancy biscuits and crackers (Petit Ecolier, Pims and Le Petit Beurre) that you find at the corner grocery store. Yesterday afternoon, the Daily Transom received a tin of the company’s Creme Roulee wafers—those long cigarette wafers filled with chocolate and hazelnut—that was designed by designer Erin Read More
The Four Seasons Restaurant, modernist shrine of food and power, celebrated its 50th anniversary on Thursday night. It was cold for June, but fortunately the red carpet was made of always-in-season Astroturf. “The red carpet is green,” co-owner Julian Niccolini lamented. “Alex wanted it to be pink.” He was referring to co-owner Alex Read More
On Friday the Labor Department announced that the country had lost more jobs in November than it had in any single month prior to 1974, a state of affairs one economist dubbed "almost indescribably terrible." And yet every major stock market index soared, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 260 points and your correspondent, Read More
Yesterday, we issued some tardies to the designers who continue to struggle to begin their shows on time. (Even Diane von Furstenberg, the issuer of the original pleading letter asking designers to be punctual, got one!)
Since then we’ve learned that Carolina Herrera nearly lost her mind when Renee Zellweger showed Read More
Last night’s Calvin Klein 40th Anniversary party was held in a John Pawson-designed, temporary structure on 10th Avenue and 30th Street built specifically for the event.
Adjacent to the space—fittingly, it seemed to be constructed from the same building material used to turn Manhattan living rooms into second bedrooms—was the new Highline Park, which Read More
Maybe it was the rain, which had soaked through coats and leather boots, causing a vaguely earthy smell to permeate the packed bleachers at Cipriani 42nd Street; or perhaps it was bronzed, shiny supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who—exhausted from sucking all the life essence from New England Patriot Tom Brady?—didn’t walk the runway, but took a Read More
All law-breaking hedge-fund traders should live in downtown duplex lofts, where they can cackle by the wood-burning fireplace or their tropical aquarium. And their condo buildings should all have decadent names like Sugar Warehouse.
Steven B. Markovitz, a trader that admitted four years ago to illicitly buying and selling mutual funds while the market Read More
It’s a big week for Erin Fetherston, 26-year-old fashion designer. On Thursday, Nov. 15, hours after moving from her design studio west of 10th Avenue into one in the Garment District, she’ll put on a sparkly, short, diaphanous dress, go to a fancy gala, and find out whether she’s won a $200,000 award from the Read More
Erin Fetherston, statuesque designer of feminine frocks (and the next high-end designer to hit a Target near you), attracted a sizeable portion of the Vogue masthead to her show at Bryant Park on Wednesday Senior market editor Meredith Melling Burke teetered precariously on the highest sparkling gold platform stripper-shoes we have ever seen, but still Read More
