More Tidbits From the Tents…Including A Touch of Rue!

“Is Ellen Tracy worth going to?” said a woman wearing a hat that looked like a beefeater’s helmet to Robert Verdi, the style commentator, who at that moment was preparing to interview Hal Rubenstein, another style commentator, about the Max Azria show, which had just let out.
Mr. Verdi was frank with her: “It’s Read More

The Transom

Where Dreams Come True

Andy Hilfiger, Tommy’s branding-wizard brother, crossed the runway. “Hey, boy—hey, girl,” he said to fashion commentator Robert Verdi and Janice Combs, mother of Sean. It was last week at Heatherette, in the Bryant Park tents.

“What’s goin’ on, Andy?” Mr. Verdi said. “We were just talkin’ about you today.”

“Hi, Read More

Maxed Out

Is that really it? After all the backtalk and whispers, the tears and the screaming fits, we expected high drama of the Miramax-Disney divorce. Not the anticlimax of a solemn choreographed speech over conference call. But that’s how Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s long nightmare ended-late on Tuesday, March 29, with a call, accompanied by Disney Read More