The Eight-Day Week

Anna Wintour, Fashion's Night Out's hostess (Patrick McMullan)

It's Fashion Week in the Eight-Day Week

Wednesday, September 7

Reever Madness

They’re making another Superman flick with some British gent—don’t they know that for screen magnetism as well as real-life heroism, the buck stopped with Christopher Reeve? The beloved screen icon, who became an advocate for the paralyzed after a horseback-riding accident, is remembered at the Christopher & Dana Reeve Read More

Très Tree-Lined Chic

When French designer Sophie Theallet flew to New York 10 years ago, she’d planned to stay just a month. “I was thinking it was time to move,” she said recently, curled up on a couch in her apartment-slash-“atelier” in a leafy corner of Brooklyn. But then: “I fell in love with, uh”—she lowered her voice Read More

A ‘Telly Nelly’ Tells All: Secrets of On-Camera Swish

The media is in a total screaming fag frenzy . We are rapidly moving toward a time when every single homosexual in Manhattan will have his own TV show. As the old taboos against poofters evaporate, the telecommunications industry has finally admitted that gay men, with their animated, upbeat style of communication, are the most Read More

A Dior Dress at $6,000 Discount: Chic Scavengers Hit Bargain Bins

Those who aspire to wear Prada have learned how to shop Manhattan’s troika of “off-price” clothing stores–Century 21, Daffy’s and Loehmann’s–in a single workday. Century 21 opens at 7:45 A.M. every weekday, and there’s a Daffy’s three blocks from Loehmann’s on Seventh Avenue and 17th Street, close enough for a two-in-one hit during “lunch.” If Read More