Liz Claiborne’s Fire Sale

For the last ten years, Liz Claiborne seemed to be buying everything in sight, especially things that were to most of us difficult to distinguish from Liz Claiborne itself. (Ellen Tracy? Dana Buchman?)

Now it appears that the company is prepared to part with many of its 16 subsidiaries practically for the asking, so that Read More

Ava Pearl Greisberg

July 26, 2006

12:32 p.m.

7 pounds, 9 ounces

New York Presbyterian Hospital

Send over the velour sweat suits, size super-small! Sara Greisberg, sales manager at Juicy Couture, has welcomed a fair-skinned little fashionista who enjoys listening to Frank Sinatra and Elvis and staring at the world with her big blue eyes. Read More

Toodle-oo to Bohos (Phew!): 10 Snappy Fall Finds

“My shoppin’ demons are hoppin’,” said Tammy Faye Messner once, referring to the recklessly acquisitive tendencies that have dogged her through good times and bad. How ’bout you? Are your shoppin’ demons prodding their little pitchforks into your susceptible rump? Are you destined to be burned at that infernal stake called credit-card debt?

Unlike Tammy, Read More

Gold Coast Is Ghost Town,

If you’ve ever wondered how the doormen at those Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue apartment houses manage to muster such enthusiasm for their job-rushing to help building residents out of their cabs and limos, and bustling to relieve them of their shopping bags-the answer may be the underlying threat of corporal punishment that can result Read More