The Wee Hours

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Orphan Club Kids Spend Thanksgiving in Chinatown

We were waiting in line outside Red Egg, an unassuming Chinese restaurant in Nolita, a little before 1 a.m. on Saturday night, when we overheard something we wished we could unhear.

“I just love waiting in line like a nor-mal person,” said a female voice, dripping sarcasm.

We knew where she was coming from. There is a certain terror involved in toting one’s friends to an unheard-of ethnic restaurant in an unfashionable neighborhood with the promise of a good party and then finding oneself stuck in a line. In her defense, she was an abnormally tall, abnormally symmetrical and abnormally blond person.

But such is the hazard of clubs like Red Egg, especially tonight, with a party thrown by Interview’s hunky creative director Karl Lindman underway.

“I like the old New York mix,” Red Egg partner Travis Bass told The Observer. “Young, old, rich, poor, beautiful, ugly.” Read More

Restoin-Roitfeld at Reeky Party!

Restoin-Roitfeld at Reeky Party!

It was a night full of women being flattered by men. Men.Style.Com and Kanye West hosted an event called “The Women of Fashion 2009″ in the courtyard of the Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue.

Why Kanye?

“I’ve loved fashion since kindergarten, and I just feel privileged that I’ve been able Read More

French Fashion Prince Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld Corrals His Famous NY Friends for a Photo Show; Look, It’s Mary-Kate!

The guests who crowded into the Collective Hardware space on the Bowery on Tuesday night, Feb. 17, were mostly slender, tall, attractive, long-haired men and women, talking in a variety of European accents. They were there to toast Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld, the 24-year-old son of French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld, who had curated a group photography Read More

The Peacocks of Paris Fashion Week

Now that New York Fashion Week is but a distant memory, the front rows of Paris Fashion Week—which ends Oct. 5—are crowded with editors, socialites and actresses. At the Balmain show, Derek Blasberg sat alongside Milla Jovovich and Paul Anderson. French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld and her daughter Julia Restoin-Roitfeld attended the Christian Dior Spring Read More