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
ERICA: I just returned from the Modern Bride Top 25 Trendsetter Awards Dinner at the Ritz Carlton. By some insane miracle of divine intervention, Modern Bride chose me and Paper Bride along with 24 super talented/interesting/cool wedding industry professionals for their 2006 trendsetter awards. The evening has apparently been called the “Oscars of Read More
Wednesday 7th
Cars and gals: Volvo , which was the car of choice for socially conscious New Yorkers before they all said “screw it” and put down for the S.U.V. , hosts awards today for unsung heroes -people nominated by their local communities for making a difference, with the winner getting $50,000 donated Read More
New Year’s resolutions are a raging, screaming yawn-unless, of course, you break away from tradition and create them for other people. Why not? Prescribing rigorous personal improvements for others is inarguably more amusing and refreshing than tedious introspection. And it makes more sense: Your insights about other people are far more penetrating than your biased, Read More
When I got home on a recent evening, my wife informed me that an alumnus of the Browning School, my alma mater, had called while I was out and would be calling back shortly. I’d already made my modest contribution to Browning’s annual fund-raising campaign, so I doubted that could be the reason for the Read More
I live on a tree-lined block in Brooklyn. There aren’t many options for takeout, no A.T.M.’s close by and I suspect drug activity in the squatters’ building across the street. Still, mine is a neighborhood in the truest sense. Neighbors greet each other warmly. When the boys on the block yell, “What up, slim?” I Read More
On the gloomy block of 25th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, a line of shivering people, some 500 of us, stretched down the sidewalk and doubled back again. We were waiting to enter a large, dark building. Men working on a nearby construction project squinted. Most of the women were well coiffed, in dark Read More
