The book party for Amy Sohn‘s new novel Prospect Park West (Simon & Schuster), held on the evening of Wednesday, September 16th, was not a place for children. Although the novel narrates the lives of four Park Slope women with dysfunctions galore and young children with names like Orion, Mance, and Darby, the Ochre Store Read More
Navigating the social riptides of Manhattan used to be simple. It was always so easy to tell who was rich and who was poor. The person with the Verdura baubles, mink stoles and Blahniks was the rich lady. The beleaguered individual with the matted hair and the moth-eaten knitwear was the poor lady.
Confusingly, the Read More
Arachnids are back! A predatory fervor is consuming the women of Manhattan, who-egged on by the man-eating flappers in the utterly fab movie Chicago and the male-baiting Bachelorette -are luring large groups of fellows into their webs, via the Web. Whether on J-Date.com, Match.com or the more self-consciously groovy Nerve.com, they weave a seductive cocoon Read More
The odds of me being at a fashion show when Armageddon arrived on 9/11-the second day of the spring 2002 New York collections-were extremely high. But as fate would have it, it was my potter husband, Jonathan Adler, who was, oblivious to the unfolding catastrophe, happily ensconced in the front row of the 9 a.m. Read More
Alexandra Von Furstenberg and Katherine Betts, Vogue ‘s fashion news director, met for lunch at La Goulue on Madison Avenue on March 22. Ms. Von Furstenberg, who is married to Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg and is about eight months pregnant, was dressed immaculately. “She’s still wearing her little Ann Demeulemeester pants!” exclaimed Ms. Betts, who Read More
