Get your masks out, because the social swans are covering their professionally made-up mugs to raise money for Save Venice, benefiting the city that is sinking faster than Lindsay Lohan’s bank account. The theme is very Truman Capote: a black-and-white masquerade ball—perfect for girls to show off those Op Art Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton Read More
Fareed Zakaria was hanging at the downtown haunt Kenmare on Thursday night, raving about Maggie Betts’ new documentary The Carrier, the story of an H.I.V.-positive pregnant woman in Zambia working to keep her baby healthy.
“It’s breathtaking,” the Time editor at large told the Transom. “Her parents are good friends,” he added of Chelsea Piers Read More
Socialite Maggie Betts hoped that there would be a secret photo shoot with a wind machine at the CFDA awards dinner last night and there totally was! [FWD]
Former Project Runway contestant Christian Siriano was asked to make a guest appearance on Gossip Girl, but he’s still considering. [Read More
As investment banks collapse, insurance firms file for bankruptcy, and jobs continue to be lost, it seems that New York socialites deserve some of the blame for jinxing the stock market.
On March 7, Arden Wohl, Derek Blasberg, Amanda Hearst, Claire Bernard and nightclub owner Simon Hammerstein rang the closing bell at the New York Read More
On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 7, at Herve Leger’s Spring ’09 show, the Daily Transom was—shivers of excitement!—seated across from a front row filled with uptown gals.
From left to right, in exact order, were: Genevieve Jones, Derek Blasberg, Fabiola Beracasa, Lauren Remington Platt, Zani Gugelmann, and Maggie Betts. (One of the chairs was labeled Read More
Shepherding was the unlikely topic of conversation on the evening of Friday, Sept. 5 at the Dolce & Gabbana store on the Upper East Side, where guests had gathered to celebrate the release of The Good Shepherd, a new book by Vanity Fair Fashion and Style Director Michael Roberts.
The book is collection of Read More
In this month’s 8-pound Vogue (we estimated!), William Norwich writes about a new trend: the disappearance of the socialite.
Apparently our city’s young women who’ve made their names attending galas and charity balls are suddenly opting to stay home these days. Why? Well, it seems that the weakening dollar has made the socialites want to Read More
