By Drew Grant 6/20/12 10:00am

Menace to Society

Cassandra Seidenfeld, Randy Kemper, and someone trying not to fall over. (Patrick McMullan)

Menace to Society: Where Are the Hamptons, Anyway?

There’s a reason that the Hamptons Jitney is the one bus that New York’s elite will deign to place their fancy tushes on. The air-conditioned anti-Greyhound actually showed up on time Friday afternoon, and the nice lady who came to take our credit cards gave me two cartons of lemonade and a bag of Bachmann’s Party Mix.

Because it’s not a party without Bachmann’s Party Mix.

I made sure to grab a window seat because I was determined to keep an eye on the road. It was time for me to figure out where exactly the Hamptons were. The last time I ventured a guess, it was deemed so clueless that my publicist, R. Couri Hay, had to step in, spinning my ignorance as some kind of adorable party trick. Read More

By Meredith Bryan 1/26/09 6:49pm

Canny GILT Groupe Founders Discover They Timed the Market Perfectly; ‘It’s a Bit Taboo’ to Be Seen Shopping These Days!

"We’re floating, we’re just so happy," proclaimed designer Isabel Toledo on Thursday, Jan. 22, at Shang, the restaurant at the new Thompson Lower East Side Hotel, where designers and socialites had gathered to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the invitation-only sample sale website GILT Groupe.

Upon arriving, Ms. Toledo had been besieged by Read More

By David Foxley 12/05/07 2:42pm

Socialites Lunch at Carlyle to Celebrate Pomegranate Skin Cream!

At the Carlyle Hotel on Monday, ubiquitous New York socialites Marjorie Gubelmann, Jennifer Creel and Byrdie Bell celebrated the launch of Rodial’s Glamatox—a skin cream that calls itself “the glamorous alternative to Botox.” (Katie Holmes, Gisele Bundchen and Uma Thurman have all succumbed to the charms of Rodial skincare products, which use “Pomegranate Ellagic Tannin, Read More

By David Foxley 11/12/07 4:12pm

At Apollo Circle Benefit, Guests Get Big-Screen Treatment

As young patrons of the Metropolitan Museum of Art arrived in black-tie attire for the Apollo Circle benefit dinner, which was held last Thursday, they didn’t even need to wait until the next day to peruse Patrick McMullan’s party pics to see everyone who was there. Images taken by the photographer were projected onto the Read More