Olsenstuff Smaller Than the Hype

It seemed like things were going so well for the Olsens. Mary-Kate’s (lack of) weight was no longer the tabloid staple it had once been, and their fashion enterprises had earned them an improbable level of credibility as designers–in August, a flattering article by Cathy Horyn quoted executives at Bergdorf and Barneys describing Read More

Here Come the Braids!

“I’ve been sporting braids for years now,” said Allison Pottasch, 20, who—stopped in Union Square on Monday, May 25—was wearing a loose-fitting purple shirt, jean shorts and a silver nose ring, her thick brown hair parted down the center and arranged neatly into two of spring 2009’s ubiquitous Heidi-esque braids (the Swiss orphan, not the 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