By Kat Stoeffel 10:28am

Feuds

Chanel Boutique Inauguration - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2012

Karl Lagerfeld Still Angry at Tina Brown, Calls Newsweek ‘Shitty Little Paper’

In January, Newsweek style writer Robin Givhan published a thoughtful essay about the influence of fashion’s foot-in-mouth Renaissance man Karl Lagerfeld.

“Karl Lagerfeld is overrated,” it began. “Such a statement rings like heresy within a fashion universe where the highly acclaimed designer struts upon his lofty stage as the creative director of Chanel—but it’s true.”

It rang like heresy to Mr. Lagerfeld, anyway. He’s been punishing Newsweek boss Tina Brown for it ever since.  Read More

By Jessica Schultz 2/24/12 4:33pm

Plains Trains & Automobiles

I feel the earth, move, under my feet. (MTA)

These Residents Feel the Earth, Move, Under Their Feet: Construction Has 72nd Street Going Bonkers

The MTA is going beyond the call (literally as phone calls and angry messages are filling up their inboxes) of duty to ensure that residents on the Upper East Side are getting a good night’s sleep.

After repeated complaints that residents are being kept awake at night by construction at the future 72nd Street subway station, the MTA will begin offering nighttime visits to apartments around the area. Engineers from the agency will start their visits starting around 10 p.m. in order to hear the noise and feel the pain that residents are going through while construction continues on the Second Avenue subway line. Read More