By Laura L. Griffin 9/12/12 11:13am

Fashion Week Observed

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Live Conversation: Thoughts on College Fashion in the Lead-up to the Museum at FIT’s “Ivy Style” Exhibit

The Ivy Style exhibit, opening Friday and running through January 5, 2013, centers on the “Ivy League look,” or what came to be viewed as classic menswear: suits and letter sweaters, bowties and khaki, madras and tweed (but never together!).

As we near the end of Fashion Week, we’ve invited some friends and experts to join us in a lunchtime conversation about the origins  and current state of college fashion. We will be using the discussion tool Branch, and the conversation will begin in this post at noon.

Joining us:

Richard E. Press, columnist at ivy-style.com, former CEO of J. Press, consultant at the FIT Museum
Amy Levin, founder/creative director of CollegeFashionista.com
Lawrence Schlossman, editor at Complex and co-writer of the forthcoming book Fuck Yeah Menswear
Scott Lipps, president of model agency One Management
Mary Alice Stephenson, style and beauty expert
Peter Davis, editor-in-chief of Scene magazine Read More

By Laura L. Griffin 9/10/12 12:21pm

Fashion Week Observed

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A Real-Time Debate on Fashion Week Etiquette: Manners de la Mode

Today, as we stumble across the halfway point of the Blackberry-clutching, cab-stealing marathon known as Fashion Week, we’ve invited some friends and experts to join us in a lunchtime conversation, using discussion tool Branch, on Fashion Week etiquette: In a week so schedule-crazed and tailored to larger-than-life personalities, does civility even exist?

Joining us:
Peter Davis, editor-in-chief of Scene magazine
Scott Lipps, president of model agency One Management
Mary Alice Stephenson, style and beauty expert
Kelly Cutrone, of the fashion PR world and America’s Next Top Model judge Read More

By Elizabeth Spiers 12/07/11 5:37pm

Migrations

AVENUE Magazine Staffers Leave to Form New Lifestyle Title Backed By Jared Kushner

AVENUE magazine publisher Julie Dannenberg, editor-in-chief Peter Davis and creative director Cricket Burns are leaving the 35-year-old Manhattan Media-owned glossy to form their own title, which will be backed by Jared Kushner (who is also the owner of Observer Media Group, which owns The New York Observer). The yet-to-be-named lifestyle magazine will target an audience beyond AVENUE’s traditional Upper East Side domain.

“Manhattan is an ever-evolving island, especially when it comes to real estate,” e-mailed Ms. Dannenberg, who will serve as the new publication’s CEO and publisher. “In the days of Henry James, the social set lived in what is now known as Greenwich Village and from there they moved to Edith Wharton’s Chelsea and onward to the Upper East Side.  [But] we are no longer defined by where we live. We are not an Upper East Side magazine, but a magazine for the affluent household, not defined by neighborhood or by age but by mutual interests and similar demographics. What Manhattan needs is a magazine written and styled for the affluent, stylish, intelligent and savvy man or woman who can and does only exist in New York.” Read More

By Alexandria Symonds 8/13/10 5:11pm

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Christensen, Laliberte, Roe, and the Joan Rivers Collection Pop Up at Reeve Foundation Summer Party

The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation’s Champions Summer Party on Tuesday evening was a welcome reprieve for those suffering Hamptons fatigue — unlike what feels like every other summer event this year, it was held right here in the city, at the trusty Boom Boom Room. Alexandra Reeve Givens (co-chair of the Champions Committee, and Read More

By Tom McGeveran 4/07/08 5:43pm

Socialite Slapdown: The Final Four

The Observer‘s version of March Madness entered a new phase at midnight last night when votes were tabulated for the Final Four face-off in our Socialite Slapdown contest.

The contest—which gained a bit of heat last week when Page Six reported on socialites’ efforts to stack the votes in their favor—closes with four finalists: Publishing Read More

By David Foxley 12/20/07 6:54pm

New York’s Hottest Society Clan of 2007!

Who can claim the title of 2007’s most socially social New York society clan? In a major year-end party wrap cobbled together by Style.com, the aesthetically-inclined Web site asks—and, thank gawd, answers—that very question.

On one side of the party divide is the Peter and Minnie Davis/Tinsley Mortimer Read More

By Spencer Morgan 12/04/06 12:00am

25 Little Socialites

Derek Blasberg insists that he has nothing to do with SocialiteRank.com. In fact, it’s one of the reasons that Mr. Blasberg—he’s a sort of fashion-writer/socialite-walker hybrid who has oft been accused of being behind the dishy, girl-ranking Web site—went to India. To prove, once and for all, that he’s not behind the site.

“Going to Read More