By The Editors 11/16/11 9:48am

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Evelyn Lauder.

Guiltiest Pleasures

The sad passing of Evelyn Lauder this week has us wearing our pink ribbons proudly (and also buying up half of Estée Lauder’s cosmetic counter at Bloomingdale’s). The cancer survivor, advocate and entrepreneur was one hell of a lady. You’d have to be to have Estée Lauder as a mother-in-law (we imagine her as the perfume magnate version of Anna Wintour’s surrogate in The Devil Wears Prada). But even a real Mommy Dearest couldn’t hold a candle this week to Patti Labelle. Read More

By George Gurley 12/06/04 12:00am

The Prisoner of Crobar

“I’ve never been so sick in my life, and I wasn’t even partying last night,” said Peter Tunney, 43, at Cipriani Downtown one recent afternoon. He didn’t look sick. With his ruddy complexion, full head of blond hair, and honking style of speech, he seemed like someone who’d spent the day sailing on the North Read More

By NYO Staff 12:00am

Beard and the Breasts … Love, Via Philip Roth

Beard and the Breasts

When Peter Beard photographed the bare-chested, 17-year-old Fayel Tall near Lake Rudolph in Kenya in 1987, the young African woman says she thought no one would ever see the portrait. Ten years later, in November 1997, while she was working in a boutique in Los Angeles in between modeling jobs and Read More