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Evelyn Davis Gives Saks the Sachs Treatment

Evelyn Y. Davis, the octogenarian corporate gadfly, is best known for yelling at Lloyd Blankfein, the C.E.O. of Goldman Sachs. Last week, she showed a softer side at the shareholders’ meeting for Saks Incorporated.

“We get along fine,” she said of Saks Inc. “It’s not as controversial as Goldman Sachs.”

As is her habit in Read More

Kunz Kids Create Nicholas K’s Tomboy Fashion

“I just threw my whole spring line in a bag, and I can mix anything with whatever—it’s all cotton, it doesn’t matter if it’s a little crinkled. It’s kind of thoughtless,” said Nicholas K designer Nicole Kunz. She’d recently gone on a 10-day textile hunt in India. “You know—we’re busy.”

It’s as if Ms. Kunz, Read More

She’s a Chic Organic Swede!

On the evening of Monday, Feb. 5, at Loft 19 in Chelsea, models with prim netted buns of hair strutted down a makeshift runway, wearing clothes by H Fredriksson: a beautifully shaped gray wool herringbone pouf-sleeved dress; a black-coated denim jean paired with a black wool caftan coat and silk charmeuse shell; a royal blue Read More

Ines Di Santo? Nah…I Squeeze Every Last Melon at Gristedes

CARRIE: I have 309 days left until I slide into my white gown and float down the aisle in front of 200+ guests at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia. But I don’t yet have a white gown.

I am anxious and jumpy. “I was leaning towards this Reem Acra dress,” I say to anyone who Read More

Dear Lord & Taylor, Retail’s Resting Place

At 10 a.m. each morning at Lord & Taylor, everyone stands at attention—even the woman at the Chanel counter who has been polishing a Kate Moss poster on the marble—and the loudspeaker plays “The Star-Spangled Banner”: “Oh, say can you seeee …. ” Some employees hold their hands over their hearts. Then there is the Read More

Dear Lord & Taylor, Retail's Resting Place

At 10 a.m. each morning at Lord & Taylor, everyone stands at attention—even the woman at the Chanel counter who has been polishing a Kate Moss poster on the marble—and the loudspeaker plays “The Star-Spangled Banner”: “Oh, say can you seeee …. ” Some employees hold their hands over their hearts. Then there is the Read More

How to Stop the Swelling? Four Answers to Love Handles

Confront your holiday bloat! Do it now! Spring merch is already starting to hit the stores; meanwhile, you need to hit the treadmill … and try not to break it–or eat it!

It all started last September, when–egged on by well-intentioned Katie Couric–type people–you went on a post–9/11 comfort-food ingest-athon. Who can blame you? Read More

Erik Gallagher Fass

Jan. 27, 2006

6:10 p.m.

11 pounds

Lenox Hill Hospital

When Jennifer Gallagher and Adam Fass looked into the dimpled face of their generously sized firstborn, they knew it was worth skipping out on ski season at their retreat in the Poconos. And now that he’s out of the womb, the hefty Read More

She Doesn’t Want Her Boobs Flying During Barry White

AIMEE: “Beautiful! Elegant! We’ll ghjkflshgkhkhgjkfsd and hgfsdhlkh and BOOBIES and fhkdsahhjkl,” the sweet little seamstress with the accent says to me, poking and prodding and pinning my dress all around me. I am trying very hard, but quite honestly, “boobies” really IS the only word I can make sense of and, incidentally, mine are Read More

The Real Estate-Media-Industrial Complex

A rhetorical question: Is it possible for us in the media to report on gentrification without either cheerleading or, worse (though we’ll be more readily accused of this), coming off as the reverse-snob snobs that want everyone else to leave Williamsburg except for us and our friends? Witness The Times thanking Jehovah Wednesday for getting Read More