By Benjamin-Emile Le Hay 9/11/12 12:00pm

A Brush with a Brant

Harry Brant strikes a pose for the cameras at Emporio Armani's flagship store opening

Harry Brant Is a “Modern-Day Hannah Montana”: Balances Fashion Shows, Parties and School Field Trips

Despite that Harry Brant has barely cleared puberty, the social-buzzing, babygay spawn of model Stephanie Seymour and billionaire media/art/real estate tycoon Peter Brant, has a busy schedule that rivals those of Paris Hilton and Olivier Zahm. This past Friday at Emporio Armani’s 601 Madison Avenue boutique opening, we approached the 16-year-old high school sophomore to find why is he out socializing with Roberta Armani, Luigi Tadini, Ms. Hilton, Ricky Martin, Ryan Lochte, artist Rashaad Newsome, Anna dello Russo and Kate Lanphear, when he should probably be cracking those Algebra books.

“What have you been up to today?” we asked.

“I went to Rag & Bone. I liked it,” replied Mr. Brant, smiling profoundly. Read More

By Foster Kamer 4/27/11 10:19pm

SOCIALOINS

Sex and/or Breakfast with Socialite Annabelle Dexter-Jones: Like “Strangling a Crocodile”

In one of the better openers of writing about nightlife characters, this one’s up there. André Saraiva — the man behind The Standard’s Le Bain and Paris/Tokyo uber-exclusive nightlife destinations Le Baron (coming this September to Manhattan!) — gets the profile treatment in the May issue of BlackBook. It begins when BlackBook editor Megan Conway arrives Read More

By Chloe Malle 3/15/11 10:50pm

Politics

The Frickin’ Ball!

Outside the Frick Collection’s Young Fellows Ball last Thursday, torrential rain added to the hothouse feeling of the evening’s theme, Chinosierie. In the covered garden courtyard, tuxedo-clad waiters ferried flutes of Veuve Cliquot and tumblers of the evening’s signature vodka cocktail, The Ginger Dragon. Fittingly, DJ Anton spun his tunes in the Music Read More

By Alexandria Symonds 2/01/11 11:49pm

Events

Shindigger: Antiques at the Armory

Men’s Fashion Week may have wrapped up in Paris on Wednesday, but a few New York gents invented an entirely new trend Thursday evening at the Park Avenue Armory: suits paired with duck boots. The Observer spotted several guys at the Winter Antiques Show’s Young Collectors Night sporting the fashionably questionable but seasonally 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 Irina Aleksander 4/04/08 8:09pm

Five Questions for Kristian Laliberte

We heard you’re working on a reality show called The 10021 that takes place in South Hampton?

Yes, it’s basically a show about four New Yorkers living a kind of fashion lifestyle and about how their professional lives intersect with their social lives. It’s a reality show, but it is being Read More