By Drew Grant 2/15/12 11:40am

Fashion Week Observed

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Overheard in the Front Row of Whitney Eve

It’s been several years since Whitney Port spun-off from MTV’s The Hills for her own show about living in New York and trying to make it as a fashion designer. Perhaps she sensed a sinking ship in Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, Ms. Port chose to attach herself instead first to Lauren Conrad and Teen Vogue, and then People’s Revolution and Kelly Cutrone and socialite-in-training Olivia Palermo.

It was the right call, as evidenced by the fact that The Speidi zeitgeist couldn’t get photographed even if they wanted to these days, while Ms. Port has actually succeeded in transforming herself from reality show star to an IRL designer. Read More

By Caroline Bankoff 12/31/08 2:01pm

Morning Memo: How Jeremy Piven Got a 23-Year-Old Ladyfriend; Jennifer Hudson to Sing for Obama?; Whitney Port on Olivia Palermo

After meeting a bunch of girls at Britney Spears‘s birthday party, the romantic Jeremy Piven sent a mass text message to all of them reading "Come to my room—whoever responds first gets me for the night." The lucky first responder was 23-year-old Ashley Chontos, who has been nursing the actor through his mercury poisoning and Read More

By Caroline Bankoff 12/30/08 6:39pm

If You Didn’t Watch The City Last Night, Here’s Why

Last night, an already suspicious viewership tuned in to MTV’s latest spinoff-of-a-spinoff, The City, a chronicle of robotic LA-transplant Whitney Port‘s wan adventures as a Diane von Furstenburg "employee" in Manhattan. Along for the ride are "co-worker" and grasping socialite Olivia Palermo, who has apparently decided to trade in the  crumbs of her Upper East Read More

By Caroline Bankoff 4:19pm

The City Star Whitney Port Moved to New York to ‘Be a Stranger’

As you may know by now, MTV’s third-generation Laguna Beach spinoff The City, starring laconic Hills character Whitney Port, premieres on December 29. The reality show will track Ms. Port’s relocation from Los Angeles to New York, where her superior fashion sense and interpersonal skills have landed her a job with Diane von Furstenburg. The producers–perhaps Read More

By Irina Aleksander 11/03/08 3:24pm

Paparazzi for Hire!

In this town, you no longer have to be a celebrity or a reality TV star to have cameras trailing you around and shouting at you to "look over here!" If you’ve always wanted to be like an Olsen twin, ducking from cameras and shielding your face with your giant Starbucks cup, now you can Read More