Fashion Week Observed

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I'm going to wear this to Whitney's memorial service.

Ed Filipowski Pardons the Fashion Week Delays and Prabal Gurung Throws One Hell of a Party

Forty-Five! That was the approximate tardiness of Prabal Gurung‘s runway show at the Gehry-designed IAC building. The Observer, having misread our schedule, arrived on time (that’s a first). We even had a few moments to kiss-kiss Mary Alice Stephenson and compliment her Naeem Khan. Who to blame? Surely not front-of-house PR behemoth KCD, they have Read More

‘No Spanx Tonight’: Glamour Moms Gisele, Kate, Stella Suck in for Vogue’s Big Gala

Arriving at Vogue’s annual Costume Institute gala at the Met (theme: “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity”), editor Anna Wintour emerged from a chauffered black SUV wearing a dove-gray gown covered in a Chanel silver-sequined jacket. It was the ultimate boyfriend blazer.

She was accompanied by her daughter, Bee Shaffer, in floor-length, ivory Balenciaga covered Read More

‘The Losers’? The Title Might As Well Refer to the Audience

The trash explosion’s fuse was lit early this year. Why wait for the dog days of summer when you can get The Losers now? Staying awake during this ordeal of incompetent, incomprehensible stupidity is not difficult. It’s so noisy that you can hear it in the next town. Staying interested is something else entirely.

Here Read More