Fendi’s Fifth Avenue boutique served as a virtual melting pot of the arts last night, hosting a launch party for a book about artist John Baldessari and a piano performance by rock-and-jazz fusionist Eric Lewis.
No mere coffee-table volume, Sharon Coplan Hurowitz’s The Prints of John Baldessari: A Catalogue Raisonne 1971-2007 is a definitive treatment, ten [...]

Steps away from his Meatpacking District boutique, Christian Louboutin’s high-end glassware experiment is now under way at the 18th-floor bar at the Standard formerly (well, still) known as the Boom Boom Room. It’s billed as Le Rituel and consists of the designer’s take on the traditional Champagne flute—a 5.5-inch crystal stiletto—accompanied by a bottle of [...]

This year’s little movie that could is shaping up to be Precious, the inspirational tale of a supremely disadvantaged teenager in eighties Harlem. The curious crowd that dropped by last night’s Cinema Society screening for a preview included Donna Karan, Agyness Deyn, and Tommy Hilfiger, the evening’s sponsor.
Sure, it’s a big deal now. But before [...]

At Phillips de Pury last night, Waris Ahluwalia debuted the second iteration of the avian-inspired Omnia Vincit Amor (”Love Conquers All”) collection from his House of Waris jewelry line. The new series is less literal than the first, with fewer birds on display. (The exception is a colorful batch of limited-edition enamel pendants inspired by [...]

When the President and First Lady went to Washington, D.C.’s Blue Duck Tavern a couple of weekends ago, they made the place impossible to book for months to come. A restaurant with an airtight reservations book? Sounds New York-ish. Sounds like a city with heat—or at least one that’s not afraid to show it. In [...]

He’s been a renegade and a secret agent, but Clive Owen is softening his rough edges for his latest film, The Boys Are Back, in which he plays a widowed sportswriter trying to raise two sons. It’s a decidedly unsexy role, but it’s closer to his reality, the actor (and father of two) explained at [...]

When the smoke cleared yesterday, the Rodarte girls had some serious celebrating to do at Grotto, the subterranean hangout on the Lower East Side where they threw their after-party. Anouck Lepère, Justin Bond, and Michelle Obama fashion adviser Ikram Goldman negotiated their way through the bar’s narrow corridors to lounge in the backyard. Back inside, [...]

Not long after Narciso Rodriguez’s Spring show last night, Jessica Alba was pouring adoration on the designer at his after-party at Rose Bar. “The most awesome designer ever,” said the actress, who refused most pictures but happily talked to us. “He’s beyond! He’s totally reinventing himself, somehow, after all these years.” Before the clock had [...]

While giddy Soho and Upper East Side boutique-hoppers weaved their way through traffic snarls last night, Vena Cava and Bird teamed up to throw a “Disco Carnival Block Party” that livened up an otherwise quiet strip of pavement outside the Williamsburg boutique. Shaggier and dancier than its Manhattan counterparts, the throw-down was so successful that [...]

Ikram Goldman, the Chicago boutique owner whose role as Michelle Obama’s wardrobe consultant has made her one of the fashion world’s biggest influencers, is an elusive figure. She doesn’t trot around the fashion circuit and rarely give interviews. But she’s in New York until Sunday, buying pre-collections, and opened up to us a bit at [...]