Walking the fine line between comedy and tragedy is a tricky component of the art of filmmaking. Early reviews of 50/50, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young cancer patient, Anna Kendrick, and Seth Rogen, suggest the film has pulled off this balancing act as well as any other release this year.“It’s a realistic story, [...]

There’s a very open, very shoppable region between art and interior design, and a new Web site called Grey Area is plunging right into it. Kyle DeWoody and Manish Vora, the two young art-world insiders behind this new e-commerce venture, launched it last night with a party at the Wooly, where some of the site’s [...]

In recent years, a new designer documentary has sprung each spring. Ultrasuede, a Halston profile, premiered at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, and Matt Tyrnauer unveiled The Last Emperor, his extended close-up on Valentino, the spring before.Last night, at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of L’Amour Fou, Yves Saint Laurent had his turn. Director Pierre [...]

Ever try to assemble a group of fashion types for something that’s not a launch, an opening, or a worthy cause? Harley Viera-Newton, Lily Kwong, and Stephanie LaCava gave it a shot last night, hosting a dinner in the East Village that was billed as “Just for Fun.”In truth, Dom Pérignon had one of its [...]

There are people out there saying Sky Ferreira is going to be the next big thing, but the 18-year-old model and burgeoning pop star seems fairly happy where she is at the moment. “Success is appealing, but the other stuff that comes with it is pretty scary,” she explained last night at Double Crown, where [...]

It’s the rare fashion auteur who can lay claim to both Madonna and the late Pope John Paul II as fans. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac is one. The Moroccan-born, Paris-based designer (who created custom rainbow-print vestments for the late Pope, if you were wondering), got his start in the seventies and helmed Iceberg in the eighties. [...]

Talk about an eye-catching window display. Last night, at the opening party for Agent Provocateur’s new Madison Avenue boutique, lingerie-clad models were gyrating wildly and working their way up and down a stripper pole. More than a few passersby stopped to watch and take photos. We even spotted a school bus slowing down.“Today, when we [...]

Hayden Christensen isn’t afraid of the dark, but his character in Vanishing on 7th Street sure is—and for good reason. In Brad Anderson’s new thriller, which had its New York premiere at a Cinema Society screening at the IFC Center last night, light on earth is dwindling, and anyone who spends too much time in [...]

Plenty of creative types came out last night for the opening of fordPROJECT, a new gallery venture from Altpoint Capital Partners (the parent company of Ford Models), but catwalkers were not among them. Under the direction of Rachel Vancelette and Tim Goossens, the new art space (which occupies two floors at the top of [...]

Christian Louboutin is a man on the move. Last week, Style.com caught up with the globe-trotting shoe designer in Morocco, where he was attending the Marrakech International Film Festival. (He’s good friends with the festival’s chic director, Mélita Toscan du Plantier.) Over breakfast poolside at La Mamounia, Louboutin discussed changing tastes, exotic styles, John Malkovich [...]