As he himself will tell you, when Carlos Mota put together his first book, Flowers: Chic & Cheap, he was hoping that some of his decoration-loving friends would be willing to host a few fêtes for the tome. Well, he got what he asked for: Since the tome came out in May, Mota has done [...]

When I first moved to this big city, the New York City Ballet’s annual Dance With the Dancers benefit was one of my first fancy philanthropic experiences. So Monday night’s fête was both nostalgic and lovely: cocktails on the veranda as the sun set, tucked away in Lincoln Center’s southwest corner (which we’ll all be [...]

If the amount of paparazzi outside an establishment is any indication of its popularity—which is the only barometer I use to measure this sort of thing—then the place to be last night in London was Claridge’s Hotel in Mayfair. There were dozens of paps loitering, leaning on their expensive cars and mopeds. (Side note: How [...]

I’ve been all over the place these last few weeks—from California to Cannes to Canada—so when I got back to New York, jet-lagged and exhausted, I was looking forward to an evening off. Then comes the text message from Daphne Guinness about this must-see, amazing documentary that’ll play one time only in New York and [...]

Fashionistas of the future converged in Chelsea on Thursday night. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Express invited a mostly teenage audience to a runway show and party hosted by Chanel Iman, Caroline Trentini, Elettra Wiedemann, and Ed Westwick, in conjunction with Vogue magazine. “They’re not messing around,” Molly Sims noted as she took a seat [...]

Since landing in Toronto on a balmy, sunny Monday morning, I’ve learned quite a few things about our neighbors to the north. For one, Canada ain’t that far away—from my apartment in New York to my hotel room, door-to-door service was two hours. It’s pretty close in style, too, and when it comes to their [...]

I’ve followed the fine folks from Purple magazine all over the French Riviera this week (a quick visit to www.purple-diary.com could tell you as much, but please don’t forward some of those pictures to my mom). Their fourth annual Cannes Film Festival fête, held last night at a temporary seaside outpost of Le Baron, made [...]

I’d heard Cannes was like a fashion week for the film industry, but when I arrived here yesterday, I found that only half true. Yes, lots of dressed-up people were milling about, looking busy and stressed—fashion week to a T. But unlike fashion week, I didn’t see too many people I knew, and the spotting [...]

You might think the weekend before the Met gala would be a time for quiet evenings in. Or, at the very least, conserving one’s energy—after all, Saturday night was a mere 48 hours before tonight’s Met ball, one of the biggest parties of the year. But it seems a few of the headliners who’ll descend [...]

So far, Erdem Moralioglu has had a pretty fabulous 2010. There have been the multiple red-carpet appearances (thanks, Keira Knightley!), a fabulous Fall show during London fashion week, and the BFC/Vogue Fashion Fund award. So his friend Lauren Santo Domingo thought it would be nice to host a little soirée for the designer on the [...]