“Don’t I look like Mariah Carey right now?” Courtney Love asked her audience at Manhattan’s Hiro Ballroom last night, where she was performing for Scott Lipps’ One Management ten-year anniversary party. “I’m wearing my first piece of swag ever—a 1990 Calvin Klein vest.”Courtney could hardly be confused with Carey, but it was Love the audience [...]

Wear Chanel to save the environment? Well, not exactly, but buying one timeless tweed jacket instead of four trendy ones is just the kind of subtle lifestyle change Adrian Grenier and Angela Lindvall are advocating with their new eco-friendly pop-up, open today and tomorrow on Greene Street in Soho. “I’m never going to give up [...]

With the Tribeca Film Festival still two weeks away, the Gen Art Film Festival (which kicked off last night) arrived as a sort of youth-oriented preamble. One notable thing about this year’s edition is the number of familiar names turning up in the same unfamiliar place: behind the camera. Consider it a spring coming-out party [...]

As if there weren’t enough fashion swirling around this week, two new TV shows about the biz threw kickoff parties last night: HBO’s How to Make It in America and the Sundance Channel’s Web-based documentary miniseries Catwalk Countdown. The latter invited its featured designers to take a break from last-minute preparations at the Standard’s new [...]

My, oh my, how Charity: Water has grown. I can remember the first event I went to four years ago: It was a subtle affair, with a few posters and a tiny, overcrowded bar. But with the support of a few key kids about town (among them, Jessica Stam, who first introduced me to the [...]

We can almost hear Gossip Girl’s announcement now: “B. spotted checking out trucker hats at American Eagle in Times Square last night.” Not to worry, obsessed fans: Blair isn’t losing her trademark headbands—it was just actress Leighton Meester, at the shop’s opening party to belt her new single “Good Girls Go Bad.” (Onstage, she opted [...]

The Creative Coalition, the entertainment industry’s nonprofit advocacy group, hosted a day-long brunch in honor of the inaugural festivities. It was the perfect spot for the famous among us to celebrate the swearing in or warm up after having done so alfresco. A bundled-up Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and Anne Hathaway popped in for a [...]

For its 60th birthday, Adidas kept things simple: a couple kegs of beer, a few boxes of pizza, and a ginormous warehouse space converted into a prototypical suburban home. To some, the Williamsburg “house party” may have felt like the exburbs, but judging by the plaid, Converse, and ironic mustache index, most partygoers hadn’t traveled [...]