Honor’s first retail store debuted quietly a month and a half ago, but the year-old New York womenswear label picked the perfect spring evening for its opening fête. “It was actually planned as a pop-up shop,” designer Giovanna Randall explained yesterday. “But then when all the fixtures came in, it looked so beautiful, it just [...]

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 [...]

Granted, the best way to weekend in the Hamptons is by scoring a bed from a friend with a house. But if those invitations are in short supply this season, you might consider booking a room at the Maidstone. The flagship American property of Swedish company c/o Hotels, the 19-room c/o the Maidstone opens this [...]

The lower left part of Manhattan that is Tribeca isn’t exactly known as a shopping hub. Sure, there’s an Issey Miyake down there and a few other things, but generally speaking it’s mostly new moms in Tory Burch flats than it is ultra-cool sylphs in Alaïa wedges or Margiela boots. That is, until a year [...]

Wes Anderson couldn’t make it, but the charming mise-en-scènes Waris Ahluwalia created to show off his new jewelry collection Wednesday night had his director friend’s upper-crust quirk all over them. The vignettes were staged in a two-story suite at the Plaza (with a terrace, obviously) and, if you didn’t already, they kind of made you [...]

Arden Wohl, Richie Rich, and Charlotte Ronson came out to celebrate a night of fur-free fashion at the Humane Society of the United States’ Cool vs. Cruel Awards. The event at the Bowery Hotel featured the fur-free designs of Art Institutes students. By evening’s end, Gohar Rajabzadeh was announced as the winner for her shaggy [...]

Used to be, the best way to give your spanking-new jeans some character was to klutz out and hope for an artful snag or two. James Jeans, however, has concocted a more genteel solution: Last night, the brand fêted its new capsule collection of organic, eco-friendly jeans by inviting partygoers to take home a pair [...]