“As a model, I used to go to the most exotic locations—in the depths of Kenya, Brazil, and India,” model-turned-photographer Astrid Muñoz told Style.com last night. “When the shoots were finished and everyone went back to their hotels, I stayed behind with my camera and took pictures. Then I built a dark room in my [...]

Swedish fragrance kingpin Ben Gorham, in town for 24 hours, looked around him at the Prada book launch last night and wondered, “Is everyone always this happy at parties in London? It’s like they’ve just been let out of a cage.” It wasn’t quite that wild, but the crowd of attractive young creatures was doing [...]

It felt like New Year’s Eve in New York last night, but better because it was warm enough to see the outfits everybody pulled together for Fashion’s Night Out. We sent model-turned-photographer Astrid Muñoz into the streets armed with a few evening-appropriate signs, and everyone from Francisco Costa and Michelle Monaghan to one of New [...]

I go to Positano every summer to visit Giambattista Valli. This year, Victor Alfaro, Melvin Chua, Carlos Mota, Justo Artigas, Carlos de Souza, Hervé Bougon, and Anne McNally came along. We had a blast taking little boat rides to have lunch and dinner along the coast. My favorites are La Conca del Sogno, a 20-minute [...]

Essentially, Saturday night’s Brazilian dance fest was a party to celebrate another party. “But that is reason enough, no?” Carlos Souza asked in the foyer of Donata Meirelles and Nizan Guanaes’ swanky pad on the Quay d’Orsay. “We Brazilians know how to do that perfectly well.” He wasn’t exaggerating either; just ask Camilla Al Fayed, [...]

“Get yourself down to Bulgari now, fab party!” was the text one rather taken-aback journalist received yesterday evening from a fellow writer already knocking back Champagne at the jeweler’s store opening on Avenue George V (store openings do have a habit of veering toward the bland, hence the surprise). So get down there I did. [...]