The PS1 that wasn’t: Proenza Schouler’s Spring 2010 sunglasses include hardware taken from the label’s best-selling PS1 bags. Baby steps to that investment piece! [Refinery29]The new trademark of American designers? Overseas sales, of course, especially in rapidly growing markets in Asia (like China, Korea, and Singapore) and the Middle East. The world is flat, hadn’t [...]

Back in 1964, Brigid Berlin met Andy Warhol and became one of his darlings. She ended up taking a position at Interview magazine in 1975 and worked there until well after Warhol’s death in 1987. Last night, at Bergdorf Goodman, Interview fêted Berlin, who recently turned 69, on the upcoming auction by Doyle New York [...]

Despite a front row dotted with shiny young ingenues, the fashion stars at Sunday’s PPQ show were two Teutonic platinum blondes who showed up in tights, vertiginous heels, and T-shirts that read “Nobody Ever Fed Me,” a reference to the soon-to-be-infamous Kate Moss quote in the current Interview magazine. As one, a Bavarian art student [...]

“This the chicest shitshow I have ever been to.” While I’d love to tell you who said that about last night’s Interview magazine party at André Balazs’ not-even-close-to-being-finished Standard hotel in the Meatpacking District, I can’t, because: a) I probably promised them I wouldn’t, and b) about six people said it. At this little fête [...]