While I completely understand my colleagues’ frustration with the prospect of having to heave up to Lincoln Center for the Spring/Summer 2011 collections, what I can’t understand is why more people aren’t baffled by this season’s major migration to Chelsea for venue space. Sure, that part of the isle isn’t new to fashionable folk, but [...]

To the unfamiliar eye it may have seemed like a hodgepodge hostess committee: The New York Times‘ Karla Martinez, Gryphon’s Aimee Cho, and Vogue editor Meredith Melling Burke and contributing editor Lauren Santo Domingo. What were they all doing inviting people to midtown? For a candle launch? But for Alexa Rodulfo—the Mexico City-based go-to hair [...]

Tinsley Mortimer isn’t exactly the first person you think of when hip fashion rag Purple is mentioned. “What, I don’t have street cred?” the perpetually blonde New Yorker jested at a party for the magazine Monday night at the perpetually filled Le Baron. Well, not exactly, even if she wore black, deviating from her trademark [...]