A Day In The Life: Noona Smith-Petersen, Milan’s Doyenne of Public Relations
10 a.m.
I went to see Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi [co-designers for Gianfranco Ferré and Aquilano.Rimondi] at their showroom. We had a long talk about how to move forward now that they have become such credible, respected, and established names in the industry.
1 p.m.
I took a quick break for myself and, at the same time, [...]
Meet Desiree Rogers, Social Czarina
Washingtoniennes, take note: The White House’s new social secretary has a Harvard MBA, wears Valentino, and is in total control of your recreational destiny.President Bush should be happy the shoes lobbed at him by an Iraqi journalist were flats. Louboutins would have definitely left a mark. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy would prefer if you didn’t sling [...]
art history lesson: paparazzi art
Post-Impressionist, Cubist, Modernist–we’ve had to debate our fair share of artistic periods while working the Manhattan party circuit. But a new genre of contemporary art caught our ear at a dinner that Naomi Watts hosted for her photographer brother Ben at Milk Studios last night. MAC head honcho John Demsey, who was a co-sponsor of [...]





