The holidays are fast approaching, so ’tis the season…to dread the throngs of holiday shoppers in midtown. But a quick visit to Barneys should set even the grumpiest gifter to rights. The store’s holiday windows, unveiled last night at a party hosted by creative director Simon Doonan, Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter, and Saturday Night Live [...]

Up until the very moment that the party celebrating the Yves Saint Laurent “New Vintage” collection was scheduled to begin at Barneys last night, it was unclear how the evening would proceed. Would the label’s creative director, Stefano Pilati, engage in a conversation, as originally advertised, with Barneys’ Simon Doonan about the line of YSL [...]

Elise Crombez, Simon Doonan, Eva Amurri, and assorted editors and social types toasted Pollini’s Jonathan Saunders at a lunch at La Grenouille yesterday. Saunders, whose sophomore Pollini effort will hit the runway in Milan on March 2, is in town to present his signature collection in a Chelsea gallery this Sunday night. Talk ranged from [...]

Step aside, Anderson Cooper. Simon Doonan’s unlikely muse for this month’s holiday windows at Barneys is none other than the original silver fox of broadcast news, Tom Brokaw. “I wanted someone with a little bit of gravitas to cut the ribbon,” Doonan says of the anchorman, who will do the honors at this Sunday’s window [...]

Fashion showed its charitable spirit on Monday night as Gods Love We Deliver brought boldfacers like Vogue’s Anna Wintour, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Simon Doonan, and Jonathan Adler to the IAC building for the Second Annual Golden Heart Awards. Over grilled figs, wild mushrooms with black truffles, and short ribs, guests celebrated Harry Slatkin, 7th [...]

Pucci has a new print master: Peter Dundas, formerly of Emanuel Ungaro, Christian Lacroix, and Roberto Cavalli, among other labels, will take over from Matthew Williamson when Williamson’s contract ends next month.
In wedding news, Barneys creative director Simon Doonan tied the knot with longtime partner Jonathan Adler in San Francisco yesterday. Congrats!
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If you thought you spotted Barneys creative director Simon Doonan spinning around town in the back of a Volkswagen bug this week, occasionally in the company of Barneys babes Dawn Brown and Julie Gilhart, you weren’t experiencing a fashion-induced hallucination—it really is happening. And while he might be old enough to have had an original [...]