Somewhere along the line, workaholic Americans got the holidays wrong. “If you’re in India, they actually take off the two to three weeks before the festival even starts,” Waris Ahluwalia explained of the Indian holiday Diwali. “If you’re headed there for work around that time, you just kind of have to forget about meetings because [...]

One of the pleasurable discoveries I made last week at the House of Waris Tea Room, a temporary pop-up store orchestrated by the jeweler Waris Ahluwalia on 24th Street in New York, was the work of Eric Chase Anderson. Even if I didn’t recognize the name, though, it turned out I was already familiar with [...]

“Women know too much, too young, these days,” said photographer and director Jerry Schatzberg as he scanned the well-heeled crowd huddled under the High Line. “They don’t have the chance to grow into it…to become women.” It’s the ladies of years gone by that fill the pages of his new book, Women Then, fêted at [...]

This week, Waris Ahluwalia (left)—jeweler, man-about-town, tea drinker—opened his House of Waris Tea Room in the temporary space under the High Line on Manhattan’s West 24th Street where Simon Spurr was previously in residence. (The space, the site of a former sales office for the neighboring HL23 condominium, is managed by Building Fashion, which works [...]

To make your party stand out from the rest during fashion week, it helps to have a few tricks up your sleeve—and A Small World chairman and man-about-town Patrick Liotard-Vogt certainly had one last night, in the form of magician David Blaine. All eyes (most of them very, very wide) were on the prestidigitator’s lightning-quick [...]

For Terence Koh’s latest exhibition, Terence Koh’s Children of the Corn, the artist produced just what he promised: He erected a host of his own sculptural “children” in the cornfields of a Bridgehampton estate. That’s where the action was this weekend, as the New York art set—including Waris Ahluwalia, Dustin Yellin, Taryn Simon, Liv Tyler, [...]

It’s now past noon on Friday of Memorial Day weekend, which means one thing: The L.I.E. is probably already jammed bumper-to-bumper with New Yorkers headed for the Hamptons. When you finally make it out there, at least, you’ll have the reward of Cynthia Rowley’s new Montauk store, which opens this weekend. The vibe of the [...]

The 12 designers who now call the CFDA Fashion Incubator their home-away-from-home opened their doors to the press this morning for a meet-and-greet. When we strolled through, Prabal Gurung was shooting a video with NY1 and Waris Ahluwalia was handing out “Waris ♥’s You” pins (pictured) to lucky visitors. “It’s a fashion frat, only with [...]

Yesterday the CFDA and the New York City Economic Development Corporation announced the winners of the city’s first-ever CFDA Fashion Incubator program: Bibhu Mohapatra, Prabal Gurung, Sophie Théallet, House of Waris’ Waris Ahluwalia, Subversive Jewelry’s Justin Giunta, Lewis’ Alison Lewis, Gemma Redux’s Rachel Dooley, Alice Ritter, Grey Ant’s Grant Krajecki, Jolibe’s Joel Diaz, Public School’s [...]

“That’s my favorite thing, to be inappropriate. That’s my MO for 2010. I’m starting now,” Waris Ahluwalia told us last night at the party for his new book To India With Love. And, yes, he’d just told two lovely young admirers—officers of an organization that promotes South Asian women in business—that he loves South Asian [...]