Billy Joel and his child bride, err, third wife, Katie Lee Joel, are getting a divorce, and yes, all the Movin’ Out jokes have already been made. More surprising? Yigal Azrouël’s reported role in the breakup. Not agreeing, just reporting. [Page Six]
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Back in 1999, Four Seasons co-owner Julian Niccolini told Charlie Rose that while cultivating a sort of rarefied ambience was key, it wasn’t “only about see and be seen.” Fast-forward ten years and Niccolini’s still keenly aware of who’s coming and going. “I’d say I know about 95 percent of the people here,” the proprietor [...]

Although the trendy neighborhood just below Houston Street isn’t exactly lacking fashion-conscious people, last night’s trio of parties helped draw a bigger crowd than usual. Early in the evening, former New York It girl and current Hollywood power wife Minnie Mortimer Gaghan was hocking her cute, completely wearable wares at a trunk show at Georgia [...]

“Green,” as Gordon Gekko once said, “is good.” Or maybe it wasn’t green he was talking about; maybe it was greed. Either way, Yigal Azrouël fans can hop on eBay today to flex their muscles both green and greedy: The designer is auctioning off men’s and women’s looks from his Spring and Resort ‘09 collections [...]

Balmain’s been an editor’s favorite for a few seasons now but it appears that it’s winning over designers as well. Just two days into the New York shows, and the one-sleeve wonder is the toast of the town. Yigal Azrouël showed a modern take on what Alexis Carrington might have slipped into for a primetime [...]

It’s the accessories that get you every time. Just as you manage to convince yourself that owning a pair of Fall ’09’s instantly ubiquitous leather leggings is not, in fact, a necessity for continuing to function on earth, along comes Yigal Azrouël and his [bleep]ing shoes. The clog-style pumps and boots produced for Azrouël by [...]

It’s a testament to the success of Yigal Azrouël’s youngish brand that this season the designer finds himself staging not one but two runway shows. Whereas in the past Azrouël has managed to fit both his men’s and women’s collections onto a single catwalk, for Spring ‘09, he felt the time had come to give [...]