ALL POSTS TAGGED "stephanie-lacava"
browse more tagsAll That Glitters: Thandie Newton’s Dramatic Turn for Solange
It all started with an unlikely barter between friends. “Would he do it for jewelry?” Solange Azagury-Partridge asked Tracy Lowy of having Lowy’s husband, Laurence Dunmore, direct a short film to showcase her new creations. “Yeah, ask him” is Lowy’s mischievous reply. Thus the lovely short film The Letter, starring Thandie Newton and Jason Isaacs, [...]
Friday November 06, 2009 6:11PM
Mr. Chow’s 30th Anniversary
Thakoon Panichgul says his favorite “Mr. Chow’s moment “ was in 2007 when the beloved eatery hosted the post-Met Costume Institute Gala festivities and he met Maggie Cheung. What about his favorite Chinese food dish? “Soup dumplings,” House specialties aside, the entire room, Panichgul included, is watching an elegant, Givenchy-clad Eva and husband Michael Chow, [...]
Wednesday November 04, 2009 5:11PM
Wear It Now: Grayce by Molly Sims
“Is it vintage?” Poppy Delevingne asked, looking at the Art Deco-style black enamel-and-pavé-crystal ring on my middle finger. “Was it your grandmother’s?” I shook my head. We were nearing the entrance to the Richard Chai show during New York Fashion Week, and I only had moments to explain. “Nope, Grayce by Molly Sims for HSN.” [...]
Tuesday November 03, 2009 1:11PM
A Vogue Halloween: A Creeping, Crawling Fascination with Beetles
Two hundred assorted plastic beetles now live in my armoire, underneath the drawer that holds my collection of antique beetle jewelry—you can see a few of my pieces here. It’s an odd obsession, born of an even odder story. These toy-shop specimens arrived at my apartment over the summer in two large cardboard boxes that [...]
Friday October 30, 2009 10:10AM
Wear It Now: Devi Kroell’s Square Bag
“Uptown’s been off the map for a little while; everyone seems to have moved downtown. Now it’s all going back uptown,” says designer Devi Kroell on the occasion (today!) of the Upper East Side opening of her Madison Avenue store (717 Madison Avenue, between 63rd and 64th Streets; devikroell.com). Kroell aimed to translate her designs [...]
Wednesday October 28, 2009 4:10PM
Overheard: Indochine’s 25th Anniversary
When young Swiss transplant Jean-Marc Houmard started working at New York restaurant Indochine as a busboy in the eighties, he was looking to make money to subsidize his day job, as law firm intern. “I decided that lawyers were not really the kind of people I wanted to hang out with for the rest of [...]
Wednesday October 28, 2009 2:10PM
Stephanie LaCava is OBSESSED:
Concrete-Colored Nails
My nail fantasies have always been simple: that image of Helena Christensen’s dark, chipping polish in Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” music video. It wasn’t only about the color (a deep, blackish-blood red) but also the seductive look of a slightly imperfect, several-day-old manicure that screams, This girl lives! And so, since the mid-nineties, I’ve been [...]
Wednesday October 28, 2009 11:10AM
A Vogue Halloween: Forget the Mask—Wear a Bewitching Headdress Instead
It all started with Vanessa Traina (above) wearing a horned headband from Givenchy haute couture while in Paris for the shows earlier this month. Leave it to Traina to inspire us to embrace the headdress—and to look to jewelry designers for their take on the unlikely accessory. “It dresses up a dull outfit, reveals a [...]
Tuesday October 27, 2009 5:10PM
Gucci Icon Pop-Up Store
Late Friday night, after the opening of Gucci’s Icon-Temporary pop-up sneaker store on Crosby Street (where you could browse and buy eighteen pairs of limited-edition styles, including a special Gucci Ronson sneaker), a rare surge of energy sent Frida Giannini, Mark Ronson (above), and Claire Danes to the nearby Bowery Hotel to continue the celebration. [...]
Monday October 26, 2009 4:10PM
A Vogue Halloween: Eddie Borgo on How to Make His Jeweled Pumpkin
Here’s our scary story: Last Halloween, jeweler Eddie Borgo (yes, he of coveted pyramid spike bracelets) decided he needed a housewarming gift for his friend designer Victor Glemaud’s annual downtown get-together. Flowers didn’t seem appropriate, so he opted to create a festive custom-made centerpiece: a bejeweled pumpkin. “It seemed natural that I would stud it,” [...]
Monday October 26, 2009 11:10AM
It Girl: Joséphine de la Baume
It takes acting talent to time travel from modern day Paris to sixteenth-century Auvernge, even more skill to do so while pretending to be a grieving daughter and a princess’s confidante, respectively. Joséphine de la Baume is up to the task. The beautiful young actress has been working overtime, appearing onstage at Théâtre Le Lucernaire [...]
Wednesday October 21, 2009 12:10PM
Overheard: The Wooly
“I grew up in the city and am very into New York history. El Morocco and the Stork Club are some of the places that have been influential for me,” says art director Eric Adolfsen, whose past projects include working on the walls and windows of Paris’s Colette for House of Waris. Now Adolfsen has [...]
Tuesday October 20, 2009 4:10PM
Sunday Afternoon in New York City: Hester Puts On a Trunk Show
It’s Sunday afternoon at vintage boutique Frock, on Elizabeth Street, and Tasha Green and Mauricio Quezada (left) are setting up a trunk show for their label, Hester. It’s the third season of the line started by the 26-year-old Men’s Vogue alums as a passion project that quickly grew into a business. “We were constantly discussing [...]
Monday October 19, 2009 5:10PM
Need It Now: Nancy Sharon Collins Stationery Samples
There’s a special sort of “sample sale” starting online, one unlike all others. Stationer Nancy Sharon Collins is about to launch a site that allows you to choose from her storied collection of bespoke, hand-engraved note cards. Let’s explain: Collins is also an archivist, her specialty being the research of type and print history, meaning [...]
Friday October 16, 2009 3:10PM
Chanel Launches the Coco Cocoon
Yesterday’s scene took place at the downtown Chanel store on Spring Street. As it was raining outside, it was the perfect weather for the launch of the Coco Cocoon, Chanel’s latest handbag, complete with red lining like the original 2.55 (Chanel thought the color the best backdrop for a girl to find her things). Jen [...]
Friday October 16, 2009 2:10PM
Party Pictures from the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Cocktail
“I think it’s the most brilliant theme,” says Zac Posen, referring to one of this year’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist’s challenges: to create a look inspired by the Internet search engine Google. Take, for example, jewelry designer Waris Ahluwalia’s House of Waris miniature-magnifying-glass diamond pendant necklace worn by actress Rose Byrne, a literal and figurative [...]
Thursday October 15, 2009 12:10PM
Use It Now: Mungo & Maud’s Sport-Stripe Dog Lead
Lucky for us Mungo & Maud’s pet accessories didn’t get tied up in quarantine before arriving in New York today before the London-based label made it to Bergdorf’s for its Stateside debut. “If a woman wants to go out with her handbag, her dog’s lead should look as good as the bag,” says Nicola Sacher, [...]
Tuesday October 13, 2009 5:10PM
Tuesday’s Fall Favorites
There’s an unmistakable buzz that accompanies the arrival of autumn. Vogue’s Scene girls divulge their favorite fall spots and what they’re most looking forward to this season.
Stephanie LaCava
Restaurant: L’Absinthe, Minetta Tavern, or Los Feliz on Ludlow.
Bar: Juice bar? Liquiteria . . . OK, OK, the bar at Indochine.
Boîte: The eighteenth floor at the Standard [...]
Tuesday October 13, 2009 10:10AM
Silver Screening
Last Friday night at the corner of West Fourth and West Tenth: There’s a crew of Calvin-clad arrivals to Charles restaurant. Enter Arlenis Sosa, Karolina Kurkova, and the lovely Michelle Monaghan for the Cinema Society’s dinner following the premiere of Monaghan’s new film, Trucker. “I loved the movie. I’m not sure if it was the [...]
Monday October 12, 2009 11:10AM
It Girl: Vanessa Traina
There exists an It girl of the mythic sort. She doesn’t seek out the spotlight, works hard (assisting on shoots in New York, Milan, and Paris), and she already has a well-defined signature style. It’s for these reasons and more that we love Vanessa Traina. True to our story, during Paris Fashion Week, she stepped [...]
Friday October 09, 2009 11:10AM
American Ballet Theatre’s 2009 Fall Gala
“I love Benjamin Millepied’s work,” said Alexandra Kerry referencing not only Everything Doesn’t Happen at Once, part of the performance last night at the American Ballet Theatre’s 2009 Fall Gala, but also his work for the New York City Ballet. “I want to film it.” The lovely, young J. Mendel-clad director is not alone. Darren [...]
Friday October 09, 2009 10:10AM
Restaurant: Casa Lever
As Casa Lever, formerly Lever House, prepares to open next week with a brand-new menu and a brand-new design—on the walls of the William Georgis–designed space hang nineteen Warhol portraits from the Lever House collection—Vogue’s Stephanie LaCava talks to partners Gherardo Guarducci and Dimitri Paul (of Sant Ambroeus) about their latest outpost.
How did the collaboration [...]
Monday October 05, 2009 12:10PM
Art: Gauguin Exhibition at New Rafael Viñoly-designed Cleveland Museum of Art
For fans of Gauguin—and who isn’t?—a new show opening Sunday offers an in-depth insight into the artist’s development by focusing on a single, pivotal year in his career. “Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889,” at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 4 to January 18, 2010, explores Gauguin’s output in the period after he worked and [...]
Friday October 02, 2009 1:10PM
Overheard: Neon Shade
It may be getting cold, but that doesn’t stop us from breaking out the sunglasses. In truth, the promise of fall makes us reach more quickly for a colorful neon pair to add levity to an otherwise weary day. We love how girls have been rocking fluo-colored Ray-Bans (yellow aviators for Poppy Delevingne). Follow the [...]
Friday October 02, 2009 11:10AM
New Yorkers For Children Gala
Forget glass slippers left behind in haste. The ladies of Tuesday night’s New Yorkers for Children’s Tenth Annual Fall Gala created a trail of Post-it notes (that’s right, the sticky yellow kind) in their wake on the tables at Cipriani 42. To be clear, the little pads were used as place cards, printed with each [...]
Thursday September 24, 2009 1:09PM
It Girl: Francesca Hammerstein
Monday night, New York City’s Lower East Side spot the Box hosted its first movie premiere, choosing the new film Rage for the debut event.
It was the idea of Francesca Hammerstein (wife of the Box owner Simon Hammerstein) who first approached the film’s producers back in March after reading about director Sally Potter’s theater-like production, [...]
Wednesday September 23, 2009 3:09PM
New York Spring 2010: Stephanie LaCava Catches Up with Caroline Sieber
It was just after six o’clock yesterday evening, which meant it felt like a jet-lagged midnight for both Inès de la Fressange and Caroline Sieber, two lovely ladies in New York for but a moment from Europe. Both were among the hosts of the cocktail party held at Roger Vivier’s Madison Avenue store to celebrate [...]
Thursday September 17, 2009 5:09PM
New York Spring 2010: Stephanie LaCava Catches Up With Poppy and Ferebee
The thing about Fashion Week this year is that if balanced properly, it could wind up the perfect mix of music, style, and sport. When I bumped into Ralph Lauren’s Kimball Hastings early on (last Tuesday at Fenton/Fallon—feels like ages ago), he told me he was off to the Bowery Ballroom for the Sondre Lerche [...]
Thursday September 17, 2009 5:09PM
Big Night
“I am a big subway person, I try to avoid cars during fashion week because of the traffic,” says Lauren Remington Platt of her approach to the week’s festivities. “Show me the map,” I tease her, dying to see how she masterfully planned out her multiple stops and wardrobe changes. “The headband helps,” I say [...]
Wednesday September 16, 2009 5:09PM
New York Spring 2010: Stephanie LaCava Catches Up With The Webster Boutique Visionaries
It’s Saturday night post-show and presentation for a casual dinner at Minetta Tavern with Laure Heriard Dubreuil and Frederic Dechnik of Miami’s adored fashion emporium the Webster. Between bites talk turns to the Joseph Altuzzrra show earlier in the evening: “I like all the apron-top-style dresses,” says Dubreuil. Dechnik offers, “It’s interesting, the white mix [...]
Monday September 14, 2009 3:09PM
After Hours With Alexander Wang
Leave it to Alexander Wang to make all your dreams come true, especially the sort circa mid 90s that involve a music-video worthy raid of the local gas station quickie mart. For his afterparty, Wang, along with LOVE magazine, MAC and Milk Studios, took over the gas station on the corner of 15th Street and [...]
Sunday September 13, 2009 6:09PM
Designers Beat the Stress of Spring 2010: Cooking with Zac Posen
“Let’s see if there’s uni before it’s sold out,” Zac Posen says, making an impassioned dash for the sea urchin in the freezer case at Japanese grocer Sunrise Mart on Broome Street. He’s come straight from the studio, and it’s less than two weeks before his spring show, but there’s dinner to be cooked, Posen-style [...]
Friday September 11, 2009 1:09PM
Designers Beat the Stress of 2010: Philip Crangi’s Beach Getaway
“Here’s your computer,” Courtney Crangi says to her brother, jewelry designer Philip Crangi, as she enters his living-room office.
“I don’t think I’m going to take it with me,” he says.
“Good; I don’t want you to.”
It’s a sisterly sign of love because, of course, Courtney (who besides being family is also Philip’s business partner) knows how [...]
Thursday September 10, 2009 3:09PM
We Love Her Style
The French have an expression for the general return to quotidian office antics and school, the post-summer phenomenon: la rentrée. Somehow sounding so much better than “back to work,” rentrée conjures the need for new books, pens—maybe even shoes? The must-have book this September? I Love Your Style [HarperCollins], by Amanda Brooks. It’s the first [...]
Thursday September 10, 2009 3:09PM
New York Fashion Week: Opening Act
At the start of Fashion Week festivities, we find ourselves in an unlikely setting. It’s down a dark alley (yes, Freeman Alley, the pathway to the beloved restaurant about to celebrate it’s fifth-year anniversary, but still . . .) before the bright white neon lights that herald Dana Lorenz’s new store Fenton/Fallon, named for her [...]
Wednesday September 09, 2009 3:09PM
Tales from the Sales Floor: What’s Selling at Opening Ceremony
I’m behind the checkout counter at Opening Ceremony, the boutique on Howard Street in downtown Manhattan. It’s nearly 95 degrees outside, and everyone (the steady stream of shoppers included) is barely clothed. Two girls in shorts, sandals, and tank tops are fanning themselves while preparing to pay for heavy wool Navajo print Big Horn coats [...]
Tuesday September 08, 2009 3:09PM
It Girls: Labor Day Plans
Ah, Labor Day. It’s here again, that hotly anticipated holiday that means a long weekend of respite and then, well, back to work, school, and other assorted new post-summer starts. Here we talk to a few of our girls about their plans. For those who will be working in the city, we’ve asked their favorite [...]
Thursday September 03, 2009 4:09PM
It Girl: Nadine Ferber
Here, Nadine Ferber, owner of downtown boutique Mick Margo (a favorite stop for those looking for cult items from Isabel Marant), tells us about her trip to St. Barth’s with husband Matt Abramcyk (the man behind the likes of Warren 77 and recently shuttered Beatrice Inn) for their first wedding anniversary).
We needed a place where [...]
Tuesday September 01, 2009 4:09PM
Wear It Now: Nonoo Lyons Jackets
“From frill coats to furs, jackets have always been the basis of my wardrobe,” says Misha Nonoo (left), one half of label Nonoo Lyons. It was just this January that Bahrain-born Nonoo and friend Londoner Deborah Lyons (right) sat together at the Bowery Hotel’s Gemma and decided to launch a collection of jackets—yes, just jackets. [...]
Tuesday August 25, 2009 3:08PM
The September Issue Premiere
It may be mid August, but yesterday evening everyone came out for a New York night to celebrate The September Issue. Who says the city is quiet at the end of summer? Designers from Phillip Lim and Rachel Roy to Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta, models like Chanel Iman and Karlie Kloss and [...]
Thursday August 20, 2009 10:08AM
Overheard: Elise Øverland Dresses Tabla Player Suphala
“It’s not only Suphala’s music but the music and her spirit together that I love,” says designer Elise Øverland of the Indian musician—and beauty—known for her innovative sound created on a pair of Indian hand drums or tablas. “The calm almost-Zen energy she puts out when she performs is quite unusual for me to interpret [...]
Tuesday August 18, 2009 1:08PM
Use It Now: SodaStream Penguin Sparkling Water Maker
We have a new find that’s certain to entertain you—and your guests— come end of summer. It’s the discovery of our executive producer Christiane Mack: the SodaStream Penguin. This charming contraption, a black-and-silver-contoured device (it really looks like a penguin!), instantly carbonates your favorite drink. “First of all, the fun is all about making it [...]
Tuesday August 11, 2009 2:08PM
Overheard: Movie Night with Brian Reyes
This Wednesday, Brian Reyes will kick off a series of screenings at his new studio space on the fifth floor of 304 Hudson Street. Guess what the first film will be? Here’s a hint: Reyes and team may be serving Girl Scout cookies to the 30 select invitees. (“We’re keeping it intimate. Otherwise people will [...]
Monday August 10, 2009 4:08PM
Factory Girl
Last night, Becka Diamond held her birthday party at the Gramercy Park Hotel, partially because (and we love this!) she shares the date with Andy Warhol. (Rose Bar’s Nur Khan explained to me that the Basquiat Warhol collaboration piece that hangs above the pool table is one of Warhol’s works on display.) In attendance at [...]
Friday August 07, 2009 12:08PM
Wear It Now: Hunter Water-Resistant Suede Ankle Boots
A countryside outing—be it in Bedford, New York, or the classic English escape of the Cotswolds—is never quite complete without the requisite rubber Wellington boots, like those from longtime favorite Hunter. Rain or shine, Hunter wellies somehow make tromping through fields so much more alluring. Now the 150-year-old company has created a line of water-resistant [...]
Tuesday August 04, 2009 10:08AM
Wear It Now: LP.BG Joanna Dress
It was just last year that model Ben Grimes and friend Lily Parker (the two met at Richard Nicoll, the former as muse, the latter as studio manager and pattern cutter) decided to come together to launch clothing line LP.BG. “It began as an animated chat, and before we knew it, we were registering as [...]
Friday July 31, 2009 12:07PM
Taking Woodstock Premiere
The rain didn’t discourage revelers during the original Woodstock festival—and it surely wasn’t going to keep away the likes of Behnaz Sarafpour, Rachel Roy, Lauren Remington Platt, Lily Donaldson, and Lola Schnabel from coming out last night to the premiere of Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock. Diane Von Furstenberg and Tory Burch were among the fashion-minded [...]
Thursday July 30, 2009 5:07PM
Need It Now: Kendall Conrad’s Fuchsia iPhone Case
There’s a new antidote to the unintended cell dial. You know the moment when, for some inexplicable reason, your phone randomly calls one of your contacts. We love accessory designer Kendall Conrad’s leather iPhone case—for its bright shot of color and as a remedy for this now-common inconvenience. It comes in a myriad of hues but Kendall made [...]
Thursday July 30, 2009 12:07PM
Taking The Last-Minute Plunge: Finding A Swimsuit All Year Round
“Mykonos!?” It’s 4:47 p.m. Tuesday, and your boyfriend has just surprised you with an impromptu trip to Greece. It would be a relative disaster if it weren’t such a dream proposition. There’s barely enough time to pack, and where are you going to find the perfect bathing suit this late in the season? Somehow, calling [...]
Tuesday July 28, 2009 3:07PM
Watermill Center Summer Benefit
Once you stepped away from the road and up onto the pathway leading toward the Watermill Center, there was no chance to turn back. Whether you liked it or not, you were enchanted by the scene—tall grasses with an oversize abstract duck floating between other beasts and beings—not to mention the (pleasingly) sinister characters that [...]
Monday July 27, 2009 3:07PM
UNICEF Next Generation Launch Party
“There’s not much for Generation X or Y to do to participate in UNICEF,” said UNICEF Next Generation chair Jenna Bush Hager last night at the initiative’s launch event, held at the Gates. UNICEF is growing its family, so it’s fitting that sisters Maggie and Jessie Betts and Ashley and Lauren Bush, along with guests [...]
Friday July 24, 2009 11:07AM
Wear It Now: Summer Sweater
It’s going to be hard for Madeleine Thompson to top the very public British debut of her cashmere creations. Both Sienna Miller and Keira Knightley were spotted out and about in her knit beanie hats. Now Thompson’s coming Stateside—and she’s bringing the most divine new offerings, including oversize cashmere cardigans and long dresses. “I imagine [...]
Thursday July 23, 2009 12:07PM
Wear It Now: Fancy Feet
We love a man in a colorful loafer. So does London girl Alex Finlay, the genius behind Fin’s shoes. “I wanted to give my guy friends a simple classic loafer they could wear through the summer,” she says of the bright pairs that retail for $120. Each color is named for one of Finlay’s favorite [...]
Friday July 17, 2009 10:07AM
Jacques Grange’s New Mark Hotel
With 42 apartments and 118 hotel rooms, the highly anticipated new incarnation of the Mark Hotel on Seventy-seventh Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues opens this month with luxurious and eclectic interiors by Jacques Grange. Working with partner Pierre Passebon (who has authored the forthcoming Flammarion book Jacques Grange Interiors), Grange combined classical architecture with [...]
Wednesday July 15, 2009 11:07AM
Proenza Schouler’s House Party
Monday, 8:05 p.m., and Jen Brill and Amy Greenspon are spotted on the corner of Wooster and West Broadway. Minutes later, we’re inside Soho Mews (the art-minded residential building complete with APF and Deitch Projects offices nearby), and it’s official: Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez are hosting a party, and all the cool [...]
Wednesday July 15, 2009 11:07AM
Parrish Art Museum’s Midsummer Party
The scene in the gallery of Southampton’s Parrish Art Museum Saturday night: Prior to sitting down to dinner for the annual Midsummer Party, guests take in the exhibit of photography by Jean-Luc Mylayne, known for his extraordinary patience in capturing birds in careful composition. A well-dressed reveler examines one of the prints, and a nearby [...]
Monday July 13, 2009 1:07PM
OVERHEARD: Miu Miu Store in Istanbul
If you haven’t already planned your summer trip, why not pack your bathing suit for a sail along the Bosporus? We’ll tell you a little secret. While there’s so much to see in the storied city of Istanbul, we can’t help but mention that there’s a new fashion attraction as well. Miu Miu just opened [...]
Monday July 13, 2009 11:07AM
Stephanie LaCava is OBSESSED: Mulberries
Until I discovered packages of them at my beloved organic market, I thought mulberries were the stuff of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. It turns out the little fruits are rather magical, though. The tiny raw, dried snacks look like dehydrated raspberries and taste like gummy bears—and they’ve turned out to be my best beauty [...]
Wednesday July 08, 2009 11:07AM
Q&A with Hotel Griffou’s Johnny Swet and Larry Poston
Here, we talk with Johnny Swet and Larry Poston of new Village restaurant Hotel Griffou, housed in the storied space (once Mary Lou’s) at 21 West Ninth Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues; (212) 358-0228.
What is your favorite anecdote of Hotel Griffou past?
Larry Poston: The murder-suicide of the much older man and much younger [...]
Tuesday July 07, 2009 12:07PM
Good Betts: Fourth of July in the Hamptons
“This is my first time spending the Fourth of July in the Hamptons,” said Berkshires habitué Maggie Betts. “I came to support my sister and celebrate MJ with a dance party on the beach.” That’s Michael Jackson, by the way, and the party in question was the Saturday-night celebration hosted by the lovely Christina Lewis [...]
Monday July 06, 2009 12:07PM
Jeweled Sunglasses: The Only Way to Sparkle and Shine This Summer
Come summer, I’m taking off my grandmother’s four gold bangles, which I rarely remove from my wrist. I won’t be bothered with jewelry, not even heirlooms. I want only one accessory, a pair of jeweled sunglasses. It all started when Lanvin’s Alber Elbaz designed the most perfect Peggy Guggenheim–meets–wild child sunglasses, all oversize black plastic [...]
Wednesday July 01, 2009 6:07PM
This Just In: New and Noteworthy in the Hamptons
Let’s embark on that storied journey out East, the one many New Yorkers make each weekend to the Hamptons. We’ll begin furthest away from Manhattan, in Montauk, and from there find our way back (old-school convertible included).
This year is the eightieth anniversary of the Montauk Yacht Club Resort and Marina, and in celebration, the regal [...]
Wednesday July 01, 2009 4:07PM
Need It Now: American Beauty
It’s always tricky to wear anything in homage to a calendar celebration, but this Fourth of July there’s a tasteful way to get festive. We love Solange Azagury-Partridge’s trapezoid-shaped America- flag ring with its enamel stripes and tiny diamonds as stars. A few years back, the British Partridge did a similar piece in the form [...]
Tuesday June 30, 2009 9:06AM
Best Outdoor Spot: Flea-dom
The Brooklyn flea market is still a fun (sort of) city escape. After trolling for vintage jewelry finds (a certain diehard likes to keep her sources secret!) shop for your Sunday night dinner party dessert menu. Pick up Fine & Raw raw chocolate ice cream or Julie Tran’s red velvet cake balls (she works at [...]
Wednesday June 24, 2009 3:06PM
This Weekend: Wimbledon, The Soho House and a Pimm’s Cup
In honor of the classic spirit of Wimbledon (it is, after all, the only Grand Slam match still played on grass courts), the Soho House in New York is toasting tennis with a equally classic cocktail: the Pimm’s Cup. What is in a beloved, and decidedly British, Pimm’s Cup, you ask? Why, gin, of course, [...]
Wednesday June 24, 2009 1:06PM
Need It Now: Best of Summer-Travel Dress
Rose Anne De Pampelonne created this embellished dress so that a traveling girl can pack fewer pieces. “It can be worn for all types of occasions,” she explains of the multitasking detailed linen look. We love this idea, because there’s nothing better than breezy elegance while you’re on holiday. De Pampelonne’s entire summer collection is [...]
Tuesday June 23, 2009 11:06AM
Best Outdoor Scene: Raines Law Room Garden
Flatiron’s Raines Law Room has established itself as one of New York City’s speakeasies, but there’s a secret we want to tell you: a clandestine garden. The just-opened outdoor space fits only twenty people. Sit amidst an herb garden (red and yellow raspberries, mint, sage, basil) and have a cocktail made with these house-grown ingredients [...]
Tuesday June 23, 2009 9:06AM
Need It Now: UV Protective Clothing
Cover, the sun-protective clothing collection, is coming to the Hamptons, straight to the Theory store on Newton Lane in East Hampton, New York. The full range of American-made nylon/spandex pieces provide SPF 50, so wearing one of their looks is akin to slathering on sunscreen—and you can still get wet. The line, created by Lisa [...]
Monday June 22, 2009 1:06PM
Whitney Art Party
BCBG MaxAzria intuited New York City’s recent monsoon season and decided on an umbrella—albeit one by artist Mark Fox with a quote from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney on it—as the gift for guests of last night’s Whitney Art Party. Suffice to say, Lake Bell, Camilla Belle, Lauren Santo Domingo, Ivanka Trump, and Dree Hemingway stayed dry [...]
Thursday June 18, 2009 12:06PM
Q & A: Amanda Brooks on the Adirondacks
Did your family go there before? Is there special history?
I have been going to the Adirondacks since I was five. My stepfather’s family has been going there for many, many generations, so when he married my mother we started spending every August there.
What is your first childhood memory?
My first memory is of going swimming—naked—in [...]
Wednesday June 17, 2009 5:06PM
A Fête for Frédéric Malle’s New Fragrance
In the elevator bank last night on Barney’s eighth floor: model Caroline Trentini and boyfriend Victor Demarchelier. The adorable pair are en route to the Penthouse to join Victor’s father, photographer Patrick Demarchelier, to celebrate Frédéric Malle and his new fragrance Geranium pour Monsieur. Once inside, we find another Frédéric—Fekkai, that is—and the talented Malle [...]
Wednesday June 17, 2009 11:06AM
CFDA Awards: Calvin Klein’s Party on the High Line
Last night, Chelsea Piers welcomed Friends of the High Line, including an effusive Edward Norton, who talked of unlikely magical places (around the same time the whimsical sisters, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, behind Rodarte won the CFDA Award for Womenswear Designer of the Year). New York is now nothing short of enchanted. In place of [...]
Tuesday June 16, 2009 11:06AM
Design: Joseph Leonard Restaurant
There are six weeks until Gabriel Stulman (of the beloved, diminutive Greenwich Village spot Little Owl) opens his newest neighborhood restaurant. We are at the anticipated space on the corner of Waverly and Grove, huddled inside a walk-in refrigerator (power’s off) looking at antiques. No food has arrived at the subterranean cellars; we are surrounded [...]
Monday June 15, 2009 4:06PM
It Girl Q+A: Melissa Bent on Cape Cod
Does the Cape hold any special history?
My father grew up going to a house in Scituate, MA. After his father died, my grandmother bought a small cottage in Dennis on the Cape. The first time my mother met her future in-laws was in the kitchen. She was offered a hotdog.
History aside, what makes it special? [...]
Sunday June 14, 2009 11:06PM
Need It Now: Whitney Art Party Dress
We love it when fashion meets art. Recall the Surrealist florals of Thakoon’s collaboration with Laurie Simmons, or back in the sixties, Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian dress, currently on view at the “Model as Muse” exhibition at the Met. What could be more fun than dressing for this year’s Whitney with this sort of vision [...]
Thursday June 11, 2009 1:06PM
Maine Event: Q & A With Marina Rust
With the pending promise of summertime escapes, we thought it fitting to revisit a few of our favorite stateside getaways from the pages of Vogue. Who better to lead the way than Marina Rust . . . We’re off to an island in Maine’s Penobscot Bay:
Please tell us about your family’s special history with Maine?
My [...]
Wednesday June 10, 2009 2:06PM
Need it Now: Enchanted Endeavor
Imagine tiny, moss-covered dwellings with stone pebble paths, little wooden chimneys, small twig-lined doors, and entranceways that would fit only a fairy. This is the magical window scene that greets one at the new Tribeca store Playing Mantis. Enter the shop and take in the fantastical offerings set up atop wood-grain shelves growing into the [...]
Friday June 05, 2009 1:06PM
Celebrating Fashion
Photo: Bruce Weber, Anna Wintour and Ralph Lauren
There was a lovely photo up for auction last night at the Gordon Parks Foundation “Celebrating Fashion” event. Shot by Parks in 1949, it captured the beautiful Ingrid Bergman in Stromboli, Italy. It was but one of many images being offered, but all the more poignant as Bergman’s [...]
Wednesday June 03, 2009 3:06PM
Polo and Prince Harry
“I enjoyed the intrepid journey,” said Phillips de Pury’s Alexander Gilkes of the short trip from New York City on to Governor’s Island for Saturday’s Veuve Cliquot Manhattan Polo Classic. “It deceptively transported us far away from the toils of Manhattan.”
Not only were there the spoils of picnicking and polo to be found on the [...]
Tuesday June 02, 2009 1:06PM
The Lady Noire Affair
Marion Cotillard is divine in any disguise. We loved her as Edith Piaf, so why not as a Hitchcockian heroine outfitted in Dior? (Christian Dior himself worked with Alfred Hitchcock on the 1950 film Stage Fright.) Cotillard plays the part with aplomb—and a wardrobe of Dior—in four short films directed by Olivier Dahan (who also [...]
Friday May 15, 2009 1:05PM
Spring Ball for the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering
There was a lot of dancing going on in New York last night. At Lincoln Center, the focus was ballerinas, while the Plaza (host to the second annual Spring Ball for the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering) had its own dancing ladies. Early in the evening during cocktails, Helen Lee Schifter extolled the virtues of the [...]
Thursday May 14, 2009 5:05PM
Overheard: Bastian, Bergdorf, and Lifeguards
April showers beware. Michael Bastian is bringing back the sunshine, and with it premature summertime. This Thursday at Bergdorf Goodman, Bastian (along with Tommy Fazio) will celebrate Matt Albiani’s photography book Lifeguard on Duty and his own spring collection, both inspired by that fabled all-American summer job, lifeguarding. “It’s the perfect anecdote to the malaise [...]
Wednesday May 06, 2009 2:05PM
Natural Beauties
In honor of clement weather—the blue sky and warm sort—we thought it would be befitting to present some ecologically sound selections. What better women for this endeavor than designers Lauren Bush and Monique Péan, both mindful of the carbon footprint in their respective lines—Bush’s environmentally friendly Lauren Pierce clothing line and Monique Péan’s Charity: Water [...]
Friday April 17, 2009 11:04AM
Social Activism
The annual Henry Street Settlement dinner, dance, and auction was held in the grand ballroom of the Plaza, a place where a certain New York spirit rightfully resides. Its landmark status aside, there was a palatable feeling of inspired social activism that is a hallmark of this city: Mayor Bloomberg spoke about everlasting improvements to [...]
Friday April 03, 2009 11:04AM
Get and Give
Far uptown last night, the Guggenheim was host to a dazzling performance (Meredith Monk’s site-specific adaptation Ascension Variations) attended by the art world, some in town for the Armory Show. While some odd thirty blocks below, the Valentino boutique played host to its own performance piece of sorts, New Yorkers for Children’s cocktail to benefit [...]
Friday March 06, 2009 2:03PM
Splendor in the Grass
“People are looking for whimsy,” says the Parisian-born landscape designer Nathalie Karg. “Gardens should be whimsical.” And so, early last year, Karg looked to her background in the art world—she began her career as an art adviser—to create Cumulus, a new collection of outdoor objects and furniture designed by a constellation of contemporary art stars. [...]
Thursday March 05, 2009 2:03PM
Need It Now: True Mettle
“I noticed girls on the street wearing clips of feathers in their hair,” says Eddie Borgo of the inspiration behind his latest piece, “but I’d never seen a bib necklace using the motif, so I tooled out the first feather.” Borgo looks to the girls of New York—friends like Jamie Rosenthal, Vanessa Traina, and Laura [...]
Wednesday March 04, 2009 11:03AM
Tea Time
Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, poolside at the storied Chateau Marmont, there were no fervent cell-phone calls about what dress to wear the following evening at the Oscars or impassioned movie-deal discussions, only a certain serenity that came from Rodarte dresses strung with Van Cleef & Arpels jewels hanging from trees and twisting in the [...]
Tuesday February 24, 2009 12:02PM
Weekend Update: Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is all about intimacy. The best Saturday night fetes were tight knit, like Elise Overland’s impromptu gathering in the backroom of Charles restaurant (above). The handsome Sandy Rower (wearing custom made Elise Overland purple suede shirt and his own Alexander Calder necklace he had snatched back from a wayward model who wore it [...]
Tuesday February 17, 2009 10:02AM
Weekend Update: Friday Night
This past Friday night: you could have started uptown like Poppy Delevingne (left) dressed in a pale nude Cavalli confection complete with marabou feather skirt to celebrate Michael Robert’s book Fighters and Flowers at the Roberto Cavalli store on Madison Avenue—or downtown following the lead of enterprising designers and models like Zac Posen and Thakoon Panichgul [...]
Tuesday February 17, 2009 10:02AM
Back From the Deep Sleep
by Stephanie LaCava
I almost set myself on fire not once but three times last night. Candles were lit from the walkway down to the basement entrance of the West Village town house that holds restaurant Bobo and then inside all the way up to the dining-room area, filled with guests in support of designers Elise [...]
Friday February 06, 2009 10:02AM
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