“Who reads clips anymore?”
Yesterday, when the news that Ralph Lauren was stepping down as CEO of Polo/Ralph Lauren first broke, I put up a Facebook post linked to the New York Times report, noting with astonishment that the newspaper of record said Lauren had never had a business partner aside from Roger Farah, who came along late in […]
Everybody’s a critic: 57th Street edition
In this week’s The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik reflects on life in big cities with big buildings in a critique of several books on the subject. In the course of his meditation on urbanity, Gopnik echoes this blogger’s habitual use of somewhat crude sexual metaphors to describe certain buildings on Manhattan’s Fifty-seventh Street. In 2011, […]
Salezapoppin’ at 15CPW
Apartment 8A at Fifteen Central Park West is in contract for $35 million, reports Donna Olshan of Olshan Realty, which issues a weekly report on contracts signed for New York apartments selling for $4 million or more. As usual, count on Gripepad to name names. The seller, lurking behind an LLC called Swiftsure Property, and […]
Indonesia on the Hudson: Fifteen owner asks $31 million
Last night, Mansion Global, the Wall Street Journal’s real estate spinoff, revealed the latest listing at Fifteen Central Park West, subject of House of Outrageous Fortune–apartment 28D, a three bedroom corner spread with three exposures, listed for $31 million. As is so often the case with condos on the billionaire’s belt, the owner is hidden […]
Snapper Patter
In today’s New York Post and on PageSix.com, Richard Johnson gets the scoop that I’ve turned the camera around to look at the lives of fashion photographers like Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel and Bruce Weber in my new book, Girls on Film: The Glory Days of Fashion Photography (out next year). It’s a whole new […]
Cut Rate Model for #NYFW
In celebration of New York Fashion Week @nyfw, the e-book of MODEL: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, is on sale for $1.99 !! #markdownmadness #nyfw
Acid Reflux in Ta-Ta-Ville
Yesterday, Town and Country, the Hearst Corporation’s society mag, or rather, its blog (how, chic, how now, dahhling) excavated Takeover in Ta-Ta-Ville, my 1988 article on the decline of Southampton for New York magazine, to point out that Sunday’s Styles of the Times cover story on the effects of new money on the place now […]