Patrick McCarthy, R.I.P.
It’s been a bad season for fashion and today comes the news that Patrick McCarthy, former editor of W and WWD, has died at age 67, after a long period out of the public eye, and, reportedly, a short illness. I profiled McCarthy at the height of his power and influence in 1997. You can […]
Isaac, Reconsidered
In his new memoir, out today, fashion-designer-turned multi-media-performer Isaac Mizrahi cites my 1990 profile of him in New York Magazine as a “career-making story …with a long expose-style interview.” At the time, I was told Mizrahi hated it because Harry Benson’s portrait of him on the cover was less than flattering. I’m glad he’s changed […]
Lee Radziwill, R.I.P.
I first met Lee Radziwill, who died Friday at her home in Manhattan, more than thirty years ago when she handled public relations for the Milanese designer Giorgio Armani. Years later, when I wrote about her childhood at 740 Park in my book on the storied apartment house, she told me of the time her […]