Leo Roars
What’s now called “Anna’s Party,” the annual benefit at the Metropolitan Museum for its Costume Institute, held last night, was once a society party, but now, chaired by Vogue editor Anna Wintour, it’s become a celebrated celebrity petting zoo. According to the New York Times report, social leaders like Annette de la Renta and Jayne […]
When Worlds Collide, Pt. 2
I’ve long thought it odd that in the five years since I published a biography of fashion eminence Ralph Lauren, I’d not run into him even once in public. So I guess it’s not odd that Fishbowl NY thought it worthy of comment when I finally did. But what I like more than the name […]
The Sun Shines on Shelby
There’s a lengthy, even-handed, comprehensive and quite intelligent article on the simultaneously revered and reviled antiquities collector and Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee and benefactor Shelby White in today’s New York Sun. The most revealing passage is this quote from fellow collector Michael Steinhardt, not coincidentally a co-owner of the Sun: “I would say, Shelby […]