How Did We Get Here? The Rise and Fall of the Met’s Costume Ball
This exclusive excerpt adapted from the 2009 book, Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum, tells the story of the museum’s annual costume party. The 2021 edition of the event will be held tomorrow night. The Party of the Year, as it was originaly known, was […]
ViceTV takes on vice in Fashion
ViceTV is first out of the box with a doc on the dark side of fashion modeling, pegged to the legal troubles of model agents Jean-Luc Brunel and Gerald Marie. Model and I are part of the story. Click here to see a preview.
All in the Family
Former treasury guy for the still-an-asshole guy Steven Mnuchin has finally offloaded his long-empty 740 Park Avenue apartment, writes real estate reporter Kim Velsey. The 8th and 9th floor A-line duplex, in his family for three generations, has been sold to a member of another longtime 740 family, Lacey Tisch, daughter of Andrew, whose uncle […]
740 Park Prez Rand Araskog, RIP
Rand Araskog, longtime president of the board of directors of the 740 Park cooperative, has died at age 89, reports the New York Times. The former chief executive of ITT, he owned a sixth floor duplex, once the home of “Black Jack” and Janet Bouvier, and the childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and sister […]
Timing is Everything
Axios reports that Donald Trump is furious at David McIntosh, president of the right-wing Club for Growth (pictured), for urging him to endorse a candidate who just lost a special election in Texas. Why would I care about a loser and his ill-advisor? Because both Trump and McIntosh are characters in my book My Generation, […]
Flashback: The Spy Guys
This second installment of resurfaced BG Conversations from my tenure as editor of Bergdorf Goodman Magazine brought together Kurt Anderson, Graydon Carter and George Kalogerakis of the late lamented Spy Magazine for a chat about the publication of Spy: The Funny Years, an anthology of their greatest hit (jobs) at the satirical dead tree shiv, […]
Before #GetCarter: Dishing with Keith McNally and Nora Ephron
Back in the oughts, I edited Bergdorf Goodman Magazine, and started a regular feature called BG Conversation, in which I invited two eminent New Yorkers to lunch and recorded their conversations. Sometimes they knew each other, sometimes they only wanted to know each other. Often, the conversations sparkled. In light of the social media tempest […]
Model Gets a Fresh Look
Of “the juiciest reads—tell-alls, exposés,” writes Lucia Tonelli on townndcountrymag.com “‘Model’ by Michael Gross is one I pick up regularly, read a few pages, and put down feeling like I’ve satisfied a social itch. The searing biography dives deep.” Thanks, Lucia!
Happy Birthday, Bob
Eighty is a long run for a rock star, but you’re younger than that now.
On The Border
With Europe about to re-open for American travelers, it seems a good moment to revisit a story published last August in Departures (in the depths of lockdown) under the rubric “well kept secret.” Pyla-sur-Mer and Cap Ferret are two of the most magical places I’ve ever visited. And soon, we’ll be able to visit them […]