Did the Butler Buy It?
Can the Brooke Astor story handle any more twists and turns? Well, here’s a hairpin. And if anyone knows where it leads, I’d be thrilled to hear about it. A friend reminded me today about a story that appeared in the New York Observer in July about the sale of the late art gallery scion […]
Correction: Infanticipation at 740 Park?
Turns out there may be an issue with Cityfile’s post (linked below) about plastic surgery memoirist Alex Kuczynski and 740 Park co-op board president Charles Stevenson‘s connubial bliss going pfft. Erstwhile society chronicler David Patrick Columbia says that in fact La Kucyznski is pregnant. “Also in the speculating ‘split’ category, as ‘reported’ in a couple […]
The Book on Brooke
I made my debut on The Daily Beast this morning with a piece about the new book on Brooke Astor. You can read it here.
Campbell in the Soup
The blogger Culturgrrl ran an odd item yesterday, telling her readers that Thomas P. Campbell, the director-elect of the Metropolitan Museum, had been written up in a newspaper, but declining to name it or link it because it is in his home town of Ossining, New York — a curious omission. Culturgrrl nonetheless borrowed the […]
Playing Footsie
The latest in my series of Bergdorf Goodman Conversations, featuring shoe-loving humorist Amy Sedaris and the very funny footwear designer Manolo Blahnik, inspired an item on Page Six today. You can read it in its entirety (in pdf format) here.
Splitsville at 740 Park?
Cityfile says that 740 Park’s co-op board president Charles Stevenson and Alex Kuczynski are on the verge of divorce. The former New York Times style reporter is, at least for now, the hedge fund mogul’s fourth wife.
2 Good 2 B True
I missed this while in Rome for Halloween, but caught up thanks to unBeige: The next Party of the Year (aka Anna’s Party) for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art takes place May 4th, eight days before the publication of my “much anticipated” (per unBeige) new book, Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History […]
Schadenschwarzmanfreude (Not Again!)
The Blackstone Group, run by the occupant of 740 Park’s primo residence, has announced a half-a-billion-dollar third quarter loss, and marked down the value of most of its holdings, sharing the pain of most of the rest of us, who might have once felt we weren’t as smart as 740’s Stephen Schwarzman. The New York […]
Ire in Ireland
The Independent, the Irish newspaper, has discovered 740 Park, the book — and been appalled by 740 Park itself.
Craven Mavens
Yesterday, England’s Guardian wondered about the effect of America’s election on the complexion of fashion. I put my two cents in: “It will be a wake-up call. The reaction in the fashion business will be a blatant and almost laughable attempt to catch up. Such is this craven industry and such is the way they […]