Tasty Trump
Town & Country with Ivanka Trump on the cover: $4.95 Its mention of 740 Park as the book at her bedside: Priceless
Karma, Served Cold?
Five years ago, an apartment my wife and I owned was flooded, and my co-op’s insurance company, a subsidiary of AIG, offered us seven cents back for every dollar we’d lost, even though we had what’s called a “replacement” policy that should have paid to repair the damages entirely. When we kicked up a fuss, […]
The Next Big Brown?
The press continues to speculate who will replace the Metropolitan Museum’s longest-serving director, Philippe de Montebello. Today’s New York Sun has the latest state-of-the-arts list, which drops Met president Emily Rafferty and the British Museum’s Neal MacGregor but adds the Met curator and Havemeyer descendent Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and includes two Timothys: Timothy Potts of […]
Eat it!
The summer issue of Bergdorf Goodman Magazine will be out next week, featuring my conversation with Alain Ducasse and Daniel Boulud, whose new restaurants Bar Boulud, Benoit and Adour have recently brightened the dining scene in the neighborhood I call Vuitton (which is somewhere between uptown and downtown). Say those three words with a broad, […]
All is Vanity
Vanity Fair has a Madonna slideshow on its web site that includes the photos the late Herb Ritts shot for her very first VF cover story, penned by yours truly.
R.I.P. YSL
Yves Saint Laurent died in France today. Twenty years ago, I interviewed him just before his company went public and asked how he felt about sharing ownership of his name. In response, he pulled a framed quotation from Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, off the wall of his Paris office. Slowly, a tremulous […]
Is it Supes Yet?
Women’s Wear Daily should know. Last week, it announced the return of the supermodel. Welcome back, Christy, Claudia and Linda. You’re a sight for sore eyes and as welcome as miniskirts in spring.
Model Movie
Page Six announced this morning that Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, my 1995 book on the fashion modeling industry, has been optioned by KDX Productions to be made into a ten-part documentary. Given that today’s papers also bring news that the film of my pal Steven M.L. Aronson‘s fantastic book on a society […]
Fifth Avenue Freezeout
Galleycat has some fun with the fact that the powers-that-be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art don’t like the book I’m writing —and don’t need to read it to know that! The book blog has issued a call for photos of the building (which the Met doesn’t want me to have) and they’re already arriving. […]
Sheik Philippe
Philippe de Montebello is going to work for New York University, where, according to Carol Vogel in todays’ Times, he will lecture on the history of collecting and connoisseurship and the evolution of museums, and serve as a special advisor — whatever that means — to NYU’s new Abu Dhabi campus. Curiously, when the Louvre […]