Walking the Walk
I’m quoted in the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter in Beth Landman‘s story on walkers…the men who once (and sometimes still do) escort women, married or otherwise, with whom they are not intimate, to social events. In it, one-time walker Boaz Mazor says women “don’t care about society anymore — they are happy to go out with […]
Sacking the Sacklers: Too Little Too Late?
Today’s New York Times details a backlash against the philanthropy of the drug-dealing Sackler clan, best known here in New York as the donors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur (above), Sackler Wing and Sackler Galleries. The back story of the current controversy is told in Rogues’ Gallery, my book on how […]
And for my next act….
Expect Gripepad to come alive again, as I’ve left Avenue Magazine after just under two-and-a-half years as its Editor-in-Chief. It was fun while it lasted. Next!
St. Barth Bounces Back
Holders of American Express Platinum cards can read my cover story on the rebirth of St. Barth post Hurricane Irma in the new issue of Departures. Less privileged folk (like me, for instance) will have to wait until it is unlocked.
Calvin Klein Collection, R.I.P.
And now comes the news that the owners of Calvin Klein, the brand, are closing its high-end collection business following the departure of designer Raf Simons, who failed to be its savior. Calvin Klein, the man, lives on, both in the world and in my archives, thanks to my second-ever cover story for New York […]
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 […]
Mnuchin Asking $32.5 Million at 740 Park
The news that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has listed his sprawling A-Line duplex at 740 Park Avenue made headlines this week. Besides the Wall Street Journal’s scoop by Katherine Clarke (shown), Forbes also featured the listing, citing the book that remains the primary source on the world’s richest apartment building.
Genuine Authentic e-book Released
The e-book of Genuine Authentic, available for the first time and released yesterday, is the #1 new fashion book in Amazon’s Kindle Store. The book, first published in 2003, has also been re-released in a new paperback edition to note Polo Ralph Lauren’s 50th birthday, with a new Afterword.