Salezapoppin’ at 15CPW
Apartment 8A at Fifteen Central Park West is in contract for $35 million, reports Donna Olshan of Olshan Realty, which issues a weekly report on contracts signed for New York apartments selling for $4 million or more. As usual, count on Gripepad to name names. The seller, lurking behind an LLC called Swiftsure Property, and […]
Indonesia on the Hudson: Fifteen owner asks $31 million
Last night, Mansion Global, the Wall Street Journal’s real estate spinoff, revealed the latest listing at Fifteen Central Park West, subject of House of Outrageous Fortune–apartment 28D, a three bedroom corner spread with three exposures, listed for $31 million. As is so often the case with condos on the billionaire’s belt, the owner is hidden […]
Snapper Patter
In today’s New York Post and on PageSix.com, Richard Johnson gets the scoop that I’ve turned the camera around to look at the lives of fashion photographers like Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel and Bruce Weber in my new book, Girls on Film: The Glory Days of Fashion Photography (out next year). It’s a whole new […]
Cut Rate Model for #NYFW
In celebration of New York Fashion Week @nyfw, the e-book of MODEL: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, is on sale for $1.99 !! #markdownmadness #nyfw
Acid Reflux in Ta-Ta-Ville
Yesterday, Town and Country, the Hearst Corporation’s society mag, or rather, its blog (how, chic, how now, dahhling) excavated Takeover in Ta-Ta-Ville, my 1988 article on the decline of Southampton for New York magazine, to point out that Sunday’s Styles of the Times cover story on the effects of new money on the place now […]
“Modeling is the sale of women’s bodies…”
On Entertainment Tonight last night, I talked about the dark side of the modeling. .
Bad decor but a great address
Curbed just found another new eight-figure listing at Fifteen Central Park West. The décor is underwhelming, but the space is, well, outrageous. Though I’m not sure I would want to bunk directly underneath Dan and Margaret Loeb, someone will surely want that position. Curbed asked me why several 15CPW units have come onto the market. […]
Polo player chukkas 15CPW pad
The New York Observer reports that apartment 35D at Fifteen Central Park West has come on the market for $33 million, but calls the sellers “whoever they are.” Whoever they are is “Victor Vargas, a Venezuelan banker with six homes, a polo team, and a daughter who married Luis Alfonso de Borbón, a great-grandson of […]
RIP Arnold Scaasi
The designer Arnold Scaasi died on Monday. In 1985, I wrote an item for The Evening Hours column of the New York Times about his ubiquity in that era. It always made me smile. Click the image to read it.
Hello, I Must Be Going
I’m thrilled to share the news that I’ve joined Departures, the luxury lifestyle and travel magazine, as a Contributing Editor. Since 2012, I’ve written stories for the magazine on the Isle of Cavallo, the coming of the $100 Million Manhattan condo, the eastern Riviera, designer-class retailing in Miami, and the rebirth of Mexico City. Watch […]