Euros, Trashed
This week in Crain’s New York Business, I offer up my jobs plan: Why can’t American newspapers and magazines hire American writers and editors to cover American innovation, excellence and style? Maybe we’ll start a trend and some British magazines will Hire American, too. That should get Sally Singer singing.
Oligarch Arm Candy
Today in The Daily, gossip supremoRichard Johnson names names of some of the Russian oligarchs who’ve seized control of the most storied brands in fashion modeling–as revealed in the new updated edition of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. That’s Ford Models owner Vladimir Potanin striking a pose above.
Modelinia Hearts Model
The all-models-all-the-time web site Modelinia has noted the Lamb’s Club relaunch of Model: The Ugly Business of Business of Beautiful Women. “We highly recommend you pick up this wildly interesting bestseller,” they say. Gripepad hearts Modelinia, too.
Image Flood: The Model Relaunch
Here are more photos than you will ever want to see of the Model relaunch at The Lamb’s Club. Thanks to Patrick McMullen and Wireimage for attending and taking such great shots. Check back here soon for Dustin Pittman‘s photos, which will be posted as soon as I get them.
L.A., My Way
Now that Fashion Week is over and the fine-feathered flock flies east to Euroland, it’s time to cast my eyes west to Unreal Estate (the new new book instead of the old new book). It’s appropriate that the first word (by me, at least) on my look at luxury estates in west Los Angeles and […]
A Feast of Friends
New York Social Diary catches up today with Tuesday night’s late great fete at The Lamb’s Club for the relaunch of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. That’s Montgomery Bernardi, Danielly Silva, Karina Zartkezvica, Emely Fargo and Barry Cord above. Click through and scroll down for more pictures, more beautiful babes in the woods […]
Gazelle Sightings
Last night, The Lamb’s Club hosted a relaunch party for Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, which Gripepad readers know will be out September 27th in a new updated edition, followed by the debut of an e-book version in October. The New York Observer, Whom You Know and The Corsair are the first out […]
Anatomy Is Destiny: The Return of Model (not that she ever left)
The new edition of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, gets some ink in the tabs today. In the Daily News, Gatecrasher-in chief Frank DiGiacomo writes (page down to final item) that the update “finds news in the world of 6-foot genetic accidents [and] reveals the legal travails and failed comeback of Elite founder […]
Model “blew the lid on the backstage of the fashion world.” Unreal Estate “makes ‘Chinatown’ look like Disney Land.”
“What a swell party it was,” writes Steve Garbarino in Room 100, the Thomson Hotel blog. “In 1996, journalist-author Michael Gross (“740 Park,” “Rogues’ Gallery”) blew the lid on the backstage of the fashion world: the champagne, the anorexia, the lesbo sex, the diva behavior, the model agency parasites, the delicious cruelty of it all. […]
Correction: For The Record
The new edition of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, to be released September 27, 2011, contains an inadvertent error in an update chapter. On page 520, a quote regarding John Casablancas, founder of Elite Models, and his relationship with the agency’s current owners, is misattributed. The words “He wouldn’t take direction,” attributed to […]