New Doc Pokes Fashion’s Blind Eye
You’ll want to watch it, Gerald Marie (shown on Ibiza with ex-wife Linda Evangelista) might want to watch out, and Jean-Luc Brunel and John Casablancas are likely twitching in their graves. It’s just been announced that Scouting for Girls: Fashion’s Darkest Secret, a blistering three-part documentary on the sexual abuse and trafficking of aspiring fashion […]
Herb Sukenik Lives!
In 2014, House of Outrageous Fortune broke the astonishing story of how an unemployed 73-year-old genius, a reclusive tenant at the Mayflower Hotel on Central Park West, held out against eviction by the prospective developers of the luxury condo Fifteen Central Park West–until he got a $17 million payoff to move–and a free apartment at […]
R.I.P. Patrick Demarchelier
Fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier, who died of cancer on St. Barthelemey last week at age 78, was one of the most popular and belovedmembers of his profession from the late 1970s into the next century. He appears in both my books Model, on modeling, and Focus, which focuses on post-war fashion photography. For an unexpurgated […]
R.I.P. Ashton Hawkins
Ashton Hawkins, the beloved, long-time executive vice president and in-house lawyer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died Sunday at 84 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. Obituaries for Hawkins have been mostly adoring, dwelling on his work as an art lawyer, behind the scenes operator and arm-twister, and as it chief wealth-whisperer to […]
Model Has Legs
Today’s Page Six spotlights Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, which, it says, “still walks the news runway 27 years after its release.” Who says models have a short shelf life!
Annie and Andy: One Last Dance
On April Fool’s Day 1987, a memorial mass was held for Andy Warhol at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, followed by an A-List lunch, and I covered both for the New York Times. But my story didn’t run, because a competing department, known as Culture Gulch, also had a reporter there and arts […]
Rats on the Run
Jean Luc Brunel is dead, perhaps by his own hand. Gerald Marie, in self-imposed exile on Ibiza, must wonder what fate has in store for him. The story told in Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women in 1995 still has legs thanks to these two villainous model agency bosses, one gone but not forgotten, […]
Return of “The Satanic Diaries”
In spring 1989, in a locked room at Warner Books, I became one of the first people to read The Andy Warhol Diaries edited by Pat Hackett. And was delighted to find my wife and myself mentioned in its pages (from the night that’s pictured, when Andy took our photos with a special Polariod SX-70 camera, […]
Introducing Palmer
The first issue of Palmer: The Palm Beach Reader arrived this weekend–and I’m thrilled to be part of this new venture as its Editor-at-Large. Editorial Director Stefano Tonchi describes it as “a quarterly magazine styled more like a coffee table book, complete with fascinating profiles, longform features, and artful photo essays celebrating this singular community […]
On the Road Again
It’s been years since this website changed much, but now, a new section has now been added. In 1996, Nancy Novogrod, the editor of Travel & Leisure magazine, asked me to start writing for it, and my first cover story the next year celebrated Thanksgiving on St. Barthelemy (pictured). I looked at my becoming a […]