VMan Gives Partygoers $5,000 in One-Dollar Bills and the Presence of Kanye West
By Nate Freeman | February 16, 2011 | 5:39 pm
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No Sleep at House of Waris
By Michael H. Miller | February 16, 2011 | 11:46 am
At a showcase for House of Waris at the Museum of Arts & Design in Columbus Circle, The Observer bonded with the designer Waris Ahluwalia over our mutual... MORE»
Good Looks, Glamour and Galas — Fall 2011 Fashion Week Parties
Last Wednesday, Cipriani Wall Street welcomed into its enormous marbled confines tuxedo-clad celebrities, AIDS activists and fashion cognoscenti for the amfAR Gala, the organization’s Fashion Week kickoff.... MORE»
The Wages of Fashion Week
By Nate Freeman | February 15, 2011 | 8:19 pm
Four nights of Fashion Week parties left The Observer with plenty of notes, a few hazy recollections and very little energy to tell the... MORE»
A Fur-Clad Tinsley Mortimer Talks on the Ethics of Dennis Basso, PETA's Worst Nightmare
By Nate Freeman | February 15, 2011 | 8:12 pm
Last Saturday, PETA hauled out their homemade signs and hard-fought idealism to protest Donna Karan, one of the biggest fashion designers to not yet sign the petition pledging to excise all furs from her Fall 2011 collection. In order to drive the argument home, PETA supporters played the sound of screaming rabbits outside Karan's office. But judging by today's Dennis Bass show, they picked the wrong titan of fashion to... MORE»
CORRECTION: Plenty of Buyers Were at Mik Cire
By Michael H. Miller | February 15, 2011 | 4:20 pm
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Is Aziz Ansari Fashion Week's Most Ubiquitous Party Guest?
By Nate Freeman | February 15, 2011 | 2:54 pm
Last September Russell Simmons was everywhere.... MORE»
Does W Have a Carine Roitfeld Problem?
By Kat Stoeffel | February 15, 2011 | 2:14 pm
When Stefano Tonchi named Alex Gonzalez creative director of W magazine, we were relieved that the expecting father and newlywed would be getting a helping hand. But a line at the end of the announcement gave us pause: "In addition to his role as Creative Director at W, Gonzalez will continue as Executive Creative Director at AR New York for a select group of the agency's... MORE»
At the Vs Magazine Party, Rising Pop Starlet Cover Girl Sky Ferreira Decides She Can Be Sexy
By Nate Freeman | February 14, 2011 | 4:32 pm
Walking down the steps to the Kenmare basement last night, The Observer saw singer Sky Ferreira, eighteen and perhaps a pop star in the making, leaning over with one arm tethering that explosion of blond hair, a gem-studded silver necklace spreading like cracked glass just above her chest. Her mouth was open in an oval and her lips were painted grapefruit red. She was looking right at... MORE»
Fashion's Power Players Tactfully Arranged at Diane von Furstenburg
By Daisy Prince | February 14, 2011 | 4:19 pm
Spare a thought for what has to be one of the toughest jobs on a fashion show--the Sisyphean task of seating all the one name editors so they all feel equally well-treated. You know who we mean, Graydon, Anna... MORE»
"In is in!": Fashion's New Intimacy
By Bob Morris | February 14, 2011 | 2:51 pm
Once in a while an article in the Times ruins my day. In Thursday Styles last week, the Gray Lady pronounced big fashion shows out, hitting a deep nerve of my superficial soul. The reporter alleges that ever since Tom Ford staged his women's collection for a mere 100 people in his store last September, designers are looking to radically scale down and limit audiences. "Intimate is definitely in the air," a KCD flack agreed. Or is it just showy exclusivity that snookers top critics who then write... MORE»
Zac Efron Attends His Very First Runway Show, Calvin Klein
By Nate Freeman | February 14, 2011 | 2:38 pm
Three name cards were set at yesterday's Calvin Klein Men's show, and they would portend the feeling of the rest of the event: "JOE JONAS... ZAC EFRON... AMAR'E STOUDEMIRE." A front row lineup for the ages! The Efron-Jonas power duo arrived in near-matching suits -- one black, one gray -- fitted snugly and affixed with a certain type of skinny tie. The cut was such that they had basically walked out of the pages of GQ (whose editor, Jim Nelson, was seated just across the runway, and made sure to stop by for a chat with the... MORE»
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Fashion Week's First Saturday Night Peaks With Zac Posen at The Standard
By Nate Freeman and Michael H. Miller | February 13, 2011 | 6:32 pm
At all three parties The Observer attended Saturday night, we heard the usual refrains from the people guarding the door: "You're wasting your time;" "I can't help you tonight, sir;" "No" (our personal favorite). We got in anyway, of... MORE»
Amid Runway Royalty, a Real Princess Goes Unnoticed
By Daisy Prince | February 11, 2011 | 9:33 pm
In New York sightings of celebrities are commonplace but sightings of a genuine royal are rare. At last night's Retna opening while everyone was staring at Lily Donaldson and Amanda Hearst, a member of Monaco's royal family slipped in so subtly that no one in the crowd noticed or seemed to care. No one even stopped her to take her photograph. Yes, Charlotte Casiraghi of Monaco's royal family had graced us with her... MORE»
Aziz Ansari Sizes Up the Male Models at the GQ Best Designers Party
By Nate Freeman | February 11, 2011 | 6:34 pm
Last night at The Ace Hotel we found ourselves staring at a bevy of half-naked male models standing silent and still for hours. "I heard they're all on mushrooms," a partygoer told The Observer. We hoped they were, given how long they had to play mannequin. It was GQ's Best New Menswear Designers party, and if these models had ingested some hallucinogenics beforehand perhaps the paralysis would have been more... MORE»
