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Crash Virgins
“I have zero investments, for better or for worse,” said 26-year-old Ben Zoltowski, a senior print project manager at the advertising agency McCann Erickson. “I feel like New York is already difficult...
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The Transom in Print, Oct. 15, 2008: Socialite Halloween!; Kim Hastreiter’s...
Irina Aleksander called around to find out the costumes prominent New Yorkers are wearing this Halloween. Celerie Kemble‘s going to need a lot of hairspray! Ms. Aleksander also moseyed down to Diane...
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Bleeding for Zaha: Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld Can Only Hope to Contain Her
In an age where Damien Hirst errata have joined gold and United States government bonds in the shrinking pantheon of safe investments, can contemporary art still be dangerous? More to the point, can...
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What Did Everyone Do on Halloween?
While Allison Sarofim‘s annual Halloween party took place the weekend before Halloween, most people celebrated on the actual day since this year it fell on Friday–and there were plenty of masquerades...
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Harvey Weinstein Banking on Americans’ Love for a Good Cry
"I hope you brought tissues," said Brooke Geahan, whose Accompanied Literary Society hosted a screening of Stephen Daldry‘s The Reader at the Tribeca Grand on Monday, Nov. 24. "It’s a crier!" Mr....
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Young Socialites Leaving the Parental Nest–Or Not
Ambitious twenty- and thirty-somethings in New York working in creative fields are living with their parents instead of getting a place of their own, reports Page Six Magazine. The magazine cites the...
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Elise Overland Calls Her Presentation More of an ‘Event'; Bring on the Open Bar!
Elise Overland‘s presentation on Valentine’s Day was not exactly a presentation in the traditional sense. The models, wearing mini dresses, leather gloves and colorful lambskin blazers, spent time...
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Fashion Week’s Brave Face
At Diane von Furstenberg’s afternoon show on Sunday, Feb. 15, the front-row guests simply would not settle down—but perhaps everyone was simply thrilled they didn’t have to put their sad faces on in...
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Models Mob the Met!
The theme of this year’s Met Costume Institute Gala—i.e., the Oscars of the East—was “the Model as Muse,” and the weedlike mannequins floating up the red carpet in weapons-grade shoes and teensy...
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They’re Slacking: Prima Donnas Pick Pants for Met’s Opening Gala
On Monday, April 12, at the Metropolitan Opera’s opening-night performance of Rossini’s Armida, the Transom decided to sort the famous people who truly enjoy the cries of Renée Fleming from those who...
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Ladies Room Confidential
In the essay “If You Sprinkle,” from her new book How Did You Get This Number, Sloane Crosley writes about a project she undertook while studying at Columbia. She visited ladies’ rooms around the city....
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Why Georgina Bloomberg Stays Out of Politics, and Fabiola Beracasa and Moby’s...
The Humane Society is not a hypocritical organization — and so the cuisine served at its benefit gala Wednesday night was, fittingly, vegan. (Munching on seitan chops, The Observer barely missed the...
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Shindigger: Five Floors of Art in Tribeca
At the New York Academy of Art’s Tribeca Ball, the city gathered to honor–and possibly buy!–the work of academy students, displayed over the academy’s five floors. This wasn’t idle gazing: Naomi Watts...
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Last Night at Sotheby’s: An All-Nude Review
"Nude, New York 1995" by Patrick Demarchelier, on offer last night. “Gallery one is closing!” announced a disembodied male voice over the speakers at Sotheby’s “Take Home a Nude” auction event last...
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Overheard in the Front Row of the Honor Fashion Show
The front row of Honor (Getty) During our continued observance to bring you everything non-fashion-related to Fashion Week, here is what we overheard on the front row of today’s Honor show at Lincoln...
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