Diane von Furstenberg

Mayor Mike Bloomberg Talks Fashion, Flirts With Diane von Furstenberg

With the clock ticking on his time in office, Mayor Mike Bloomberg is making sure he earns some cool points during his final term. He kissed Lady Gaga. He chilled with the cast of Gossip Girl. Now, he's talking fashion. Similar to his love of the teeny bopper television hit, Bloomberg's love of ... More >>

Diane Von Furstenberg On Her "Violent Passion" With Barry Diller

I hope no one gets hurt! But in the new Harper's Bazaar, designer Diane von Furstenberg assures us that she and Barry Diller are the most sizzling couple since, I don't know, Calvin and Kelly. "It was real passion and completely unexpected on his side and my side," swears Diane about their first ... More >>

Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

You Better Work: 21 Music-Heavy Fashion's Night Out Events

Nicki Minaj performs at Yves Saint Laurent tonight. ​Let's be honest: Shopping isn't really the main attraction of Fashion's Night Out. Who has time to sift through sales racks when there are so many parties to go to? Some events—Drake's DJ set at Versace, Neon Indian's invite-only gig a ... More >>

Fashion's Night Out Preview: Must-Go Spots

​Back in 2009 when Fashion's Night Out launched, Anna Wintour, the brainchild behind the event, aimed to celebrate the fashion industry and its consumers with an all-night party at shops and department stores throughout the city, in an attempt to spruce up retail sales in the wake of the marke ... More >>

SARTORIAL STORM

Hurricane Irene is nothing compared to this

Florent Documentary Opens!

​Restaurant Florent pioneered the Meatpacking District in the '80s, but after 23 years, it became driven out by the neighborhood's success, which it spearheaded to begin with! Gentrification came around and kicked them right in the Bastille day costumes. But ah, while it lasted! With Flore ... More >>

Hillary Clinton and Others Inspire at the Women in the World Summit 2011

The Daily Beast​The second annual Women in the World summit started on Thursday with a welcome from Tina Brown, Editor in Chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, who hosted the event, and ended with a farewell on Saturday. Over the course of the few days, an esteemed collection of women and me ... More >>

Barry Diller's Convenient Marriage Examined

​This is from Confessions of A Gay Anchorman, TV personality Charles Dabney-Perez's new book: "In 2001, Barry Diller married fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, a marriage that some reported was an attempt to put to bed rumors of his homosexuality. "Though he and Ms. von Furstenberg have ... More >>

Hadley Nagel, Most Perfect Socialite Ever, Graduates (With Honors!) to the New York Times

​In 2009, the New York Observer dubbed Hadley Marie Nagel the "Egghead Debutante." At the time, Nagel couldn't believe she had received a four-year scholarship to Johns Hopkins. ("I mean, I didn't apply for it, so it was totally out of the blue!") She was the youngest lobbyist in Washington at ... More >>

Live From The Bizarre But Much-Improved Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards

Mia Moretti, co-winner, Best DJ (seriously). Pics by Puja, more below.​"There's nothing that says 'party' and 'class' like a bomb-shelter basement in Midtown," joked drag comedian Murray Hill last night. "This is bullshit!" It was one of the many loving jabs taken at the sixth-annual Paper Mag ... More >>

Fashion Week: A More-or-Less Fond Look Back

Jamie MacDonald​This season's tally is in. For Spring 2011 Fashion Week, the Voice can rightly claim: -3 reporters -29 shows -564 downed promotional Chambord and bottled Frappuccino cocktails (they were kind of repulsive) The fabulously exhausted final thoughts:

Fashion Week: DVF Courts Anderson Cooper, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Editorial Warfare; Erin Fetherston Goes Out of Africa

Stacey AndersonSarah Jessica Parker spends another Sunday in church​Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the fashion PR houses when they plan the front rows; it must involve the most strategy since storming Normandy. Sunday's celebrity lineup at Diane von Furstenberg was the master class, conspicuou ... More >>

A User's Guide To Fashion's Night Out

If you ask Michelle Trachtenberg politely maybe she'll reprise this. Well, it's that time of year again: Friday's Fashion's Night Out brings a whole slew of free ways for you to stalk your favorite celebs, stare at pretty things you will pretend to consider to buy, and get some swag and music appr ... More >>

Florent: Queen of the Meat Market Debuts at the NYC Food Film Festival Next Week

A new documentary by David Sigal called Florent: Queen of the Meat Market profiles Florent Morellet's eponymous Meatpacking District bistro and its role not only as a club-kid hangout but as a hub for the gay rights movement. It features interviews with Isaac Mizrahi, Diane von Furstenberg, and th ... More >>

Questions That May Never Be Answered: Where Did Sexy Banker Debrahlee Lorenzana Get Her Pushup Bra?

Lorenzana shows one of her many pairs of Uggs on her Facebook page.​If you've watched a TV or seen a paper or glanced at a computer this week, there's no way you haven't heard about the hot-hot-hot lady banker who may have been too hot to bank. The whirlwind of responses to Elizabeth Dwoskin's ... More >>

Michael Kors Dresses Weatherproof Mannequin, Gets Taste of His Own Project Runway Medicine

Michael Kors, Betsey Johnson, Diane von Furstenberg and 17 other top American designers are creating a summer-long "fashion show" that will march up Broadway from Herald Square to Times Square. The public art project, called "Sidewalk Catwalk" and put on by the Fashion Center Business Improvement D ... More >>

Ciao, Bryant Park! The Top 10 Trends For Fall

David WentworthBackstage at Betsey.​ Alas, another thrilling Fashion Week has come to an end. We partied at LNA with Metric and Patti Smith (who gave a heartfelt tribute to Alexander McQueen), cozied up to the handsome men modeling at the GQ Best New Designer showcase, got snowed on at Isaac M ... More >>

Diane von Furstenberg Commits to Sparkle Motion, Betsey Johnson Shoots and Scores

Discussed: Diane von Furstenberg, Rachel Roy, Betsey Johnson Stacey AndersonDVF​In Diane von Furstenberg's Fall 2010 line program, she explains her inspiration thusly: "I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body." And in that man's life, there will be glamour--oh, endless glitz. ... More >>

Kerry Washington: No Slouch in Mamet's Race

Plus dancing stars, live mullets, and midlife lesbians.

Spring Guide: Wells Tower Offers A Strange Way To Squeeze A Dog

The dark menagerie of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

"I Need To Be On My Own": Watching MTV's The City Season Finale

The long awaited The City season finale did not end, as it probably should have, with Olivia being shot out of a cannon. Instead we got loose ends, and 30 minutes to tie them up before the uncannily light baton was to be ceremoniously passed on to a new season of The Hills: Would Whitney reunite w ... More >>

FASHION QUEEN

And it all started with those sexy wrap dresses

"I've Got to Get Out of Here": Watching MTV's The City

In happier times... Week after week, The City has striven desperately to become some sort of riven TV statue, an unintelligible glyph of notable accessory shots and blank expressions: the 2001 monolith reimagined to awe human idiots. But now, as if God himself had heard my prayers to breathe life ... More >>

"I Love Waking Up with You": Watching the Disgusting Spectacle of MTV's The City

"The best way to get over a guy is to get under another one" It's official: The honeymoon on The City, if there ever was one, is over. The cast, obliged by MTV to party, work, and live together, obviously dislike one another, and they're all making it extremely apparent; for this alone, I'd like t ... More >>

Mingling with the Commoners: Watching MTV's The City

It's no secret that for the better part of The City, the least dreadful and single most entertaining storyline has been Olivia's ongoing disdain toward Whitney's boyfriend, friends, and her life in general. At the forefront of this feud is Olivia's presumption that since MTV strategically placed h ... More >>

New Yorkers Prepare for the Age of Obama

photo by missheather Everything is, or can be, a New York story, and New York news outlets carry the local angle on the Inauguration. "People -- many from New York -- arrived in [Washington] to witness history," reports NY1. "I made hotel reservations in March," Djamillah Samad of the Bronx tells ... More >>

Dirty Blonde: Where to Drink in 2009

Even bars get sequels now

Pyrotechnic Close-Ups of Shoes: Watching MTV's The City

As The City begins to nestle comfortably with its characters--most notably Erin, the ditz; Olivia, the villain; and Whitney, the clueless protagonist--the most excruciating moments come at the first half of the show, when literally nothing happens. To wit: a mind-numbing confrontation between utte ... More >>

Manhattan Rents Dropping to as Little as $4,000/mo.

The Real Deal's Michael Stoler tells us that "Manhattan renters are gaining the upper hand as market-rate rents drop." To prove it he shares some of the great deals he's found online: a 3BR at the Brittany for $4,670 per month, a 2BR on East 56th Street for $4,120, and finally a major steal: a 2BR ... More >>

Beware the "Downtown Crowd": Watching MTV's The City

With the tragic demise of MTV's highest rated "reality" series The Hills, its lead star Lauren Conrad and marketers are proudly passing the baton to a lesser-known Hills character: Whitney Port, who is now three episodes into The City, her very own New York-based Hills spin-off. Far from the vangu ... More >>

Blind Items about Heath Ledger and Maybe Madonna!

I told you so.

Trash Talking with Harvey Weinstein

Juicy details plucked from the garbage of a movie mogul

What Can You Buy When You're Broke?

A recession-proof guide with free answers for those who aren't afflicted by vulgar wealth

Fashion Week Recap: Toilet Paper Huge at Sean John

Stuck on the Runways as Fashion Week Takes Off

Diary of a mad housedress

Sui Generis?

Anna Sui, others sue Forever 21: How original are you?

Trapped in the Closet

The dubious highs and extreme lows of Fashion Week

Get Your Wardrobe On

The fashion industry is obsessed with green—the color of military uniforms, army fatigues, and the scads of money it will cost you to buy next fall's designs

Butter Piping and Nipple Flowers

A young designer takes on New York Fashion Week

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After a Long Drought, Wieland Provides the Shock of the New

Just in Time, A Dialogue Between Design and Democracy

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The Dead Zone

The Drudgery and Dreams of Fashion Week

Crepe Soul

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Oscar Undressed

The Starmaking Machinery Behind the Popular Gown

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For Common Threads

The Spring 2000 Fashion Shows