Kate Moss

Living For Bette Midler

The chance to see Bette Midler in a legit play has excited me. Any legit play. Yes, I'd see her in anything--except maybe Scenes From a Mall (though wait a minute, I did see that, so never mind, I even saw Parental Guidance, above!). She's one of those commanding, radioactive performers whose pers ... More >>

Live: Azealia Banks Enchants Under The Mermaid Ball's Sea Of Balloons And Tickertape

Azealia Banks's Mermaid Ball w/Maluca, Wckids, Tigga Calore, House of Ladosha & Jack Mizrahi Bowery Ballroom Sunday, June 3 Better than: Summer Jam. Azealia Banks has become one of many New York musicians flavoring their music with borrowed vogue culture—particularly from her birth year, 199 ... More >>

$100,000 KAWS Poster Stolen From Marc Ecko Gallery by Hipster-Type Person

​A guy wearing a mustache, dark glasses, and...is that a hoodie? apparently ripped a $100,000 poster from the wall of the Marc Ecko art gallery on West 23rd Street on Thursday at around 6 p.m. This hipster or hipster-esque person knew what he was doing, and casually rolled up the loot, put it ... More >>

Alexander McQueen Show: When's The Best Time To Go?

​Everyone on earth wants to see "Savage Beauty," the Metropolitan Museum of Art's show spanning Alexander McQueen's dark, bold invention. Well, if you want to get in with less of a wait, it's best to go Friday or Saturday at around 7 PM--or you can pay $50 and go on Monday, when the place is ... More >>

Queens Woman Leaves $250K to Harold Camping; al Qaeda's "Military Brain" Killed

​The family of a woman in Queens is furious after she left nearly $250,000 in her will to bogus Rapture-propagating pastor Harold Camping. Doris Schmitt was 78 and died weeks before the Rapture was supposed to happen. Her family was shocked to discover that she'd left most of her life savings to C ... More >>

DESIGNER DEATH

The Kills have style and substance

ICorrect Website Allows Celebrities (and Others) to Set the Record Straight

​"I would like to set the record straight about the horse in Studio 54," Bianca Jagger writes on the recently debuted site, ICorrect, a place where celebrities and other public figures and corporations can legitimize the hearsay of online banter. "I love horses and I used to have a white horse ... More >>

Live: Vanessa Paradis Charms Tourists And Fashion Week Lifers Alike At Town Hall

You don't have to understand her to get her. Pic by Stacey.​Vanessa Paradis Town Hall Wednesday, Feb 16 Better than: Passing out in a nightclub with Kate Moss. So, it's Fashion Week again, as you may have observed from your safer vantage point of flat shoes and carbohydrates. Every season, t ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Has Become a Walking Hallmark Card

​Watch out, David Arquette. Rehab turns celebrities into greeting cards! As Page Six reports, Lindsay Lohan is leaving the Betty Ford clinic with a spiritual attitude, if not a bottle of gin. And she's done this while looking up to a very holy icon known for being super skinny--no, not Kate ... More >>

Lose Weight With Preparation H

​I've heard for years about people who ingeniously use Preparation H to shrink the bags under their eyes, but I never imagined it would also be used to reduce one's waistline. So I was stunned when a dimpled male beauty contestant told me that he regularly smears his middle section in Prop. 8 ... More >>

Waiflike Dick Cheney Shows Off Results of "Heart Surgery Diet"

Skinny, skinny Cheney, via Yahoo.​The proof is in the pudding. Or, the lack thereof. Former VP Dick Cheney showed up at a groundbreaking ceremony for George W. Bush's planned presidential library in Dallas yesterday, and...he is crazy skinny. Like, Lindsay-Lohan-dating-Sam-Ronson-skinny. Or Ra ... More >>

Sunday Evening Link Dump: R.I.P. to Barbara Billingsley and Bad News in Iraq

Sundog​It feels a little like Fall outside in New York City and the news wires are mostly calm this Sunday evening. Football is dominating, as it tends to do this time of year, with the Jets on in Denver and the Giants holding on to beat Detroit, though Cablevision customers in the area missed all ... More >>

Evan Dando

BONDAGE AT ITS BEST

Lipstick + pearls + stockings = hot

News Roundup: Perez Hilton Gets Punched in the Face, Rihanna/Chris Brown, Flaming Lips, Kate Moss

--A member of Will.i.am's posse allegedly clocked Perez Hilton in the face last night. The blogger tweeted from a Toronto hotel around 3 a.m. last night: "I was assaulted by Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards. I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke." Hil ... More >>

Calvin Klein Soho Billboard Provokes Yawns of Outrage

The menage on this Soho billboard is part of a five-month-old campaign, but the new version seen at Houston and Lafayette has prompted a new round of Are You Not Outraged? The WCBS TV report is especially funny, with the author of a book about child-raising offering her predictably offended perspe ... More >>

Song of the Summer: Model-Slash-Actress Edition

We have little-to-no stakes in the summer-song horserace, except in a "If I hear that Drake song one more time I'll happily slit his throat with the jagged shards of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" kind of way. But we are interested in "Relator," the improbably buoyant Scarlett Johansson/Pete Yorn colla ... More >>

Week in Review: Get Ready #Bonnaroo You're Gonna Be My Bitch For the Weekend

Rebecca Smeyne In the week we didn't go to the mud-soaked hobbit/hippie fest that is Bonnaroo (well, except for the top secret one of us who did, and is even now Twittering about it), all three members of SOTC did go to Prospect Park, where we wandered the green green grass 27,000 parents and thei ... More >>

'The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion' at the Met

The Costume Institute's latest exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum is "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion," sponsored by Marc Jacobs. The outlandish exhibition captures the evolution of fashion models from the last half of the 20th century while also delving into fashion photography, clothing, and ... More >>

AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MUSE

Reflecting on what makes supermodels so super

Q&A With Cute Person Justin Tranter

Justin HyteJustin Tranter is a rock star (he's lead singer of the glammy Semi Precious Weapons) AND a jewelry designer (his sexy FETTY line sells at Barneys NY and Barneys COOP). He's ALSO a perfect subject for this widely read blog! So, in between bouts of rubbing sea kelp into my hair, I cornered ... More >>

This Is Why You're Fat--Study Says Allergies Can Hinder Weight Loss

A study in Japan has found that eating 2.5 ounces of baby broccoli per day for two months may help stave off a stomach bug that is linked to several more serious problems, including gastritis, ulcers and even stomach cancer. [Reuters] Downing a banana smoothie before bed could help sufferers of sl ... More >>

Week in Review: Boom! Woah, What Was That? You Transcend.

In the week we got ourselves a whole new look, we celebrated by staring David Lynch and Kate Moss directly in their awesome, newly expansive faces. This was a bookish week at SOTC: Brian Evenson soundtracked his novel, Last Days, Jonathan Lethem reintroduced L.J. Davis and his walls of mucus in P ... More >>

Kate Moss Appears For a Nanosecond at Topshop's Manic Opening

David Wentworth "Kay-ate! Kay-ate! Kay-ate!" chanted the mob of eager, over-caffeinated shoppers waiting for Kate Moss to arrive this morning for the opening of the Topshop flagship store in New York. It's no overstatement to say that New York fashionistas have long prayed for the day the London-ba ... More >>

Kate Moss Says She's Not 3 Months Pregnant

"Turning up on a modeling call--I still enjoy it, but it doesn't get me going," Kate Moss says (with the guidance of her collaborator, Philip Green) to New York magazine. That's why she's doing Topshop, her clothier. "With Topshop, you can go in and... you're on budget, major... you can go in and no ... More >>

JOLLY GOOD

It's a knees-up in Brooklyn

A Stroll Through Fashion Week Shindigs

Pearls to swine, and back again

Prepping for Fashion Week 2008

The usual heels, but knock off the complaining

Very Important Designers You've Never Heard of Slum at Stores You Can't Escape

Plus, Kate Moss. Will anyone buy?

The Populist Appeal of Robot Rock

Le Royale offers raucous parties and actually lets you in the door to enjoy them

Strange Bedfellows: A-List Designers Slum it for Kohl's, Target, H&M, and Payless

Patricia Field's really big shoe propels me to Brooklyn. I even go to New Jersey.

High Fashion

Styles come and go, but the glamour of drugs endures

Dirty White Boy

Cold as ice, Pete Doherty is willing to sacrifice his love

Don't Stop

Two unlikely DJs, Womanmaker and Fancypants, spin hip-hop at the unlikeliest venue

Beauty and the Modeling Beast

Talking with Top Model contestant Kim Stolz

Hey, Nice Drainpipes!

Skinny jeans are in—whether you're skinny or not

Letters

Did Kate Moss Stash Her Stuff in a Balenciaga Bag?

Windsor Knot: Camilla's Wedding Ensemble

Made in Morocco

Stash the rocker belts, it's time to go Bohemian

Show World

Art

Time, Worn

The Lure of Vintage Clothes

Night in Tunisia

Tangled Up in Blue

Blue Morning, Blue Day, Little Blue Corvettes

Star Crossed

Bare Facts

Designer Sampling

Beyond Style at Fashion Week

Fashion Victims

Nude Awakening