Stella McCartney

Donna Summer, R.I.P.

In the two-family house where I grew up in Bensonhurst, the two musical acts I heard most often, blasting from stereos at the top and bottom of the house, were the Beatles and Donna Summer. The former was more my parents' speed, although my teenaged cousins who lived downstairs played the Fab Four ... More >>

THE BIG BLUE

Paul McCartney makes waves at the ballet

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 >>

"Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" at Met Honors Fallen Fashion Genius

Photos courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art​This year, the Costume Institute fashionably breaks its own premise: for the first time, their annual exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates just one designer: the late Alexander McQueen, an enfant terrible of British fashion turned e ... More >>

Drag-ophobia At Meatpacking District Boutique?

​ After a charmant lunch at the Standard with drag star Kitty Hiccups and cultural excavator Brian Cummings, we went shopping in the area. And shopping naturally leads to sightseeing and photo ops. When I spotted a fabulous greenhouse display in the back of the Matthew Williamson boutique o ... 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 >>

GREEN ZONE

Save the planet without looking like a hippie

Wintour Commands You to Shop! Fashion Week Launches with "Fashion's Night Out"

​As Anna Wintour goes, so goes the nation: today marks the start of Fashion Week, and tonight the first Fashion's Night Out, the Vogue empress's glam plan to get the bodies back in the stores. Over 300 retailers citywide will extend their hours until 11pm to host live music, celebrities, and o ... More >>

Former Otto Sous Chef Jacqueline Lombard to Head Kitchen at 69 Gansevoort

Sherri O'Connor/Paper Magazine​Fork in the Road has learned from a trusted source that Jacqueline Lombard has taken the position of executive chef at 69 Gansevoort, the new restaurant slated to open in the former Florent space. Calls to Lombard and Corey Lane, one of the restaurant's owners, w ... More >>

M.I.A. to Michelle Obama, Oprah: "STOP THE BOMBING OF THE TAMILS IN SRI LANKA"

This amazing photo brought to you by M.I.A.The weird Time 100 fairy tale gets even weirder for M.I.A.. On Tuesday, she was invited to, and then attended--as this amazing picture to the left clearly shows--a gala at Lincoln Center in celebration of the most influential people list the mag just releas ... More >>

Barneys and Beyond

An end-of-the-summer sales roundup

Did Kate Moss Stash Her Stuff in a Balenciaga Bag?

Outrunning the Competition

Adidas' new megastore opens in Soho with smart sneakers and a McCartney

The Cheap Detective

Polka-dot housewares and G.W. Bush coasters fill the shelves of Nolita

The Cheap Detective

An afternoon of foraging on 14th Street: The bargain beacon burns on

NY Mirror

Leather or Not

Shopping With the Vegetarian Fashionista

Something Smells Fishy

Raging Bulls

High Fashion and Exploitation

'Don't You Know Who I Am?'

Scene and Herd

An Afternoon in the Meatpacking District

Let Us Now Praise Cheaper Clothes

H&M on Fifth