Melissa Berkelhammer

Two Wednesdays ago, The Bowery Hotel played host to a very special celebration -- the first season finale of Million Dollar Listing New York. This past season captured three brokers and their intertwining lives as they fought for their share of the market and dealt with demanding clients in order...

I began to hear my biological clock tick ever so slightly upon my entry into Tory Burch's Madison Avenue store on Wednesday afternoon. The flagship that I not-so-secretly wish were my private home partnered with the "it" yummy mummy site Elizabeth Street for tea and a special reading...

"His calves are bigger than my thighs," mused fellow judge Nigel Barker about Scottish Rugby star Richie Gray, one of the many notables who represented on the runway at Monday night's "From Scotland with Love," the annual kick-off to Tartan Week in the U.S. Now in its tenth year, the...

Benefit season is well underway, which translates to a host of "kick-off" parties to build buzz for their respective event. Not that New Yorkers for Children really needs one: as of this writing, tickets for their annual Fool's Fete (to be held on Tuesday, April 10), are either almost or...

'Tis the season for gift-giving, and also the time to give back, as New Yorkers like Zac Posen, Rachel Roy, and Tinsley Mortimer know all too well. As members of the Friends Committee of New Yorkers for Children, they helped wrap 1,200 presents for children in foster care at the...

As New York Fashion Week, Spring '12 drew to a frenzied finale, an intimate group of supporters gathered in Lincoln Center's Smart Courtyard, as Circa CEO Chris Del Gatto, Veronica Webb, and New Yorkers for Children toasted French designer Sophie Theallet in anticipation for their upcoming Fall Gala, which was...

Alexander Wang's full frontal assault on the senses manifested itself in an all out bacchanal after show party at Pier 40 on Saturday night. Each guest was greeted with glow sticks, jello shots, damaged garden gnomes and blow-up sex dolls as they made their way center stage to the event.

After a traffic-filled drive out to the Hamptons, the proper way to unwind is crucial. For the lucky few, on a Friday evening, Nick and Verity Edmiston, Mark and Lucy Cornell, and Nacho Figueras and Delfina Blaquier hosted an intimate soiree aboard a Highlander yacht at the Sag Harbor Yacht...

"On behalf of Mayor Bloomberg, and the City of New York, today is Mercedes-Benz Day!" announced City Council Speaker Christine Quinn at the opening party for the famed luxury car's newest flagship on 11th Avenue. It was an appropriate declaration: Mercedes' latest address is a 330,000-square-foot, five-story, state-of-the-art flagship dealership,...

Just last summer, I wrote on this very blog about a wonderful dinner party that designer Douglas Hannant and his business partner Frederick Anderson hosted for some 120 people at the Wainscott culinary destination Georgica. Held on the second Friday in June, the fete drew such an impressive crowd of...

Anyone who has taken a ride down (or up) Park Avenue lately surely has noticed a certain 23-foot, 35,000-pound, bronze, yellow teddy bear sculpture seated outside the iconic Seagram's building on 52nd street. This monumental sculpture -- created in 2005-2006 by Urs Fischer and inspired by memories of his childhood...

After Fashion Week comes to a close, it often takes a couple of weeks of reflection for a consensus to develop on the most memorable shows and parties of the season. One of those was undoubtedly the Douglas Hannant de Robert Piguet Launch at the Payne Whitney Mansion. Hundreds of...

Despite the torrential rain last Thursday night, celebrities, designers, and scenesters alike turned out in full force to fete a host of celebrations taking place throughout the city that evening. One of my favorite designers, Rag + Bone, has opened up a women's shop at Saks Fifth Avenue, which is...

Milly's Michelle Smith, one of the few designers whose clothing line is regularly featured on Gossip Girl and is actually within the price range of most of its viewers, unveiled her new line of children's wear, handbags, and jewelry at Bergdorf Goodman last Thursday. Friends and fans like Dayssi Olarte...

Friends and family braved the snow en masse Wednesday evening, trekking to Chanel's 57th Street flagship to fete author Jill Kargman's latest book, Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut. The book marks a departure for Kargman, as this is her first nonfiction effort -- a collection of essays and observations...

"I never thought you could receive an honor for doing something so fun," Prosper Assouline confided in the minutes before he was knighted into the Ordre des Arts and Lettres at Sotheby's last Wednesday. But surely the honor, which recognizes those who have "significantly contributed to the enrichment of the...

If we all had an eighth day of the week to do whatever we wanted, how would we spend that time? What type of stories and visuals would we be drawn to? Herein lies the conceit of Dunhill's appropriately titled Day 8 application, a new content curated site that launched...

Ironically, during a week when many art (and party) aficionados were working on their tans (and, of course, adding to their art collection), at Miami Beach's annual Art Basel, Sunglass Hut did a little counter-programming. Think of it as the fashion equivalent of the chick-flick.

On the first...

The week before Thanksgiving holiday saw a lot of celebrations, especially for Architectural Digest's New Editor in Chief. On Wednesday evening, Conde Nast Chairman S.I. Newhouse, Jr., Conde Nast CEO Charles H. Townsend, and Architectural Digest VP and Publisher Giulio Capua toasted Russell at Tom Colicchio's new waterfront restaurant, Riverpark....

"21" took on a whole new meaning Wednesday evening, when the venerated hotel held a glamorous fete to celebrate - you guessed it - their 21st property, the St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort in Puerto Rico. Back in New York, the temperatures may have been dropping outside, but hosts Brooke...