If you want to ensure some serious star wattage at your store opening party, then throwing it the Saturday before the Met Ball is a safe bet. To wit, just some of the celebrities who were spotted at the reopening of the Dolce and Gabbana Fifth Avenue boutique: Gisele Bundchen;...

At No. 8 on Monday night, artist Beezy Bailey talked about how he convinced musician Dave Matthews to collaborate with him on their latest project, now (until April 13) on display at Chelsea's Robert Miller Gallery. Two holidays ago, "I proposed that he paint with me," Bailey said of Matthews,...

Last Tuesday, Jeffrey Fashion Cares, the annual fashion fundraiser benefiting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and those living with HIV/AIDS celebrated its 10 year anniversary with a kick-off cocktail event at the Jeffrey store. Jeffrey Kalinsky, president and CEO of Jeffrey New York/Atlanta, along with Town and...

Thursday night was a busy one in the city, and I used it as an opportunity to check out some of the holiday windows on Madison Avenue before heading to a much anticipated spa opening downtown. My first stop was at Barneys, home of the Disney Electric Windows, to say...

Fashion moves fast, indeed... A mere month out of the slate of spring shows and Fall 2013 is already upon us. As is tradition, the season officially kicked off with the "Pitti" press luncheon, customarily held at one of the beloved Northern Italian eateries -- this time at San Domenico's...

It's not every day that one gets to see a beaux-arts Upper East Side embassy awash in a sea of pink, but as they say, there is a first time for everything. Thursday evening, I headed to The Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion, where Jimmy Choo was celebrating its latest collaboration -- that...

Well, we have survived yet another week of the U.N. in session and have lived to tell about it. Everyone has their horror stories. But I think most of us learned to avoid any kind of transportation that is not absolutely necessary. This was made easier for some, as last...

"I'm walkin' here," quipped Spike Lee at Thursday evening's Grand Classics screening of Midnight Cowboy. He was -- as most of the guests already knew before seeing the film -- referencing the film's most iconic line, courtesy of Dustin Hoffman's Ratso Rizzo. On the 31st floor of the W Downtown...

"Of all the money raised for conservation in this country, only two or three percent focus on the ocean," explained sea advocate David Rockefeller, Jr., acting ever the supportive husband at MOMA's screening of his wife Susan Rockefeller's documentary Mission of Mermaids, screened in celebration of World Ocean's Day. Upon...

On a balmy summer evening, Nina Garcia invited her fashion and charitable-minded friends and colleagues to Reed Krakoff's Madison Avenue boutique for an intimate shopping and champagne event. The purpose? To build buzz for the Alzheimer's Association's annual Rita Hayworth Gala on October 23. Guests included prominent supporters like Muffie...

As a longtime (or actually lifetime) Upper East Sider, I must confess that I don't make it down to Saks all that frequently. Which is funny, because I certainly patronize Bergdorfs often enough, and that's a mere seven blocks uptown. Why venturing below 57th Street makes such a psychological difference...

Fans of Jill Kargman's books -- from The Right Address to Momzillas to The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund -- enjoy her trademark humor and her knack for satirizing certain New York cliques that the city native knows all too well. Accordingly, there is often a guessing game as to who some of...

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...