The Village Gate was a nightclub at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village NY. Art D’Lugoff opened the club in 1958, on the ground floor and basement of 158 Bleecker Street. The large 1896 Chicago School structure by architect Ernest Flagg was known at that time as Mills House No. 1 and served as a flophouse for transient men…

I want to be Natasha Poly nothing else will do… I quit, no one in the whole world we know looks like Adrien Brody Julienne Moore has strange legs but there is an ethereal quality to her like no other.  It is hard to pinpoint why the Video “The Making of the Pirelli Calender” with […]

The Fashion Group International’s Annual Night of Stars always has *****STARS***** For a lot of us fashionistas no star burns brighter than DAPHNE GUINNESS….. OH YEAH… Gizelle, Madonna, Rihanna, Kim, insert your favorite name here but the sheer mystique of someone so close to Alexander McQueen…  So ”other worldly” and unlike everyone else, we say […]

Dear God, Help me out here, how come rock n roll people are so damn fun and unafraid to death of the fans and are so accessible to posing and allowing 60,000 little cell phone photos to be snapping away and have only two burly guards who moved away when asked to get out of the […]

The Whitney Parties are always always a splendid mixture of patrons, matrons, young nubile socialites and artistes as well as artists.  Pier 57 seems large enough to be a state, certainly larger than Rhode Island…. and a great place to hide and party and this one was jumping!  I just wish the lovely Georgina & […]

Kanye West’s genius as a groundbreaking musician is unquestionable, whereas his status in the fashion world has been, until now, that of an ardent bordering-on-obsessive fan boy. But let’s be real the fashion industry is not one based in reality or truth. Looking at this collection it’s easy to see that Kanye did not do […]

Watching Tisci’s tour-de-force spring-summer 2012 collection Sunday, you were reminded of the enormity of his gift and all the reasons why he’d be a leading contender for fashion’s top job — the coveted Dior post. A (figuratively) heavyweight cast of top models, including Gisele Bundchen, who rarely graces runways with her presence —streaked down the […]