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…

If you GOOGLE Scott Harrison, you will be floored at what one man can start.  2.6 Million raised in one night = Clean Water…  So!!!!!!! not something everyone has.  The sight of a baby drinking brownish dirty water is appalling. http://www.charitywater.org/.                             Above: […]

God I love Valentino… Everybody looks better dressing in Valentino going to a Valentino Event!  (Below:  Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker and Andy Cohen, Michelle Harper).  Or Now… Visiting the Virtual Museaum and hopefully being infected with the reality that is  style a la Valentine… too  Gushy??? Not superlative enough?  Think  Jackie O, Sophia Loren, […]

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 […]

Dashing Hugh Jackman Donna Karen, Calven Klein and Adriana Lima joined Russell James for a private reception in honor of the Limited Edition Exhibition of NOMAD TWO WORLDS at the CATM Chelsea Gallery.  Below Hugh Jackman escorts Donna Karen.  Photo’s Caroline Torem Craig                         […]

All I could think of was “Girls just want to have plenty of…..M.A.C. Cosmetics!”  The fact is Cyndi Lauper still looks and acts like a girl! Cyndi with James Kaliardos.

The thing about Lady Gaga is although I don’t get it, it’s pretty unbelievable! People were literally shaking with jealousy that I was going to be able to take a photo of her!  And like J LO THIS HAS BEEN A VERY GOOD YEAR??!!  Over 30 is the new under 21.. BUT you have to […]

GMHC at the Metropolitan Pavillion had fashion on the runway quite terrif! Jenny Shimizu QUIETLY mixing in, stood out! Thom Browne’s outfits stunned (in a good way) and Jean Paul Gaultier’s were topping out. There was a tall blond pompadoured model man in a little beachy keen swimsuit that drew oohs and aahs from ALL regardless […]

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 […]

Valentino hosted a private book signing tonight for Hal Rubenstein’s “100 Unforgettable Dresses” at the Valentino Boutique on Madison Ave.  Hard to resist the supremity of feminity..that’s probably not even a word unless we coin it now! The cause of excessive superlativing is being any where near anything VALENTINO (The Last Emporer)!  Here Hal Rubenstein’s […]