Moda Operandi’s Indre Rockefeller on the Met Gala and her M.O.
Besides sponsoring the PUNK: Chaos to Couture Met Gala this year, the Moda Operandi girls are playing their cards right in going one step beyond providing clothes via the internet for the well-heeled masses with massive bank accounts. SCENE caught up with Moda’s Director of Ready-to-Wear, Indre Rockefeller at Prince Harry’s Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Read More
Catching up with David Stark: the event planner extraordinaire on his new book
Last Tuesday night, on the seventh floor of Bergdorf Goodman, NYC’s leading event designer David Stark not only launched his new book, The Art of the Party, but also launched his signature paper décor line, sold exclusively at Bergdorf Goodman. Linda Fargo, Lizzie Tisch and other guests sipped cocktails and enjoyed the sounds of Avalon Jazz Band while Read More
Pretty Please: Kate Moss for St.Tropez
It comes as no surprise that Kate Moss is announced as St. Tropez‘s er the ultimate self-tanner’s new face—and body. The beauty, and the product make being in-the-nude fashion’s hottest trend.
What products did Moss use to achieve her glow, you ask? St.Tropez Self Tan Bronzing Mousse applied with St.Tropez Applicator Mitt for a streak-free Read More
Going Rogue & Canon
What does it take to get a drink in this town? Just good taste and some insider knowledge, if Rogue & Canon co-owners Johnny Swet and Larry Poston have something to say about it. Together, the pair has opened two venues this year: the swanky Cole’s in Greenwich Village and its more rugged older brother, Read More
Springing to get away before summer
If you are like us, then you know what a bad case of the winter blues can do to a Scenester. With Spring teasing us with its fickle weather, now more than ever, we need an extra dose of vitamin D before we officially kick off the summer. After all, there’s nothing like being the first Read More
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Scenes from last night: Whitney Art Party
In what seems like a love affair with nostalgia, the social scene having been bitten by Jazz Age fever, the annual Whitney Art Party, held at Skylight at Moynihan Station, brought us right back to 2013. This rite of spring, always the nexus of art, fashion and entertainment, did not disappoint.
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Time Traveler: Café Tabac
Just over 20 years ago, before social media made every hidden gem old news in a matter of days, word about openings used to begin with a quiet buzz and spread through the word of influential New Yorkers. Now, one or two places like Waverly Inn or Bohemia have managed to stem the tide with an unlisted number or a preview policy, but then the cognoscenti would whisper about it and try to keep the news under wraps for a month or two at least before columnists began positioning themselves at tables and dropping items. Read More
Design Stars: Andrew Flesher
What made you decide to pursue a career as an interior designer? I always thought I’d be an architect. When I was in grade school and other kids were outside playing, I was drawing houses on graph paper. I spent four years in college at the University of Minnesota studying it, but eventually found my Read More
Fashion’s Queen B
What was the inspiration to start The Daily just over a decade ago? I’ve always had a passion for the behind-the-scenes world of fashion, where this milieu is at its most authentic. The designers and their teams, the retail and media kingmakers, the self-fueling model and agent dynamic, the fashion editrixes—anointed taste makers whose job is Read More
