By Sarah Grothjan 6/27/12 5:20pm

New York in Film

Isaac Mizrahi and Derek Blasberg at W New York Downtown.

Grand Classics “New York in Film” Series Starts with a Screening of Isaac Mizrahi’s Pick: Sweet Charity

Last night, a group a fashion moguls, designers, models and perfectly dressed men and women, made their way to the W New York Downtown hotel to view the first film screening in in the Grand Classics series “New York in Film.”

The evening commenced with a cocktail hour, rife with fashion editors and a lingering music crowd. It was a fitting precursor to the film screening of Sweet Charity–a personal pick by Isaac Mizrahi, a New York fashion icon who knows all about sexy.

“There’s a difference between when you put air quotes around something, and it’s actual meaning, you know what I mean? So it’s like ‘sexy’ is not as good as sexy, and this is a really sexy movie,” Mr. Mizrahi told The Observer, sincerely. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 5/25/12 1:00pm

the eight-day week

Martha Plimpton (Getty Images)

To Do Sunday: Big Plimpton

If we can’t see Martha Plimpton on the stage anytime soon (she’s working hard on her Fox sitcom, and good for her!), we’ll buttonhole the New York actress at tonight’s East End benefit for Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic. Naturally, there’ll be a silent auction, as well as a sale of beach towels designed by Read More

By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay 4/27/12 6:27pm

Awards

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Hands off, buster!

Fern Mallis Has “Achieved a Whole Fucking Lot!” Says Betsey Johnson

When you can drag CFDA’s Steven Kolb, Vogue’s Hamish Bowles, Paul Wilmot, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Cathy Horyn, Dennis Basso and Vivienne Tam from their hectic lives in the fashion and editorial worlds to attend a student fashion show, you know you have sway. Or you have industry legends Calvin Klein and Fern Mallis. Last night the former presented the latter with a lifetime achievement award at Pratt’s 113th graduate fashion show, where over a dozen talented designers presented their edited collections. Read More

By Erica Martin 4/13/12 5:22pm

Party Report

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Lake Bell, Scott Campbell, Jeffrey. [Patrick McMullan]

At ASPCA Bergh Ball, Isaac Mizrahi Gives Us Dating Advice and Jeffrey the Chihuahua Learns the Woes of Fame

Isaac Mizrahi munched on an hors d’oeuvre (“I never waste an opportunity for a pig in a blanket”) and gushed to us about the virtues of his dog Harry, as well as of dog-ownership in general. He was the emcee for the ASPCA Bergh Ball last Thursday, but the guests of honor were a pack of dogs up for adoption.

They strutted across the marble floor of the Plaza’s Grand Ballroom while women in little black dresses held the ends of their stylish neon-orange leashes.

“Let me tell you, as a single girl- are you single? A dog is a man magnet!” Mr. Mizrahi said. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 4/12/12 9:00am

the eight-day week

Tinsley Mortimer (Getty Images)

To Do Thursday: Fur a Good Cause

Were any moths harmed in the filming of The Moth Diaries? We know just the people to ask! Designer (in theory) Isaac Mizrahi is hosting the ASPCA Bergh Ball, where he is to joined by novelist Tinsley Mortimer and munchy monger Dylan Lauren in raising funds for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The whole Read More