![Marjorie Gubelmann AKA DJ Mad Marj [Sherly Rabbani Harouni]](http://nyovelvetroper.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/screen-shot-2013-04-15-at-11-56-50-am.png?w=150)
I haven’t been involved in a disco party blowout in a long time, but when my dear friend Marjorie Gubelmann, a.k.a. “DJ Mad Marj,” asks anything, my answer is always yes. Gubelmann and I, along with co-hosts Mickey Boardman, Nate Berkus, Simon Huck, Tory Burch and Vanessa Getty, threw a “Spring Fling” at the Tribeca Read More
Last night, Chanel threw a bash for “The Little Black Jacket,” an exhibition at the Swiss Institute curated by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld. Guests got the “black jacket” portion of the memo, but there may have been a smear of toner obscuring the word “little”–guests came in noir togs both petite and capacious! Herewith, some of the top looks. Read More
Ah, Memorial Day weekend. The official start of the summer. And as The Observer traipsed from event to event this week in the thick fog and pouring rain, we asked everyone we encountered: How are you spending your summer? (Assuming, of course, that it isn’t as dreary as this week was.)
The answers ranged from Read More
“I’m going to only take a few minutes of your time. So shut up!”
Last night, at the St. Regis rooftop ballroom, Dame Barbara Taylor Bradford took the role of emcee to new levels of Britishness when the post-dinner chatter became too much. Such brusqueness may have raised a few eyebrows at other galas, but she is a Dame, and after all, this was to fight cancer. The room duly obeyed.
The cause was, for the most part, the focus of the American Cancer Society’s inaugural Birthday Bash (in past years, called the “Celebration of Life,” the name change heralding the Society’s 100th birthday next year). The end of the spring gala season seemed to have left some guests a bit tired and chatty, with the auction drawing few bidders. But later requests for straight-up donations to the Society’s Hope Lodge—no VIP Giants tickets included—was heeded by many. And the dance floor was full to the brim when the band played “Staying Alive,” which we presume was in homage to Robin Gibb. Read More
(Photo of Theophilus London via POP LIPPS)
Last night at Catch, StyleCaster–which is like Fashism plus articles–celebrated its 2nd year of naming 50 stylish New Yorkers.
The criteria of being a stylish StyleCaster was detailed in Marni Golden intro to the online list: Read More
