Media-Whore d'Oevres



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"Over at the Harold Pratt/Council on Foreign Relations house on the corner of 68th and Park, Nordstrom and Vogue hosted a cocktail reception for New Yorkers For Children, a kick-off for their fall gala which will be held on September 16th which will also kick-off the fall social season in New York. This will be the 9th annual New Yorkers For Children Gala, now one of the most sought-after gala tickets in town for the 30-/40- Something social set in New York. No surprise Doug Hannant was there last night, and Zac Posen, Carolina Herrera, Peter Som, Thakoon, and of course Oscar de la Renta who is one of the founders with Nicholas Scoppetta and Susan Burden of the NYFC." (NYSocialDiary)



"I’ve talked to quite a few people today who are pissed at Kanye West after his performance last night. About a week before the festival began he apparently asked Bonnaroo to re-schedule his Saturday evening show for 2:45am Sunday morning so that he would have enough time to put on the fancy light show he’s been touring with lately. Festival staff complied with his wishes and sent out a hasty e-mail about it to everyone attending Bonnaroo. So at 2:45am last night half the people here were standing in front of the massive What Stage waiting for Kanye to come on. By 3:15, they started getting antsy, and still no Kanye. By 3:45, people were pretty pissed, and still no Kanye. Finally, he rolled out his trillion-dollar show at 4am, without so much as a brief apology for the delay. The show ended after 5am, as the sun was coming up. Needless to say, lots of folks here are pissed off." (Bonaroo/VV)

"Nothing wrong with Kanye West's ego being the size of Jupiter, but his 'glow-in-the-dark spectacular' was short on spectacle, long on wait, and not at all what was promised. Was it because Pearl Jam ran late? Was it because of a disagreement over the safety of some portion of his set? Was it because Kanye's over-inflated sense of self has crashed headlong into his limitations as a human being? After all the build-up and hype, including the shifting of his set from 8:15 p.m. Saturday to 2:45 a.m. Sunday so that festivalgoers could behold "the full experience," Kanye didn't simply not deliver—he insulted the people who waited for him until 4:25 a.m. by failing to even address them in any way. No 'Hello, Bonnaroo,' no 'I'm sorry for the delay,' nothing besides a few pyrotechnics, some grandiose CGI, and boorish interactions with his spaceship's computer." (Idolator)

"Moviegoing in Manhattan has become infinitely more civilized since Andrew Saffir dreamed up his Cinema Society. 'It's like the movie equivalent of flying private,' whispered one guest at last night's screening of Trumbo at Tribeca Cinemas. Good point--why hit up Union Square with the hoi polloi when a roomful of James Lipton, Francisco Costa, Joan Allen, Josh Lucas and Judah Friedlander awaits? No wonder Ashley Olsen, who breezed in with the extremely dishy Justin Bartha, came just for the heck of it." (Fashionweekdaily)



"I think Sigur Ros surprised everyone yesterday (Icelandic National Day) by playing for almost two hours. Less surprising was that a museum lobby is not the ideal setting for a concert. It wasn't bad. There were just a lot more people talking and drinking and walking around than at the completely silent, seated show at Grand Ballroom the night before. MoMA also doesn't have a stage." (BrooklynVegan)



"The island vibe was fully in effect on the runway. The collection after collection of clothes that paraded down the catwalk embodied a wide spectrum of influences from elegant church lady to proud Rasta girl to urban sex-pot. Minka, one of the standouts, is a Jamaican queen of crochet who knits everything from bikinis to dresses. And the more traditional looking garbs by Mutamba, another Jamaican, are made for powerhouse ladies like Lauren Hill and Erykah Badu." (Papermag)

".. I left the NYFC cocktail and walked around the corner to the penthouse of Terry Allen Kramer and Nick Simunek where they were hosting a book party for Christopher Tennant and his new book 'The Official Filthy Rich Handbook (How the Other .0001% Lives)' ..In fact this is for those very early Preppy Handbook followers who’ve now grown up (or something like that) and are now earning eight figures on Wall Street or someplace like that, and need to know. Or for the rest of us schumpfs who wouldn’t mind knowing just so we can dream authentically. You can learn 'the importance of seeming arty,' 'the right cosmetic surgeries for you..and you children,' 'the only clubs were joining,' 'bullet proofing the Maybach.'" (NYSocialDiary)