Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"It's always the chicest garage sale on the block, where billionaires (avec wives and children) pilfer through designer duds and add-ons. Super Saturday 11 delivered the same thrills and great finds we have come to expect from the annual event, which is hosted by Donna Karan, In Style and Kelly Ripa to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation .. Gabby Karan DeFelice planted and painted with her son Sebastian, while Betsey Johnson had a field day running around the grounds with her granddaughter Layla. Lydia Hearst, Jessica Stam, Katie Lee Joel, Charlotte Ronson, Yigal Azrouël, Michelle Smith, Melissa Obadesh and Nanette Lepore browsed and schmoozed." (Fashionweekdaily)

"Let's talk Dionne Warwick, children. Let's strip away her later career embarrassment with the Psychic Friends Network, not to mention her mismanagement of donations via some botched AIDS charity. I'm not here to dredge all that horseshit up again. I want you to remember that way back in the '60s, she was a scintillating pop singer with a husky voice that proved to be the perfect venue for Bacharach-David hits from 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' to 'Alfie' and beyond, always matching her material with style and class. Dionne could do sultry, pained, wispy, and regretful, all with sophisticated phrasings that made her a vocal emblem for the '60s heartbeat. But THAT'S not really what I'm here to talk about either. I want to bring up a hideous career misstep she made called Slaves, a 1969 turkey du cinema starring a shackled Ossie Davis, a sneering Stephen Boyd as 'massa,' and Dionne as Cassy, Boyd's mistress who, according to the Times review 'lollygags around the house drinking rum and changing her clothes.'" (Musto)

"Not sure what the city was like on Sunday, but the East End was like a scene from the Wizard of Oz. Imagine live power lines laying across Montauk Highway, the wooden fence around my pool swept to the ground, tree limbs, flooding, and danger -- oh my! But that did not stop me, and countless others, from braving the elements and finding our way to Grey Gardens to fete Russell Simmons. A small gathering of about 30 thrown by hostess extraordinaire Frances Hayward for the hip-hop impresario Simmons and Wayne Pacelle, the president of the Humane Society. The event was called 'Art for Animals,' combining two of Frances' most beloved passions .. Ann Dexter-Jones (my new favorite person!) showed off her self-designed jewelry pieces and I talked a lot with the University of Illinois student who started the infamous blog, Park Avenue Peerage." (Papermag)

"Tom Ford, fresh from the triumphant opening of his glam store in Milan, thoughtfully redirected his gaze from my affliction to my eyebrows, and those of everyone present. The handsome Mr. Ford is, as it turns out, a font of tips and information about the improvement and shaping of brows." (Observer)