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Looking east across 57th Street. Photo: JH. |
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Out in Springfield, Illinois, Barak Obama gave his speech entering the Presidential Race as a Democratic candidate. A Republican woman I know told me his presence reminded her of JFK, and she was impressed. I went home and found the speech on the internet. I could see what she meant. This is neither an endorsement and or an approval. Merely an observation. Many believe this will hurt Hillary. However we the People are now facing 20 months of campaigning. I wonder at what point will our eyes begin to glaze over at the sound of another political speech. I wonder how much humanity will be left unbattered in the candidates.
Items from the runway. Last week was Fashion Week in New York. Friday last at two o’clock Dennis Basso brought his Fall Collection to the Promenade at the Tents. This was Dennis’ first show in the big tent and it’s a good thing because he needed the room: it was jammed to the rafters with fashion press, retail executives and hundreds of the gravel-voiced couturier/furrier’s friends and followers.
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Guy Trebay and Robert Janjigian
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Allison Sarofim and Marjorie Gubelmann
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Gigi Mortimer, Sandy Hill, and Nina Griscom
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Pamela Gross and Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos
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Kelly Bensimon and Andrew Saffir
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The front row at Dennis Basso's |
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Stephanie Winston Wolkoff and Barbara Winston
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Barbara de Portago and Mark Gilbertson
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Dennis closes out his show |
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Thursday last Debra Davis, the PR woman introduced me to a young man from Baltimore named Vincent Licari who also had a show of his collection the day before at the Hilton Theater lobby. The quietly intrepid Mr. Licari, who is 25, started his business, in his hometown, with the backing of his parents. He has already staged two other runway shows – one last season at the Bryant Park Grille and at Rome’s Hotel de la Ville at the top of the Spanish Steps.
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Vincent Licari and models
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| He learned to sew by watching his mother and his grandmother. He sold his first design in 2001, at age 19, to a New York woman attending a gala in Baltimore. That first sale led to a prosperous “one of a kind” couture business. This spring he’ll open his first atelier in New York. |
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Dr. Stephen Bosniak and Beth DeWoody |
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Last Thursday, Manhattan eye and cosmetic surgeon Dr. Stephen Bosniak died suddenly at age 59. I’d known Stephen only for a few months. I’d met him through Beth DeWoody who had met him almost a year ago. Theirs was one of those relationships in which everyone - friends and family --could foresee a bright future.
He was a bright friendly man, dedicated to his profession and fascinated by Beth’s equally dedicated interests in art and philanthropy, as well as amused by her broad and eclectic range of friends. Both with previous marriages behind them, they enjoyed each other’s company, had a good time together. And they were nice to each other. These simple things can be hard to come by.
Stephen had collapsed on the street several hours before, having worked in his office that day. He suffered an “acute leukemic blast,” which, a doctor explained to me, is like a stroke. Chances of recovery would have been slim. Stephen liked people. He spread that amiability wherever he went. He is greatly missed already.
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