Friday, January 21, 2022

Pierre Durand

House• January 21, 2022.

A look back at our 2011 interview of Pierre Durand in his exquisite 5th Avenue home. Much of his collection is up for auction next week at Christie's New York... READ MORE

Thursday, January 20, 2022

A Wardrobe for the Wonders of Winter

Guest Diary• January 20, 2022.

The What-to-Wear-Where girls, Hilary and Karen, are taking in the winter wear — what you’re gonna need to brave the storm and keep warm from head to toe — for all (winter occasions), with a wide selection of possibilities and prices... READ MORE

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

American Friends of Versailles Study Marie Antoinette’s Hapsburg Legacy in Prague, Part II

Social History• January 19, 2022.

Part II of Sharon Hoge’s coverage of the American Friends of Versailles visiting Prague and its historical relationship to Marie Antoinette whose Hapsburg mother was Queen of the empire... READ MORE

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Pulling back the curtains

Social Diary• January 18, 2022.

Snowless January so far, but Broadway’s re-opening; and Peggy got quarantined at a friends’ villa in Umbria, and how she just made it out of the country escaping by Delta to New York... READ MORE

Monday, January 17, 2022

Striving to be colorblind

Social Diary• January 17, 2022.

Thinking of Dr. King on this day and on many other days in these times... READ MORE

Friday, January 14, 2022

No Holds Barred: You can run but you can’t hide!

Guest Diary• January 14, 2022.

Booster bored and in a “brownout” Blair Sabol tries to keep it together, for the year of the Tiger brings hope!... READ MORE

The American Friends of Versailles in Vienna Visit Scenes of Marie Antoinette’s Childhood, Part I

Social History• January 14, 2022.

Sharon Hoge takes us on the annual American Friends of Versailles fundraising visit this year to Vienna and Prague. Part 1... READ MORE

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Besties Michelle Phillips and Marsia Holzer: Still Hippies in their Hearts

Guest Diary• January 13, 2022.

Lee Fryd gets together with friends Marsia Holzer and Michelle Phillips to talk about their lives and their projects; and get a good tour of Marsia’s latest work... READ MORE

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Hollywood Lives, Part II, Women in Charge

Social Diary• January 12, 2022.

Women in Charge; always a good story... READ MORE

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Hollywood Lives, Part I

Social Diary• January 11, 2022.

Hollywood women, before (the liberation) and after (now)... READ MORE

Monday, January 10, 2022

Easy to get carried away

Social Diary• January 10, 2022.

Every mother’s dilemma when it comes to the favorite son. Even with the Windsors... READ MORE

Friday, January 7, 2022

Change in the weather; change in the sea …

Social Diary• January 7, 2022.

And the beat goes on! it says in the lyric, and so it is in the last Diary for the first week of the New Year!... READ MORE

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Steppin’ in Society, Part II

Social Diary• January 6, 2022.

Part II with Steppin’ in Society in a faster world of publicity and glamour ripe for scandals and on to the new world of today... READ MORE

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Steppin’ in Society, Part I

Social Diary• January 5, 2022.

On a cold and quiet January weekday in New York, we’re re-running another New York when it was hotter and hardly quiet... READ MORE

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Remembering Arlene Dahl

Social Diary• January 4, 2022.

A tribute to a Star from the days when 80 million Americans went to the movies every week!... READ MORE

Monday, January 3, 2022

No Holds Barred: Where do we go from here?!

Guest Diary• January 3, 2022.

Blair Sabol takes a good hard look at the year just past and wonders what’s in store. And more... READ MORE

Saturday, January 1, 2022

Our 21st annual holiday Diary

Social Diary• January 1, 2022.

This is it; the moment we’ve all been waiting for, like it or not; with a display of a holiday message that reminds of the best of it, and maybe more out there for us... READ MORE

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Prints that Made the Brand Famous

Guest Diary• December 30, 2021.

Wendy Moonan takes us for a look at the Cooper Hewitt’s exhibition of more than 35 of Susie Zuzek’s original watercolor and gouache textile designs, vintage dresses, screen-printed textiles and photos of celebrities wearing Lilly Pulitzer outfits — all in Zuzek prints... READ MORE

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Encountering Icons and Angels

Guest Diary• December 29, 2021.

Lee Fryd takes us on an incomparable New York salon experience — to an Upper East side penthouse home to Tibetan antiquities and a private concert; and to a fabulous Park Avenue duplex for an evening of commentary, poetry and performance. ... READ MORE

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Going for Greene, the New Spot to Shop

Guest Diary• December 28, 2021.

Barbara Hodes is back on Greene Street covering some of the newest boutiques of fashion for both women and men, all very cool and chic... READ MORE

Revisiting and returning to the collection of a friend