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Fashion Week FS08: Carolina Herrera

Posted on February 5, 2008 by admin
Carolina Herrera's fall collection was a WASP fantasy writ large: lots of swingy tweed jackets paired with cigarette pants tucked into riding boots and fanciful fedoras adorned with enormous peacock feathers. All of it was...
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Fashion Week FS08: Hervé Léger

Posted on February 4, 2008 by admin
Max Azria, who relaunched the bandage dress for Hervé Léger, is at it again with a fall collection that incorporated billowy chiffon skirts into bandage bustier evening wear. For a view of the collection, check...
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Bar Boulud

Posted on February 1, 2008 by admin
When Knucklehead was going to be too late to join us at a recent dinner at Bar Boulud, High Maintenance suggested he meet us afterwards at the bar."Oh no," I said. "There's not actually a...
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Young Collectors’ Night at the Winter Antiques Show

Posted on January 28, 2008 by admin
A well-dressed crowd showed up for Young Collectors' Night at the Winter Antiques Show at the Armory. Shimmery fabrics and metallics looked especially good against the rich colors of the furniture and art. Some of...
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Dovetail

Posted on January 23, 2008 by admin
Normally I don't even try to go to popular new restaurants on the Upper West Side, considering it an exercise in futility. I could never get a table at 'Cesca when Tom Valenti was cooking,...
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Times Square and Environs

Posted on January 21, 2008 by admin
Despite the presence of the Conde Nast building, which no one ever seems to enter or leave, Times Square is pretty much a fashion wasteland. If you want to see what was "in" two or...
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Bar Stuzzichini and Shorty’s.32

Posted on January 16, 2008 by admin
Fine dining is fine, but let's face it: most of the time, most of us just want to eat. This is particularly the case when you're going out with a gang of friends. It's not...
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BLT Market

Posted on January 14, 2008 by admin
CLOSED The proliferation of "chain" restaurants in New York can be unsettling. I don't mean Ruths Chris or the Olive Garden - disturbing in and of their own right - but the high-end type like...
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Spring Shoes

Posted on January 10, 2008 by admin
Spring wares are beginning to trickle into stores now. Or maybe it's "resort." Anyway, thanks to global warming, these two fashion seasons have merged.The clothes are all very well and good, but what's worth noting...
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Nolita on a Winter Sunday

Posted on January 7, 2008 by admin
Fashion and materialism are often considered interchangeable concepts. The look on the streets, however, indicates a sea change. Even in pricey Nolita, fashion is no longer reliant on expensive It bags, but a non-conformist hodgepodge...
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Momofuku Ssäm Bar, Take Two

Posted on January 3, 2008 by admin
It was pouring. Pouring the horizontally slanting kind of rain, seemingly specific to urban areas, that renders umbrellas useless. Hands Honson and I stood in the glassed in vestibule of a nearby restaurant, arguing about...
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dell’anima

Posted on December 20, 2007 by admin
Another restaurant on the must-hit list this winter is dell'anima. The brainchild of chef Gabriel Thompson, formerly of Del Posto and Le Bernardin, and manager Joe Campanale, once the sommelier at Babbo, dell'anima is one...
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Belcourt

Posted on December 19, 2007 by admin
CLOSED There are so many great new places to eat this winter that it might be better to forgo the usual post-holiday diet and exercise in favor of just exercise. Maybe just walking to the...
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Alliance for the Arts

Posted on December 7, 2007 by admin
The Alliance for the Arts recently hosted a party at Christie's to benefit the Robert F. Wagner Jr. Fellowship for Public Policy and the Arts. On display was Latin American art - and some fashionably...
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Irving Mill

Posted on November 28, 2007 by admin
CLOSED Some restaurants seem destined for women. Take any man over 5'9" to the diminutive Cafe Cluny, for instance, and the results are almost comical. One wrong move and several dainty cafe tables, botanical displays...
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