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Designer Ottavio Missoni is laid to rest in Italy
Ottavio Missoni, who died last week at age 92, was laid to rest on Monday after a funeral service in Gallarate, Italy. “Fashion passes but style remains. We are here to take lessons in style from a man of style,” said the minister Don...
Tags: Giorgio Armani S.P.A., Fashion Trends, Italy, Vera Wang, Missoni
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Are the rich stylish? They can't hold a candle to the late C.Z. Guest
Liz Smith"BEAUTY IS truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know," wrote the poet John Keats. (I always think of Keats in Rome because he died in 1821 at the age of 25 in a room adjoining the Spanish Steps.) There was so much pain,...Tags: Celebrities, New York City, Fern Mallis, Tommy Hilfiger Corp., Manhattan (New York City)
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Holland Taylor's big night ... what's the matter with Justin Bieber?
Liz Smith"If you're thin and rich and fun, everyone will want to dance with you!" said the late Brooke Astor. She always believed in dressing up to give people their money's worth! GREAT ACTRESSES are not always back-biting and jealous of one another. Many...Tags: Celebrities, Judith Light, Justin Bieber, Ben Vereen, Feminism
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Fashion -- it mattered. It matters. It will ALWAYS matter!
Liz Smith"I'M SURE SHE (Anna Wintour) agreed in the end (to cooperate with the documentary "The September Issue") only because she wanted to show that Vogue is not just a load of airheads spouting rubbish. By then we had all had enough of 'The Devil Wears Prada,'...Tags: Lincoln Center, Celebrities, Awards and Prizes, Golden Globe Awards, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Stars come out to play for the Abingdon
Liz Smith"I'm as pure as the driven slush!" said Tallulah Bankhead Finally, an evening where we didn't even need Tallulah. I THOUGHT I WAS the world-class expert on fund-raising evenings, but last week I received a big surprise when I trekked west, almost to the...Tags: Andy Warhol, Tyne Daly, Julie Halston, Graydon Carter, Maria Callas
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Brooke Astor auction at Sotheby's fetching high prices
Pop2itA 1868 oil on panel owned by the late Brooke Astor sold for $1.6 million, more than triple a $500,000 estimate.... -
Must tell-all books REALLY tell all?
Liz Smith"I AGREE with Barbra Streisand when she was asked the secret of a happy marriage? "Time apart!'" she replied. "I think Alice Faye and Phil Harris felt the same way!" This is Bill Biss philosophizing. I USUALLY defend gossip and people who talk too...Tags: Sting, Fox News Channel (tv network), NBC (tv network), Awards and Prizes, Monica Lewinsky
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Shopping (sort of) at the Brooke Astor auction
Liz Smith"POWER IS the ability to do good things for others," said the late Brooke Astor, who had power, money and did good things for others. WENT TO Sotheby's the other night to see the treasures of Brooke Astor's Manhattan apartment and her Westchester country...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), New York Public Library, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Jimi Hendrix, Hobbies
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The last of Mrs. Astor
Liz Smith"When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them," said the saucy philanthropist Brooke Astor when she was only 92 years old. Tomorrow, we will begin to get a look at the late Mrs. Astor's belongings,...Tags: Auction Service, Adultery, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated
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Our Laguna: Flip through the pages of Connie Morthland's life
Connie Morthland celebrated her 100th birthday this year, and the milestone was commemorated in a book by her younger daughter, Joan Hutchins. The Grand Dame of Moss Point lives now at Crown Cove in Corona del Mar, but during her decades in Laguna Beach,...Tags: England, Stanford University, Hospitals and Clinics, Road Transportation, Theater
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Monster Mash: Miami Art Museum gets gift; Getty buys a Manet
Culture MonsterDeveloper Jorge Perez has agreed to donate $35 million in cash and art from his collection to the Miami Art Museum in a deal that would rename the museum after him. Gary Tinterow, an executive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has been chosen... -
Before Cobra Snake or the Sartorialist, there was Bill Cunningham
All The Rage“The best fashion show in the world is on the street.” That’s according to Bill Cunningham, the celebrated photographer whose On the Street columns appear every Sunday in the New York Times. And he should know. Chief chronicler of the......
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