JACOB BERNSTEIN

March 29, 2023

An Unopened 2007 iPhone Can Be Yours (for $32,000 or More)

A first-generation Apple smartphone is going up for auction. Wright Auctions, a leading venue for the sales of contemporary design goods, has fetched five-figure deals for […]
March 13, 2023

Inside Vanity Fair’s Oscar Party

Winners and also-rans shared cocktails and In-N-Out burgers with moguls, musicians and models at the annual post-awards gala. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — On Sunday night at […]
July 21, 2022

At Ivana Trump’s Funeral, a Gold-Hued Coffin and the Secret Service

“People adored Ivana.” In death, as in life, her famous former husband loomed over Ivana Trump’s story. On Wednesday afternoon, when a funeral was held for […]
July 14, 2022

Wake Up, Billionaires: The Occupiers Are Coming for the Hamptons

Along for an early morning “billionaire wake-up call” with protesters on Meadow Lane. On Tuesday morning at 5 a.m., before the day’s oysters were unloaded from […]
July 13, 2022

Packing Pitchforks for the Hamptons

Along for an early morning “billionaire wake-up call” with protesters on Meadow Lane. On Tuesday morning at 5 a.m., before the day’s oysters were unloaded from […]
June 8, 2022

The Meme That Derailed an Executive’s Career

John Demsey made diversity Estée Lauder’s corporate pitch. An Instagram post with a racial epithet cost him his job. John Demsey, the beauty executive who became […]
January 30, 2022

Mugler, Remembered by His Crowd

The designer, who died on Jan. 23, simply knew what he wanted, and how he wanted it. Manfred Thierry Mugler, the French designer who died Jan. […]
January 24, 2022

Thierry Mugler, Genre-Busting French Fashion Designer, Dies at 73

The dominatrix-loving couturier turned sex into a style weapon. Thierry Mugler, the outrageous, genre-busting French designer who dominated European runways in the late 1980s and early […]
January 7, 2022

Ron Perelman's Debts Come Due

Perhaps the most surprising thing about Ronald O. Perelman is he’s one billionaire who didn’t get richer during the pandemic. For much of the last three […]
July 3, 2021

Are Masks a New Signifier of Social Class?

Face coverings are coming off, though not for everyone. On a recent Sunday night at Le Bilboquet, a see-and-be-seen restaurant in the Hamptons, well-heeled diners nibbled […]