July 24, 2024

The Fashion Industry Is Having a Meltdown Amid Rampant Gossip

There is yet another job opening in fashion. On Monday, Tom Ford (the brand) announced the departure of Peter Hawkings as creative director after just over […]
November 12, 2017

Liz Smith, Longtime Queen of Tabloid Gossip Columns, Dies at 94

Liz Smith, the longtime queen of New York’s tabloid gossip columns, who for more than three decades chronicled little triumphs and trespasses in the soap-opera lives […]
October 12, 2017

Unbuttoned: Fashion’s Gossip Addiction

Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN Fashion has an addiction problem. I am not talking about illicit substances here, though the industry’s past issues with those have been […]
August 5, 2017

At Home With: Jeannette Walls Settles Down Far From the Noise of New York

ORANGE, Va. — Early in the “The Glass Castle,” the movie based on Jeannette Walls’s memoir of growing up destitute, Rex Walls sidles up to his […]
December 22, 2016

Want the Scoop on Team Trump? Pay Attention to Cindy Adams

“There are no names here,” the longtime New York Post columnist Cindy Adams complained. Mrs. Adams, 86, was standing outside the Music Box Theater on West […]
April 2, 2016

Circa Now: Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall? The Fascination of Odd Couples

April 1, 2016 By HENRY ALFORD The cackling can sound like a chicken who is facing his certain death; the eye rolling suggests that vaudeville is […]