Brooke Astor

Designer Ottavio Missoni is laid to rest in Italy

2013-05-14 08:30:00

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...

Monster Mash: Miami Art Museum gets gift; Getty buys a Manet

2011-12-02 16:32:56

Before Cobra Snake or the Sartorialist, there was Bill Cunningham

2011-03-21 16:32:14

'Too Much Money: A Novel' by Dominick Dunne

2009-12-14 00:00:00

If Dominick Dunne's posthumous novel, "Too Much Money," will get people talking about him, that's probably exactly what he would have wanted. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: 'Too Much Money': In Monday's Calendar, a book review of "Too Much Money"...

Requiem: 2007 passings of note

2007-12-29 00:00:00

Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...

A socialite's world is Exhibit A

2009-05-10 00:00:00

NEW YORK -- The elegant woman in the forest green frock held up a slender right hand and swore to tell the truth. She was matter-of-fact as she described herself as unemployed, just "an average housewife" taking care of her husband, Henry, and their home....

Searching for Tato

2003-05-11 00:00:00

As a child growing up half wild on a remote Arizona ranch, Andrew Earle looked forward every summer to his family's annual trip East. Cowboys would take Andrew and the rest of his family--mother Cynthia, brother Tony, two adopted children from Central...

Are the rich stylish? They can't hold a candle to the late C.Z. Guest

2013-04-22 02:30:05

"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,...

Holland Taylor's big night ... what's the matter with Justin Bieber?

2013-03-11 03:30:06

"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...

Fashion -- it mattered. It matters. It will ALWAYS matter!

2013-02-04 02:30:05

"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,'...

Stars come out to play for the Abingdon

2012-11-26 02:30:06

"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...

Brooke Astor auction at Sotheby's fetching high prices

2012-09-25 04:32:14

Two recipients of the 1985 Governor's Art Awards, philanthropist Brooke Astor , left, and singer Lena Horne, pose together during award ceremonies at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1985.

2010-05-10 13:47:59

. The 85-year-old Marshall received a prison sentence of one to three years for the crime and is free on bail as he is expected to appeal. potentially could spend at least a year in prison and possibly more.

2009-12-21 00:00:00

Anthony Marshall, center, exits Manhattan State Supreme Court with his wife Charlene, right.

2009-10-08 14:14:04