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contents
14 EDITORS LETTER
16 FOOD + DRINK
You thought apple cider was the only thing
to look forward to in fall? Tell your tummy to
grumble again. Emerald Pellot picks the best
spots for brunch
20 Have no fear, the beer is here. We show you
creative cans and Tom Acitelli takes a sip
24 CULTURE
Spectacles, anyone? Its reading time. A
collection of great books gushes in for fall.
Turn a page with Christian Lorentzen
28 MAKE A DATE
Ah, New York. So many parties, so little time.
Guest of a Guest lls our little black book
32 CHINA HAPPENINGS
Chiu-Ti Jansen gets us excited about Hong
Kong fashion week
38 OBJECTS OF DESIRE
Patricia Fields talks jewelry with Elise
Knutsen
42 TRAVEL
Get out. (No, really.) Sachsa Levine and
Hannah Ghorashi discover that Fall is
the best time to escape New York
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JOE: on our
brunch list
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dressed list!)
Cool winds call for cuddling up
with our favorite books, including
a new novel by Jerey Eugenides
99 cans of beer on our
wallwell, not quite
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Of a Kind teaches us how to make an
entrance with fashion this fall
58 Daphne Guinness is never boring.
Chui-Ti Jansen is transxed
52 PARTIES
Nate Freeman on the seasons best
parties.
62 MONEY
Theres no business like gold business.
Foster Kamer gets the Midas touch
66 FEATURE
The First Lady of New York City. Diana
Taylor on whats wrong with Congress,
why her former boss George Pataki
wont be president and the perils
and pleasures of being Hizzoners
girlfriend. Elizabeth Spiers reports
74 Warby Parker glasses gain some serious
praise. Chris Clemmons tells the
founding duos heartfelt story
80 TRAVERSED
We dont want to fool youtheres a lot
of history in New York. But the Upper
West Side has some particular gems.
Emilia Ferrara takes us back in time
82 STAY
A tour of the best Upper West Side
condos by Hannah Ghorashi
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AT A COCKTAIL PARTY THIS SUMMER FOR SEX AND THE CITY AUTHOR (AND NYO MAGAZINE
COVER STAR) CANDACE DUSHNELL'S NEW DOOK, THE PARTY'S HOST, DRIGHT LIGHTS, DIG
CITY AUTHOR AND MANHATTAN GADADOUT JAY MCINERNEYSWAYING ADOUT IN A WHITE
TUXEDO JACKETJOKED TO THIS REPORTER THAT HE HAD STARTED HIS OWN HEDGE FUND.
"I THINK I'M JUST GOING TO DE A GOLDDUG!" HE SAID. MCINERNEY UNWITTINGLY ECHOED
A PHENOMENON SPREADING AROUND THE GLODE FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS: A NEW,
MODERN FASCINATION WITH AND ADDICTION TO THAT YELLOW, SHINY STUFF.
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why the gold rush is back
The only fall
fashion you
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Yes, you could live here (if
you read our condo list!)
The Glass House
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Philanthropist,
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editors note
its that time of year in New York when the last waning moments of sum-
mer give way to chillier mornings, wool outwear and the inevitable appearance
of far too-early holiday decorations. (Were eyeballing the windows at Barneys
already for any suspicious traces of tinsel.)
But if were being honest, its really our favorite time of year. Its not yet so cold
that were inclined to hibernate under a down comforter with Seasons 1 through
28 or so of The Wire on Netix or justify a hop-skip-jump commuter plane to St.
Barths in the middle of the workweek, but were past the summer season of heat
and humidity and the ongoing experience of agonizing over the Mets. The airs a
little brisk, the pace is faster and its a great time to do all the things well miss when
we hole up for the holidays.
In this issue, well bring you some great fall escapes to nearby locales were looking
forward to seeing Philip Johnsons Glass House this time of year and book recommen-
dations for the train. (Murakamis 1Q84 looks great, but well take the Kindle edition; 944
pages is a bit much to haul on the Metro North.) Well also introduce you to some of the
more interesting people in New York right now, including the young charismatic duo be-
hind eyewear startup Warby Parker, the owner of one of the hottest microbreweries in
the ve boroughs and the incomparable style icon Daphne Guinness. Stylist and designer
Patricia Fields of Sex and the City fame tells us the stories behind her favorite pieces of
jewelry and we get a glimpse of fashion in the Far East with an overview of
emerging Chinese designers. And while were on the subject of trends,
well ll you in on why everyones investing in gold these days and
you can decide for yourself whether the markets been seduced by
the shiny stuf, or the hedgies in Greenwich are onto something.
But for the most part, well be spending our time on the lovely
Upper West Side. Central Park foliage is wonderful this time of
year, and well take you on a walking
tour of classic UWS locales. Well also
take you to our favorite brunch spots
and show you the best condos in the
upper left corner of Manhattan. And if
thats not enough, well even tell you how
to dress for the occasion, courtesy of our
guest curators, the founding team behind OfA-
Kind, which commissions capsule collections from
up-and-coming designers.
Then well sit down with prolic businesswoman and philan-
thropist Diana Taylor or as we like to think of her, the rst
lady of New York City. Well talk about politics, whats wrong
with the economy, and the Mayors technically-procient-but-
not-very-easy-on-the-ears Spanish speaking skills. Youll get
her take on President Obama, the challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated in-
dustry and why she wont run for Senate against Kirsten Gillibrand.
And nally, well leave you with a hypothetical (and hilarious) trip to Brooklyn with
new sometime New York resident, Kim Kardashian. Were not sure shes ever been on
anything resembling a New York City subway, but we cant resist imagining it. Ms. Kar-
dashian may not be everyones idea of the perfect NYC transplant, but as any lifelong
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Our list begins with Pop-
over Cafe. The quaint
atmosphere feels like
home but has much better
food. Open for30 years
now, in the founders mes-
sage, Carol Baer states
she wanted to create a
place to return to over and
over, a place the regulars
would consider their own.
Popover does just that with
an impeccable menu from
vegetarian avocado melts to
prime let mignon entres.
Chef and owner Carrie Levin
was born in New York and
raised in Belgium, but she
spent summers with her visit-
ing grandparents as a kid,
cultivating a worldly palette
she brought back to the city.
Founding Good Enough
to Eat in 1981 to offer qual-
ity old-fashioned American
cuisine, Ms. Levin does not
fall short, bringing a menu of
pancakes, massive sand-
wiches and meatloaf dinners,
making for a gourmet take on
the best comfort food.
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changing leaves may recall how daunting a New York City winter is
(think Ugg boots and salted silver sidewalks), theres always Sunday
brunch. Fancy eggs and cocktails are the only worthy consolation
prize as workloads begin to pile up and temperatures begin to drop
down . Wondering where to nd the coziest brunch spots with
the best menus? Of course you are! Thats why The Observer has
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Dying to try something new?
But dont want to be disap-
pointed? Gazala Palace is
the number-one place in New
York City for authentic Druze
food. The Druze are a mixed
race and religious commu-
nity found in Lebanon, Syria,
Israel and Jordon, which is no
surprise with Gazalas menu
of Mediterranean and Middle
Eastern cuisine. Pita distin-
guishes this place from your
regular old Lower East Side
falafel joint.
Cesca is some of the n-
est Italian cuisine in the city.
Both rustic and sophisticat-
ed, chef and owner Anthony
Mazzola reinterprets tradi-
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and pairs them with ne
Italian wines all using mostly
local ingredients. We know
you like grandmas cooking,
but shes not in Manhattan.
Sante Fe is a Southwestern,
contemporary Mexican style
restaurant that has been a
staple of the Upper West
Side for 25 years. Sante Fes
brunch menus provides a
Southwestern spin on the
classic meal with choices like
steak and egg burritos and
torta de huevo con chorizo,
a drool-worthy translation
of chorizo with eggs, refried
beans and chile-dusted fries.
Joe the Art of Coffee
will have caffeine-addicts
squealing (if they havent
heard about it yet). Joe
serves up rich and nutty
coffee, with sleek style. This
Seattle-style fair-trade cup
of coffee will surely quell the
yearning of ends at Sunday
brunchand it sure beats
Starbucks.
You dont have to leave
New York City to experi-
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This sophisticated menu
offers traditional Belgian
cuisine paired with imported
Belgian beers and gourmet
desserts like the irresist-
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Chantilly (a Belgian wafe
with Callebaut chocolate
sauce and whipped cream).
Enoughgulpsaid.
In 2009, for the 12th year in
a row, Barney Greengrass
was Zagat-rated as the No.
1 deli in New York. Its a
tough slot to compete for.
While its not your typical
picturesque brunch spot,
quality does not go amiss
at Greengrass, a New York
staple for 100 years.
If youve ever been to Paris,
you know the allure of a
patisserie is irresistible, so
its a good thing New York
City has everything and that
includes Cafe Lalo. This
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or Shane Welch, it all started with a sip
at age 2. There is a photo of him stealing
a pull on his dads glass of what he thinks
was probably Miller. Roughly 30 years later,
and Mr. Welch makes no mistake about his
beer: the Sixpoint Craft Ales he founded seven
years ago is having a moment in Brooklyn.
Its beers are among the more adventurous,
boundary-shoving brews being produced in the
borough, due in no small part to their packag-
ing. Sixpoint was one of the rst craft breweries
in the U.S. to can its beer.
Once heretical to craft brewersif glass
bottles were good enough for Belgian and
German brewers, it should be good enough
for American onescans have crept steadily
into vogue among the higher-end suds set.
The pioneer was Oskar Blues, a brewery in
Colorado that canned its Dales Pale Ale in
2002 to much acclaim.
When Sixpoint followed suit around
Memorial Day of this year, some New York
City tipplers were skeptical, despite the
trailblazing by Oskar Blues. Cans seemed too
much like, well, what dads such as Mr. Welch
drank.
The two biggest enemies of beer are light
and oxygenthose are the two things that will
degrade beer or transform beer more than any
other element, Mr. Welch, 32, explained
earlier this month. The can simply protects
the beer from those two things way better than
a bottle ever could.
Since their debuts, the Sixpoint cans, usually
retailing in four-packs, have become a
signature of the brewery16-ounce, steel-gray
stamps of innovation favored by hipsters
tossing Frisbees in Prospect Park and young
professionals at rooftop parties in the West
Village. Once cracked, Sixpoints ales tend to be
on the tangy, sweeter side (the aptly named
Sweet Action line, in fact, according to Mr.
Welch, is the brewerys biggest seller in New
York City), lighter than most other ales. And
the freshness aspect touted by the founder is no
Mad Men marketing line: the ales do tend to
taste sharper and richer than comparable
styles in bottles.
Mr. Welch apprenticed at a Madison, Wis.,
brewery for three years in his early 20s
before starting Sixpoint. Actually, the
Milwaukee native took a slight detour right
before that, essentially traversing the globe,
rst through Europe and then through
central and eastern Asia.
The genesis of Sixpoint is really based on
Brooklyns It brewery, Sixpoint,
pivoted from bottles in a big way
this year. Latest canned creation
all wet for New Yorks hipsters
By Tom Acitelli
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those two experiences, he said, which
were getting my technical foundation in
making beer and then the cultural experi-
ences I had traveling.
It brought him full circle to an old, 7,000-
square-foot warehouse on Van Dyke Street in
Red Hook, the somewhat isolated belly of
Brooklyn (no subway stops, for one thing), a
remoteness that suited the young brewers
plans just ne. In my opinion, Red Hook was
an ideal neighborhood for a brewery, Mr.
Welch said. It has the industrial elements that
you need; but its not stied by encroaching
residential development. The classic manufac-
turing neighborhoods of Brooklyn have
sometimes been completely consumed by
residential encroachment. It gets so you cant
operate because you cant have forklifts and
you cant have trucks moving on the street.
Mr. Welch started readying the operation
cleanliness is next to godliness in brewing,
where a dollop of bacteria can destroy
gallonsin October 2004. The rst beer, a
brown ale with the double-entendre name of
Brownstone, rolled out in February 2005.
Since then, Sixpoint has grown to 14 employees
and has brewed 15 lines of beer, including an
India Pale Ale, a Scotch ale, a Belgian rye and a
Belgian IPA (and the mysterious Sweet Action,
which, as the brewery points out on its website,
remains but an idea, a conceptand, in this
writers opinion, an extra-bitter pale ale).
All of these, though, have been eclipsed for
a bit by a typically adventurous, very
limited, in Mr. Welchs words, line that
debuted in September during New York
Citys Craft Beer Week, which started Sept.
16: a wet-hopped ale called Autumnation.
Wet-hopped? Let the brewer explain.
Theres one point in the entire year when
you harvest hops [the ower that makes beer
bitter], he said. You obviously have to make
beer year-round; you cant make beer once
and then quit making beer. Theres one part
of the year where the hops are fresh and wet
and on the vine; and instead of processing
them the way you normally would, you pick
them and immediately put them into the
brewing process.
Sixpoint has harvested Autumnations
hops from a farm in Yakima, Wash., smack-
dab in the nations hop belt (and, it should
be noted, the brewery proudly uses tasty New
York City tap water).
Its just an outstanding sort of opportu-
nity, Mr. Welch said of the new line, to
deliver people something like that that
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In Ms. Didions 1
Blue Nights, she often
seems to be telling stories to prove to herself
that shes still alive. This second memoir of
grief, a sequel of grim sorts to The Year of
Magical Thinking, unfolds a series of vignettes
occasioned by the death of her daughter,
Quintana. Those of us who would prefer to be
writing about the Obama administration will
have to make do. Those seeking a memoir less
mournful are directed to James Wolcotts
2
Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and
Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York. As Mr.
Wolcott, in his youth a Village Voice lance and
Pauline Kael protg, shufes between
Carnegie Hall and CBGB, encountering Bob
Dylan, Gore Vidal and Patti Smith along the
way, you wont want to miss out on the puns.
In Japanese the number nine is pro-
nounced like the letter Q, so one of the things
lost in the translation of Haruki Murakamis
new novel 3
1Q84 is the pun in its title. Last
year in Japan, the book appeared in three
installments, and lines wrapped around the
stores, with the rst printing selling out in a
day. We get the whole thing at once, in a
928-page door-stopper. The novel allegorizes
the history of postwar Japan through the story
of an aspiring writer, entangled in literary
intrigue and on a collision course with his
grade-school sweetheart, now a stealthy
assassin who kills men who beat their wives by
jamming needles into the backs of their necks.
A righteous homicidal girl is just waiting out
there for every sad young bookworm.
A few sad young bookworms will always
turn into giants, even if they are giants of a
somewhat gnomic variety, and so after 40
years we have 4
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine
Stories from Don DeLillo. Obsessives might
point out that many of the early, funny ones
are missing, and that the title story is not
much diferent from a passage in Underworld,
but its good to have creepy little gems like the
casual encounter-at-MoMA set piece
Baader-Meinhof nally between hard
covers. The generation that grew up reading
Mr. DeLillo is still reckoning with its
relationship to postmodernism. Part-time
subway vigilante Jefrey Eugenides seems to
be throwing it of in 5
The Marriage Plot for
the connubial comforts of Jane Austen. Not so
Book It!
This seasons reading list
now with zombies. DeLillo, Didion
and a dose of DeWitt headline
the fall lineup, but leave room for
Murakamis new door-stopper.
By Christian Lorentzen
We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion once wrote,
a line that speaks to the existential quality of New Yorkers concern
for the ever-dying publishing industry. Bookstores, like the currently
endangered St. Marks, will always be closing, but as long as new books
are coming out, the rest of us arent dead yet.
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autobiographical fourth novel Sag Harbor
on Twitter he called the book tour The Icy
Postmodernist Cools Ofwith the zombie
thriller 6 Zone One. As if back from the dead
herself, Helen DeWitt, last heard from in
print more than a decade ago with The Last
Samurai, returns with 7
Lightning Rods,
about a man who starts a business furnishing
corporations with women who will provide
in-house sexual reliefsort of like walking
sperm toiletsto male employees in order to
eliminate sexual harassment in the
workplace.
Ms. Dewitt lives in Berlin, a place where,
since the Wall fell, you might conclude that
capitalism is capable of anything. That
would include turning a thousand-page
tome about two families after the fall of the
Wall into an international best-seller, even
one under the innocuous title Parallel
Stories. Its author, the Hungarian Peter
Nadas, is known for a similarly long and
banally titled novel about life behind the
iron curtain, A Book of Memories. Susan
Sontag called it the greatest novel written
in our time, and one of the great books of the
century, and if you cant trust a New York
intellectual, who can you trust?
We dont have New York intellectuals any
more. Instead we have reissues, like the new
Dwight Macdonald collection Masscult
and Midcult and books like Adam Kirschs
Why Trilling Matters, to remind us of a time
when the release of Dr. Zhivago stirred up the
sort of frenzy we associate with Harry Potter.
But if we lack intellectuals, we will never be
lacking in diverting volumes by contributors
to The New Yorker. And some of them, like
cartoonist Roz Chasts What I Hate From A
to Z, require little more intellect than a
passing familiarity with the alphabet. Susan
Orlean ups the ante slightly with her opus on
dogs, 8 Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend.
If youre gripped with the feeling that they
dont write em like they used to, we refer you
to 9
Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of
Wolcott Gibbs From The New Yorker,
probably the above-mentioned Mr. Wolcotts
only competition this season in the categories
of wit, wordplay and all-around insouciance.
One sort of writer who always writes em
like they used to is the historian. For the
historian, the same great men are forever on
the march. The Founding Father of the season
looks to be James Madison, who receives a
biography by former Observer columnist
Richard Brookhiser. If you prefer another
sort of rabble-rouser, theres Joshua Ruben-
steins Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionarys Life.
But what about the Nazissurely someone
must have a new angle on them? Sure enough,
theres Robert Gerwarths
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Hangman: The Life of Heydrich, about the
Gestapo boss the Czechs and Slovaks
managed to assassinate in 1942. Those
looking for a more feel-good story are referred
to Eamon Dufys Ten Popes Who Shook the
World. And to those looking for something
more like current historyi.e., the sort of
history that will no doubt require rewriting
in two years timeMichael Lewis ofers
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third
World, a survey of the nancial crisiss
fallout in Iceland, Greece, Germany,
Washington, D.C., and California. Which
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WHEN: 7-9 p.m.
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Beyond Words
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WHEN: 8-10 p.m.
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Anniversary Gala
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WHEN: 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 10
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Take Home a Nude
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City Harvest Bid
Against Hunger
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The Fifth Annual
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New York City Center
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French American
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UNICEF Masquerade
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Style Beast
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China stretches its long legs and steps into fashion
By Chiu-Ti Jansen
HONG KONG
Model showcases
designs by Guo Pei
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The Designers
Guo Pei is the reigning queen of fashion for
Chinas most-watched state events and galas,
having even produced dresses for the hosts of
the annual CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Fast
Company named her one of the 100 Most
Creative People in Business in 2011. She started
her design career following the end of the
Cultural Revolution and has continued
working in the Chinese fashion
industry for more than 26 years.
Known for her
extravagant, made-to-order
couture creations, Ms. Guo
has charted the course for
the indigenous Chinese
haute-couture with her unique fashion sense,
steeped in historical references as well as a mod-
ern imagination. Having never been educated
in the West, she draws freely from classical
Chinese embroidery techniques, a comprehen-
sive visual vocabulary and Western inspirations.
Fearless and highly imaginative, her works
evoke the outrageous fantasy of Alexander
McQueenthough with less of his dark energy
and death instinctwhile infusing Chinas
imperial glory with Elizabethan theatricality.
Her collection from 2009, One Thousand and
Two Nights, embodied Ms. Guos Sisyphean
desire for that most beautiful dress. Just as
story-telling became a way to prolong life in One
Thousand and One Nights, dress-making has
become a way for the designer to prolong her
search for the most beautiful dress. For an
outrageously glorious gown with fur trims in
her Arabian-nights inspired collection, Ms. Guo
felt she needed a regal, over-the-top personality
and reached out to Carmen DellOrece, at the
time in her late 70s and to whom Ms. Guo was a
stranger. Without ever having met Ms. Guo in
person, Ms. DellOrece graciously ew to
China for the opening of the show. When
Chinese singer Song Zuying performed The
Flame of Love in a duet with Placido Domingo
Style Beast
FROM THE
EAST
China stretches its long legs and steps into fashion
By Chiu-Ti Jansen
hinese fashion from the last hundred years reveals a myriad of technical extremes. The dull, blue
suits of the Mao era juxtoposed against the slavish subscription to Western brands in contemporary China
leaves many onlookers scratching their heads. For some Westerners, a search for fashion requires transport-
ing to a time of cheongsam, dragon-festooned robes or kung fu jackets. But The Observer recently explored
four designers who make Beijing their deity of style inspiration, redening the phrase, made in China.
at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing
Olympics, she dazzled the crowd in a long
robe studded with 200,000 Swarovski
crystals that she had a dozen craftsmen
manually attach to the garment in
nonstop shifts for two weeks. And when
Ms. Guos 40-pound crystal-beaded dress
arrived in Los Angeles, Lady Gaga discov-
ered that she couldnt move in it onstage.
The romantic garments of 37-year-old
designer with Chinese roots Alex
Wang (not to be confused with New
York-based Alexander Wang) employ
ne beadings and luxurious materials to
illustrate restrained femininity. A graduate
of the Central Academy of Design, now part of
Tsinghua University, Mr. Wang spent years
working for a Chinese clothing company before
he established his ALEX WANG Couture Studio
in 2004. He explained that a bespoke fashion
line is natural for a budding fashion designer
because it requires less of an initial capital
investment. He boasts a large range of clients,
from teenagers to ladies in their 50s and 60s,
coming from a variety of diferent professions
and backgrounds.
Unlike Ms. Guo, who is perfectly at home
with over-the-top designs, Mr. Wangs signature
style is much more subdued, though he has
taken risks with his menswear line and bridal
collections. A silver satin suit in his most recent
collection features an open-chested, curvy,
buttonless jacket coupled with a pair of low-cut
trousers with a cutout and attached folded
fabric. His white-powdered swooning brides,
wrapped in lace or chifon veils, are often Gothic
and alluring.
Neither Ms. Guo nor Mr. Wang participates in
the Beijing or Shanghai fashion week, choos-
ing instead to stage their own trunk shows in
settings of their own making. They are less
concerned with media-assisted brand-building
than direct connections with their custom-
ers. The two other, younger designers that we
Sleeves and
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organ. Guo
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interviewed were much more self-conscious
about building their brand.
At the age of 28, Zhang Chi specializes in
avant-garde menswear, with a womenswear line
yet to come. He famously described his
profession as Change Your Life, believing that
his clothes can empower the wearer and further
their lives. After Mr. Zhang studied fashion in
London and Italy, he set up his eponymous
studio in London in 2007 before returning to
Beijing in late 2008. I was born and raised in
Beijing, Mr. Zhang said of his reason to return
to his homeland. My studio is in Beijing, but my
design enterprise is international.
Known for his exaggerated jackets, Mr. Zhang
focuses on Gothic elements, ornate decoration
and unexpected twists in the cut. Some of his
menswear even incorporates details tradition-
ally associated with womens clothing, such as
ruched pants and pufy shoulders. His self-pro-
fessed look-at-me and in-your-face designs
appeal to a disparate group of clientele that
includes heirs and heiresses and entertainers
as well as business executives and government
ofcers. My customers are those who want to
express themselves through fashion, he told
The Observer.
Vega Wang is the only designer among the
four who is not a Beijing native. After spending
seven years in London, she launched her own
label in Xiamen, a coastal town in southern
China. A fortuitous encounter with actress Fan
Bingbing, who bought out her entire rst
collection, inspired the designer to move her
design studio to Beijing in 2009.
Sporting her own designs of London-style
nonchalance coupled with several eye-catching
tattoos, Vega Wang is a condent 27-year-old
who aspires to design for independent-minded
women. I want my clothes to inspire Chinese
women to feel condent and free to pursue their
own destinies, she said. Vega Wangs models
are typically androgynous-looking and she
favors fabric traditionally associated with
menswear. Her cape-inspired special collection
turns the 19th-century English cape into
dresses, shirts and jackets.
Chinese Elements
How have these four designers incorporated the
Chinese Elements into their designs?
For Zhang Chi, the post-80s generation does
not view Chinese Elements as preconceived
stylistic references immediately identiable as
Chinese by Westerners. Contemporary Chinese
style can be uid and eclectic, comfortable in
its ranging references to traditional Chinese
cultural elements and modern Western inu-
ences. Similarly, Vega Wang believes that the
women she dressesof whatever age group
are not as obsessed with the chinoiserie as many
believe. Why are there Chinese Elements?
Vega Wang asked. Why arent there English
Elements or French Elements?
Ms. Guo told The Observer that until 2009
she had purposefully avoided any Chinese
Element in her early designs. During the pro-
cess of restoring an old Chinese wedding gown
intended to be handed down by a prominent
Hong Kong socialite to her future daughter-in-
law, Ms. Guo was blown away by the exquisite
craftsmanship of the traditional Chinese
designs. She came to a sad realization that
todays Chinese brides were wearing Western
designs and China has not yet produced a bridal
gown with international following. Two years
in the works and scheduled to take place before
the end of this year, Chinese Brides will be the
theme of Ms. Guos next trunk show through
which she will engage contemporary China.
Mr. Wang explained that when China
becomes stronger economically, it will also
exert great inuences on fashion and style. He
believes that Chinese designers have yet to suc-
cessfully deploy the Chinese Elements with
spiritual contents or contemporary sensitivity.
Created in
China Designs
Are Chinese consumers helplessly chained to
Western designers brands, as often perceived
by the Western media? For Vega Wang, the
previous obsession with cost-saving has led
to the loss of quality now associated with
China-made products. Lately, as all of these
designers have found, their elite customers
have harbored a fatigue of the uniform looks of
the designer brands. They believe that in due
time, many more Chinese would desire to dis-
tinguish themselves with unique looks rather
than head-to-toe outts copied from fashion
magazines. Guo explained to The Observer
that Chinese luxury consumers are in love
with beauty that transcends the purported
dichotomy between traditional Western and
Chinese brands.
While the designers are thrilled with the op-
portunities accorded by a dynamic society that
continues to stimulate them and their custom-
ers, they admit that the Chinese fashion world
still has a way to go before it has the proper
infrastructure. Mr. Zhang wishes that in his
lifetime he will contribute to making Made in
China a symbol of quality. The world will be
keeping their eyes peeled for their Created in
China designs in the years to come. o
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distinctive style. Less discussed,
however, is her equally trend-
setting taste in jewelry. While Ms. Field has a
substantial jewelry collection, dont expect to
see troves of diamonds or emeralds among her
prize possessions. Im not big on, you know,
precious jewelry, she told The Observer. I
have few personal pieces; a ring my mother
gave me when I graduated from college, but
Im not really into ne jewelry in that sense.
Although she tends to forgo gems, Ms. Field
nonetheless has a penchant for unique baubles
and original ornaments.
These days Ms. Field can be seen sporting
a nameplate necklace with her appellation in-
scribed in Arabic. About a year ago a very good
friend of mine who is a Jordanian had this
made for me in Jordan, she explained. Ms.
Field is no stranger to the nameplate motif,
however. Remember the ubiquitous Car-
rie necklace worn by Sarah Jessica Parkers
character throughout Sex and the City? It
turns out that was Ms. Fields idea. Name-
plate necklaces have really been a classy, basic
item of the girls from the boroughs, Ms. Field
told The Observer, brieng us on the history
of accessorizing in the city. The ethnic girls
wear nameplates, and they have always been
a substantial percentage of my clientele at the
New York City shop. Ever the vanguard, Ms.
Field proposed that Sarah Jessica Parker don
one of the necklaces in the show. I thought
it was unique piece and a classic piece that
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population, she said.
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become a ubiquitous item for girls from all
boroughs, sold by fancy jewelry establish-
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Jordanian friend gave her the gift last year,
Ms. Field felt it was a whole new iteration of
the trend she had started. I was like, Oh,
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People often ask me about it.
The nameplate piece isnt the only necklace
Ms. Field wears every day. She has taken to
wearing a pendant of the evil eye. I wear the
little necklace, like, every day ... I dont take
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spirits. I also think that its an eye, its one
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eye pieces studded with diamonds and set in
14-carat gold.
An antique pendant completes the trifecta
of neck adornments Ms. Fields wears regularly.
When I was in Turkey a couple of years ago
I picked up an ancient bronze amulet which I
thought was very beautiful and felt I identied
with, she said. I purchased it there and Ive
been wearing that one as an everyday piece.
But will she add more articles to her daily
jewelry collection? How many chains and
charms can one rather petite body carry? It
comes in cycles, apparently. I have many oth-
ers that sort of are sitting now in a drawer, Ms.
Field explained. I took them all of because,
I dont remember, maybe I was wearing a
gown or something, and then I never put them
back on. The three necklaces she currently
wears date from after the last evening-gown-
mandated purge.
In addition to the staples, Ms. Field does
have a stock collection for special occasions.
I would say those pieces are more expres-
sive than valuable in dollars, she said of
her costume jewelry. For example, I have
earrings that come from Thailand and theyre
backs of locusts and theyre green iridescent
and they sort of hang like a chandelier So
with my red hair and that iridescent green, if
Im wearing something simple or black, they
kind of set it of, Ms. Field eagerly shared. I
have a few pieces of jewelry that I wear in that
manner that I wouldnt wear every day, she
said, although we would hardly blink an eye
if it turned out that Ms. Field did in fact wear
earrings made from the abdomens of locusts
on a daily basis.
Ms. Fields eclectic jewelry collection
morphs as inspiration strikes her. Although
her staple pieces may work on a rotating cycle,
a constant theme runs throughout: personal-
ity. Jewelry is personal, Ms. Field explained.
And you know, just wearing trendy jewelry
that doesnt express something inside of you, I
kind of shy away from that. o
Nameplate necklaces are
popular in America but Fields
makes hers in Arabic
Adam or Eve? These long,
leafy vine earings are classic
eccentricity: classic Fields
Fields believes all fashion
should relate to the self. This
necklace is no exception and
is a perfect example of her
open expression
...just wearing trendy jewelry that
doesnt express something inside of
you, I kind of shy away from that.
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For the Art Enthusiast
JOHNSONS GLASS HOUSL IN NLW CANAAN
Instead of leaving a glass slipper at a ball,
it might be a grander thing to leave an
eco-friendly, contemporary art glass house
behind. Actually, you shouldnt leave it at all.
Tickets are available for the Philip John-
son Glass House campus in New Canaan,
Connecticut, containing the most uniquely
shaped homesmost of these polygons dont
have nameson a backdrop of the most gor-
geous sprawling scenery outside of autumnal
Central Park. The interiors of these houses
wont disappoint either, as the minimalist
aesthetic featuring subtly intricate design
can rarely be replicated and certainly never
duplicated.
DANA SCHU1Z A1 NLULRGLR MUSLUM:
IF 1HL FACL HAD WHLLLS
A girls head makes contact with the surface
of water. The tint of her hair appears to fall
somewhere on the red spectrum. She looks
concerned. The eye thats closest to the water
appears to be melting. Welcome to Dana
Schutzs exhibition, If the Face Had Wheels,
at the Neuberger Museum of Art. Ms. Schutzs
gurative paintings, which combine fantasy
and reality as well as great alliterative doses
of humor and horror, hum with expressionist
energy. The rst 10-year survey of her work
features approximately 30 paintings and 12
drawings from 2001 to the present, including
work from each of her relentlessly inspired
series.
ZAHA HADID: FORM IN MO1ION
This exhibit could be summarily described by
the Oxford English Dictionary denition of
innovation, and maybe of wow. Architect
Zaha Hadid, the rst female recipient of the
renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize, uses
complex uid geometries and manufacturing
technologies. This exhibition (the rst in the
United States to feature her designs; take notes,
globally competitive schoolchildren of Amer-
ica) has created a sculptural environment for
a selection of furniture, decorative art, jewelry
and footwear. The exhibition demonstrates
the continuous nature of her work, reinventing
the balance between objects and space in an
interior landscape. Streamlined, curving sofas,
tables and lounge chairsmade of materials
spanning wood, steel, aluminum and polyure-
thanedecorate the gallery, while biomorphic
forms display the new and unexpected shapes
Ms. Hadid has introduced into the world of
design. Some highlights: Swarovski crystal-
encrusted necklaces and bracelets; spiraling
strappy heels made for Lacoste and Melissa,
and the three-wheeled Z-car I, a prototype of
high-density foam that echoes several of her
sculptural forms. On Nov. 19, Collab, a group of
design professionals and enthusiasts who sup-
port the museums modern and contemporary
design collection, will honor Ms. Hadid with
the 2011 Design Excellence Award. Huzzah.
DIA LACON: CIRCA 97
Why see live performance art when you could,
at your greatest leisure, see performance art for
years and years to come on video? Circa 1971
presents a selection of video and lm works by
notable gures in early video art from the col-
lection of Electronic Arts Intermix, a nonprot
organization that supports the creation, exhibi-
tion, distribution and preservationessentially
both the mad scientists and embalmersof
moving image art. This year, marking the
E.A.I.s 40th anniversary, the exhibition takes
the organizations founding year as a starting
point and presents a diverse series of media
generated in and around 1971, the unifying
theme being alternative artistic practices and
activist impulses that drove the early video sub-
culture using newfound technology as a form of
expression.
MASS MOCA: ALL 1HOSL VANISHLD LNGINLS
Imagine visiting the setting of Upton Sinclairs
The Jungle for a day, except its an arguably
more pleasant environment. The building is a
relic from the industrial history of the site that
was once used to heat the factory buildings that
are part of the museum. Sound artist Stephen
Vitiello created the installation All Those Van-
ished Engines (accompanied by the eponymous
story by novelist Paul Park) especially for the
MASS MoCA boiler house. Using the natural
resonance of the pipes and metal drums in the
space, Mr. Vitiello recreated the vanished
engines of the factorys pastthis symphony
of sound, dear readers, is indeed death metal.
The story acts as a thematic structure for Mr.
Vitiellos sound from the point of view of two
narrators visiting a ctional worker of the boiler
house. It vividly recalls the history of the build-
ing as both a producer of sounds and a construc-
tion haunted by its productive past. As visitors
move through the building, the soundscape
alternates between clattering crescendos and
eerie calm.
1HL CLARK-RLMRAND1 AND DLGAS
Here the Dutch painter famous for his numer-
ous portrayals of Christ (and, no less, himself ),
is compared with the French impressionist
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best known for his variously positioned tutus.
Only recently have scholars publicly explored
a respective inuence, and thus is born the
Clarks upcoming exhibition: Rembrandt and
Degas: Two Young Artists. The focus will be,
in an mirror-on-mirror sort of way, the artists
focus on themselves: Rembrandts Self Portrait
as a Young Man and Degass Self Portrait. In his
earlier years, Degas studied the portraiture of
previous masters, most notably Rembrandt,
and created around 40 self-portraits in paint-
ings, prints and drawings during the mid- to
late- 1850s. This prompted Degass explora-
tion of the technical and expressive potential
of portraiture. And then a little later James
Joyce wrote a book.This exhibition comes to
the Clark from Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam,
after which it will travel to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York.
For the Culinary Expert
ANNUAL MARKL1 DAY
(OC1. , NLW1OWN, PA.)
Travel back in time to celebrate colonial
Americas autumnal traditions at Market Day.
This 35-year-old event gives visitors the chance
to experience the fares and wares of over 60
participating restaurants and original crafters
from the area. Open Hearth Cooking will serve
up colony-inspired meals while craftsmen
demonstrate how to candle dip, bee-keep, quilt
and carve wood. For a more relaxing touch,
kick of the harvest season with a horse-drawn
hayride from the Belgian draft horses of A Bet-
ter Way Farm. All proceeds go to the Newtown
Historic Associationspecialty vendors and
handcrafts are the new black, after all.
AU1UMN ALIVL
(OC1. 22, QUAKLR1OWN, PA.)
There is no better place to be a pet than
Downtown Quakertown for the 12th annual Pet
Parade. Bring the kidsthose on two and four
legsin the car and enjoy a day of fall festivities,
including pet-themed vendors, varied food
court options, a scarecrow contest and visits
from animal rescue groups. While preparing a
routine ahead of time might help your scores in
the Talent Contest, dont forget to bring a dog-
gie bag for the local produce, which abounds.
VILLAGL APPLL FLS1IVAL (NOV. 5-,
PLDDLLRS VILLAGL, PA.)
Commemorate falls return in the most classic
way we know howan apple festival. At this an-
nual party, guests celebrate the avors of Amer-
icas favorite fruit done every way: apple butter,
apple cider, apple dumplings and apple fritters.
Or, take them home in bushels fresh, whole and
in their natural skins. In case you havent had
enough of this (far from) forbidden fruit, enter
the apple pie eating contest, and ingest to your
hearts content. The festival also touts a variety
of craftsmen wares (those of which may or may
not be made of apples).
LAURLL LAKL VINLYARDS
Winos no longer need to travel cross-country
looking for an authentic vineyard experience.
Long Islands Laurel Lake Vineyards uses
traditional, handcrafted methods in their
winemaking, including minimal intervention,
zero ltration and the incorporation of local
yeast and bacteria. The vineyard ofers tastings
of its award-winning wines and tours of their
blissful property every day of the week. Its like
Napa, but not so far.
For the Outdoor Hero
PRIVA1L ADIRONDACK CAINS
Adventure of the grid and hide away in one
of seven authentic Adirondack cabins. Each
camp enjoys its privacy in the High Peaks of the
six-million acre Adirondack Park. Undisturbed
9,000-year-old grounds allows for 20 miles of
hiking, mountain viewing and wilderness canoe-
ing. Leave your smartphone; take your canoe.
ROCK CLIMING IN SHAWANGUNK RIDGL IN
1HL HLAR1 OF 1HL HUDSON VALLLY
For the adventurer in all of us, Mohonk Moun-
tain House ofers some of the best mountain
climbing in New York State. Conquer Sha-
wangunk Ridgess major clifs, Millbrook, the
Near Trapps and Skytop, and enjoy the clear,
mountain air at 300 feet. The Gunksas they
are afectionately knownare the single most
popular climbing ranges in North America,
touting both elite and more moderate routes.
Rest your hands and feet back at the lodges
spa, housed in a Victorian castle, and relax into
an arnica oil Swedish massage or a dip in the
outdoor heated mineral pool.
NLW LNGLAND FOLIAGL OA1 1OURS
For someone looking for more than a
weekend getaway, the Foliage Boat tours are
the upper crusts classic luxury cruise. The
eight-day New England boat trip is a true
body-mind elixir. Traveling up the Hudson
River in a small, intimate ship during the
peak of autumn ofers breathtaking views of
the Taconic and Berkshire Hills to the east
and the Catskill Mountains to the west. Visit
18th-century cities, tour quaint farmhouse
architecture of the Hudson River Valley and
discover the history of Dutch and English set-
tlers. Experience rst-hand the inspiration
for Washington Irvings American classics
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van
Winkle with a visit to Sunnyside, a Registered
National Historic Landmark and Irvings
country home. And in case ve days of spec-
tacular fall foliage alienates Manhattanites,
end your travels with a magnicent nighttime
cruise through New York City.
FLY FISHING
Perfect your ten and two at the Lake Placid
Lodge and get knee deep in one of the cleanest
lakes in the country. Fresh, spring-fed waters
replenish themselves every few days, providing
some of the best shing in New York State. Cast
your line into the Ausable River and serve up a
rainbow trout for dinner. Better yet, hole up in
the rustic lodge or one of its romantic, lake view
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Suede Wrap Around
Bracelet + Bronze Spikes
BYGABRIELAARTIGAS
Metal jewelry isnt good for lounging.
Suede is. And, because the Los
Angeles designer behind this
bracelet uses charms and loops
for closure here, it is a lot easier
to put on and take off than those
with miniscule (frustrating!) clasps.
$70, gabrielaartigas.com
Field of Diamonds Tunic
BYTOUJOURSTOIFAMILYAFFAIRS
FOROFAKIND
Designed by a mother-daughter
team, this shirt-slash-dress can
legitimately be worn year-round, but
we like it best with tights and boots
and the sort of chunky cardigan
that makes you feel com-
pelled to walk an extra lap
around the reservoir.
$189, ofakind.com
Survey Bag
BYHERSCHELSUPPLYCO
If youre looking to get some work
done, this Army-green canvas bag
is ideal for scouting out the perfect
place to settle in with your laptop.
Plus, the retro design gives the
appearance that you could be doing
some actual eld work.
$50, herschelsupply.com
Monster 01
BYBLN
Best (and least creepy) way to make
friends with small children at the park?
Pull this ingenious T-shirt over your
head to expose an only-mildly-scary
mask. Yes, it might just be the most
innovative tee youve ever seen.
$100, bl33n.com
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BYWARBYPARKER
Now that the eyewear rising star is
making shades, theres no excuse not
to own a paireven if your vision is
perfect. Something about this style
is very Hitchcockian, which is a
look thats especially tough to
achieve for under $100.
$95, warbyparker.com
Parker Scarf
BYSYMMETRYGOODS
FOROFAKIND
Made from vintage Swiss
herringbone and Guatemalan
ikat fabrics, this piece aids just
about every step of the picnicking
process. With the help of the oxblood
leather straps, you can use it as a
bag to tote your meal to the Sheeps
Meadow, spread it out as a blanket for
eating, and toss it around your neck
if you get cold, since its getting to be
that time of year.
$225, ofakind.com >
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Headband of Thorns
BYGIGIBURRISFOROFAKIND
Blair Waldorf may be the most
renowned crosstown headband-
wearer of late, but this stylewith its
black feathers and leather accents
is too cool for her. Bonus: It does a
pretty stellar job of spifng up
unwashed hair, buying you the extra
time required to grab a latte when
youre running late.
$125, ofakind.com
Celia Bag
BYRACHELNASVIKFOROFAKIND
This is not the sort of bag that holds
every lip product you ownand thank
god. Instead, fake like youre European
and ll it with just the essentials:
your keys, your phone and a few bills
(requiredthis place is cash-only).
$184, ofakind.com
Eaton Contrast Pocket Shirt
BYBARONWELLS
With button-downs, the goal should
always be just interesting enough, and
the duo at Baron Wells totally nails it
with their Japanese fabrics, rounded
collars and attention-grabbing pock-
etswhich happen to be designed to
hold an iPhone.
$168, baronwells.com
Tipra Handmade Earrings
BYAPEACETREATY
While most chandelier earrings feel
too dressy to wear during the day-
light hours, this style has a certain
rough-around-the-edges appeal that
seems suited to lingering over a Tom
Perrotta novel (or your Twitter feed)
and a scone.
$90, apeacetreaty.com
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BYEIGHTEENTH
Take this as proof that the slouchy
tee can have an uptown air. This black
number has just enough structure up
top to look sophisticated (and to hide
bra straps). In fact, done right, it could
look pretty spectacular with a wool
pencil skirt and the kind of heels not
intended for subway riding.
$120, eighteenthnyc.bigcartel.com
Denim Smokin Slip On
BYOSBORN
Brooklyn-based Osborn makes some
of the zaniest shoes around, and,
while their crazy-patterned lace-ups
are probably their most popular, there
is something undeniably alluring
about a loafer shape that screams
well-heeled constructed in a fabric as
everyman as denim.
$143, osborndesign.com >
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50 | OCTOBER
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Magma Shoreline Dress
BYSHABD
Dyed by hand in Brooklyn by the very
talented Shabd Simon-Alexander, this
dress is big on versatility. The panels
attached at the shoulders can be left
hanging down the front, draped like a
scarf or tied for a cinched waist. Plus,
the silks rich, irregular pattern does
wonders to hide any red-wine spills.
$545, shabdismyname.com
Small Roses Discharge
Print Pocket Square
BYTHEHILLSIDE
Nothings more dapper
than a pocket square,
or more ballsy than
one printed with owers.
This take goes best with a
loosened tie, mussed hair and a
heaping plate of steak frites.
$39, hickorees.com
Studio Denim Tie
BYSOVEREIGNBECK
The magic of this tie is that you have
no idea what its made of until youre
several feet away: Across the room, it
could be ne wool or silk, but really its
black denim. Thankfully, thats the only
rebellious thing about it. The width
three inchesachieves the happy me-
dium between too-thin indie frontman
and too-hefty sportscaster varieties.
$75, sovereignbeck.com
WHATTOWEARTO
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Crystal Ship Necklace
BYLIZZIEFORTUNATOJEWELS
This necklace is tough to pin down
and thats a good thing. It combines
both an Old Hollywood and a tribal
vibe in a way that will make all the
jazzed-up octogenarians very jealous.
And, because of the mixed metals, you
can layer it with, well, most anything.
$270, ofakind.com
Closetoe Wedge in Tan
BYMARAISUSA
Buttery camel suede, a just-high-
enough heel, a girly ankle strap
pretty sure you could have purchased
shoes like these in this part of town
decades ago. And the pricetag, well
it wouldnt have been so far off.
$115, maraisusa.com
Midnight Rider Clutch
BYWENDYNICHOL
Sure, this is a black clutch, but its
far from staid. The braided trim really
sells its handmade nature, and the
tassel delivers just the right amount of
funespecially when ung across the
restaurants zinc bar.
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Anna Wintour could be kept away. The models and
designers grabbed Budweisers without hesitation
and danced in the pavilion with the designer himself,
and when a keg appeared, a kegstand was attempted.
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Despite the waves of balloons that hovered in the
air and the omnipresent gold streams hanging down
from them, it was still easy to spot Lindsay Lohan as
we walked into the Boom Boom Room. It was the V
Magazine Black & White Ball, an attempt to recreate
Truman Capotes famous bash at the Plaza that came
to dene the end of early-60s excess. And thanks
to Ms. Lohan, the V party will have its own notoriety.
The tabloids had a eld day over her antics, which
included tossing a cocktail at a photographer and
causing a scene when a spill down the stairs made
for a very bloody sofa. Rachel Zoe, supermodels Kar-
lie Kloss and Lindsey Wixson, and Dasha Zhukova all
looked on, but once the lights went on and the cut-up
girl went out on a stretcher, the party endedthough
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bar turned nudity-free hotspot earlier this year, played
host to one of the years most memorable moments
when legendary designer and one of the last fashion
icons left Valentino got up on the catwalk to sing My
Way. Needless to say, he brought the house down,
and its a good thing Byrdie Bell, Elettra Wiedmann and
W editor Stefano Tonchi were all there to see it.
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In one of the summers best romantic comedies, Mila
Kunis and Justin Timberlake decide that, yes, best
friends can be sex friends but only after a few drinks.
Thus, the Cinema Society threw a party for the cast
after the New York premiere at the Ziegfeld, and at
the after party everyone made sure the booze owed
freely the whole time. Ms. Kunis and Mr. Timberlake held
court, of course, and they were joined by Emma Stone,
Shawn White and Olivia Palermo, among others. Did
any friends take it to the next level afterward? We dont
kiss and tell.
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With Fashion Week still two months away, Ferrag-
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runway show set up in one of the most famous
and enormous Millionaires Row abodes.
A crowd outside clamored for stars such
as Emma Roberts, Eva Mendes, Ashley
Green, Minka Kelly and Frida Pinto.
Naturally there were drinks at the Car-
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Art and Ponies
through ros-colored
glasses in Greenwich
The Brant Foundation hosted a Sunday afternoon
of art, polo and Champagne lunch at its impossibly
green estate. And as gorgeous as it all was, one can
only imagine it looked better through the sunglasses
of Dree Hemingway rounded and silver-sheened,
but angular, too, like something that could be found
on a trs sportif spaceship, something Walt Disney
designed for Tomorrowland mixed with something
appropriate for a motorcycle race. O.K., we were sort
of preoccupied with Ms. Hemingway, but there were
others present as well, such as Olivier Zahm, artist
Johan Lindeberg, and Don Perignons number-one
chef de cave, Richard Geoffroy. We drank a lot of
bubbly.
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he phrase Contra mundum is Latin for
against the world, usually attributed
to Athanasius, who was exiled for
defending Christian orthodoxy.
But Daphne Guiness used it to name the gold
and diamond encrusted arm glove that she
designed along with Shaune Leane. Guiness
slowly laid down on a stone efgy in a crystal
body suit at the White Cube Gallery, remain-
ing motionless under a veil. The staged
funeral wake was in honor of her beloved and
late friend, designer Alexander McQueen.
I always want to be protected against the
world, Ms. Guinness explained over an
interview referencing her upcoming show
centering on her at the Fashion Institute of
Technology (F.I.T.).
It seems counterintuitive to associate that
concept with a person who seems to have
everything: lineage (heiress to the Irish
brewing fortune and granddaughter of one of
the legendary Mitford sisters), prestige
(growing up in stately homes in Ireland,
England and Spain), adventures (marrying
Greek shipping scion Spyros Niarchos at 19
and living in New York City in the 80s with
her sister, who was in Andy Warhols inner
circle) thus making her the muse of designers
Karl Lagerfeld, Valentino and, of course,
Alexander McQueen. She is also the designer
of a clothing line with Dover Street Market,
creator a fragrance in 2009 with Comme des
Garons and producer or actress in several
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guinessgracious
lms. Although Contra Mundum and the
associated performance were merely one of
Ms. Guinnesss many art projects, they
capture all of the main themes in her life: love
of armor and veil; multilayered literary
allusions and framing fashion as works of art
rather than as simple stylish objects. [The
glove] is more a sculpture than a piece of
jewelry. There were so many things involving
so many people during the process of
creation. And I incorporated a piece of my
own jewelry in it. So its really me in that.
Mad Genius, Style Muse, Fashion
Icon and Lady Gaga Trailblazer are merely
some of the many sobriquets accorded to Ms.
Guinness. She was not dressing according to
utilitarian consideration for weather (87
degrees) or occasion (a museum directors
ofce), but taking on fashion as a form of
self-fashioning: a piece of lace tied over her
hair that was 7/8ths bleached platinum blond
and 1/8th pitch black, a tted black jacket over
white lace romperlike garment with a creamy
white belt, her barely-there short pants
revealing over-the-knee-high black semi-
opaque stockings and her signature vertigi-
nous shoes without heels. The entire black/
white ensemble was very Lagerfeldesque,
accentuated by layers of studded punk leather
bracelets and oversize punk rings. Her left
hand wore a ngerless black satin glove,
which was not matched on her right hand, la
Karl Lagerfeld, who would randomly select
from his trays of rings to populate his ngers
right before he headed out of the door. Her
black eyeliners were unevenly applied.
Ms. Guinness admitted that she was a bit
apprehensive when she rst accepted the
I am very
influenced by
literature . . .
I love being in
that process
of a very
thought-out,
elaborate plot
invitation of Valerie Steele, director of the
F.I.T. Museum, to do a show based on her
style, her fashion collection and her own
designs. But she decided to own the project
because it might be of interest to other people
and make [fashion] accessible. Yes, I am very
lucky, but I dont need to be ashamed of it.
Ms. Steele said that when she rst met Ms.
Guinness at a Couture Council Annual
Luncheon, she immediately decided that she
wanted to do a show with her, about her
couture collection and her personal style,
because of the extraordinary way that she
used fashion to turn herself into a work of art.
Ms. Steele noted that while there were many
shows about designers and collections, there
were very few about individual women of
style; however, [the latter] is the way fashion
comes alive when it is worn by extraordinary
persons. To prepare for the show, Ms. Steele
had scouted Ms. Guinnesss couture-lled
apartment in London and her many closets in
New York, as well as going through many
rounds of interviews. She was a true
trooper, Ms. Steele said.
The show will include approximately 100
pieces, organized not by designer, but by style:
Dandyism, chic/simple, extravagant, armor,
sparkling things and exotic. All in all, the
looks are distinctively her own. Ms. Steele
believed that Ms. Guinness was not only an
inspiration for many designers; at a time of
conformity she also held the ag high for
individuality and creativity.
Ms. Steele called the show a way to explore
the mystery and poetics of fashion. For Ms.
Guinness, fashion, photography, drawing,
literature and singing all dovetail one
another. Talking about the inspirations for
her take on fashion: I am very inuenced by
literature . . . . I love being in that process of a
very thought-out, elaborate plot.
Asked how she put together her look on that
day, I just did Its been always my look.
But does she dress diferently when she is in
London versus when she is in New York? Ive
never changed. I dont see the world change
. . . . You should dress the way you want. It
seems peculiar that today I seem to stick out
more than, say, in the 80s, when there were
many [fashion] movements.
Ms. Guinness clearly would rather talk
about the philosophy of fashion and style
than about her look. Looking back at her
collection, she said that she would have very
few regrets. Although she is often perceived
as the vanguard of fashion, she said that she
hardly looked at fashion magazines, nor
would she follow trends. I dont really
change that much. I am rather consis-
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until it falls apart.
Ms. Steele described Ms. Guinnesss
collection as methodically organized and
documented. Ms. Guinness said that she
would wear some pieces she collected, while
leaving others for pure aesthetic appreciation
for fear of ruining them. Even though she has
bought a lot of shoes, she would wear only
some of them repeatedly for comfort after she
has already broken the in.
I do like cross-dressing[dressing] like
19th-century men. Ms. Guinness used the
word jealous to describe her envy of the
men at that time wearing frock jackets, tails
and top hats. We asked her if she liked Oscar
Wilde, the quintessential dandy. She gushed,
Oh, I love Oscar Wilde. He said that nature
follows art, which is true . Unless an artist
points out its a frock, nobody notices it
Ms. Guinness rattled of a long litany of
Wildes classics: The Importance of Being
Earnest, The Nightingale and the Rose, The
Picture of Dorian Gray he is a cipher of the
art. He has fantastic one-liners. And he was
Irish. He was so unbelievably clever
At that point Ms. Guinness turned to her
obsession with Hamlet, which is the work she
would bring with her to a desert island,
although she could not explain why. But she
thought Hamlet was an extraordinary
character and a universal man who was
questioning. She said it took many encoun-
ters to fully appreciate the depth of the play.
So what are misperceptions about her? She
stuttered a bit: I am a normal person, just
like other persons. [I am in] a quest about
what it means to be here, what it means to be a
human being. . . . Another misconception: I
am [actually] not very social. Earlier in the
conversation, Ms. Guinness emphatically said
that she was not very good at parties.
Ms. Guinness explained that she married
young and fashion for her is not a matter of
I dont really
change that
much . . .
I am rather
consistent.
I would carry
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re-creating oneselfits a matter of what one
can actually do. Indeed, Ms. Steele believes
that Ms. Guinnesss style is an emblem of
every persons desire to dress aspirationally,
but she carries it to a higher, more extreme
degreeso you can see the magical compo-
nent to it.
There is something extremely magical
about armor, Ms. Guinness had said. Ms.
Guinnesss fascination with armor is visible
in the fashion she collected and created.
After all, armor is not only a garment that
strengthens ones defense, but one that also
reveals ones vulnerability. Yes, Ms. Steele
said. It is true, in fact. Armor evokes a
metaphor for fashion because fashion is a
way to present nobila gura, our best and
more beautiful selves. Beneath the mask,
there is something vulnerable, less
perfect.
McQueen is known for his many
armor-inspired creations. Ms. Guinness
said that she had been a very close friend
of the designers since 1999, but did not
think of herself as instrumental in
nourishing McQueens career. She
pointed to Isabella Blow, a renowned
fashion editor who famously launched
McQueens career by buying up his
entire graduation collection. We are
all cut from the same cloth, Ms.
Guinness would say to describe the
spiritual kinship she had felt with
McQueen and Blow. Ms. Guinness
remembered the days that she would
visit McQueens studio and work with
him, but she believed that McQueen
did not need her to be
the genius he was. Ms.
Guinness learned about
McQueens suicide when
she got a call from Mr.
Leane, just as she got a
call about Blows suicide
four years before that.
She then explained that
she did not want to put
herself in the position of
a fashion designer who
had to produce 14
collections at year. The pressure was
unbearable. After Blows suicide, Ms.
Guinness acquired Blows entire fashion
collection before it went on auction. She said
that she gravitated toward creative people
and they gravitated toward her.
Bernard-Henry Levy once said that
Guinness was not a person but a concept. But
how would she describe herself? Guinness
paused, Oh I dont know . . . . I am just a
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of the Fashion Institute for
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By Foster Kamer
The symbol for gold is an eye in a circlefrom
the Egyptian for the sun god, Ra, Ben Davies
explained to the Observer. Mr. Davies is a
director at Hinde Capital, a British hedge fund
that manages the Hinde Gold Fund, a high-
volume fund that deals exclusively in gold. He
is nothing short of religious when he writes
about it. It means all seeing. The steady rise in
the price of gold is that of knowledge. Gold, he
explains, is all knowing.
If Mr. Davies sounds crazy, then theres a
signicant portion of those making earth-
shaking deals in global nancial markets who
are categorically insane.
Their questionable mental health, if thats
what it is, has made them categorically,
astoundingly rich.
Meet the goldbugs or those who are abso-
lutely crazy for the shiny stuf.
Lately, its been hard to nd what any sen-
sible person could see as a stable investment.
The worlds nancial markets have demon-
strated the dictionary-denition of volatility:
stock exchanges drop down a few hundred
points in a single day, with pictures of face-
grabbing, anguished traders gracing the front
pages of newspapers around the country.
A week later, those few hundred points and
then some are recovered. Everyones a target,
and we all have skin in the game: invest-
ment portfolios, mutual funds, retirement
funds, pensions, anything thats any kind of
investment is subject to the barely-controlled
THE NEW
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getting to know
AT A COCKTAIL PARTY THIS SUMMER FOR SEX AND THE CITY AUTHOR (AND NYO MAGAZINE
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GOLDEN BOYS:
WHORE THE TRUE
BELIEVERS (AND SKEPTICS)
OF THE SHINY STUFF?
THE APOSTLES
David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital: The
42-year-old poker-playing billionaire origi-
nally avoided gold, because his grandfa-
ther waited 30 years for gold prices to go
up. Since 2009, hes taken Grandpa Bens advice
and made it the largest position in his portfolio.
John Paulson, Paulson & Co: Mr.
Paulson reportedly netted $5B in 2010
thanks to securities representing a share
of gold larger than those held by Austra-
lias government or the whole of Bulgaria. Forty-
two percent of his Paulson Gold Fund is made up
of his employees money.
Steve Cohen, SAC Capital Advisors:
Before putting down $628M on gold op-
tions in August, Mr. Cohen already had
invested in four gold mining companies
and $9M in gold stocks in late 2010. Its now the
biggest position in his $14B rm.
THE APOSTATES
Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway:
The 81-year-old face of American wealth
and value-investing thinks gold investing
is silly: It gets dug out of the ground in
Africa, or someplace. Then we pay people to
stand around guarding it. Anyone watching from
Mars would be scratching their head.
Nouriel Roubini, Roubini Global
Economics: The Dr. Doom who
famously predicted 2008s nancial
crisis called gold a hyperbolic bubble
and openly mocked goldbugs on Twitter when
gold took a dip in early September.
Ben Bernanke, U.S. Federal Reserve:
The Fed chair faced off against Rep. Ron
Paul in a July policy report to Congress,
chastising the libertarian for promoting
gold against the dollar in an attack on Mr. Bernan-
ke: Is gold money? No. Its a precious metal.
MONEY
chaos of what are often vaguely referred to as
market forces.
Even the almighty dollarthe worlds
reserve currency, or what the rest of the world
measures its moneys value againstremains
a great source of consternation to the money-
spending universe. After bad American real
estate investments nearly capsized the global
economy, and after QE1 and QE2two rounds
of quantitative easing, or pumping more
American money into circulation to ght
deation and encourage lending, and with it,
economic stimulusnobodys entirely sure
whats going to happen with the greenback.
And thats where goldand the goldbugs,
those preaching the religion of the yellow
stufcomes in. Goldbugs think its the future,
not just of investing, but of economics, period.
Over the past 10 years, gold has sextupled in
value, from a little over $300 an ounce to where
it stands as of this writing, $1,786 an ounce.
In August, J.P. Morgan saw gold going up to
$2,500 by the end of 2011. And just one year
ago, it was under $1,300 an ounce. Some people
would call that a bubble. Others, like goldbugs,
call it a balancing out of global economics.
Beyond that? The future.
Hedge fund manager David Einhornwho
recently achieved notoriety for attempting to
buy a minority share of the New York Mets
made billions on gold investments. Paulson
& Co. founder John Paulsonthe 36th-
wealthiest person on the planet, according to
Forbeshas moved massive volumes of gold, all
to the benet of his portfolio. The University of
Texas endowment fund has $1 billion worth of
gold in its endowment fund, hidden somewhere
in a massive vault under Manhattan. Chinas
addictlike demand for gold just surpassed
Indias and is seen by some as a bid to undercut
the value of the American dollar. SAC Capital,
run by the famed Steve Cohen, disclosed in
August a $628 million investment in gold op-
tions, making it the single most-valued equity
position in the entire rms holdings.
So, why gold? When Moses came down
from the mountain after getting the Ten
Commandments, all those people hed freed
from Egypt were worshipping at the feet of a
giant, golden calf. Among other things, they
were pissed at Moses for making them wonder
around the desert.
Its more or less like that.
Investors getting into gold see it as a bet
against the dollar, as whats commonly called
an ination hedge. An ination hedge is
a nancial bet used to ght the declining
value of a currency and an economy on the
whole; in this case, thats the dollar and the
American economy. Rather than keep ones
money in the bank, or in companies that need
the American dollar and economy to retain
their worth, gold investors choose to put
their money into something thats doesnt
measure its worth in dollars. And heres
where it gets especially crazy.
Hardcore goldbugs think that gold as simply
an ination hedge is downright pedestrian.
One hedge fund manager we spoke with
chastised us for even thinking like that: Its
not a nancial instrument, its an element, it
is money. One that has been desired by every
civilization since recorded time.
And so it goes: people like him think that the
reserve currencythe dollarwill eventually
be tied to whats called the gold standard,
which measures all currencies goods, and ser-
vices against tangible, physical gold. Way back
when, goods and services were actually paid
for in gold. This came to an end in 1933, when
President Franklin Roosevelt outlawed civilian
ownership of monetary gold. In 1971, President
Nixon ended the trading of gold for a xed price
(at that time, $35 an ounce). But 1971 was a time
of American prosperity. Lately? Not so much. >
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But why not silver, or platinum, or rare earth,
or anything else for that matter? What else can
> you use it for other than ostentatious decor?
When most people think of gold, they think
of jewelry. Thats not wrong. But gold can also
be used as a conductor in electronicslike cell
phonesto carry voltage without corroding, or
in computers, to carry data efciently. Theres
also golds medical use: dentists use it for ll-
ings, oncologists use it as a radiation source to
treat certain kinds of cancer, and ophthalmolo-
gists use it in tiny amounts to treat lagophthal-
mos, or the inability to close ones eyes. Its also,
among the shopping list of things on the planet
you can nd on the Periodic Table of Elements,
and the only reasonable candidate to replace a
piece of paper (like, say, the dollar) that might
come to mean absolutely nothing overnight.
Among all the elements on the planet, gold
has one of the highest melting points and is one
of the most resistant to corrosion.
Most important, though, with gold, the fund
manager explained, theres no central banker
dictating supply. Every other form of money
is being debased by central bankers. Like the
Federal Reserve, for example. He continued:
Peak gold production occurred in 2001 despite
a massive price move from then to now. Bar-
ring some kind of sea-dredging technology that
actually works to extract gold, the only way to
increase the absolute value of above-ground
gold is by price, as supply is constrained. In
other words, no mere mortals can directly
inuenceor screw upthe price of gold like
they can the dollar. Theres a nite amount of it,
so a value assigned to it wont go completely at
overnight. Unlike the dollar, you cant simply
create more of it. Unlike silver, its not every-
where, and unlike platinum, its not so rare as
to be nearly impossible to acquire.
Does that mean well be using gold coins
to pay the dinner check anytime soon? Gold
skeptics from a government standpoint
would laugh at that. They dont think theres
enough of it to go around. I agree, the hedge
fund manager explained, but would argue
that there can be more than enough gold on
a dollar basis if you increase the price, more
than enough gold above ground if it trades
at $50,000 per ounce. For that to happen,
the value of an ounce of gold would have to
increase to about 24 times what it is now.
If this sounds totally unreasonable, others
think its a very real possibility, and not just in-
vestors. Just last month, Donald Trump made
headlines when he started accepting pure gold
bullion as a down payment on a commercial
real estate lease. He saw it as a response to the
Obama administrations nancial policies.
But for every David Einhorn, Steve Cohen,
Ben Davies and Donald Trump, there are
naysayers who see the goldbugs as crazed hype
men proting of the equivalent of nancial
snake-oil and the hype that comes with it.
As passionate as the goldbugs are about their
investment, they are about writing itand
goldbugsof. Call it Goldenfreude.
World-renowned value investor Warren
Bufet thinks gold investment is absurd. Gold
really doesnt have utility, he said at his annual
shareholders meeting in May, continuing: Id
bet on a good producing business to outper-
form something that doesnt do anything.
Nouriel Dr. Doom Roubini of Roubini
Global Economics thinks gold is going to look
like the tech bubble of the early aughts, telling
clients in 2009: Since gold has no intrinsic
value, there are signicant risks of a down-
ward correction. When gold took a $60 dip
in value early last month, Mr. Roubini wasted
no time laughing at goldbugs in public, using
seven tweets to fulll his need to be publicly
vindicated.
So, what is it? Is gold the future of global
economics? Or is it the product of an incredibly
sophisticated publicity campaign that, like
all that goes up, must eventually come down?
Anybody who professes to be sure of this is
almost inevitably wrong: the entire concept of
a nancial market is based on people who think
theyre correct and making a bet on it getting
something wrong.
That said, its pretty hard to ignore the bil-
lions those have gained on gold, as well as the
operative aforementioned term: almost inevi-
tably wrong. Because on every transaction with
two sides, theres always a winner. Whether or
not who wins is making any sense as they do it
isnt always a given.
Famed investor Dennis Gartman of the
Gartman Report put it more simply: What-
ever it is, for whatever reason, it is embedded in
the DNA of human beings to admire and hold
gold. And sometimes it becomes a frenzy and
sometimes it doesnt. And if you try to ascribe
rationality to gold, he laughed, youre wrong. o
... theres no
central banker
dictating supply.
Every other
form of money
is being debased
by central
bankers.
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Diana Taylor on whats wrong with Congress,
why her former boss George Pataki wont be president
and the perils and pleasures of being Hizzoners girlfriend.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY NI KOL A TAMI NDZI C
BY ELI ZABETH SPI ERS

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t was a sunny September afternoon at
the mayors home on East 79th Street
and Diana Taylor was talking to the
two boisterous Labrador retrievers that
she shares with her boyfriend, Michael
Bloomberg. Yes! she said, in a
soothing voice that Bonnie and Clyde
seemed to appreciate, Im talking about you!
She had been describing her early morning
hour-and-a-half walks with the dogs (which
she bought for the mayor four years ago) and
extolling the virtues of Central Park in that
sort of breathless-but-genuine tone that all
New Yorkers adopt when speaking apprecia-
tively about Things That Also Impress the
Tourists. Central Park is the most amazing
gift, she said. Its incredible. You nd new
spots, new people, new friends for the dogs. I
love going to parks.
But she wasnt as bubbly as the sentiment
would suggest. She erupted in a rare peal of
laughterOh my god, that was hilarious!
only when asked about the mayors Spanish
speaking skills and the parody Twitter account
@elBloombito, which exhorted New Yorkers
during Hurricane Irene to no looto el bodaga!
Esta es Nuevo Yorko! (She explained his tech-
nical prociency despite abysmal pronuncia-
tion: hes an engineer; they are very technical.)
As we sat at small table next to the kitchen,
she spoke softly but directly, carefully
considering everything she was saying. A tall,
animated gure who often appears to tower
over her high-prole partner at public events,
her demeanor was warm but professional.
And it makes sense. Until 2000, when she
was seated next to the mayor at a Citizens
Budget Commission event, Ms. Taylors career
was the most recognizable facet of her public
identity. If her tone seems professionalcom-
forting in one sense, and perhaps a bit over-
polished in anotherits because thats the
mode in which shes accustomed to operating.
Before she met the mayor, Ms. Taylor had
occupied several high-prole job positions in
both the public and the private sector, and was
divorced, with no children.
She still holds several high-prole positions
and is still divorced with no children, but its
probably fair to say that her day-to-day life now
has several added dimensions that werent
there before. Her social life is determined in
many ways by the schedule of her partner, and
nights out (downtown for events, Harlem for
dinner at the Red Rooster) are now routinely
documented by photographers.
And of course, this means Ms. Taylor is being
scrutinized in ways she previously wouldnt
have expected. Her fondness for tailored,
elegant clothing has been noted in various
fashion pages and her favorite designers (Oscar
de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Ralphs Rucci
and Lauren, natch) have been catalogued for
the public. But the look isnt entirely confort-
able for the rst girlfriend. Our photographer
assumed that her consistent, well-put together
look was the work of a personal stylist and Ms.
Taylor seemed taken aback by the idea.
My what? she said, laughing. Stylist?
Youre talking to her!
But, she acknowledged, she did have her
own personal style. I like simple, not too
frilly, tailored. And then, with a tiny sparkle
of calculation: And my favorite designers
are New York City-based designers. So that
makes it easy because theyre mostly tailored
and elegant clothes. We pointed out that the
Greenwich natives taste in clothing seemed
very, well, Greenwich-ian. Yeah, I know, she
said. [But] let me put it to you this way: I basi-
cally wore overalls all the way through college. I
mean, you just try and present yourself as being
neat, fairly well put together. You try to make
sure your shoes are from the same pair.
She then informed us that she planned to
wear a business suit for her photo shoot. Im
not wearing an evening gown; its the wrong
image. The scads of evening gown photos are
not how she views herself, or at the very least,
not how she wishes to present herself. There
are enough pictures like that, so Ill just wear a
simple business suit.
d
iana Taylor was born in 1955 in
the upscale Connecticut suburb of
Greenwich, Conn., the daughter of a
schoolteacher and a biochemist for
Union Carbide chemical company.
She went to college at Dartmouth and was
in the second class of women to go all the way
through all four years. There were two hun-
dred of us, or maybe three hundred of us, she
said, and three thousand of them at the time.
Not entirely a bad ratio in certain respects, she
admitted. It was so much fun. I had a blast;
I loved it. And my best friends to this day are
people I met my rst week at Dartmouth. (Ms.
Taylor is now a member of her alma maters
board of trustees.)
Much of what happened after Dartmouth
was a matter of serendipity. I have basically
fallen into everything Ive ever done, she said.
Ive never really planned anything. Ive basi-
cally seen opportunities as they come up and
theyve turned out to be really good ones.
But there was one thing she planned: I
knew was that I wanted to move to NewYork
City [after college] she said. Like many
20-somethings who decamp to Manhattan
after undergrad, Mr. Taylors roommate from
Dartmouth was living in a one-bedroom apart-
ment with one other roommate and they were
looking for a third. But Ms. Taylor needed to
nd a job. She was interested in health care and
began sending resumes to hospitals but un-
fortunately none of them wanted me as their
hospital administrator at that point. She got a
job in government in the department of social
services but realized quickly that it wasnt
where she wanted to end up, so she applied to
business school in a joint degree program that
also included a public health degree.
But she was still working on top of that. I
was an evening and weekend administrator at
St. Vincents hospital in Brooklyn, which was
an experience, she said. It was fascinating.
She was also working at Smith Barney in their
public nance department and received an
ofer for a full-time job when she graduated.
She moved on to Lehmann Brothers with a
couple of her colleagues from Smith Barney,
and then on to Donaldson Lufin & Jenrette.
And then some guy I didnt even know at
the time called me up [four years later],
she explained, and said, Im starting this
new rm do you want to come join? And Id
basically hit the ceiling, if you will, at DLJ and
it sounded like a good idea, so I did that. Stuf
happens at really good times!
In 1996, she made a transition to public work
as assistant secretary to then-Governor George
Pataki. After brief stints at Keyspan Energy
and the Long Island Power Authority (where
she served as CFO) she returned to Governor
Patakis ofce as deputy secretary and became
superintendent of banks in 2003.
In 2007, she returned to the private sector
as a managing director at Wolfensohn Fund
Management, but still hasnt fully extricated
herself from public life.
And how could she? Shes partner to the
most powerful man in New York City politics.
Which has its particular downsides. Oh, its hi-
larious, she laughed. I have the scars to prove
how many times Ive been knocked over the
head by TV cameras running to get a picture of
the mayor. But, she notes, its also not without
its pleasures. Actually I love observing life,
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I have the scars
to prove how
many times Ive
been knocked over
the head by TV
cameras running
to get a picture
of the mayor
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she explains. And its a great place to observe
from. You see a lot in this kind of position and
its incredibly rewarding.
That said, the reality is that when Ms. Taylor
walks into a room with the mayor, shes not
recognized as Diana Taylor, managing director
at Wolfensohn, or Diana Taylor, former deputy
secretary to the governor. Shes Diana Taylor,
girlfriend of Michael Bloomberg. For a woman
with her own impressive resume and laundry
list of accomplishments, it must be a little,
well, ego-bruising.
But Ms. Taylor insisted it was just part of the
role she had chosen to play. One of the things
that you just need to remember is that its not
about you, she said. Hes the elected ofcial
and youre there for support. And if people
want you to do something, you do it and if they
dont, you dont. Hes the one who was elected
and I wasnt.
But, she acknowledged, Thats one reason
why its really good that Im busy. Hes doing
his thing and I have my life, too, and things that
are important to me.
And many things are important to Ms. Taylor
these days. Shes on the board of ACCION
International, a micronancing organization
that provides loans to small businesses that are
underserviced by banks in emerging econo-
mies, and recently visited Brazil and Honduras
on behalf of the organization. In June she was
named to the board of the YMCA of Greater
New York. Shes a director of Sothebys, Citi-
group and Brookeld Properties.
Shes also involved in a variety of charities
that benet women and girls. And shes a natu-
ral advocate, having been one of the few women
in a variety of traditionally male-dominated
environments.
I think one of the problem that most
women have is that theyre not really good
at advocating for themselves, she said.
Theyre great at advocating for other people.
Theyre hard workers, theyre really smart
but theyre not very good about marching into
their bosss ofces and saying, I need a raise!
So-and-so got a raise and I work better and
harder than they do and am more productive
than they are. Women are just not particu-
larly good at that. It was a broad generaliza-
tion, she said, but women tend to have the
attitude that, if I put my head down, I work
really hard, Ill get recognized. And life is not
fair. Thats a hard thing.
She attributed much of the gender lopsided-
ness to natural attrition rates as women
dropped out of the work force to have children.
A lot of times you nd its a decision they make
to have a family. And theyre bringing up kids
and working and somethings gotta give, and
the works not rewarding enough and theyre
not getting enough back from their work situa-
tion, so they say, you know what? I cant.
Her own decisions were made years ago
what she described as organizing a series
of priorities. And for better or worse, being
childless probably helped her career. Im sure
it did, she said. I never had to run home and
help anybody with their homework. That was
a whole very time-consuming aspect I didnt
have to worry about.
But, she adds, you have to do what youre
comfortable with and what makes you happy
and thats not the same for everybody.
a
nd in looking at Ms. Taylors choices,
the ones paths she decided not to take
are as signicant as the ones she did.
Last year, Senate Republicans approached Ms.
Taylor about the possibility of running against
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incumbent Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and for
a while she considered it. The Senate Repub-
licans basically asked me to run and I thought
about it talked to a lot of people, she said.
But then when I really thought about it, what
attracted me to the idea was the race because I
knew I could win that race. It was the thought
of actually having to go and do that job, that was
really not all that appealing.
When asked what she thought of Sena-
tor Gillibrands job performance now, she
paused. I think she works very hard, she
said, diplomatically. I dont agree with her
on anything She hesitated. Some things
that Then choosing the if-you-cant-say-
something-nice option, she reiterated: I think
she just works really hard.
But Ms. Taylor insisted she wasnt tempted
to run against her now, either. She said she had
no political ambitions. I never did!
She also brought up a complicating factor
in any Senatethe convoluted and often
antagonistic relationship between the city
and the state. Because whats good for the
state of New York and whats good for the city
of New York are not always aligned, and Id be
representing the state.
Plus, Id have to go live in Washington?
she said, rolling her eyes. And you know, what
would I do with the dogs? Would I take them on
the train? Would I have to drive? These are the
kinds of considerations!
Then she turned serious. Youre one of a
body of 100. I would be a very junior member of
the minority party and I didnt feel like Id have
a lot of say in what went on and the decisions
that were made. And I dont have a particularly
high opinion of Congress at this point.
We pointed out that no one had a particu-
larly high opinion of Congress at this point. (A
recent Gallup poll indicated that Congresss
approval rate had dropped to a measly 13%.)
Then I hold the majority opinion on
that, l and I think that were in a situation
now where its sort of a downward spiral,
she said. You know, the opinion of the body
itself is so bad, how do you get qualied intel-
ligent good people to run? I dont know the
answer to that question.
Everyone has a theory about why things
are bad when they are, and as a corollary,
how they got that way. Ms. Taylor thinks the
system itself cant work in its current incar-
nation. And not just some piece of the system;
the entirety of democracy.
I put this in the context of [the notion
that] democracy is the worst system except for
all the others. I dont know what you replace it
with and how you x this. But it does sort of go
to the lowest common denominator.
And the primary system is one of the
culprits, according to Ms. Taylor. Take the
districts in the House of Representatives,
for example. Most of them are completely
gerrymandered to be safe districts for what-
ever partys in control. And when you have
something like that with the primary system,
you have people [winning] the primary in the
majority party of that district.
There are not very many people who go
out and vote in primaries, she added. So
to get elected in a particular district, you
have to appeal to the ve people who vote in
the primary. So you get elected, and you get
into ofce and you have zero incentive to do
anything that does not t with [the agenda
of ] those ve people who elected you who are
the wacko right-wing or the wacko-left wing
depending on what kind of district youre
coming fromso you have no ability really
to go to the center because you will not get
re-elected if you go the center.
Re-election incentives have always been a
big part of New York City political discourse.
Especially with regard Ms. Taylors, whose
three-term mayorship has been the source of
much controversy over the years.
But shes changed her mind on that one. I
used to be completely for term limits, she said.
I thought it was a great thing. But basically
what happens with term limits is that the staf
takes on huge power because theyre the ones
who have the institutional power. Im not sure
that term limits is a particularly good thing.
The key, she said, was changing how district-
ing worked. I think that nonpartisan primaries
would be great. I think that would make a lot
more sense. Because then you have the whole
slate and you dont have people whove run on
the total right and total left having to have one
set of ideas during the primary and then move
to the center for the re-election.
Along those lines, the current eld of Re-
publican presidential candidates didnt seem
too promising. A ripple of irritation passed her
expression. I dont really like any of them very
much. A lot of them scare me a lot.
Ive never met [Michele Bachmann]. I have
read a lot about her and Im not particularly
impressed by what Ive read.
As for the other Republican beauty queen-
cum-politico: I have met [Sarah Palin] once,
just very briey. If I were her, the best thing she
could do is keep the buzz going and then not
run. And shes doing just ne doing that.
She was even less sanguine about Presi-
dent Obama. I think that hes a very intel-
ligent man, she said carefully. And he has a
lot to learn.
Her voice took on a sharper edge. For some-
bodys whos going to come in and be the great
unieryou know, that hopey-changey stufit
hasnt worked very well. The country is more
divided now than its ever been. And he doesnt
appreciate other people and what they do.
Having given this some thought, she had
a three-pronged list of his biggest mistakes.
There are probably more, she said, but here
were three. He wasnt supporting business,
Ms. Taylor said. He should be a champion
for this country and hes not. Because thats
where the jobs are going to come from.
Theyre not going to come from government;
theyre going to come from the private sec-
tor. The second: Obamacare. He basically
told Congress, You know what? I want a
health care bill, do something.
The last time I checked, the president was
supposed to sit down and gure out what he
wanted and then get Congress to go along
When I really
thought about it
what attracted
me to the idea
[of running
for Senator
against Kirsten
Gillibrand], it
was the race
because I knew
I could win that
race. It was
the thought of
actually having
to go and do that
job, that was
really not all
that appealing
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with it. And we got a mess. And exactly the
same thing with nancial regulation and
regulatory reform. This was number three.
And we have a mess.
And Ms. Taylor would know a bit about
the banks, having worked in both the public
and private arenas of banking for decades.
Economic uncertainty was making it difcult
to get anything done, she maintained. I mean,
Dodd Frank has like 400 things that need to be
doneyou know, changes, and the regulators
have to go and promulgate rules and regula-
tions around those thingsand they cant do it.
Theres so much uncertainty. And whoever has
created a situation now where theyre basically
saying to the banks, well, we want you to lend
money, but you cant lend money to anybody
who actually needs it!
Here she became more animated. This
was far more interesting to her than Ralph
Lauren dresses. And this whole business
of the F.H.F.A. suing all the banks around
Fannie and Freddie; its crazy! Inasmuch as
Mr. Taylor would ever be inclined to pound
her st on a table to make a point, she seemed
on the verge of it. Ive neverI mean, it just
makes no sense at all to me!
And then there was a glimmer of what
Diana Taylor, freshman senator might be
like. I think its a problem throughout the
system, she said, gearing up her delivery. I
think its a problem with Congress. I think
its a problem with the ratings agencies. I
think its a problem with the banks. I think
its a problem with the population at large.
Everybodys going like this, she said while
throwing her hands up in the air. And at the
end of the day, everybodys responsible in
some way or another.
As for what Ms. Taylor is responsible for,
she still wants to tackle public health. Shes on
the board of the Mailman School at Columbia
and said her studies there had informed her
thinking on things like micronance and
what people actually need to survive and
make their lives better.
Its still easy to imagine her getting in-
volved in some tangential way, thoughmay-
be even with her former boss, ex-governor
George Pataki, whos reportedly mulling a
presidential campaign.
Yeah, I dont think that hes going to run,
she said. Hes an absolutely great guy, and
if he decides to do it, I wish him the best.
But I think theres a pretty large eld right
now. And there was the primary problem
again. Youre never going to get through a
republican primary if youre pro-gun control,
pro-choice. He is a lot more liberal than run
of the mill.
Ms. Taylor self-identies as a Republican,
but is socially liberal herself, though scally
conservativea libertarian lite, perhaps. Im
socially very liberal. I dont understand why
anybody cares who marries who. I think that
guns should not be in the hands of criminals,
and Im rabidly pro-choice. Its nobody elses
business, and Im scally quite conservative.
She says she may have inherited this from
her family. My mother has a bumper sticker
on the back of her car that says Pro-family,
pro-child, pro-choice.
So we were curious: where might she clash
with the mayor, whose politics occasionally
difered. She shook her head, determinedly:
Not going there! o
I think that
hes a very
intelligent man,
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Mr. Blumenthal, a native New Yorker, re-
ceivesd his bachelors from Tufts, his interest
shifting from one humanitarian cause to the
next before he nally settled on conict reso-
lution. I thought that if we could get people
to stop killing each other, we could focus on
issues like health and education.
But a short stint at a think tank proved to
be as disillusioning as it was unfulllingI
wanted to get my hands dirtyso when
Mr. Blumenthal met an eye-doctor who had
just started a nonprot that was train-
ing low-income women in the developing
world to start their own businesses selling
prescription glasses, he signed right up. The
second salaried employee of VisionSpring,
he quickly rose through the ranks and soon
became the director. Within ve years as
the companys head, he had signicantly
increased the organizations reach, expand-
ing it from a pilot-program in El Salvador to
10 more programs in as many countries.
An impact assessment conducted by the
University of Michigan found that a pair of
glasses given to a person in need increases
that persons productivity by 35 percent
and his income by 20 percent. Thats the
equivalent of an extra days work per week,
so it literally is one of the most efective
poverty alleviation tools in the world, said
Mr. Blumenthal.
But as far as charitable causes go, afordable
eyewear is low on most peoples radar. I think
its because its not obvious, right? In the U.S.
and Europe, glasses are everywhere. Its a
technology thats almost 800 years old, and
nobody thinks that about 15 percent of the
worlds population doesnt have access to it.
Looking for a fresh, new challenge, Mr.
Blumenthal left VisionSpring and enrolled at
Wharton Business School, where he would
meet Jefrey Raider, Andrew Hunt and David
Gilboa. The latter, an aspiring doctor-turned-
management consultant, had recently lost his
glasses while traveling in Thailand and, not
being able to justify paying $700 to replace
them, went the rst semester spec-less. The
four self-proclaimed drinking buddies
bonded over a shared frustration with the
high price of a decent pair of glasses. Mr.
Blumenthal, during his days at VisionSpring,
had been to the factories in Asia and knew
rsthand how little it cost to manufacture
glasseshed even designed a line of reading
glasses for people living on as little as $4 a
day. But why, then, if the manufacturing costs
were so small, were glasses priced so high on
retailers shelves?
They found that the eyewear industry
is a characteristic oligopoly. A handful of
behemoth, top-down-integrated companies
like Luxottica control the entire process from
the manufacturing facilities in Europe and
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WARBY PARKER REJECT THE NOTION THAT THEY HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN DOING
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Asia to the licensing for brands including
Ray-ban and Chanel, to the retail chains such
as LensCrafters and Sunglass Hut. We found
that they were marking up framesjust the
frames, not the lensesbetween 10 and 25
times from point of manufacture to point of
sale, said Mr. Blumenthal.
By designing glasses themselves and selling
them directly to customers online they could
ofer high-quality glassesmade from the
same materials and on the same production
lines as those sold retail for $500for a frac-
tion of the price, the four sat down together at
their favorite watering hole, a bar near Whar-
ton called Roosevelts, to discuss the idea and
the prospect of writing a business plan. Its
a pretty involved process, and we wanted to
make sure we were doing it well and not just
kind of half-assing it, recalled Mr. Gilboa.
We all committed to dedicate a huge portion
of our time to write a full business plan and
really see if this thing would work. That was at
the end of our rst semester.
While the brands social missionfor every
pair of glasses sold, a pair would be donated
to person in needwas clear from the start,
other matters proved murkier. One question
loomed particularly large: would people really
buy prescription eyewear online? While suc-
cessful e-commerce sites like Zappos.com had
silenced skeptics who had said that certain
products couldnt be sold online, they worried
that glasses, more a part of a persons identity
than, say, shoes, and subtler in style and t,
might be a diferent story.
The prescribed solution would be an excep-
tional customer experience. Customers would
be able to try on glasses virtually through
software on the website. Then they would
choose ve frames to receive in the mail,
trying them on at their leisure, before sending
back the pairs that they didnt want free of
charge. And, of course, every pair would be
reasonably priced, at $95.
What began as a submission for Whartons
Business Plan Competition soon became an
obsession. Everything we learned about this
industry and this opportunity got us more and
more excited, said Mr. Gilboa. So, early in
2009, we all sat down again and had another
meeting at Roosevelts and asked ourselves if
we were all committed to investing our life sav-
ings and actually starting this company.
The answer was an emphatic yes.
Sensitive as the partners were to the
strain that business can put on relation-
ships, they carefully considered the best
ways to safeguard their friendship. Weve
all heard horror stories about founders who
were best friends and who became mortal
enemies, said Mr. Blumenthal, And we knew
just saying it wasnt enough. We had to be
really thoughtful about how we could do it
diferently.
With this end in mind, each of the four stu-
dents put in the same amount of money and
became equal partners. They then created a
schedule by which additional stock would vest
each month to whoever continued to work on
the project until graduation. We all assumed
all four of us would continue to work on it
until graduation, but just in case lifes circum-
stances changed and someone wanted to leave
the business they could do so without feeling
guilty or the rest of us feeling resentful, said
Mr. Blumenthal. The friends also conducted
monthly 360-degree review sessions, during
which they would take turns openly critiquing
each others recent performanceHey, what
are you doing well? What could be improved?
Hey, when you shoot me a 10-page email at 2 in
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the morning, I want to punch you in the face.
Warby Parkerthe name is a mash-up of
two ctional characters, Warby Pepper and
Zach Parker, from Jack Kerouacs unpublished
journalslaunched early in 2010, receiving at-
tention in features in both Vogue and GQ. Two
days later, Daily Candy picked up the site before
the partners had even had a chance to reach out
to it. Within three weeks, Warby Parker had
reached its rst-years sales target, and a week
later it had sold out of its top 15 styles.
It was madness, recalled Mr. Gilboa. I
had my phone set up to receive an email every
time an order was placed, and I was siting in
class a few hours later when I got an email that
we had our rst order. I got super excited and
emailed Jef and Andy. Then about 10 minutes
later we got another order. And then 10
minutes later, another order. And then orders
just started owing in. At rst it was super
exciting, but then we all just kind of freaked
out and realized, Oh, crap! We didnt have
enough inventory, and we didnt have any sold
out functionality on the website.
A year and half later, Warby Parker has more
or less arrived, evident as The Observer walked
into Partner and Spades storefront gallery in
Noho. Fuck it, Im a hillbilly. I can play with
ve strings! bellowed Justin Townes Earle as
he picked away at the rst notes of his last song
of the night. It was Fashions Night Out, and
publicists, editors, and the ever-enthusiastic
F.N.O. venue-hoppers nudged their way to back
of the sweltering room, where the music could
be better heard and Earlean emerging star in
the Americana genrebetter viewed. Behind
the lone singer-songwriter stood a oor-to-
ceiling photograph of Buddy Holly that read,
Warby Parker Celebrates Buddy Hollys
Birthday. The great rock n roll pioneer
whose iconic specs inspired WPs Thatcher
designwould have been turning 75, and the
company, together with the producers of Rave
on Buddy Holly, a recently released tribute
album featuring Mr. Earle as well as other
well-known artists like Paul McCartney, Kid
Rock, and Modest Mouse, wanted to throw the
bespectacled rocker a posthumous shindig.
After Mr. Earle nished up his set, and
before the young, similarly bespectacled
crowd burst into a raucous rendition of
Happy Birthday to You, The Observer found
Mr. Blumenthal and Mr. Gilboa near Buddy
Hollys cake. We arranged to meet a few days
later at their new location.
Walking into Warby Parker, The Observer
felt for a moment as though we were in the
wrong place. Expecting an eyewear show-
room, we found ourselves instead in the
middle of an of ce. On the vast hard-wood
oor were six or seven tables, at each of which
sat about 10 peopleperched in front of lap-
tops and monitorsnone of whom appeared
to be over 30. The place felt something like an
Apple-store-meets-college-library.
At one end of the room, separated by only a
gray sofa and couple of chairs, is the show-
room where the entire collection of Warby
Parker glassesretro in their chunky styleis
displayed on a minimalistic arrangement
of shelving and tables. Nearby are two Macs
upon which a customer can access the website
and place an order.
An open of ce, the co-founders sit side-
Everything we
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this industry and
this opportunity
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more excited
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by-side with their employees. There were a
bunch of walls in here before and we knocked
them all down. We wanted to create a really
open culture, said Mr. Gilboa.
And that just gets to the culture of the
organization, added Mr. Blumenthal.
People are here to learn. Theyre excited to
be at a fast growing start-up, and they want
visibility into all the diferent departments
and all the things that were doing.
What does this brand mean? Mr.
Blumenthal repeated The Observers inquiry.
Well, at a high level its about transforming
an industry that hasnt innovated in 50 years.
Its about creating a new paradigm for how
for-prot companies should behave, and its
about not taking yourself too seriously
because lifes too shortbut taking work
seriously and being smart and creative.
In the world where new start-ups are
introduced every day, its common for suc-
cessful business models to be copied. Indeed,
Warby Parker has seen its fair share of these
clones, the most prominent of which is Eyey.
com. Owned by web-only apparel retailer
Bluey, the site is a carbon copy of Warby-
Parker.com from its design and layout to the
style of the glasses, even going so far as to
emulate the virtual try-on feature. One dif-
ference, however, is that Eyey.coms glasses
are a slightly more expensive at $99 a pair.
One would think that, with the resources of a
large parent company and no commitment to
donating a pair of glasses for every pair sold,
Eyey.com could ofer its products for less.
Yeah, but they dont, said Mr. Blumenthal.
Thats whats amazing to us. First of all,
what type of person wants to dedicate all
their energy to copying somebody else? And
then, rather than take our model and im-
prove upon it, theyve made it worse. Theyve
cut out the whole social mission, which is
the core of who we are, and theyve decided
to charge more for an inferior product. Its
mind-boggling.
Fortunately for Warby Parker, consum-
ers seem to be able to identify authenticity.
Weve had an emotional reaction, said Mr.
Gilboa. Anytime you feel like someone is
stealing from you or copying you, its incred-
ibly frustrating. But we really havent seen
any business impact at all.
From its humble beginning in the apart-
ment of four friends, Warby Parker has
grown to 50 employees, and, through its buy
a pair, give a pair program, the company has
distributed over 75,000 pair of glasses to peo-
ple in need. We know that were not going to
reach the billion people who need glasses,
admitted Mr. Gilboa. But if we can just
create as much awareness as possible, and get
other folks on board to help alongsidethats
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2150 Broadway
L1WLLN W. 751H & W. 71H
Prewar
The Laureate is a lovely new
building constructed in 2008
in homage to prewar New York
style. It boasts modern details
such as oor-to-ceiling win-
dows, two layers of plywood and
insulation under wood oors
for soundproong, and separate
rooms with sinks for washer and
dryer. Its exterior, with Juliet
balconies, Art Deco notes, and
a limestone and granite facade,
has won it praise in the past.
101 West 79th
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The Park Belvedere holds
the unique advantage of
being exactly across from the
Museum of Natural History,
allowing you to nally indulge
your clandestine passion
for pterodactyls. To this
end, youll want an intimate
place of residence with small
elevator landings and only a few
neighbors per ooror perhaps
not, but dont these qualities
sound nice? The location is
one of the best in terms of both
culture and transportation
and is close to Belvedere
Castle in Central Park, which
overlooks Turtle Pond and the
Shakespeare in the Park Theater.
Also, you must not forget to take
into account nine-foot ceilings
and mammoth picture windows
overlooking Central Park.
500 West End Avenue
L1WLLN W. 841H & W. 851H
Prewar
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already subtly and marvel-
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include quoins, cornices, facade
ornamentation and elegant
canopied entrance. This condo-
minium graciously celebrates
its proximity to Riverside Park
as well as excellent shopping (as
only it could), not to mention a
full time concierge.
60 Riverside Boulevard
L1WLLN W. 41H & W. 1H
Postwar
Waterfront living combined with
a Lincoln Center proximity truly
elevates the Aldyn on this list.
For last years Fashion Week, the
rooms in each apartment were
designed by such masters as
Diane von Furstenberg, Nicole
Miller, Richard Lambertson and
Tifany&Co along with interior
designers to introduce their new
home collections. La Palestra
Gym, created by designers
Roman and Williams, makes
nonresidents wish that, well,
they were residents.
905 West End Avenue
L1WLLN W. 041H & W. 051H
Prewar
We New Yorkers can be suspi-
cious of Europes claim to
superiority of taste, but this
condominium has classically
prewar New York style with only
wonderful hints of European-
inspired elegance, especially in
the kitchen and bath regions. A
large, indeed sun-drenched, roof
deck puts a cumulatively Italian
face to double wall ovens, double
dishwashers, a breakfast area
and wine fridge, a grand foyer,
and again, we repeat, lots and lots
of natural light.
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Some buildings may aspire to
such compliments as a palace
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but this unique condominium
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Architects such as Emery Roth
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if that somehow fails to create
enthusiasm, well try the more
traditional route of noting this
postwar buildings Romanesque
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English oak millwork and grand
stone replaces. Its details lend
an open and light feel. Also, in
this building, the words marble
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279 Central Park West
L1WLLN W. 881H & W. 891H
Prewar
Lets nally cement the deni-
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Costas Kondylas designed this
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doormen and attendants alike,
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brokerage license, trade mark protection and local state and federal taxes.
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E. Osborne Smith,Inc.
Established 1887
E. Osborne Smith Development Corp.
FOR SALE
ISRAEL ZIPES, PRINCIPAL
(212) 986-7644
CALL
TURN OF THE CENTURY SIGN
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Nest Seekers International specializes in the
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estate rms in New York City, the company
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FOR SALE: E. Osborne
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NYO GALLERY
106 OCTOBER NYO GALLERY
NYO GALLERY
Roger Erickson
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in Manhattan for
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billion dollars. For
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Nikki Field,
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President, As-
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For nearly a century, Prudential Douglas El-
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her shoulder, so people could
see her face while still admir-
ing her back. She tried smiling
again. Kim Kardashian did this
whenever she was confused or
upset or hungry, and right now
she was all ve.
Usually Kim Kardashian
loved Manhattan, because
Fashion Week lived there
sometimes, and she and a
sister could walk around the
city and talk about their rela-
tionships. That New York was
always a lot of fun, especially
the part where it was lmed for
television. Then Ryan Seacrest
would call her and they would
discuss The Big Apple and
he would tell her how she was a
role model for young women.
This Brookland that her
husband Kris Humphries had
moved her to was very difer-
ent. Kim doubted Brookland
was even in New York, because
she had been riding in the met-
al limo that smelled like pee for
a long time now, and the driver
still hadnt pulled over to nd a
gifting suite. Sometimes the doors of the big
limo would open and extras would come and
try to sit on her side of the car or hold onto the
limos dancing poles.
Kim was wary. These people didnt look
like paparazzi, but you could never be too
careful: a hard lesson she learned in Septem-
ber when she put her sister Kourtneys baby
in her Goyard purse because it looked super-
cute in there, and the next day the pictures
were all over the Internet, and not in a good
way, like that time she made a sex tape. Kim
didnt think that was fair, because people
put puppies in Gucci bags all the time and it
was adorable, but if you did it to a baby it was
child abuse?
Kim smiled at one of the extras in her limo.
Can you tell me where Im supposed to be?
Im kind of busy. Kim tapped her bracelet for
efect, like she had seen people do when they
were late for something.
Instead of asking for her autograph, the
extra looked at Kim like she was a baby-bag
lady. That was the worst part of New York
and Brookland: people always pretending
not to know who she was. The doors of the
limo opened at a place called Bedford. That
sounded like as good a place as any to get of
and nd a professional athlete or rap star to
help her get home.
Kim got out of her limo, which was under-
ground. On the street the people had messy
hair and you couldnt tell if they were boys or
girls or bicycles. It was like the Grammys all
over again.
Cut! yelled Kim Kar-
dashian. But nobody stopped
moving. Kim walked into the
rst store she saw to ask the
man behind the counter to
please get her a VitaminWa-
ter and two Ritz crackers with
some peanut butter on them.
The man just stared at her.
It took a moment, but then
Kim got the hint. She sighed,
reaching into her pocket and
pulling out a seal-skin note-
book to scrawl something.
She ripped out the page and
handed it to the man.
Here you go, this should
cover it, said Kim Kar-
dashian benevolently. Dont
bother with the change.
Could you also call me a limo
though? And nd out where
I live? And tell the limo to
take me there? Or it can be
an S.U.V. Thank you so, so,
much.
Kim air-kissed the guy,
which was his cue to leave
and go get her the water and
crackers and a limo or sports
utility vehicle. But in Brook-
land everyone had to act like
they were as stupid as a baby in an oversize
purse. Instead of saying, Right away, Mrs.
Kardashian, and also may I just say, your
body is an inspiration to women every-
where, he just stared at it like he didnt even
know how much her autograph was worth. It
was denitely worth more than money, which
was lucky since Kim Kardashian didnt have
a wallet on account of losing a very valuable
purse with a baby in it recently. Now she was
in Brookland alone and it was terrible.
But Kim Kardashian could be patient while
she waited for her new assistant to get her some
crackers and a car. Kim nodded her head. She
smiled. She blew air-kisses. Even if she didnt
know what that word meant, Kim Kardashian
was nothing if not professional. o
Kimpossible!
A Kardashian Goes to Brooklyn
(as we imagine it)
By Drew Grant o Illustration by Paul Kisselev
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