J’accuse? St. Barth reacts to “Clouds on the Horizon”
Late last month, Le Journal de St. Barth, the weekly newspaper on the fabled island, reacted strongly (see bottom item) to my report on the island in the latest issue of Palmer: The Palm Beach Reader. For those of you who don’t read French, here’s an annotated machine translation of their comment on the story: […]
R.I.P. Barbara Mullen
Barbara Mullen, whose modeling career soared in the 1950s and then crashed after an indiscretion that made her a key character in my industry expose, Model, has died at age 96. The New York Times obituary by Alex Williams properly highlights her career accomplishments. But “Ms. Mullen did not achieve name-brand recognition outside industry circles,” […]
Post Toasts Supermodels
It’s a supermodel moment…again, and tomorrow’s New York Post gives hat tips both to my 1995 book Model and Model Model, the 1992 profile of Christy Turlington (shown with me a few years back at a Staley-Wise Gallery opening) that caused Veronica Webb to admonish me, Linda Evangelista to call me out as evil, and […]
Flight of the WASP Gets a Rave First Review: “Immersive, nuanced, expert, enlightening”
Publishers Weekly has just released the first review of Flight of the WASP, and it’s a doozy: “an immersive and nuanced group portrait…of 15 prominent white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant families…succinct assessments of well-known names like Morgan, Biddle, Peabody, and Whitney…Striking an expert balance between the big picture and intimate thumbnails, this is an enlightening study of […]
Supermodels and Me
The Supermodels, a four-part AppleTV+ series about Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington debuts next month with the foursome among eleven executive producers. Which reminded me of a kerfuffle over my 1992 New York magazine profile of Turlington, “Model Model,” which I’m posting here. The story caused a dramatic breach—apparently since healed–in the […]
It’s August. Let’s Go to St. Barth!
St. Barth, the perennial place in the sun for plutocrats, is the subject of my latest travel story, “Clouds on the Horizon in St. Barth,” in the summer issue of Palmer: The Palm Beach Reader, illustrated with vintage photos by the illustrious Jean Pigozzi (like the one above of David Geffen in 1990). It’s now […]
Joan Hamburg Interview on the Traffic Tax
I appeared on this week’s WABC radio podcast of the Joan Hamburg Show discussing congestion pricing. Listen here.
You Don’t Know Jack
I didn’t predict JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg‘s emergence as a social media star when I put him on the cover of Avenue beside his mother Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg in 2017, but it was already clear he’d be a force to be reckoned with if he chose to be. His well-deserved criticism today of his demagogic relative, […]
Over the Top on St. Barth
The summer “On the Road” issue of Palmer is now on newsstands, and includes my latest piece for the magazine, “Clouds on the Horizon,” about how the elite island of St. Barthelemy is pushing back against over-development, greedy investors, $480 restaurant steaks and my favorite new hashtag, rampant #assholery. Also included, a portfolio of vintage […]
Cinema in the Sand
My third story for Palmer, the luxe new Palm Beach magazine, is called Cinema Paradiso, and looks back at two classic landmark theaters on the resort island–one for films, one for live theatricals–both now being revived by local aficionados.