Innholdsfortegnelse for April 24-May 7, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 “When it became clear that Trump might be charged, I knew I needed to go see Stormy,” says Olivia Nuzzi about her cover story on the woman who set the former president’s indictment in motion (“How Stormy Daniels Sees It Ending,” April 10–23). Journalist Rich Bellis called it “a suitably surreal, sad entry into the thick ledger of this ongoing national misadventure.” “Not a story of victory or catharsis,” wrote the Washington Post’s Ruby Cramer, but a “sad, humane portrait.” Some readers found it hard to sympathize with Daniels with one commenter on the magazine’s website writing, “She isn’t a hero. Not even close. Would we feel the same way if Gov. Gavin Newsom was her target? She had a consensual one-night stand.” @jgrass76 tweeted, “The media’s lionizing of…

Marisa Berenson “In the wave of nostalgia that has grown out of the guilty aftertaste of the ’60s, society is spinning backward at a terrific rate. And Marisa is perfect to lead the retreat. Even the words her friends use to describe her are old-fashioned. ‘Marisa is always there, always the most beautiful and most beautifully dressed,’ says Paloma Picasso … ‘She is always charming and nice.’ Drugs ‘scare’ her. Liquor ‘doesn’t agree with her.’ And she doesn’t even drink wine. ‘I like nothing that leaves me out of control.’ ” —Steve Saler, “The Girl Who Has Everything Plus,” Newsweek, 1973 I WAS BORN IN New York but had spent my whole childhood in Europe. But I came back when I was 16, when my dad was dying of leukemia.…

MY HUSBAND, Larry LeGaspi, designed this outfit for her performance—she was dressed up as Nefertiti. I remember her being carried out by half-naked musclemen. And at one point, a motorcycle came out. I mean, the crowd was crazy about her. It wasn’t straight-straight, and it wasn’t gay-gay. And everybody could be androgynous, and everybody could be who they were and dress as they wanted. She was a great symbol for that. They were dancing and screaming. It was very electric, very hot.…

Dianne Brill “The lady in latex is Dianne Brill, a 26-year-old fashion designer who has become, seemingly overnight, First Citizen of Manhattan nightlife. If there’s an opening, a party, a lotto drawing, anything where cameras are clicking from Harlem to Tribeca, she is there. In an era when status is determined by visibility, her bursting hourglass figure is the highest profile in town. When she arrives, the party begins.” —David Hutchings, “No Double Exposure, That’s All Dianne Brill, the New Queen of the Night,” People, 1985. I DON’T THINK THEY understood me in Tampa. I had a friend who knew someone who was in New York, and my friend said, “You know, just come up for a couple days.” So this was 1980, and I was 19 or 20, and…

“They’re twins. They’re thin. They’re attractively employed, talented, a little vague about their past, and, according to one admirer, ‘hugely in demand right now.’ Oh, and one other thing: They’re English. Meet Plum and Lucy Sykes, 29-year-old magazine darlings, and the latest in the stream of non-celebrity somebodies who flood the city’s fashion ponds from one season to the next. They’re not identical, but they think alike on many subjects. They agree, for instance, that it would be ‘rather sad’ to be young and single with a VCR in Manhattan. Why rent movies when life resembles ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ and ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ every day?” —Bob Morris, “The Plum and Lucy Show,” the New York Times, 1998 LUCY SYKES: It’s cool that you can earn the “It”-girl medal with no qualifications…

I’M VERY APPREHENSIVE about doing media because of several reasons in my history,” says Lizzie Grubman, who met me for lunch at the Grill off Park Avenue. She orders the tuna ravigote and says, rather convincingly, “I’m not a big eater.” She’s dressed all in black—she’s got on knee-high Dior boots and a Prada jacket—her hair is as blonde as ever (she says she gets a blowout five days a week), and her voice is raspy. “How old are you?” she wants to know. “Tell me your history. Then you can ask me any question. Let’s get to know each other.” I already know a lot about her. Way back in 1998, when she was 27, Grubman was one of three “Power Girls,” along with Lara Shriftman and Ally b.…

THE FIRST MONTH I GOT to New York, I booked a job that was a beauty story for Allure. It was Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, and me. And I was like, What the fuck? No way. I’m going to freak out. When I arrive at the shoot, I walk down and I’m like, Oh my God, there’s Christy Turlington’s tent. I walk by, and I see Naomi in her tent. Then I walk to the next one and it’s Linda’s tent. I see her and she’s looking at herself in the mirror, and I hear her saying, “I am Linda Evangelista.” She’s just giving herself these mantras. So I go into my tent and put down my backpack and then I look in the mirror and say, “I…

In my day, girls were totally dependent upon others noticing them, liking them, writing about them. Gawker and “Page Six” wrote about me a lot and, for the most part, got it wrong. I didn’t have a publicist back then, and I get that I was an easy target, but it definitely hurt and scared me.–TINSLEY MORTIMER Seeing myself in the party pages for the first time was flattering. I’m a very organized person, so having that exposure as a young person, I thought, So what does the future look like?I hired a publicist very early on and had a modeling agent and other agents.–OLIVIA PALERMO When I was a young’un, Gawker picked on me for saying silly things to the press—when you’re interviewed for not really doing anything, of…

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1896: RAO’S East Harlem Still the city’s most impenetrable dining room: Its jarred sauce is in every grocery store, but anyone who wants to try its sausage and peppers in situ will need to know a regular. 1919: THE COLONY Lenox Hill Richard Nixon used to dine here with his dog. When it closed in 1971, Truman Capote told the New York Times he’d never eat another plate of spaghetti. 1930: THE ‘21’ CLUB Midtown West During its heyday, the riffraff could hardly get past the bar, and the best seats in the house were limited to “members.” 1941: LE PAVILLON Midtown East The template for top-grade French cuisine in New York, it spawned a cluster of similarly snobbish establishments. 1959: THE FOUR SEASONS Midtown East Customers who didn’t make…

Viva “In Andy Warhol’s new loft studio, ‘The Factory,’ Viva leaned against the white-washed plaster wall, her cotton-candy hair bright blonde under the spotlights. Her fine-boned face and attenuated body were reminiscent of sepia-tinted photographs, found in an attic trunk, of actresses of the early 1930s. She was wearing an Edwardian velvet coat, a white matelassé blouse and tapered black slacks. ‘Do I look OK?’ she asked Paul Morrissey, Warhol’s technical director. ‘Like a star,’ he replied grandly.” —Barbara Goldsmith, “La Dolce Viva,” New York Magazine, 1968 Jane Forth “Jane’s look is supersleek—like a movie siren of the ’30s crossed with a science fiction creature … she is definitely a girl to be seen with around town. Jane has just turned 17. A high-school dropout from St. Clair Shores, Mich.,…

IT STARTS IN PARIS BEFORE I even moved here. So we’re talking 1975, and Serge Kruger, who had a line of jeans and had the best club in Paris back then, basically was having a private party at his house, and that’s where I met Edwige. She was about 16 or 17 and extremely shy, but she was fascinating to me. This statuesque beauty, who was wearing these kind of Bermuda shorts, had this short haircut—I was intrigued. She became the doorgirl of Les Bain Douches and was modeling for Thierry Mugler and Gaultier and was at that point an “It” girl in Paris, hanging out with Loulou de la Falaise and Yves Saint Laurent. Me and my boyfriend Edo Bertoglio left for New York in 1976, and Edwige ended…

REMEMBER THAT GAME tag? That’s what it feels like. Everybody running after you to touch you. I was an art student, making clothes and dressing up and sneaking into the discos on the weekends. I went to the Cheetah, Le Club, the Peppermint Lounge—I looked kind of grown up and sophisticated, and the way I dressed was very voguish, so people probably thought I was 18, even though I was 14, 15 years old. I knew how to fake it. I used to go play cards with Omar Sharif and Yul Brynner. I was just a teenager and hanging out with them, Richard Harris, and, you know, the Kennedys. The person who discovered me was an English girl. I was pretty weird looking, so I guess her taste went down…

THERE USED TO BE A TERM, slum goddess, which was actually a nice term. Cookie was proudly a slum goddess, but she was glamorous. She was also a hippie who was influenced by Janis Joplin. Then also, she was like a Baltimore bad girl. She put those styles together, so we instantly bonded. I remember sunbathing, she would just trim her pubes and families would start screaming and stuff. She never held back much. She just felt like, Well, turn the other way. She was pretty nonchalant, and she never really got in any trouble. She never got arrested that I know of, but she did lots of minorly illegal things. She was game to cause trouble. The movies we were making at the time were almost like political actions.…

I WAS MARRIED VERY YOUNG, and I had my baby very young. So I was always not so into the wild partying. That’s not my thing. I don’t drink a lot. But I was always in very close proximity because I was married and rubbing elbows with people who are, you know, signed to my family’s record label, and they’re the hottest artists ever. So I’m in the family, and I’m like everyone’s favorite auntie. But even if you’re standing next to someone and they have their greatness, yours can be recognized too. And like today, I was just talking to Nicky and Paris—I’ve been friends with them all through the years. Like, even Nicky was saying, “If you didn’t have your Baby Phat bomber back then, what were you…

DURING MY SENIOR YEAR OF high school, my parents were at the Palladium organizing a birthday party for my sister, and in walks Jeffrey Deitch with Andy Warhol. My school in New York had these independent senior studies, so I seized the opportunity and said, “Please, please, can I come work for you?” It was the first time I had met him, and he was like, “Sure, gee, of course.” So I worked in the Factory for six weeks: serving lunch, answering phones, going with him to events. At the time, my parents were living in Hong Kong, and they were like, “She’s gonna have to have a curfew.” My parents had an apartment at the Carlyle, and I think that’s how they tracked me—by having the staff make sure…

I LIVE IN CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, now and was just admitted to the Kennedy School for a master’s degree. So deeply unexpected. I always say I did my hard time already. When I entered New York journalism, the industry was changing rapidly. It was challenging to carve out a career path that would lead to anything other than struggling to pay my rent. I decided to experiment with a multimedia personal brand. The moment I realized something different was happening was when the editor of Time Out New York, for which I was writing a dating column, called to tell me they wanted to put me on the cover. So I had, in essence, become part of the story. And the notion of the social-media influencer didn’t yet exist at this…

In 2012, I had a burner Instagram account that was devoted to Alexa Chung and her whereabouts. I kept a list of items and places: white socks sticking out of shoes that aren’t sneakers, the bars Black Market and St. Dymphna’s, the store Geminola. Alexa Chung was the coolest girl I knew of, who, in some completely illogical way, could have been me. Just in the way that she lived in New York and could actually be seen walking around. No other qualities did we share. At the time, I didn’t even live here. I talked to Alexa, wearing an outfit I’d picked out before we even set the date for the interview. ANNIE HAMILTON: I’m a longtime fan of yours, and I have never conducted an interview, so we’re…

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FACE Professional wrestler, Queens How did you get into wrestling? I was a very active child. I had a lot of aggression. I played all the sports, but they wouldn’t do it for me, so I started doing martial arts. MMA fighting. I did jujitsu for a few years, boxing for a few years. Then wrestling. This is my second year on the independent circuit. Why “Face”? I’m very mysterious. Even my colleagues don’t know my real name. People close to me used to call me that in high school because, believe it or not, I was one of the uglier kids in the group. So “ugly face” is where “Face” comes from. THE LOOK BOOK: OUTLAWS Who are you here to see? Matt Cardona. He’s probably the most popular…

RACHEL WEISZ GAY INDEX / TUBI / JAMES IJAMES / CRITICS / TO DO WHEN NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH was in high school and college, he worked at a clothing store in the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack, where he spent his lunches and time between shifts at the Barnes & Noble upstairs—reading half a story, going back to work, then returning on his next break with the words still alive in his head. There were the literary magazines he discovered on the racks, like Ploughshares and The Paris Review. Wells Tower’s surreal, tough short-story collection, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. On one break, he read Kahlil Gibran, whose poem “On Houses,” from the 1923 collection The Prophet, arrived with its description of dream-filled bodies and comfort-filled homes as an invitation…

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ON AUGUST 22, 1985, a woman with a She-Ra mane and a latex dress appeared on Late Night With David Letterman. Letterman, still spiky in his salad days at NBC, was charmed but befuddled as he interviewed her. Unlike many of his guests that season—Johnny Cash, Teri Garr, Eddie Murphy—Dianne Brill’s qualification for the spotlight was hard to describe. True, her photograph was on the cover of that morning’s New York Post; Letterman had a copy. But still, he seemed unsure who she was. Or, as he was compelled to ask her about her front-page placement, “Why are you there?” Letterman acknowledged that Brill was “known in New York as ‘Queen of the Night’”—what had been called, and would be called again, many times, an “It” girl. New York mints…

MY CLOSEST FRIEND, Barbara Nessim—we met in 1960 when she lived with Gloria Steinem. And there was a moment when she was spending all of her time with her boyfriend, and I was out looking for work. And she said, “Why don’t you take my bed?” So me and my Scottie dog and a single suitcase arrived at Gloria’s apartment, and I got to watch early Gloria, which was really something. And when I eventually got my first job as Diana Vreeland’s assistant, it was Anne Hathaway’s job in The Devil Wears Prada. But it was pre–shiny black limos taking you around to do your work, pre–magazine closet to borrow from, pre–being invited to Paris. I got $54 a week for it. I went to Mrs. Vreeland’s house nearly every…

THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I’ve been offered a book deal, it’s hysterical. It’s just like, You don’t understand; my memory is shot. I grew up in Manhattan and I would borrow my mother’s clothes. And I remember borrowing this blue satin dress, and I got this blue wig and put it on and walked into the Met Gala like I belonged—and I don’t believe I had hit 16 yet. And I just got myself in there and saw my mom [Saks fashion director Ellin Saltzman] and dad on the dance floor and pivoted and just went in a different direction because I knew that dress had been made for her. But where it started for me was at Parachute. I was going to go to college and then I didn’t…

“Lisa Edelstein, a nice girl from a New Jersey suburb, is explaining how she got to be Lisa E., New York’s reigning Queen of the Night, Girl of the Moment, new Edie Sedgwick and top ‘celebutante’ of 1986. ‘Being a celebutante means you’re famous for not really doing anything,’ the 20-year-old says. ‘You just try to get to know as many people as you can, so that you know everybody.’ ” —Maureen Dowd, “Lisa in Wonderland,” New York Times, 1986 I MET JAMES ST. JAMES in an elevator at the dorm at NYU in 1984, when I was a freshman, and I fell in love with him immediately. James and I were really on a mission to take ourselves from obscurity to having a presence in the world. He’d scour…

Chloë Sevigny “Certainly anyone who has heard Chloë’s laugh—which alternately suggests a mallard surprised into flight and a drowning victim gasping for air—would be hard-pressed to call her jaded. But it’s probably her spacey air of mystery and reserve as well as the street chic that keep causing people to ask, ‘Who is that girl?’” —Jay McInerney, “Chloë’s Scene,” The New Yorker, 1994 AFTER I GRADUATED from high school, I moved to Brooklyn Heights and had five roommates, all working at the Peter Gatien clubs: Limelight, the Tunnel. I spent a year working at Liquid Sky and Madison Square Garden, standing in line for ticket scalpers and going out, dancing, making out. That was my big year of going out. I do know for my mom it was very terrifying,…

THE FIRST TIME I attempted to get into Building, I was 15 or 16 and Kenny Kenny rejected me. So I went back to Patricia Field and got my look together. When I went back to Building, I was probably wearing go-go boots and some ridiculous paper dress or something, and somehow I got ushered up to the VIP room, which was this glass-enclosed box, and got my first glimpse of the Club Kids: Waltpaper, Desi Monster, Pebbles, Christopher Comp. Michael Alig was there. Sacred Boy. And I really felt like I had found my tribe. They took me and my friend Karliin under their wing. At that point, the Club Kids were really a thing. Everyone was excited by these wild creatures of the night. Everyone was like a…

“The girl voted ‘Ultimate Beautiful Person’ in her 1983 high-school yearbook has finally fulfilled her destiny. The ink was barely dry on the wedding register before fashion-magazine editors started gushing. Liz Tilberis, of Harper’s Bazaar: ‘We’d love to have her on the cover. She’s going to be an amazing symbol of American style.’ Vogue’s Anna Wintour: ‘Carolyn has fabulous modern style.’ Patrick McCarthy, of Women’s Wear Daily: ‘She’s going to be a style icon, no doubt.’ ” —Rick Marin, “Crazy for Carolyn,” Newsweek, 1996 I MET HER AT THE FIRST FITTING WE HAD for the Calvin Klein show in 1992, the first year that Calvin was using Kate Moss for his campaign. I was at Harper’s Bazaar and freelancing, styling client shows and campaigns. And it’s not like anyone explained…

IN THE DAYS when your phone was a BlackBerry and Kylie and Kendall were barely in kindergarten, I was something of a somebody on the New York social scene. The mid-aughts were a busy time for fashion publicists like me. It was the heyday of the brand extension, the licensed-product category, the corporate investment, the megashow. One of the most efficient ways we set this cycle in motion then was to go to—or throw—a party where you’d mingle with A-listers, meet potential clients, and get your picture taken to help more people recognize you. It wasn’t that hard to pull off, especially since the fashion sites that were springing up everywhere needed things to cover in between show seasons—“content.” The women who had been photographed at events in the decades…

I REMEMBER MY MOM showing up to Spy Bar in her pajamas to get Paris and telling the doorman she was underage and if they let her in again she was going to call the police. My mom was calling nightclubs all over New York City weekly: “Do not let my daughters in— they are underage.” Sweet 16 was so fun. I was a little young for Moomba, but I did go. Lotus, Bungalow 8. My main circle of girlfriends were the people I had known since birth, my parents’ good friends’ kids: Amanda Hearst, Casey Johnson, Bijou Phillips, obviously Paris—that was sort of our crew. And in our late teens, out of our circle of friends, Paris and I were the first to monetize it all—we were getting paid…

CELEBRITY SHOPPING Charlton Home Triple Phalaenopsis Orchid Floral Arrangement in Vase, $102 “I had only real orchids up until three years ago. I was at a friend’s home, admiring her flowers. She told me they weren’t real, and I didn’t believe her. Then I started getting only fakes. Nobody can tell. You buy them once, and they last forever. I have three of them in my living room.” Judy the Mover Max, $156 “During Superstorm Sandy, the power went out. I didn’t have a candle. I didn’t have a flashlight. After that, I made a pledge to always keep a fully equipped emergency bag. And I’m not talking about one with just Band-Aids. This has it all. If you’re in trouble, come and get me. I’m going to get us…

IT’S NEVER BEEN EASIER to make a restaurant reservation: Tap around a few times on Resy, OpenTable, or Tock, and you’re set. Bon appétit. But everyone knows there are additional, better reservations to claim, provided you have some clout or a cool job or know someone who knows someone, at restaurants that are unbearably exclusive—and meticulously designed for mass appeal. There’s 4 Charles Prime Rib, the closet-size West Village steakhouse with tufted leather seats and $40 French dips. There’s Ralph Lauren’s blue-blooded Polo Bar, where a Waldorf salad is on the menu and Howard Stern may well be sitting in the corner. There’s Don Angie, the TikTok-beloved ode to rolled lasagna, and Via Carota, where Taylor Swift recently toasted a breakup. There’s the Caliguladoes-Vegas fantasia that is Bad Roman, there’s…

FAT HAM is now playing at the American Airlines Theatre. FAT HAM WANTS YOU to talk. It begins abruptly, sans disclaimer, with a character watching OnlyFans on his phone. From that point on, the audience is aware this is not the space for inhibition. The play is a Black queer adaptation of Hamlet by James Ijames, a Philadelphia-based actor turned playwright making his Broadway debut, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in spring 2022, three days before Fat Ham debuted at the Public. The show follows our Hamlet, now named Juicy (Marcel Spears), whose father’s ghost, here known as Pap (Billy Eugene Jones), has come back to ask him to kill his uncle, Rev (also Jones), at his mother, Tedra (Nikki Crawford), and Rev’s wedding party. And the porn…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. APRIL 26–MAY 10 TV 1. Watch Fatal Attraction Run, rabbit, run. Paramount+, April 30. One of the most-talked-about films of 1987 is being remade as a television series. Joshua Jackson plays the happily married attorney Dan Gallagher, and Lizzy Caplan is Alex Forrest, a professional acquaintance who becomes his mistress. In this version, Dan may face some actual consequences. JEN CHANEY MOVIES 2. See Polite Society Sisterly love meets martial-arts fantasy. In select theaters, April 28. We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor makes her big-screen debut with an endearing action dramedy about London teenager Ria Khan (Priya Kansara), who decides to use her fighting skills to save her older sister from marrying into a prominent but suspicious family. ALISON WILLMORE…