How Patrick McMullan managed to photograph
himself like this, we will never know.Photo: Patrick McMullan
Everyone we talked to at Patrick McMullan’s Glamour Girls book launch party last night at the Whitney agreed: Patrick knows everybody. Just not always their names. Though he signed books with personalized messages for hundreds of guests, he wasn’t always sure exactly who they were. “His mind goes blank sometimes,” said designer Esteban Cortazar, McMullan’s “friend” for the past ten years. “Then he’ll remember it and apologize forever.” Michael Musto, godfather to McMullan’s son, recalled, “He’s always pulling you over to have you meet someone you already know. Once he said, ‘Oh Kelly Catrone! Do you know Robbie Catrone?’ And they had been divorced. That’s why they had the same name.” We asked Patrick what his most embarrassing slip-up was. “One time I spit on Kelly Ripa by accident,” he said, while socialites fawned over him as he sat behind a white lacquered table signing books (purchased by guests for $75 a pop). But there are some women left in the world he has yet to meet. Such as: “The Queen of England. I think her and I would be able to get along,” he said. “We could watch television programs together,” he said. “Or Camilla. If we could talk about horses and dogs I think that would be fun.” — Amy Odell
