PartyLines- photographs by Patrick McMullan

You don’t come downtown much, do you? “ I do not go below 57th Street, or I get the bends. For Michael Kors, I will come down and decompress on my way back up.” —Muffie Potter Aston

—Brooke Shields

Any Project Runway secrets? “No one realizes we film in June and July and there’s no air-conditioning and no windows. So our mantra for contestants is ‘Look cool.’” —Michael Kors

—Lance Lepere

Are you a good friend of Michael Kors’s? “I wouldn’t say I’m a close friend, but I enjoy his clothes.” —Natasha Richardson

—Fabiola Beracasa

—Hamish Bowles

Do you watch Project Runway? “ Never seen it. I like Gossip Girl. What else is a fashion TV show?” —Hilary Rhoda

—Jane Krakowski

—Aerin Lauder

Do you ever get stopped on the street by anti-fur people? “Who want to shoot me? If I stopped wearing fur because I didn’t believe in it, I’d have to stop wearing belts and leather shoes.”
—Mary Alice Stephenson