With a new book on Princess Diana, Tina Brown—the hyper-ambitious British blonde editor who did more than anyone else to pump up the volume on celebrity culture—returns to her roots.

With a new super-high-end men’s store, the former Gucci designer explores who he is without all that libido to sell.

Judith Regan is a walking cartoon, an equal-opportunity bigot—and hardly the only villain in the sordid O.J. publishing scandal.

How Maui taught me to love New York.

For now, they are our socialites, known on the East Side, and in Gstaad, and in Vogue. Enjoy them. With this kind of momentum, they’ll be famous before long.

Louise MacBain uses her classified-ad fortune, her string of art magazines,and her stunning appearance to bring some of the world’s most talented people into her orbit. To what purpose? Even she doesn’t seem to know.

And, these days, a dime a dozen. But even for today’s b boys, there are some things money can’t buy.

Jancee Dunn, grand wizard of the celebrity profile and all-around nice Jersey girl, reveals the secrets to making any star open up in her new memoir, But Enough About Me.

New yorkers are drawn to other cities in much the same way great chefs like to check out each other’s restaurants. We’re confident that we do, in fact, live in the best place in the world, but we’re curious to see what other people have done with their urban environment. For this special edition of Strategist, we subjected six great metropolises—London, Paris, Los Angeles, Sydney, Rome, and Miami—to the same scrutiny we bring to our own city every week. Where are the best places right now to drink, shop, flirt, eat, sleep, dance? We found them. Now all you have to do is get on the plane.

It is 8 p.m., still early enough for tourists to stroll about and city buses to zoom by, and also too early for the arrival of Karl Lagerfeld, designer of Chanel, Fendi, Lagerfeld Collection, a new Karl Lagerfeld line, and “the reason we are all here!”