Scarf It UpHair this week has swung the arc from long and flowy to super-tight ponytails. But next spring, break out your best Pucci scarves and rock them as headbands.
Nanette Lepore Has Ohio on Her Mind
Name: Nanette Lepore
Age: N/A
Job: Fashion designer. Her fall 2007 collection debuted today.
Neighborhood: West Village
Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Violet Savage, my daughter.
What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in New York?
Steak and fries at Rio Mar, which sadly no longer exists.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Try to make a great outfit.
Watch a slideshow of Nanette Lepore’s collection.
The New York Diet
Actor-Director Ajay Naidu Will Eat Sugar But Only for Uma ThurmanAjay Naidu — known for his role as Sameer in Office Space and for parts in The West Wing and other shows — reported to the set of Griffin Dunne’s new romantic comedy, The Accidental Husband, while also doing post-production work on his directorial debut, Ashes. We wondered how a man who was at the mercy of Craft services and who had recently quit sugar (making it “doubly hard to get around and be satisfied in New York”) could survive for a week. Luckily, his co-star Uma Thurman convinced him to eat a cookie.
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Looking for Love on a Listserv (Or, in All the Wrong Places)We’re all familiar with the almighty alumni listerv — that source of mild e-mailed irritation, delivering a steady stream of requests for apartment leads, neighborhood advice, and, inevitably from a onetime rush chair, attendance at a really! fun! drinks night. For j-school alumni — like, say, those who attended Northwestern University’s Medill — that standard stew is further flavored with discussions of journalism ethics and occasional pleas for help finding sources. Which is why an inquiry to that list yesterday stood out:
From: Mandy Stadtmiller
Date: Nov 1, 2006 2:35 PM
Subject: Looking for love in NYC, okay on the apt situation
To: [MedillNY listserv]
Any leads send them my way — thanks!
Mandy Stadtmiller
BSJ ‘97
Was Stadtmiller — a features writer at the Post — really using her alumni list as a no-fee Nerve personals? (Online dating is sexy; online dating with journalists is sexier?) Or was this maybe — please! — just a gimmick for a story?