Jac Is Paris Fashion Week’s Top ModelThe runways in Paris were filled with unexpected surprises and some very special appearances, but Jac came out on top.
The Best of Paris: Our Top Twenty LooksParis Fashion Week just wrapped, and we can’t contain ourselves. The clothes! The colors! The drama! Oh the French, they always know how to deliver.
ByAmina Akhtar
trends
Spring Colors Are to Dye ForDip dyes, tie-dyes, and ombre offer new ways to channel dainty, feminine colors without looking like an Easter egg.
Meet the New Girl: Sara BlomqvistThe 20-year-old Swede launched her career on Prada’s runway, but she’s headed to New York next week for our Fashion Week.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Red-Carpet SchizophreniaFor her whirlwind of ‘Dark Knight’ premieres, you’d think Maggie Gyllenhaal would treat us to a world tour of her indie-charm style. Alas.
Ungaro Is Hip Again; Mixed Reviews for Dries Van Noten• Just 23 years old, Esteban Cortazar brought the “It” factor back to the house of Emanuel Ungaro. [Times]
• Dries Van Noten disappoints Cathy Horyn, and Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo makes her “think the trashiness, the allure and counterpoint of trashiness, is very interesting at the moment.” [On the Runway/NYT]
On the Firing Line
In a week when much of the world came to midtown, the boldest names were to be found on campus. Hillary Clinton held up under heavy grilling at the Dartmouth debates, while Columbia University president Lee Bollinger invited Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad uptown, then called him a “petty and cruel dictator.” (For his part, Ahmadinejad denied that his country contained such dangerous American inventions as nuclear weapons and homosexuals.) Potential First Husband Bill was joined at his Global Initiative conference by poverty experts Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The former commander-in-chief also declared war, unsuccessfully, on Village eatery Osso Buco for hanging a promotional photo of daughter Chelsea in its front window.
in other news
Public Life Means Having to Say You’re SorryInspired by Italy’s Veronica Lario — who in a front-page letter printed in yesterday’s La Repubblica requested a public apology from her husband, former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, for flirting with and ogling various comely young women and then, even more remarkably, received one — we’d like to see if we, too, can elicit a public apology or two.
To everyone involved in ground-zero reconstruction:
It’s been five freaking years, and this is all that’s been accomplished? You should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you. (And, yes, at this point that includes you, too, sainted widows and family members.) We think you owe us — all of us, all New Yorkers — an apology.
Sincerely, Daily Intel
21 questions
Narciso Rodriguez Can’t Sleep Without Jon StewartName: Narciso Rodriguez
Age: 45
Job: Designer
Neighborhood: Gramercy Park–East Village
Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Jerry Seinfeld.
What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in New York?
A Cuban sandwich at Sucelt on 14th Street.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
E-mail/phone/fitting/sketching/draping/meeting