Zelda Kaplan, the 95-year-old dubbed "New York's oldest and most beloved night owl," seen by many as a positive model for aging, died yesterday after collapsing at Joanna Mastroianni's show at Lincoln Center at New York Fashion Week.
Also: Al Pacino is honored by President Obama and spends the following day drinking espresso alone, King's Speech director thinks he can still be friends with the pregnant fiancée he ditched, and Michael Bloomberg's birthday menu.
Say what you will about Fashion Week, but it's good for New York City's economy.
As keeper of the Fashion Calendar since 1945, Upper East Sider Ruth Finley has wrangled the runway shows, events, and parties of New York Fashion Week into a state of relative harmony for the past 67 years.
New York Fashion Week is upon us again, and with it comes a renewed concern for the well-being of those workhorses of the runway. Particularly, the young ones.
The president attended the off-the-record dinner for the first time since 2009 this weekend, Michael Vick is struggling to land a New York Fashion Week invitation, and Robert Gibbs, and the Weinstein Brothers are planning a star-studded Giants pep rally.
Fashionistas use their best weapon against the "God Hates Fags" crowd: sneers
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