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somebody's watchin' me
If You're Staying at the Standard, Try Not to Peep On Diane von Furstenberg
Designer Diane von Furstenberg, who lives high above her store in a glassy rooftop aerie, is very mad at the new-ish Standard Hotel. See, the Meatpacking District trend-haus has windows that look directly into Furstenberg's crag-like lair. More »
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Comment by City_Dater: It's not like living in a big clear box next to, say, the Ramada Inn in Troy NY, where crowds... 5 Responses | Other threads
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gossip roundup
Supermodel-Quarterback Marriage Investigated For Public Good
Incredible resources were deployed to figure out if Tom Brady is marrying Gisele Bundchen and to get Condé Nast's Chuck Townsend wherever the hell he wants to go, in style. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by AllsWell: I'm not a Madonna fan, in fact just the opposite, but "pale and haggard"? If she had been artifically tanned... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Barry Diller's 'Wife' Invites Him Home
It sounds like a fun night for Barry Diller: Closeted magazine Details put on a party for Milk, a movie about the first openly gay man elected to office in California, and the InterActive Corp. chairman was in attendance. Designer Marc Jacobs was there with his boyfriend, as was Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford, chatting, for some reason with Taylor Momsen. Topping off the evening quite nicely, fashion executive Diane von Fursternberg "invited Diller... back to her place," according to Page Six, along with designer Valentino Garavani and actress Marisa Berenson. For dinner, of course. Which was awfully generous, considering that von Furstenberg is Diller's wife. Officially, at least. As Diller knows well, mergers take quite some time to integrate, and some components just never mesh at all.
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By Ryan TateComment by Private Hangnail: The reason they don't live together makes perfect sense, really. Barry feels Diane's home is uncomfortably spacious yet lacking in... 13 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
The Many (Rumored) Loves of Anderson Cooper
Dreamy Silver Fox Anderson Cooper may have a new boyfriend. Village Voice gossip Michael Musto is doing some whispering about a strapping young lad named Jonathan Chase who may or may not be canoodling with the esteemed CNN anchor. Cute! We care not because we're pointing fingers at a gay person, but because it's as newsworthy (or, at least, gossipworthy) as who Kate Hudson or Leonardo DiCaprio is dating. We're, um, orientation blind. After the jump, we've provided a small listicle (because why the hell not) detailing some of the Coop's previous romantic dalliances.
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You know little boy, I have much I can teach you
At the Diane von Fürstenberg show at New York's Fashion Week, Google cofounder Sergey Brin and his 23andMe cofounder wife Anne Wojcicki were spotted front and center. Which is hilarious, since Brin is rarely seen in anything but a t-shirt and jeans — hopefully he wore more stylish footwear than Crocs. Here he's spotted in the usual ensemble with Barry Diller, CEO of IAC, who had the sense to wear actual fashion. Friday's winner was hmann with "No, it's $40 for one song. You have to buy your own drinks, and there's no touching." (Photo by Getty/Michael Tran)
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By Jackson WestComment by MosseyCade: Sergey's SHORTER than Barry Diller??!! more » | Other threads
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Did Anderson Cooper Move His Young Boyfriend Into His Pad?
The Anderson Cooper rumor mill most recently had the flirty CNN anchor dating an assistant to Barry Diller beard Diane Von Furstenberg in the wake of a breakup from 22-year-old JD Ordonez, a marine mammal trainer in California. Now we're told the silver-haired newsman is trying to settle down, albeit with a 24-ish guy, even as he trots the globe to film his upcoming Planet In Peril special. A tipster heard from the supposed boyfriend's associates that Cooper asked him to move in and that the boyfriend accepted. Is this boyfriend one and the same as Von Furstenberg's assistant? Who knows? (No, really — who knows?) The less friendly gossip is after the jump. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Dannon Kekoamana Stewart: Look I am about to fight every gay man and every women because you guys need to lay off my... more » | Other threads
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When They Were Young
Bob Colacello's party photographs from the 1970s—when the reporter edited Andy Warhol's Interview magazine and chronicled New York's social scene—are strangely poignant. To think that immortal Chelsea boy Calvin Klein (top) was once so debonair! Grizzled mogul Barry Diller (pictured with Diane von Furstenberg then and now) had such a seductively wicked smile. It's hard to imagine Vogue's André Leon Talley (pictured next to Studio 54's Steve Rubell and Warhol) as anything other than the imposing African cardinal he plays on the red carpet. And then one remembers that today's socialites will one day appear equally ludicrous to the generation that comes after them, evidence that they were ever young buried in Patrick McMullan's photo database. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by ohmygiddyaunt: Bob was a lot more fun back then, before he started 12-stepping with the rest of the hoi-polloi more » | Other threads
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Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend Works For Famous Beard?
Jo Piazza of the New York Daily News ran a snippet over the weekend about the relationship between one of Diane von Furstenberg's male assistants and "a very-high-profile, still-kind-of-in-the-closet male broadcaster." That's not much of a blind item: the TV personality pretty much has to be CNN's Anderson Cooper. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by Tattertotter: I've always liked AC's refusal to discuss where he sticks his weiner--it's beneath his dignity to specify whose warm welcoming... more » | Other threads
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Gay Mogul's 'Stuff-Less' Marriage
IAC's Barry Diller has just explained—to the audience at the Wall Street Journal's D Conference—the breakdown of his relationship with the internet conglomerate's biggest shareholder, evil John Malone's Liberty Media. Paid Content was taking notes. Diller's metaphor? "Partnerships are marriages without the stuff." Oops, Freudian slip! More »
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By Nick DentonComment by PaperBoy: So ... now that you've stripped mined Emily Gould worse than, well, Emily Gould, THIS is all you can come... more » | Other threads
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Diller's Dynasty
Here's more evidence that Barry Diller sees the family of his companion, Diane von Furstenberg, as the dynasty the gay media mogul would never have otherwise had. The court battle over control of Diller's IAC has turned up an email in which Diller discussed a plan to seize voting control of the internet conglomerate. The recipient: not a business advisor, but sexy baldie Alex von Furstenberg, son of the fashion designer and likely heir to Diller's fortune.
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By Nick DentonComment by minou: @donmiguel: Not really. It's been said before, just for some reason this post brought it home for me. more » | Other threads
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A Socialite's Brave Struggle Against The Odds, Presented During The Oscars, By An Oscar Nominee
Bennett Miller won a best-director Oscar nomination for Capote, a film about the corruption of a literary icon, and two years later has himself cashed in an artistic reputation by directing an American Express commercial aired for the first time during last night's Academy Awards. The star of the ad is fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg, who supposedly became "independent" and confident as a result of fashion — a great message when you are trying to pimp financial services to small businesses. Left unsaid: Von Furstenberg was married to a Swiss prince from a wealthy family when she first broke in to fashion, and would hardly have wanted for startup capital. During and after that time, she was in a long-term relationship with entertainment mogul Barry Diller, to whom she is now married and who can easily pay whatever Amex charges the fashion designer might incur. Of course the ad is beautiful and feels honest, a testament to Miller's skill at spooling out a plausible dramatic narrative on film, and of course to his lack of a rich spouse who can save him from having to make commercials: More » -
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Why Did Barry Diller Marry?
Despite the beating the IAC boss is receiving in the business press, Barry Diller showed up last night at the grandest party of Fashion Week, the bizarre event sponsored by Gucci for poor Malawian children each of whom could survive a decade for the price of the fashion label's more expensive accessories. By the internet mogul's side, as usual, Diane von Furstenberg, the fashion designer he wed in 2001. Which is as good a time as any to ask the age-old question: why on earth does 65-year-old Diller, an inducted member of the boy-loving velvet mafia, persist with such a sham of a marriage? (Clue: it's something to do with the good-looking baldie on the left.)
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By Nick DentonComment by Nick Denton: @ILikeThemBig: Hey, I don't think we're exactly badgering Diller on this subject alone. The main reason we're covering him at... 1 Responses | Other threads
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By Owen ThomasComment by I'm Waitin' for Dolemite: "you know, and then he kind of fakes until he makes it." wait a minute, is Ms. von Furstenberg talking about... more » | Other threads
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adventures in advertising
Patrick Dempsey Shills For Conde Nast
Conde Nast is rolling out its celeb-studded print ads, in a campaign called "Point of Passion." It's this nifty thing where people who might be in the magazines are shilling for the magazines! So you have Mary-Louise Parker posing for the New Yorker, and Patrick Dempsey working it for Details, and Richard Branson hawking Wired, and Diane von Furstenberg clutching Vanity Fair, and, naturally, Stanley Tucci caressing Gourmet. See, if famous people like magazines, well, then clearly you will enjoy them and buy them too! We thought we'd make some revisions—you know, to aim for that youthful demo that Conde is opting out on. More » -
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Such A Shame About Padma and Salman
Sad news today for anyone who was predicting that Salman Rushdie and his fourth wife, model turned food writer and TV personality Padma Lakshmi, would go the distance: no less than Diane Von Furstenberg is spreading the rumor that they're through. And Padma is apparently the dumper, not the dump-ee: per DVF, she's thinking of leaving her marriage to focus on her hosting duties on Top Chef. While Padma's commitment to her career is laudable, it seems potentially ill-considered. After all, the producers of Top Chef clearly have a trophy-wives-only requirement for their hostesses—how else to explain Katie Lee Joel? If Padma does ditch Salman, they will no doubt immediately step up their efforts to recruit Melania Trump. More »
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By Emily GouldComment by 24-7: Duh... I predicted it the day they got married. more » | Other threads
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Gossip Roundup: Diane Von "Cabbage" Furstenberg
- Among the guests at Tina Brown and Harry Evans' duplex last night: Fergie, Duchess of York, who told Helen Mirren how accurately she portrayed Elizabeth II for the millionth time, and Diane Von Furstenberg, who also loved the movie, and left it with a new pet name: "'What do you call me now in bed?' she asked [her husband Barry Diller]. 'Like in the movie?' She thought for a minute: 'Cabbage!'" [FoxNews] More »
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By Emily GouldComment by toocheapfortherapy: The only way Barry Diller and Diane VonFustenberg make sense is if she's really a tranny. That photo's as good... more » | Other threads
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fashion week
Fashion Week: Backstage At Diane Von Furstenberg
Looks like we made it — backstage, that is. Gawker camera-club president Nikola Tamindzic slinked lithely past the velvet ropes and into the hearts of Americans. Americans who were waiting for pix of Anderson Cooper getting yelled at, to be precise. But wait, there's more! Eva Amurri and Susan Sarandon on booby patrol! Ellen Barkin looking more like a cat that just woke up than ever! Phillip Bloch! CHARLIE ROSE! Stop sitting there quivering with joy and just click. And if you're craving even more, Nikola's extended gallery is right here. More »
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By Emily GouldComment by deliriousnyc: How does Nikola manage to make everyone look so brightly shiny in his pics? more » | Other threads
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Team Party Crash: Icons of the Meatpacking District @ Theory
Being the fiends for misery that we are, an event called "Icons of the Meatpacking District" suggested too much loathing for us to resist. Imagining a grotesque orgy of models, bottles, striped shirts, pointy cowboy boots, doormen and cocaine, BWE's Alex Blagg and his camera-wielding pal Nina Westervelt steeled their souls and ventured deep into the dark waters of Theory hoping to capture this spectacle and claim it for science. Unfortunately, all they managed to find was a who's who of who cares. Take a gander through our gallery and enjoy the meatiness of it all. More » -
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Fashion fatigue
At New York's Fashion Week shows: Sean Jean with an olive-colored trench coat; Nicole Miller making fatigue the new black; Diane von Furstenberg with a cavalry green wrap dress. Anyone would think there was a war coming. More »
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