Eye: Dover Street Market NYC | Beyoncé At Walmart | Natalie Massenett Of Net-A-Porter
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Dover Street Market NYC
Rei Kawakubo’s third Dover Street Market has opened in New York, following London and Ginza. The 71-year-old Kawakubo and creative mind behind Comme des Garçons (French for ‘Like the Boys’ has positioned her Manhattan store in Murray Hill at Lexington Avenue and 30th Street. A 64 square feet of glass and polished steel elevator “is the focal point of the seven-story-space”, writes the NYTimes. Read on.
Brancusi Exhibit In NYC
Constantin Brancusi, Tete, 1920-1992, polished bronze, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches, edition of 5. Photography by Francois Halard/© Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York/ADAGP, Paris. / Courtesy of the Brancusi Estate and Paul Kasmin Gallery.Brancusi in New York 1913-2013 at the Paul Kasmin Gallery until January 11, 2014.515 West 27th Street. Read on at Yatzer.
Beyoncé In Tom Ford
Beyoncé showed off her great curves in a sexy Tom Ford mosaic dress with matching thigh-high boots also from Tom Ford, at her new album release party. Mrs. Carter played Mrs. Claus in Tewksbury, Mass Friday evening, when she went shopping at the local Walmart to pick up a copy of her latest album ‘Beyonvé’.
Beyoncé stunned Walmart shoppers, picking up the mic at checkout.
“Hello, Walmart shoppers… It’s Beyoncé,” she announced, “and I stopped by the store today because my record just arrived. I wanted to give everyone a little gift. For everyone in the store right now, the first $50 of your holiday gifts are on me. Merry, merry Christmas, from Beyoncé.”
A delighted Beyoncé rang up gift cards for 750 people, according to Boston.com, totaling $37,500. There was some business involved, too. Target and Amazon have boycotted her new album, miffed at its exclusive week-one release on iTunes.
Natalie Massenett Of Net-a-Porter
Natalie Massenett by Jonathan Player for The New York TimesNYTimes Style profiles Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenett from the moment she found herself impaled in her hem at Glamour magazine’s recent Woman of the Year Awards.
In 2010, Massenet sold a majority stake in Net-a-Porter to the Swiss holding company Richemont. Last year she was appointed chairwoman of the British Fashion Council. Her focus, says Massenet, is “thinking big picture, dross domestic product, exports and jobs.”
The hyper-wired businesswoman is about to go print and not in high season with the introduction of Porter (pronounced the American way), a newsstand magazine. “It’s a big beast,” said its editor, Lucy Yeomans, formerly of Harper’s Bazaar UK, promising “lots of journalism” and 40 to 50 pages of features.
The company has paved the way for Porter with the online The Edit, featured frequently on AOC.
“My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics,” Massenet tells the NYT. “I see ghosts’, she said in June.
The supercharged Massenet began her career with Mario Testino. “He’d call and say, ‘Natalie, I need a pink 1950s convertible, a skateboarder, three young actresses, a surfer, a white poodle and a white horse, this afternoon in Topanga Canyon,’ ” Ms. Massenet said. “And I was like, ‘O.K., I’ll sort that out.’ ”
