WHAT: Peter Davis and Topper Mortimer hosted a fabulous high-fashion din-din for their sister Minnie Mortimer.
WHERE: New hotspot on the block, East Side Social Club
WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
WHO: Minnie, reality princess Olivia Palermo and Vogue's Valerie Boster were sporting dresses from Minnie's Spring 2010 collection. Other stylish folks in attendance included Paper's Luigi Tadini and Zandile Blay, Johannes Huebl, Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict, Ali Wise, Hayley Bloomingdale, Michael Musto, Gigi Mortimer, Amanda Ross, Georgia Tapert, Bettina Prentice and Rachelle Hruska.
OVERHEARD: "Peter, Tinsley and Topper -- they're like the preppy Ronsons!"

Photos by PatrickMcMullan.com

On Saturday the heir to the British throne, Charles, Prince of Wales turned 61. He celebrated the day with his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Charles is in pretty good shape physically but is looking a bit on the geriatric side! Here's a picture of music legend Dolly Parton who turns 64 in January. Maybe she can share some of her secrets for staying young with the Prince!!!

Over the weekend Mr. Mickey had a lot of flop time and watched some bad TV. The result is a small loss of brain cells and two new crushes! Okay, Joe Jonas is barely legal, but he is soooooo cute. It might be a little creepy for MM to watch Jonas on the Disney Channel but he is 20 years old so it's not illegal! My other crush is Rob Kardashian, the only brother on the show Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Rob is such a hunky dreamboat in the special Khloe's Wedding episode. Mr. Mickey cried during Bruce Jenner's wedding toast. The show feels totally staged but it's kind of addictive.

Now this is what Mr. Mickey calls a nuclear family! It's the Klukr Family, with Mark Gilmor on the left, the chicken lovers behind the new iPhone app, Kluckr, that lets you rate, review and download info on the best place to get chicken wings in your city. Now MM is a vegetarian and animal rights advocate, so he won't be able to enjoy the wings with you. Also while you're at it you should demand that the wings come from grass-fed organic chickens!!! Happy chickens only! If you don't have an iPhone you can go to kluckr.com.

My friend Tanya Selvaratnam is in the middle of a book drive for a mobile library in the IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camps and for orphanages in her native Sri Lanka. She is looking for books for kids ages 4-19, and so far she has collected hundreds from individuals and publishing houses. There are thousands of kids in the camps, so she would like to send many many more. The Asia Foundation is coordinating getting the books to Sri Lanka, and Tanya needs your contributions by November 19 to make the next container. If you don't have books that fit the bill, you can purchase books online and have them sent to her. To participate and find out more, please contact Tanya directly here. Mr. Mickey is sending a bunch of books that were super-cheap on QVC.com Here's the link. It's 15 books for just over 20 clams!!

You know you've really made it when someone dresses up as you for Halloween, and that seems to be the case with my dear friend Lynn Yaeger, the red-cheeked fashion icon. The lovely lady in the image is Ginny Branch Stelling who has a blog called My Favorite Color is Shiny (Uh, hello! Me too!). That's where she posted this pic of her dressed as Baby Lynnie. Pretty cute likeness, huh?

It's no secret that Mr. Mickey loves a royal portrait, and artist Philip de Laszlo is about as good as it gets. Here's a portrait he did of the woman who was probably the chicest princess of the 20th Century, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent. MM found this shot at the royal history blog of Diana Mandache, a Romanian scholar and expert on Queen Marie of Romania.

Last week Mr. M hosted a little shindig at the Ace Hotel for Yoostar, which is a sort of movie karaoke kind of thingy. You hook it up to the computer and film yourself in scenes from your favorite movie and watch em with your friends. Naturally Mr. Mickey chose a tasteful, demure and family-oriented film to be magically morphed into: Sunset Boulevard. Take a peek at Mr. Mickey (turban and all) with handsome William Holden.

Run don't walk to see the fabulous Citizens Band's new show "The Debt Rattle," which is playing this weekend at the Henry Street Settlement Theater on the Lower East Side. As always it's a yummy mix of political satire, vaudeville, aerial acts and amazing voices singing period songs. Karen Elson and Rain Phoenix croon a tune better than most leads on Broadway and Zoe Kravitz knocks em dead with her number as well. Sarah Sophie Flicker and Chelsea Bacon do spins and twirls above the stage and Ian Buchanan serves as emcee in the show, which borrows liberally from the classic dance marathon film They Shoot Horses Don't They. A real theatrical treat! Shows tonight and Saturday at 8 pm. Tickets are $25. Buy tickets here. For more info on the Citizens Band click here.

You know how famous people complain about being misquoted or things being taken out of context and how lame and self-absorbed it sounds? Well I’m here to tell you to cut the famous some slack!!! Being a minor local celebrity means that I sometimes get my attention-hungry mug in the papers and as a ‘fashion expert’ am regularly quoted on all sorts of headline-grabbing topics like the hot tubs in Britney Spears' Malibu beach house.

Well by coincidentally having my birthday celebrated at a party for Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz attended by the Queen of Pop Madonna, I’ve now had a teensy weensy taste of the fun of misquoting. New York Magazine sent a very cute young gay who not only DIDN’T sleep with me but wrote that “I introduced myself to one of her friends’ friends.” "Her" being Madonna. What does that even mean? I told him that I introduced myself to Madonna telling her we had a cute jet-set Irish gallerist friend in common. Mr. Mickey goes right to the source people!

The New York Times blog The Moment quotes me as saying , “I can die now. Madonna just sung ‘Happy Birthday’ to me.” Which frankly I don’t think I said and even if I did there wasn’t even a reporter from the Times at the event. And if I did say it I certainly would have said Madonna SANG ‘Happy Birthday’ to me since that’s correct English. If people believe the quotes they read about this they’ll think I’m some shallow low-level star-fucking faggot who doesn’t speak proper English. In reality I’m a medium-level shallow star-fucking faggot who speaks wonderful English. Thank God that’s cleared up!

One of our very very favorite stylist’s ever Miss Lori Goldstein has taken her high-fashion act onto QVC, our very favorite home-shopping channel. Is America ready for the woman whose work in Italian Vogue is legendary?

Lori says, “The thing about clothes for me is how you put them together... so the clothes from Italian Vogue will work for some in that way , but also the same pieces will work for another type of dresser. We can all own the same thing and wear it in a totally different way -- and that's the fun part of clothes."

About the pieces she’s hokking: “ I’m wearing my jacket that were featuring -- this great black crepe jacket that has this uneven ruffle on the bottom. I might have to feature it with my blue croc studded Hermes belt and my leggings that I love.”

On being on QVC: “I’ve been wanting to do this for years. I have always been intrigued that I somehow have been obsessed with all things gorgeous and expensive since day one in Ohio, and also know that there are so many people out there with the same obsessions without the funds, and after so many years of being totally blessed with seeing and meeting and learning, this is my way of giving back."

Though some of her former Motown peers have permanently parked their tour buses, Mary Wilson, balladeer and founding member of The Supremesstill travels the world, and is still going full steam ahead. Mr. Mickey was lucky enough to chat recently with Wilson, who is performing tonight and tomorrow at Feinstein's, about Supreme's gown collection, the "real" story behind the trio, and her beauty secrets.

MB: Last time I saw you at Feinstein’s, there were more the ballads -- you’re ‘the ballad queen!’ What made you want to add some of your Supremes songs and other songs that depart from that style?

MW: Well, you know, basically, I do rock ’ n’ roll concerts and they are filled with all of The Supremes songs, and current rock ’ n’ roll, and old time rock ’ n’ roll, and contemporary songs and all that. I took the time off to put together, as I explain in the show, things, songs that I’ve always wanted to do, to show the audience who I really am. And after having done [ballads] for about three or four years at various cabaret/jazz rooms around the world, I realized that I’ve done that and that’s fine, but now I need to incorporate some of The Supremes songs that people really want to hear.

MB: I read something on your website about some kind of “Legends of Motown” tour in England, did that already happen?

MW: Oh yes, it did. In fact, I wish I had somebody, a webmaster… I don’t have anyone to change it. I want to put up the actual flier and the reviews. [The show] really had to do with the 50th anniversary of Motown, and the Motown artists have done shows in Germany, we’ve done tours in England, and we’re now going to Australia, in February.

MB: Oh, great!

MW: I don’t think we’ve done one in the United States yet. But people around the world, they just love it. And that’s what many of us have done. The one coming up in Australia has the Temptations, myself, and a few other artists.

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This Sunday is the third Celebrity Sidewalk Sale at Screaming Mimi's with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Citta to finish the Vivekananda Public School in Orissa, India. There will be new and used fashion items from people like Catherine Malandrino, Elise Overland, Charlotte Ronson, Peter Davis, Luigi Tadini, Julia Frakes, Mr. Mickey, Lynn Yaeger, Michael Musto and many many more.

Sunday, September 27th Noon to 6 pm. Rain or shine at Screaming Mimi's, 382 Lafayette St., between East 4th and Great Jones.

Mr. Mickey's heart skips a beat every time music legend Mary Wilson comes to town. In MM's book, it doesn't get any better than The Supremes, and the image of Mary, ultra-stylish in her shorty blonde-wig and 1960s fashions has always represented one of the true peaks of music world glamour. Well Mary's wig isn't blonde anymore, but the 65-year-old chanteuse is looking amazing and seems just as happy-go-lucky fronting her six-piece back-up ensemble as she did ooh'ing and aah'ing with Florence behind Miss Ross on the Ed Sullivan Show back in the day.

Her newest show is called Mary Wilson: Up Close and features Motown hits as well as standards, and on opening night at Feinstein's at the Regency the room was packed with fans who sang along, danced and waved their arms, laughed at Mary's wacky antics and whispered to each other about how flawless the sexy 65-year-old looked. MM is interviewing Miss Wilson and will post highlights from what promises to be a real hoot! In the meantime, here's a picture of MM with the gorgeous Mary and PAPERMAG's Angelo Pitillo backstage after Mary's smash opening night!

Feinstein's at Loew's Regency, 540 Park Avenue at 61st St. Shows Wednesday and Thursday at 8:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10:30 p.m. September 23rd to October 3rd.