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Posted Nov. 20, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Cinderella Champagne
By Peter Davis
The only way I want to drink champagne from now on is out of this crystal black stiletto flute (with a 14 cm heel and signature red sole!) designed by Christian Louboutin for Piper-Heidsieck. Called Le Rituel, the limited edition box set comes with the Loubie bohemian crystal flute (ballerinas used to serve champagne to thirsty gentleman fans in their slippers at the Bolshoi Ballet in the 1880s) and a bottle of Champagne Piper-Heidsieck Cuvee Brut. Dress up and pretend to be Cinderella -- wasted on bubbly!Posted Nov. 19, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Skeleton Shades
By Peter Davis
One can never have too many sunglasses and that's why I have over 300+ pairs -- top that Anna Wintour. My latest must-own is this pair, "The Skeleton" from Ksubi's 2009/2010 eyewear collection, dubbed "book club." The 13 unisex frames are unpolished and as "raw as possible." Sexy!Posted Nov. 17, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Arc NY, Beauty Is Power
By Peter Davis
Lorenzo
Martone and Ryan Brown understand the power of brand name beauties.
Last night in SoHo they launched Arc New York, a talent PR agency that
debuted with big-time models/clients like Lydia Hearst, Alessandra
Ambrosio, Jessica White and Julie Henderson. It was a cozy-chic affair
at Arc NY's stylish offices with Magnolia cupcakes, Pop burgers and
lots of champagne. Also there: Martone's fiance Marc Jacobs,
Henderson's beau Russell Simmons and the divine Olivia Palermo.
Admiring the knockout supermodels and eating bright blue icing is
totally my kind of party. "We noticed that many celebrities are trying
to invest in a different career than that one that did put them in the
map, but because of the lack of strategy, sometimes those side projects
fail or in many cases are not so credible," Martone told me. "My
contribution to the business is the strategic aspect of talent PR. I
have been developing strategy for brands for quite a while now with
Chandelier Creative, and believe strongly that I will be able to do the
same with our girls."Posted Nov. 15, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Barron Hilton gets Nick Prugo Bounced
By Peter Davis
Boyishly cute (even in his mugshot!) Nick Prugo, part of the "Burglar Bunch" or "Bling Ring" (i.e. the teen gang that robbed jewelry and designer duds from the houses of stars like Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom and others) was thrown out of West Hollywood hot-spot Voyeur this past Saturday night. My inside source tells me that Paris' younger brother Barron Hilton spotted Prugo and had a security guard toss out the 18-year-old robber (who will be arraigned in an L.A. court on December 2nd) in front of stars like Ryan Phillippe, Harry Morton and Benji Madden. "Barron asked the security guard to ask him his name and the guard came back to Barron and said 'His name is Nick. Is everything OK?'" my spy said. "Barron said, 'No. Get him the f*ck out of here.'"
Posted Nov. 13, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Tatler Tales
By Peter Davis
Tatler is the oldest magazine in history (it started in 1709!) and Diane Von
Furstenberg and Tina Brown had a party at DVF's space to celebrate the UK society magazine's 300th anniversary. The NYC bash follows the Tatler 300th in London, which had a guest list of Brits
including Peaches Geldof, Manolo Blahnik and Viktor & Rolf. I went with Tatiana von Furstenberg and
Thomas Whiteside to DVF's studio and we ran into Barry Diller, Alex von Furstenberg and
Ali Kay, Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman, Zac Posen, Martha
Stewart, Grace Coddington, Rebecca Guiness, Carlos Souza, Tory Burch,
Adam Lippes, Andrew Bevan, Amy Sacco, Coralie Charriol Paul, Michael
Roberts, Fernanda Niven, Andy Cohen, Rebecca Dana, Fern Mallis, Jeffrey
Podolsky and Milly de Cabrol, Andrew Saffir, Bettina Zilkha, and Euan Rellie to name just a few. After cocktails, some people headed to Art Rocks! at the Bowery Hotel
while DVF VIPs walked down the block to The Standard Grill for an
intimate dinner. And who made the cover of Tatler's big anniversary issue? The queen,
of course!Posted Nov. 13, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Loving Lou
By Peter Davis
Posted Nov. 11, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: My Drinks with Andres
By Peter Davis
Last night, the divine Andre Saraiva (the man behind Le Baron, Black Block boutique, Hotel Amour, and the soon-to-re-open Beatrice Inn) hosted a party with Andre Balazs at the place formerly known as The Boom Boom Room (which is not called QT, as rumored, but is also referred to as "the 18th Floor" and the "Top of the Standard"). If NYC is a name game, then last night was of Olympic proportions. I saw Daphne Guinness, Mark Ronson, Alejandro Santo Domingo and Amanda Hearst, Andres Santo Domingo, Eugenia Gonzalez Ruiz-Olloqui (in a mod Michael Bastian woven hat), photographer Thomas Whiteside, sexy Sarah Howard, Joey Jalleo, Tom Sachs, Karen Cord, Ryan McGinley, Rebecca Guinness, Euan Rellie, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Eneas Capalbo, Jackie Astier, Carlos Mota, Douglas Friedman, Genevieve Jones, Purple's Caroline Gaimari and Olivier Zahm, Amanda Leigh Dunn, designer Timo Weiland and former PAPER cover beauty China Chow who introduced me to her boyfriend comedian/actor Steve Coogan.
Posted Nov. 10, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Shang's Chic Flavors
By Peter Davis
Shang, the restaurant in The Thompson LES Hotel is becoming chicer by the day. Liz Cohen celebrated her 40th birthday there last weekend with chums like Lauren Dupont, Christian Leone, Jennifer Raines, Fernanda Niven, photographer Eric Cahan, Karen Larrain, hotelier Jeff Klein, Rachel Peters Thomas and more. Shang owner/head chef Susur Lee's modern global Chinese dishes (my faves are Crispy Curry Beef Taro Puffs and Hunan Spicy Orange Pork Ribs) have also enticed the entire cast of Gossip Girl, Josh Lucas and Ryan Gosling. Tasty!
Posted Nov. 6, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Feed the City
By Peter Davis
Last night I had an amazing experience. I spent a couple of hours driving around in a van with Juan de la Cruz, the Program Director of the Grand Central Food Program for the Coalition for the Homeless, handing out meals. My good friend, Bettina Prentice, got me involved and the night was eye-opening, gratifying and extraordinary. You not only give out food (last night: milk cartons, oranges, bagels, meatball soup) at stops around New York to people who depend on it (for some it's their only meal of the day) but you get to meet the people that many New Yorkers ignore on a daily basis. And the meals (including the cost of the van) cost $1.80 each! That blew my mind. I am going to do feeding van trips once a week and more if I can. Please check out the Coalition for the Homeless website to learn how you can volunteer and donate much-needed funds. I hope to see everyone at the Artwalk benefit (hosted by Alec Baldwin, Richard Gere and Carey Lowell) on November 17th which benefits the Coalition for the Homeless. Help is needed more than ever. The number of homeless children and adults residing in municipal shelters each night just exceeded 39,000 for the first time in 25 years.Posted Nov. 5, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: "Be a Cleopatra's Nose"
By Peter Davis
My BFF, photographer Thomas Whiteside
just got back from Tokyo where he found this amazing contraption called The CoCo ("Be a Cleopatra's Nose"). But this device is also ideal for
recovering cokeheads to snap on at night and avoid any coco puffs
getting up their nostrils. It's also perfect for chronic nose pickers
too. The Japanese really think of everything.Posted Oct. 26, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Richard Haines's Haute and Hot Sketches
By Peter Davis
Yesterday at the AH-mazing Art Jamboree (where I sat for a glam Tobie Giddio ink portrait and also scored David Yarritu "Too High" and "Lonliness" tear viles, Billy Beyond clip-on wrap shades, signed Kenny Scharf XXX white briefs and delicate Scott Lifshutz "Hag" and "Fag" watercolor silhouettes), I had the thrill of Richard Haines sketching me in my '07 Thom Browne. Kanye West is obsessed with Haines's illustrations and posted 16 pages of the drawings on his website. Haines has worked with Calvin Klein, Bill Blass and Perry Ellis and now does stuff for J. Crew and In Style. Every chicster must commission Haines to render their look -- it's really the Fall must-have. Check out his website for more info.
Posted Oct. 16, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Chelsea Boy
By Peter Davis
This weekend, director Sam Bassett is presenting his documentary, Stanley Bard, about Bard's 50 years as the general manager of the Chelsea Hotel. During his employment there, Bard fostered artists and writers who lived in the iconic hotel including Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clark, Roy Lichenstein, Bob Dylan, Arthur Miller, Janis Joplin and Andy Warhol. Sunday, October 18th at 6:30 p.m., Bassett presents his film at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Ave.) as part of the Royal Flush Film Festival. A Q&A with the director and Bard himself follows.
Posted Oct. 14, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: It's a MAD World!
By Peter Davis
The fashion and art crowd will all be out tonight for the first annual Museum of Art and Design Paperball, benefiting MAD and hosted by Rose McGowan, Coco Rocha and Mad Men star Bryan Batt. There's dinner and dancing to tunes by DJs Paul Sevigny, Harley Viera-Newton and Leo Fitzpatrick and chicsters like Chris Benz, Genevieve Jones, Robert Geller, threeASFOUR, Frank Tell, Leigh Lezark, Zaldy, and yours truly are on the host committee. Plus you can also score art by Surface to Air, Matthew Williamson, Issey Miyake and others. Buy your ticket here
Posted Oct. 13, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Saving Schmattas
By Peter Davis
Last night I went to the premiere of the HBO documentary Schmatta: from Rags to Riches to Rags, director Marc Levin's look at the sad state of New York's Garment District (no mo' money/no mo' jobs!). In the audience were Fashion Week founder Fern Mallis (who is in the film), Nancy Abraham, Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, Donovan Leitch, Bruce Raynor, Nanette Lepore, Anna Sui (who designed a "Save the Garment District" tee shirt), Daphne Pinkerson, Stan Herman, Yeohlee Teng, MTV's Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley, Sarah Howard, Bill Cunningham and IMG's Ivan Bart. I am officially obsessed with Sheila Nevins, who has the coolest hair and the coolest brain -- she is responsible for every amazing documentary on HBO (and there are many). "When I told my grandmother I didn't have a date for the prom," Nevins told the crowd, "she said, 'Put on a schmatta and go alone!'" You can help save the dying district. On October 21, there will be a demonstration at the Button and Needle Statue on 39th Street and 7th Avenue. Visit savethegarmentcenter.com for more info.
Posted Oct. 13, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Marching Madness
By Peter Davis
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On Sunday I donned all white and took part in the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. We walked and chanted for two hours and ended up on the west lawn of the Capital building. Amongst the tens of thousands of activists, I spotted Bravo's Andy Cohen, Oscar winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (texting and marching), Cleve Jones, actor Gavin Creel, Out magazine founder Michael Goff and Andy Towle of towleroad (" a site with homosexual tendencies"). Speakers at the rally included Christine Quinn, the event's organizer David Mixner, Judy Shepard (the mother of Matthew Shepard) and Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon, who drove down with 1,400 New Yorkers from Broadway Cares. "Let's see that DOMA [the Defense of Marriage Act] is finally repealed," Nixon urged the crowd. "Obama said he was against DOMA two years ago. It's time for the president to move beyond words." Of course, the gays went bonkers when Lady Gaga took the podium. The tiny pop star had to stand on a yellow plastic milk crate to reach the mike, but Gaga's voice and message was huge. "I can say with certainty that this is the single most important moment of my career," Gaga announced to screaming fans. "Bless God and bless the gays!"
Posted Oct. 12, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Beth Ditto Hates the C-Word
By Peter Davis
Never call Beth Ditto the C-word. At the ah-mazing Gossip show at Terminal 5, the flame-haired singer had a guy bounced from the audience when a rustle broke out because he called her "a dirty c*nt." "You can call me a fat dyke," Ditto told the crowd, "but don't you ever call me a c*nt." To close the show, Ditto encored with a cover of "What's Love Got To Do With It?" before getting the crowd to "reclaim" and sing the Queen song "We Are The Champions" as a gay anthem. Hallelujah!
Posted Oct. 6, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: So Precious
By Peter Davis
I headed last night to the party at The Standard for Good Hair, hosted by Andrew Saffir's Cinema Society and Target. Despite fab faces like stars Chris rock, Nia Long and Ice-T, Bevy Smith, Guy Oseary, Genevieve Jones, Olivia Thirlby, Zoe Kravitz, Joey Jalleo, Veronica Webb, Daniel Benedict, Jennifer Missoni, Cator Sparks, Fern Mallis and Rachel Zoe in the crowd, and despite the curvy combo of Ice's girl Coco and Kanye's woman Amber Rose (in shades, natch), all eyes were on Gabourey Sidibe, the soon-to-be-super-duper-famous star of Precious. Sidibe and her Precious co-star Mo'nique will both be nominated for Academy Awards and Ms. Mo'nique will take home that Oscar next March. Mark my words. It's so Mo's moment.
Photo by Billy Farrell/patrickmcmullan.com
Posted Oct. 5, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Viciously Chic Velvet
By Peter Davis
Velvet slippers go with everything -- from black tie to Birdwell beach britches. I love my leopard Belgian slippers and Meadow Club logo-ed Stubbs & Woottons, but lately I have become obsessed with Del Toro shoes. The company was started by handsome prepsters James Bohannon and Nathanial Wish, and for $255 (the classic is only $135) you can have a custom image embroidered on to your shoes. I'm torn between a picture of my idol Amy Winehouse with blow up her nostril or a classic shot of my other hero, Sid Vicious, falling down mid-performance.
Posted Oct. 2, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: East River Moments From the Dash Snow Memorial
By Peter Davis
Snapping wind chilled the crowd at Dash Snow's open-mic memorial service yesterday at the East River Amphitheater. Pretty boys and girls in scuffed combat boots and scruffy hair chain-smoked cigarettes. A pit bull laid his head on a guy who sat on a battered skateboard deck from Supreme. Writers Glenn O'Brien, Bill Powers, Spencer Morgan and Christopher Bollen were there. So was Waris Ahluwalia, designer Miguelina Gambaccini, Vito Schnabel and Dash's handsome, dapper brother, Max and beautiful girlfriend Jade Berreau.
Filmmaker Albert Maysles, of Grey Gardens fame, captured everything on a hand held video camera. Artist Dan Colen introduced art patron Christophe de Menil, Dash's grandmother, confidante and best friend. De Menil told about Dash's bad-ass ways (such as spraying his tag "SACER" on the side of the Williamsburg Bridge) and his love affair with haberdashery. "Dash had this black hat that was all flecked on the sides," De Menil remembered. "I wanted to fix it for him, but he said, 'No. I have been trying to weather this hat for weeks.'" Dash's friend Brendon Fowler summed it up: "Dash hated it when people copied his style." Donald Cumming of The Virgins sang a sweet, funny acoustic tune about a plastic Jesus dashboard ornament that doubles as a flask. Then Gang Gang Dance and A.R.E. Weapons performed. A visibly shaken Colen confessed to everyone gathered, "Dash's absence affects me everyday, but it's so fucking cool that he left behind so much stuff for us, like all his art which he made so much of and his amazing daughter Secret. I'm so grateful for all of that."
Posted Oct. 2, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: A Cross to Wear
By Peter Davis
I'm so thrilled it's chilly out again. Laters summer! Laters wrong peeps sporting short shorts in Union Square! My fall looks are filled with sweaters from The Brungers, the line designed by husband and wife team Andrew Brunger and Sally Randall Brunger (who happens to be on the cover of Patrick McMullan's So 80s book from when Sally was the door queen at The Palladium). I scored Brunger ribbed sweaters, cardigans with cool leather clasps and this soft cross turtleneck and a cross scarf. I adore anything luxurious with a punk edge. Oh, and that's handsome, sexy Andrew Brunger in the photo.