Aristo-catwalk
She may be a Scottish aristocrat, but up-and-coming model Idina Moncreiffe isn’t getting any special treatment at her first New York Fashion Week. The 20-year-old is staying at a “models’ apartment” on East 49th Street, dining on red-velvet cupcakes (two a day) and waiting to see if she is tapped last-minute to walk (likely for free) for a number of shows.
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One would expect a girl of her pedigree to be above catwalk hustling: Moncreiffe’s great-great-grandmother Idina Sackville was herself a model (she landed a vogue cover) and infamous for her wild parties and five marriages (and divorces). Moncreiffe’s great-great- grandfather, Josslyn Hay, the Earl of Erroll, was murdered in 1941 — immortalized in the 1987 film “White Mischief” — in an infamous case that was only solved in 2007. Moncreiffe’s father, Peregrine, is the Baron of Easter Moncreiffe.
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“It’s a completely different world,” admitted Moncreiffe of her background. “Even at our houses, there are paintings of our ancestors, really old-school paintings, where it looks like the eyes are following you. Not many people can relate.”
Gone appétit!
Super-Svelte designer Kelly Wearstler — who recently came under fire after dishing about her (minimal) diet to Bon Appétit magazine — defended her eating habits to critics. “It was so bizarre,” Wearstler said of the backlash at her book party for “Rhapsody” Wednesday night at the Rug Company Showroom. “I hope I inspire people to be healthy and take care of themselves. Big or skinny, everyone should just be healthy,” she said. Her go-to snacks? Plankton and goji berries, but of course!
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Storm troupers
Stye icon Olivia Palermo advises subway-riding gals to “rethink your fashion choices” this snowy weekend. Luckily, Palermo — clad in fur at the La Perla presentation Thursday — doesn’t have to resort to functional footwear: “It depends on how I feel, but it’s great to have an option … I have a driver,” she laughed.
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Comedian Aziz Ansari is getting ready to hibernate this weekend, he told Buzz at the Band of Outsiders party at Graydon Carter’s Monkey Bar on Thursday night. “What would be a good place to be snowed in? A Build-a-Bear,” Ansari said. “Just keep building bears. I would probably build an Indian teddy bear to kind of look like me,” he mused. “I would like to have a teddy bear counterpart.”
— Additional reporting by Tashara Jones and Amber Sutherland