No mo’ FNO?
With Fashion Week over, speculation is rife that this year’s Fashion’s Night Out was the last. Vogue insiders tell Buzz the event creates too much work for the magazine — and some larger retailers are complaining it doesn’t generate enough revenue to cover costs. Boutique owners such as Ashley Turen hope that’s not true, as smaller shops like hers saw an uptick in business this season. “If the city sold a one-day permit (to serve drinks), I’d get one,” she suggested, as an incentive to the city to keep FNO alive. At the Armani party at Phillips de Pury hosted by Vladimir Roitfeld and Andy Valmorbida, legendary model Lauren Hutton told Buzz she’s an advocate of the shopping extravaganza. “I’d like to see it keep going,” says Hutton. “I don’t like crowds. I’ve never been to a concert. But these crowds were so looking to have fun. It’s like New York was this big fair. It’s quite amazing.”
Petra rain
Attending a Lincoln Park exhibition for Vivienne Tam Yoga, supermodel Petra Nemcova, whose fiancé was killed by a 2004 tsunami that also shattered her pelvis, told us she doesn’t pity Manhattanites who felt cheated by Hurricane Irene’s near-miss just before Fashion Week.
“We had an emergency evacuation from my building,” the Czech charmer tells Buzz. “I think the hurricane was handled very well. I know some people are complaining, ‘Oh, nothing really happened.’ But it’s better nothing happened than not being prepared.”
As yogis stretched and preened on mats nearby, Nemcova said she forces herself to do 15 minutes of yoga each day. But her primary exercise comes from walking around TriBeca with her 4-month-old Yorkie-terrier mix, Boo.
Keeping up with the Jonases
Kevin Jonas and his wife, Danielle Deleasa, sat front and center at the Anna Sui show, telling us, “We’re just taking it all in . . . and Anna dressed Danielle in Anna Sui tonight.” Though the touchy-feely lovebirds wouldn’t have any trouble getting into the glamorous late-night after-parties, it seems they’re every bit as wholesome as one would imagine. “We’ll be having dinner with our family after the show,” said Jonas. And after that? It’s back to the burbs for them. “We live in New Jersey,” says Deleasa.
Stand in the place where you wait
Perhaps R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe didn’t get the memo that ginormous rock stars of more than a quarter century don’t have to wait in line for anything, let alone late-starting fashion shows. That’s just what the multi-Grammy-winning singer did Wednesday at Jeremy Scott’s jam-packed Milk Studios show. Stipe quietly waited alone in a long, winding line with the rest of the plebes before taking his seat, smiling, and saying to a pretty Buzz reporter, “You look really nice.”
Dissed by Disick
Scott Disick, of Kourtney Kardashian baby-daddy fame and not much else, certainly had the attitude of someone who’s accomplished something Wednesday night at Soho House. “I’m only talking about Wildfox,” he shrieked, referring to the LA T-shirt line he was pimping, before siccing his security guards — yes, security guards — on a female Buzz reporter. Suddenly, Kevin Federline and Levi Johnston seem likable.
Additional reporting by Sheila McClear, Anahita Moussavian and Dana Schuster