Lauren Arpel

Getting Gifty- Robert Verdi’s Luxe Laboratory is way too cool to discover new products

More from New York Fashion Week with the best insider's luxe sampling retreat. Check out the brands... What could be better than some time to try new products and a yummy lunch? Look no further for beauty touch-ups and a bit of swag at Robert Verdi's Luxe Laboratory. My editor in chief and FocusOnStyle founder, Sharon Haver and ! made a NYFW pit stop and I even made another! Here are some of my fave finds.... For the ultimate in bag hags... I had a cab encounter last night. I had to search in my mountainous Birkin for my wallet. Well, anyone with a Birkin knows you loose everything in it’s oversized and unorganized chic-nes. It took me about 10

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Fashion Week Gossip- BCBG, Luca Luca, a Real NYC Housewife, 22 Birkin bags, a runway legend and a mess of a crowd

Brad Boles is back with the dish... because someone has gotta dish! Let me say that fabulous clothes aside, it's the fashionista freak show that wrecks my nerves! Now, you know who YOU are so listen up: No matter how fabulous you think you are, please stop wearing sunglasses indoors! It is beyond NOT FABULOUS and bordering on idiotic pretentiousness. Crowd-a-tude aside, ladies, get ready for the fall collections to have a fluid theme. If the rest of the fall 2011 collections prove to be anything like the New York Fashion Week upstart shows that I saw yesterday. >> MORE: Fashion Shows and Runway Reviews Fashion week crib notes from my first day at Lincoln Center... BCBG MAX AZRA had

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How to Dress for Your Body Type, Maternity Style, Commuting Shoes, Big Girl Style and the crazed world of Brad Boles

Commuting shoes, bus lanes, legendary ladies, and the anything goes but you... UN Lane! The domino traffic effect... Forget New York City when the UN is in session like it was last week! That and the fact that we New Yorkers become subjected to traffic backup for miles in the kind of grid lock not even found on a Cartier bracelet. Think about my friend, the time-challenged Lauren Arpel. Crazy traffic makes Lauren dizzy, therefore she showed up in the WRONG Italian restaurant for a dinner I organized with my very own editor in chief Sharon Haver and the gorgeous Julie Anne Rhodes from The Roving Stove who was in from Los Angeles. Imagine the wrong Italian restuatant-- oh sure,

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Fashion Week Survival Tips and Gossip from Last Big Hamptons Weekend from Brad Boles

A farewell to a big summer! A clambake, a game of chicken and a full disco party and season four of Bravo's hit show "The Real Housewives of New York City" Sunset clambake... There's not a chance you could get better then Labor Day in the Hamptons. The weekend started with a glorious sunset clambake at the divine ocean-front home of my very own Lauren Arpel and fifteen perfect summer friends. I was in a panic as to how to make a bonfire on the beach though. But, have no fear, I called my metrosexual friend Rob Seigel and sure enough you straight guys are good for something. He showed up with wood and his Boy Scout skills to light

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Money Matters- Cultural Clash In The Hamptons From A Countess to LL Cool J and One Supermodel

It's big bucks style for Brad again this week... don't you wonder what the rich really do? Breathless Brad Boles has been busy rubbing some very ritzy elbows this weekend and is more than happy to share the dish. Me? I wish I was really on vacation! --S.H. Friday night saw a return to Almond, the tony East End, boy's-night-out hotspot in the Hamptons where I dined with Catherine Saxton (the fabulous PR maven who handles all of Ivana Trump's ups and downs) who is a houseguest of Cathy and Rick Hilton. FYI... the Hiltons have done an amazing job reinventing their glamorous Fordune estate in Southampton. It is completely bathed in white and teal and flooded with light. When

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Hamptons Happenings From Blowouts to Baggy Pants, Color Blocking, Rompers, Super Saturday Shopping and Polo

It's another one of those all-points bulletins for celebrity sightings out East Sweeties, Breathless Brad Boles has been roaming about with more dish to share... S.H. Meow, meow, it may be Gay Night but there are some be-atchy boyz out there.. Gosh, I know I can have a sharp tongue but I never make the obvious rude attempt to talk about someone behind his or her back when they are actually right smack in front of me. So tacky. I started my evening off dining at Almond in Bridgehampton with my ever-fabulous friend Lauren Arpel who is no stranger to the world of beauty and some other friends. Then the cattiness ensued... To my shock, I was recognized from “The

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