Band of Insiders: The (New) New Bohemians

Style.com may have actually written something I care about. They just profiled the new clans of New York, who are joined together by their style, socialability, and tax bracket. Here’s our favorite of the bunch The (New) New Bohemians.

Core Members: Tara Subkoff, Arden Wohl, Leigh Lezark, Stella Schnabel, Waris Ahluwalia, Chiara Clemente, Leelee Sobieski

With their creative-class roots and Opening Ceremony duds, these free-spirit types are giving the anemic benefit circuit a badly needed shot in the arm. Find them anywhere “It” is at—from fancy galas (New Yorkers for Children, American Museum of Natural History) to the smoky back room at the Beatrice. Suggested conversation starters? Indie filmmaking, whatever patron saint Chloë Sevigny is up to now, headbands.

Clockwise from left: Lezark, Sobieski, Wohl, Subkoff, and Schnabel.

The (New) New Bohemians: Golden Couple
Waris Ahluwalia, the affable Sikh about town, and Chiara Clemente, the pretty daughter of famed painter Francesco, met through mutual friends (and then-couple) Tara Subkoff and Wes Anderson in 2003 when Ahluwalia was filming Anderson’s flick The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. Since then, “Wariara,” if you will, has become something of a New York anomaly: a society couple whose devotion doesn’t seem to end the moment the paparazzi leave. On their occasional nights in, they like to host cozy dinner parties, featuring his Indian table settings and her Italian menu. Awwww.

The (New) New Bohemians: Famous BFF
It was only a matter of time before the queen of boho chic fell in with this pack of well-heeled hiperati. Mary-Kate Olsen pals around with MisShapes hottie Leigh Lezark and is a regular at L.E.S. hot spots like Sweet Paradise. She’s also co-writing a book with sister Ashley and frequent Style.com contributor Derek Blasberg, which will include interviews with fashion and art-world heavyweights like Christian Louboutin and Terry Richardson. It’s a potentially cool project that could almost make us forget about that guest spot she did on 7th Heaven. Almost.
The (New) New Bohemians: End Quote
“We’re always looking for answers. Some people are looking for it in a socialite maybe. But you know, it just depresses me: Some girl named Peaches who lives in the Bronx…looks at this world and says, ‘Oh wow.’ And I would never want to give off something that is an illusion, because you hurt people that way. And they’re already struggling so much—the people.” —Arden Wohl to The New York Observer, 2007

You can check out more clans of New York (including New Kids on the Blog, referring to us blogging youth) on Style.com .