In between dressing Beyonce and collaborating with Playboy, it has been a busy year for The Blonds.   Check out this exclusive video interview and find out what they are looking forward to in the new year.

Get to know the charmingly sweet and utterly stylish Emily Johnston of one of our favorite sites, Fashion Foie Gras

The DJ/actress/style star/front row fixture/Nylon TV reporter Becka Diamond is as bad ass as she is talented, and we love her for it.  What are her favorite things of the moment? Find out here

Famed and tucked Amanda Lepore is wearing what may well be a sheet of water and a face of gold.

Photos by KirillWasHere.com

What better way to bring together MC Tim Gunn, a couple of Real Housewives, Wendy Williams, Lydia Hearst, Mickey Boardman, and the Blonds than a runway show chock full of New York’s most amazing designers–Diane von Furstenberg, Anna Sui, Yigal Azrouel, Richard Chai, Simon Spurr and Narciso Rodriguez?

runway photos courtesy of Andrew Werner

The fundraising total from the evening is estimated to be upwards of $250,000, thanks in part to the amazing live and silent auctions. Guests bid on luxe package prizes like Mike Ruiz prints, Betsey Johnson dresses, and an “Enchanting Italian Getaway” vacation.

As GMHC and its legion of amazing supporters proves, there’s nothing more fashionably fabulous than a generous heart.

See more photos from the Fashion Forward event on LOOKBOOKS.

Patricia Field, Costume Designer for Sex & the City, threw a Swim-sational Disco Soiree on the penthouse of 230 Fifth Avenue last night. The swimwear and accessories fashion show featured 18 runway looks and twelve mannequins in an interactive installation glowing with Ippolita gold jewelry provided by event co-sponsor World Gold Council. Read more…

Hot off the world premiere of Sex & the City II at Radio City Music Hall on Monday and her New York Women in Film & Television’s “Designing Women” Variety Ensemble Award, Pat wowed the crowd with the launch of Patricia Field/House of Field Eyewear, Swimwear and Beach Towel collections.

CREDITS: The spectacular swimwear fashion show and installation featured House of Field by David Dalrymple, Ivana Sert (SATC) and The Blonds (of Britney and Rihanna fame). The fashion show glowed with fine gold jewelry, exclusively from Ippolita and World Gold Council. Other sponsors included: luxury handbags by MCM, Christian Siriano for Payless designer shoes, custom cocktails by Skyy Vodka (in honor of the Sex and the City II limited edition bottle designed by Ms. Field), hair by Redken, make up by Carlo Longo for Vincent Longo and additional refreshments provided by Café Bustelo.

Entire Gallery on Envy

In New York, as in The Beatles’ song, you get by with a little help from your friends. So, when you find yourself not invited to any fun events, you reach out to those around you and do everything short of begging to be their plus one.

When on Sunday at the DKNY fragrance launch my publicist/friend Meghan invited me to the GenArt party that Tuesday night, I jumped at the opportunity. The GenArt film festival had already been in full swing since last week and I had yet to attend an event. It seemed fitting the party was hosted at BLVD on the Bowery as this year’s main sponsor was a car company.

Exiting the cab, I had high hopes when I saw paparazzi circling outside like hungry vultures—furtively glancing over in a vain hope one might take my picture. When that inevitably did not occur, I at least expected a celebrity-packed room inside. While there were a few bold-face names including Moby, Jennifer Love-Hewitt and that minx of a teacher from Gossip Girl who seduces Dan Humphrey, they were hidden away as GenArt separated the famous from the ticket-buying fans.

Even though I wasn’t one of the people forking over cash to go and gawk at B-list celebrities, I still couldn’t help but feel a little unfabulous after the event. So attending a party for “Beautiful People” was exactly what I needed to get my spirits and ego back where they belong: in a deluded fairytale world of red carpets and photographers.

You know a party’s exclusive when an editor can’t get into his own magazine’s event. On Thursday night, the stretch of sidewalk around Ninth Avenue and W 16th street was packed shoulder to shoulder with hipsters and downtown nightlife fixtures all vying to get inside Hiro ballroom for Paper Magazine’s “Beautiful People” party, celebrating the latest issue.

Word on the street was the event had received over 4,000 RSVPs and so the door was tighter than Joan River’s face. Thanks to my photo in the last issue and blatant disregard for the two-block-long line, I was lucky enough to make it inside, briefly making an appearance on the step and repeat before heading downstairs to partake in the revelry and company of the evening’s beautiful people.

Guests who made it in before the fire marshals put Hiro in lockdown included Kat DeLuna, Erin Fetherston, The Blonds, and Richie Rich while among those stuck outside were recording artist Estelle, Lydia Hearst, Paper Editor-at-Large Peter Davis and countless others.

While hundreds were left simultaneously fuming and freezing outside, inside DJ Cassidy—who also appeared in the issue—warmed up the party with a set of mostly 80’s dance hits. By 9:30, everyone seemed to be feverishly awaiting cover girl Katy Perry’s performance. Camera flashes exploded as Katy came on stage in a shimmery sequin mini-dress and launched into Hot N’ Cold. She rounded out her four-song set with a spirited rendition of “I Kissed A Girl,” all the while wielding a giant inflatable tube of chapstick.

After a night like that, I would have normally cashed out and ended the week on a high note, but when I heard from a much cooler friend there was a secret “Free Beatrice” party being held to rally support for the recently shuttered haughty hipster haven, I knew I couldn’t miss it—if only for indulging my ego by getting into yet another ultra-exclusive fête.

It was with some nervous excitement that on Friday night I made my way to the chic and newly opened Cooper Square Hotel where an elevator took us up to a giant penthouse with soaring city views on all sides. The picturesque location was probably the furthest thing from the darkened and dungeon-like basement of Beatrice, but the skinny hipsters were very much the same. There was smoking, Mary-Kate Olson and guys relieving themselves off the balcony and in the showers—all proving that you can the hipsters out of The Beatrice, but you can’t take The Beatrice out of the Hipsters.

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