Lauren Bush

At Monday evening's party for the relaunch of Dylan Lauren's (daughter of Ralph) popular store, Dylan's Candy Bar, it was not surprising that sugar featured prominently in the celebration. Tables were piled with mini-brownies and cupcakes; there was a marshmallow dipping station and bikini-and-body-paint-clad candy necklace distributors. The candy-garnished cocktails were hit or miss, however. (Cosmopolitan-like drink with rock candy stirrer? Good. Barcardi with orange liqueur and a sunken piece of bubblegum? Less so).

The revamped store will feature clothing and accessories lines and a wider selection of fancier chocolate, Ms. Lauren told the Daily Transom. We wondered whether she thought people were more likely to turn to sweets in these troubled times, and she recalled that business during the store's original opening week—which fell during the week of September 11, 2001—was "rocking."  read more »

Even we didn't notice while staring at photos of Madonna at the her Filth and Wisdom premiere that her Chanel shoes had a heel in the shape of a gun. If only Sarah Palin would throw on a pair of those...[Vogue UK]

At the launch of her Wonder Woman-inspired collection and comic book, Diane von Furstenberg said that if she had a superpower, she would destroy all weapons. [The Cut]  

Thakoon Panichgul's sportswear line for Target will be out on Christmas Day. [WWD]   read more »

On Tuesday, July 29, an uptown crowd of socials gathered at Michael’s to celebrate a new book called Party Favors: A Novel of Politics and Greed, about the corrupt ways of Washington, D.C., political fund-raising.

The author, Nicole Sexton, spent 15 years in Washington as a Republican Party fund-raiser working for the likes of former Virginia Senator George Allen, North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole and publisher Steve Forbes, when he ran for president in 2000. Ms Sexton has since departed for a more do-gooding role, working for Bono’s One Campaign against global poverty and AIDS, but not before she wrote the novel--which she described as "Legally Blonde meets Thank You For Smoking"--based on how she went from a naïve White House intern to a disillusioned G.  read more »

Marc Jacobs' friends tell Page Six that he's out of control with his boy-chasing and partying ways, afraid he'll "pull a Halston." [P6]

Donatella Versace wishes Hillary would give up the pants. [P6]  read more »

“This was sort of the project that started all of our careers,” said Adam Kurland, co-director of This is Not a Robbery, a documentary that is screening for the public tonight as part of the Tribeca Film Festival.

He was referring to himself and his co-directors, Lucas Jansen and Spencer Vrooman, who gathered at Marion's on the Bowery Saturday night after the film's glitzy premiere. At the after-party were the likes of Lauren Bush and Ralph Lauren; the three were wearing ties, and it didn't look habitual with them.  read more »

Has an entire season—several major holidays, a snowfall or two—really passed since we did this last?

‘Twas the night before Fashion Week began, and a crowd in artfully tied scarves and low-slung berets had gathered at Gotham Hall in midtown to acknowledge the larger issues, like global warming. The non-profit organization Earth Pledge was staging an eco-friendly fashion show, with the help of Barneys.

Milling about beforehand to the sounds of a vaguely apocalyptic concerto were cutely coupled Ralph Lauren scion David and Bush scion Lauren. From their seats in the front row, they were besieged by no less than six cameras.  read more »

At the after party following last night’s New York Public Library Lions Benefit, David Lauren and his girlfriend Lauren Bush, one of the evening’s co-chairs, were inseparable, an eyewitness told the Daily Transom. “He was leading her around all night,” the source said of the handsome clothing scion’s modus operandi at the post-dinner dance sesh on the library’s lower level, where things reportedly got a little raucous.  read more »

David Lauren and girlfriend Lauren Bush were just a few among the green movement's good-looking rear-guard to sip martinis and muse passionately if not altogether scientifically about the dangers of environmental degradation and the magnificence of the planet beyond Central Park.

“They really showed how beautiful our world is,” said the young Mr. Lauren. “It just overshadowed whatever beauty is in this room.”  read more »

On the evening of Friday, July 13, under a clear blue sky, the aptly named eco-friendly fashion model Summer Rayne Oakes hosted a dinner party for about 40 environmentally-conscious souls at “Project Greenhouse,” a solar-paneled party space sponsored by Lexis Hybrid in East Hampton.  read more »

On Thursday, April 26, Presidential niece, Princeton senior and part-time fashion model Lauren Bush hosted a fund-raiser at the 401 Projects gallery for FEED, the charity she founded to raise money for starving children in the Third World.  read more »