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Fashion Week Model Forecast: “Skinny Models, Skinny Models”
Thursday night, on the eve of Fashion Week, a noir-ish crowd including Kelly Osborne, nightlife-loving model Agyness Deyn, designer Henry Holland, Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, and the ubiquitous...
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Bleeding for Zaha: Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld Can Only Hope to Contain Her
In an age where Damien Hirst errata have joined gold and United States government bonds in the shrinking pantheon of safe investments, can contemporary art still be dangerous? More to the point, can...
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Head Games! Tom Colicchio’s Pate Now a Sex Symbol
This morning, Top Chef host-judges Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio treated the food press to a conference call to discuss the upcoming fifth season of the show, which was mostly filmed in Brooklyn....
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Happy Rocking Thanksgiving!
It’s always a little strange when holidays come to reality-television shows, since you know it had to have been taped, well, beforehand, and so everyone is just faking that it’s Thanksgiving. Such was...
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Paper of Record Uses Lounging Padma Lakshmi to Promote Web Site
What’s Padma Lakshmi’s favorite part of The New York Times‘ Web site? According to a video of the model-turned-author- turned reality competition hostess, it’s Bill Cunningham’s ‘On the Street’ audio...
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Vegging Out: Sir Paul and Stella McCartney Espouse Meatless, Hybrid Lifestyle...
“My daughter is getting an award so I’m a proud duh-dee!” Paul McCartney told the Daily Transom at the Natural Resources Defense Council’s annual Forces for Nature benefit at 583 Park Avenue on Monday,...
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Adam Moss’s First (or Second) New York
In this week’s Observer, New York Magazine editor Adam Moss talked to John Koblin about his use of coverlines, telling him, “A piece of music can’t all be big moments. It needs big moments and small...
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Rushdie, Redford, Ruschka Pick Up Plaques at Cipriani
British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie was one of the first to arrive at the National Arts Awards at Cipriani 42nd Street on Monday, Oct. 5. Known as a champion of freedom of expression, the author...
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Seven Circles of Sotheby’s Selling — UPDATED WITH VIDEO
There were art works by Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Auguste Rodin and Jeff Koons, but everyone was watching Padma Lakshmi’s pants. The Top Chef co-host, in impossibly tight coral-colored capris...
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Private Parts on the Block: Stars and Socialites Shell Out at Take Home A Nude
A good party is all about the mix and Sotheby’s had it just right at its Take Home a Nude Party on Monday night. Flamboyant artists in leather jackets and pearl necklaces mingled well with society...
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To Do: Spooky Sunday
Padma Lakshmi (Getty Images) Back on Wednesday, we were raising money to try to elevate our daughters’ self-esteem, but today we’ve stumbled upon a simpler method: march them down a red carpet! Nothing...
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New York Stock Exchange Closed Tomorrow; Padma Lakshmi Not Ringing Nasdaq’s Bell
The New York Stock Exchange will be closed again tomorrow, according to a press release posted on the NYSE Euronext website. As previously reported, the exchange initially planned to close its physical...
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Toto Recall: There’s No Place Like the Cinema Society for Watching Oz
Billy Zane, searching for just the right words. (Nicholas Hunt / Patrick McMullan) “This party is the tits!” someone yelled last week inside Richie Notar’s new Midtown glamor spot, Harlow. Shindigger...
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Knives Out: Padma Lakshmi Decries NYU Expansion
(Getty) Top Chef’s host Padma Lakshmi served up a protest against NYU’s controversial expansion yesterday. Nearly a dozen community groups are suing the city for allowing NYU’s $6 billion, 20-year...
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Beagle Bash
It was a family affair at last week’s premiere for “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” a DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox feature film. The shindig, co-hosted by The Cinema Society, saw appearances...
View ArticlePadma Lakshmi Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted at 16
The 'Top Chef' host writes that she was sexually assaulted as a teenager in a 'New York Times' piece.
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