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Trotting
down Sixth Avenue and White Street.
Photo: JH.
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Yesterday
was a hot one, weather-wise and fashion-wise. Me, I’m a tepid one: I missed the Carolina
Herrera show at
the Bryant Park tents at ten in the morning. I made it to the Oscar
de la Renta show just in time to be seated by Mr.
Boaz Mazor, the
sales impresario of the Oscar de la Renta line. Someone is going
to have to write a piece about Boaz one of these days because he’s
a beaut. He’s been selling Oscar’s creations for about
three decades (even though he was born just a little over four
decades ago according to his “birth” certificate).
He knows all the glamorous ladies in the world and they know him.
Wherever he goes – Palm Beach, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Dallas, Chicago, London, Paris, Athens, he’s wined and dined
by them, and good soldier that he is, he never gets bored. And
he’s a fount of information. He knows where all the bodies
are buried. And always in their best taffetas, sables, emeralds
and rubies.
He’s also responsible for the connection-making in more than
one billionaire’s marriage. And the ladies (who are married
to the billionaires, as well as a few centimillionaires, and, not
to mention, quite a few others who just love beautiful clothes),
take Boaz’ word for when it comes to making a purchase at
de la Renta. Sometimes they even complain that they buy it only
because Boaz thinks they should and they know he’s always
right. Poor dears, no? One very soigne international social star
when wearing de la Renta and asked where she got it always answers: “from
Boaz Mazor.”
Anyway, you get the point. The Oscar show is the top of the top
and no matter what the critics might say, Oscar de la Renta’s
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The
lineup |
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Faye
Wattleton
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The
first three sections by the entrance to the runway at the Oscar
show is seated by Boaz with a lot of his clients and their friends.
Too numerous to mention. Annette de la Renta was
there seated next to her pal Barbara Walters. Melania
Trump was there seated next to her pal, Donald
Trump. I was between Stephanie Krieger and Carolyn
Roehm who once worked for Oscar and later went off and
had a very successful couture line of her own.
Across the aisle from this section were the younger ladies (including Ivana and
Donald Trump’s beautiful daughter Ivanka). It is always
interesting to see the contrast between their way of dressing and the established
social ladies. In the past it was noticeable. This year it wasn’t. The
fashion is dressier, more pulled together. None of this jeans and cotton top
and sandals and I-don’t-care. Well, almost none ...
Sitting next to Carolyn Roehm: she couldn’t get over how slender (skinny
is the word) the runway models were. I asked her if she ever missed the business.
The design part, yes, at times. The shows, like this, never. She’s about
to go on the internet with a business. She's done several books on gardening
and
flowers and entertaining and her new book will be on wrapping gifts. She’s
going to sell all the stuff you need to do it her way (the stylish way) on her
own web site. And nowhere else.
I was lucky this year with my little Sony Cybershot 5000. I got a good full shot
of EVERY piece in the entire Oscar show. |
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Annette
de la Renta and Barbara Walters |
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Donald
and Melania Trump
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The
Girls
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Luvin'
wot they see
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Stephanie
Krieger and Audrey Gruss |
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Robin
Gerstner and Emilia Saint-Amand
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Tory
Burch and Jennifer Creel |
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Lee Thaw
and Gaetana Enders
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