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2011 May 31

Hell on Heels! With Sasha Charnin Morrison

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Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!
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Are all shoes created equal? Not according to UsWeekly fashion director Sasha Charnin Morrison, who shares what happens when she skips the heels. Check the Gallery for photographic evidence!

"When I wear my Miu Miu's, like I did today, doors open, doormen clap like seals when they see me coming, salespeople say nice things, and the general admiration comes in spades. But when I pair the J.Crew ballerinas with the same look...crickets. Doors don't open, general silence, overwhelming neglect. The power of a very femme high heel is amazing. How little the rose gold ballerinas get in return!"

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2011 May 31

Live from Chic Hampton: Hamming it Up at SoulCycle

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Alec Baldwin: not sweaty here.
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The chic set has (for the most part) successfully returned to Manhattan after a mildly debauched weekend out East—fueled, no doubt, by fervent reading of The Daily Dan. As usual, your Chic attempts to mix pleasure and pain, so our jaunts to Cyril's were tempered with not one, but two trips to the just-opened-on-Friday location of SoulCycle in East Hampton. (No need to applaud, really.) Luckily, we come back with some sightings to report: Alec Baldwin and Matthew Broderick sweated it out to Madonna tunes at MB's class on Sunday. "I don't need air conditioning, but I do need some air!" smiled a sweaty Baldwin afterwards. He lingered around the studio to chat with his apparent buddy Broderick, who sported his signature tortoiseshell glasses to the class. Well done, boys! 

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2011 May 27

Adieu, Elaine's!

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Elaine Kaufman
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At 4 a.m. this morning, the venerable media haunt that is Elaine's served its last drink. Opened by Elaine Kaufman in December 1963 with a $10,000 investment, the UES resto has become an institution over the past 48 years thanks to its feisty namesake hostess who curated a crowd of literary and cinema luminaries including Tom Wolfe, Woody Allen and Gay Talese (and booted out the patrons she didn't want around). In other words, people weren't returning night after night for the cuisine--and that was quite alright, given the storied scene Kaufman created over the years. This is a place with an area demarcated as "Siberia," after all! When Elaine passed away in December, her loyal regulars and the media world alike mourned the loss of the venerable parlour where media wheelings and dealings were brokered, sass with dished up and Manhattan was filmed. Longtime manager Diane Becker inherited the haunt and kept up shop for six months before announcing plans to shutter the resto on May 17. In honor of Elaine's last call, Chic feels compelled to bid farewell to Elaine with a few bon mots and verbal reveries...

David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men's Health, to Mediaite:
“For the last decade-and-a-half, I spent more nights in Elaine Kaufman’s restaurant than anywhere else on Earth; a rough calculation in my head reveals that her staff served me somewhere in the vicinity of 1300 dinners...At Elaine’s, I learned that a great restaurant was like a great magazine—a collection of unique voices speaking a common language.”

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2011 May 27

Look Of The Daily: Grace Coddington

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Grace Coddington
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It's not often (ever?) that we see Grace Coddington with her hair pulled back, so today we bestow the Look Of The Daily to her for switching things up a bit. She looked beautiful as usual at El Museo's 2011 gala honoring Mario Testino. Mwah! 

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2011 May 27

The Daily Dan Is Out!

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Hilary Rhoda Is The First Daily Dan Covergirl
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The first issue of The Daily Dan, your weekly chic sheet to all things haute, all summer long is out. Distributed partout around the East End with Dan's Papers, the ultimate doyens of Hamptons publishing, your dear Daily will give you all the glossy dish you know and love...while flooding you with the cheeky-chic elixir you know, love, and crave. 

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2011 May 27

Raul Higuera Show Opens Tomorrow Night

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The Vered Gallery Features The Photography of Raul Higuera
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