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GEORGE WAYNE UNFILTERED
FERN MALLIS
FASHION ICONS 2 BOOK PARTY
EGO vs ID
The outspoken celebrity commentator dishes on the juiciest gossip and the hottest Hamptons summer yet to come in an exclusive interview with himself ! Sit back and enjoy the show.
Martha Stewart, Fern Mallis
BY GEORGE WAYNE
Well hello, darlinka(s)!
It’s a new season and the Shamptons will never be
more spectacular, so the cognoscenti are whispering...
GEORGE WAYNE: Who’s our haute on the South Fork summer ’22 obsession during this season?
GW: GW’s obsession this summer is one Prince Achileas-Andreas—Prince Achi of Greece and Denmark. I know! This arbiter knows that the zeitgeist needs a new John-John Kennedy blue- blood royal stud to ogle and we need one now! So Prince Achi—the gor- geous 21-year-old blond swan spawn of Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece and Marie Chantal Pavlos—you are the chosen one, luv.
GEORGE WAYNE: JFK Jr.—those are some size 11 shoes to fill.
GW: Oh! How I miss John-John Kennedy! In retrospect, I really should have listened to you when you begged GW to leave Vanity Fair to join your ranks at George magazine. I said no, and I regret it to this day.
GEORGE WAYNE: Okay, enough with that. What else is haute this season?
GW: Geez Louise, bish! What else do you want to know? The fact is we al- ready know that the only place you can still get gas for $3 in America is at the nearest Taco Bell! Oy! So let’s move on. The other day I saw that iconic New Yorker Fern Mallis.
GEORGE WAYNE: You mean the woman who revolutionized the presentation of fashion in America when she and Stan Herman created New York Fashion Week in 1993?
GW: Yes!!! Well, I went to her divine book-release party at the superlatively
fashionable setting of the restaurant
at the 57th Street Nordstrom flagship. The Veuve Clicquot flowed all night and “Ferny” was in her element, wel- coming the required social stalwarts such as Martha Stewart, Nicole Miller, Stefano Tonchi, Bethann Hardison, and Tim Gunn and a further cavalcade of old-school fashionistas.
I told Ferny that I was the oracle
to declare that a major addition to any- one’s book collection will be her new tome, Fashion Icons 2: Fashion Lives with Fern Mallis [book 1 and 2], a must read!
GEORGE WAYNE: It takes a special talent to master the celebrity Q&A.
GW: I should know—I did it for 22 years for Vanity Fair! Ferny’s book
is to be commended. With these two compendiums, much to her credit, she has interviewed almost every Fashion Bessie—from Ralph to Calvin to Val- entino to Victoria Beckham and every relevant designer in between. They all talked to Fern. She told me: “I look at these two books as a master class with all these legendary talents offering their authentic, unscripted perspective on their work and their lives.” GEORGE WAYNE: GW! You with that gimlet eye on the zeitgeist. What else to nota bene?
GW: Oooh! Do you remember Car-
ine Roitfeld? That fabulously snob-
by former editor in chief of French Vogue? That Parisian editrix that Anna Wintour... well, let’s just say Carine’s no longer with the Condé Nast empire. The said diva went on to create the
CR Fashion Book to rival Vogue and further firmly establish her brand as one of fashion’s most influential. Well,
guess what? Since April she’s been flogging her brand-new eau de par- fum—Carine. Her next project ought to be an erotic essay book! Laugh out loud, people!
GEORGE WAYNE: You’ve always had your finger on the pulse of the art and culture scene.
GW: Tell me about it, hunny bunny! I only wish I had David Geffen’s money to out-fantasy my fantasies this sea- son. Head to the Blade Skyport termi- nal on East 23rd Street and go straight to Sag Harbor on their new seaplane service this season. Naturally, the best suite at my favorite South Fork hotel— Barron’s Cove—will already have been reserved for the first five weeks of the season out there in my fave part of
Sag Harbor. In August, for a change of pace, GW would then check into one of the brand-new executive suites at the revamped Capri hotel in South- ampton, which is guaranteed to be
a glamorous social nexus even more than ever this summer, especially with the news that my dear friend Omar Hernandez might be taking over the Naia restaurant there for the season.
Suffice to say, if you want a Beyoncé or Bella Hadid sighting, rest assured Naia is where the glamour party crowd will be flocking. From the Capri, in late August GW will then head further out for hotel living at the newly reopened Pridwin Hotel and Cottages on Shelter Island to quietly relax and work on my third book and prepare for the next New York season in September. And how is that for a captivating summer? I will be in touch. n
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Felita Harris
Fern Mallis signs her new tome for GW
Marilyn Kirschner, Tim Gunn,
Amy Fine Collins
Pam Sommers, Robert Verdi
Elie Tahari, Sabrina Levine
Kevin Sharkey, Susan Magrino
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