Author Archives: By ALEX WILLIAMS

Up Close | Noah Tepperberg: A Nightclub Mogul Can’t Avoid the Spotlight

The nightclub impresario Noah Tepperberg is about to open one of this season’s most anticipated new party spaces: Lavo, on East 58th Street.


Up Close | Fall Fashion: Giving ‘Fashion Editor’ a Makeover

Nina Garcia’s fourth style guide for women is the latest example of how Ms. Garcia is building her own brand by stretching the parameters of what a fashion editor is.




Up Close: A Founder of Vice Magazine Branches Out

Although he presents himself as an ageless slacker, Shane Smith, a founder of Vice Magazine, counts a Fortune 500 executive as his idol.


Up Close: Tim Nye, Gallery Owner, Finds Art After the Internet

A former high-tech mogul now nurtures an art scene with his own style of “happenings.”


The Life of Tobias Wong, Designer

A young designer’s suicide mystifies his friends. Could sleepwalking be to blame?


Up Close: Notoriety in a Tight Embrace

Neal Boulton, the former editor of Men’s Fitness, is shopping a memoir and a reality TV show.The professional and personal journey of Neal Boulton, a controversial figure in the New York magazine world, who is shopping a memoir and a reality TV show.


Up Close: A Dermatologist to the Stars Calls on Them to Help Haitian Amputees

Dr. David Colbert’s charity raised nearly $500,000 to buy prosthetics for earthquake victims.Dr. David Colbert, a dermatologist to the Hollywood crowd, uses his connections to help heal Haiti.


Up Close: An Art Gallery Banks On the Thrill of the Hunt

Amy Smith-Stewart.Amy Smith-Stewart, a former P.S. 1 curator who helped many emerging artists break out, has given up her Lower East Side space to operate as a roving gallery.


Up Close: Carole Mallory, Mistress of Norman Mailer, Speaks Up

Carole Mallory comes to the defense of mistresses.In her new book, “Loving Mailer,” Carole Mallory writes about her affair with Norman Mailer and defends celebrity mistresses.


Up Close: Whitney Sudler-Smith’s Love Letter to the ’70s

Whitney Sudler-Smith said of ’70s New York, “You wish it still existed now, but it will never happen again.”Whitney Sudler-Smith has made a film of one of the most emblematic figures of the 1970s: the designer Halston.