Mr. Mickey
R.I.P. Vidal Sassoon
As a jet-set-hipster-in-training growing up in suburban Illinois, few names elicited the aspirational glamour of legendary hair stylist Vidal Sassoon. The day I first saw his three-step hair care system on the shelves of my…
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Happy Birthday, Doris Day!
Today is the birthday of a woman who gets my vote for being the biggest fashion inspiration in the history of film. She may not be a sex-vixen femme fetale, but Doris Day has…
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Paper Takes a Dinner Field Trip to Nordic Hotspot ACME
Mr. Mickey took the Paper editorial team on a little field trip last night to Acme, SoHo's super-hip restaurant-of-the-moment from Jean-Marc Houmard. We were celebrating the birthday of our bookings hunk Jordan Sternberg and were…
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Singer Storm Large Makes Going to the Dark Place Fun in Her Memoir Crazy Enough
I love a nice, juicy memoir about an insanely horrible childhood -- and Storm Large's Crazy Enough is exactly that. Large's new book is a true page-turner and details growing up with a cuckoo-crazy mother…
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Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and The Row All Deserve The CFDA Award
Awards nominations invariably bring out the critic in people ('You call that Best Picture?') and I confess that I'm a bit of a squeaky wheel in this regard. I still haven't recovered from Tom Ford's…
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Oscars Best Dressed and Worst Dressed According to Mr. Mickey
While Mr. Mickey wasn't wooing Sacha Baron Cohen and Tom Hanks via Twitter during the Oscars, he was keeping careful notes on which starlets and screen sirens looked pretty amazing, pretty OK, and not so…
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Parker Posey On Late Night Snacks and What Gets Her Dancing
Mr. Mickey recently caught up with actress Parker Posey at the Calvin Klein celebration for Darren Criss's run on Broadway. They chatted about all things nightlife in NYC and, of course, snacks.Most memorable night out in…
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Prabal Gurung Gets Dark (Plus Video of His Finale!)
Prabal Gurung is perhaps one of the most beloved of New York-based designers, and expectations ran high at his show yesterday from otherwise cynical and "over it" editors. Fans seemed to know stakes were high…
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Our Supermarket Sweeps Moment at the New JC Penney
As a kid, the end of August always meant one thing for the Boardman family. We'd climb into Ole Yeller, my mom's 1969 canary yellow Buick Wildcat and cruise on over to the Woodfield Mall…
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Christian Louboutin On Making His Rapping Debut and Why He'll Never Get Sick of Heels
When it comes to making women swoon, shoe designer Christian Louboutin has it in the bag. He's the king of the high-heel and, 20 years into his career, his signature red sole is unmistakable worldwide.…
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Mr. Mickey Talks Serious Men's Eyewear With Deja Vu Refinery's Jason Pollak
I first came across Jason Pollak the founder of Deja Vu Refinery, a custom eyewear company, where I meet most of the interesting people I come across these days: Twitter. He acts like quite the…
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St. Etienne Is Back and Still Fabulous: Take a Listen!
I'm not really a "music person," I'm a fashion boy. Still, everybody needs a soundtrack for his or life life and British dance-pop vets St. Etienne has always been in heavy rotation on mine. That's…
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Charlotte Casiraghi's New Boyfriend?
It's been a while since Mr. Mickey filled you in on the love lives of the young and royal, so here you go: Hola magazine is reporting that Charlotte Casiraghi, the gorgeous daughter of…
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Peaches Geldof's Baby Bump
One of the joys of being a middle-aged celebrity-watcher is that you get to see the kids of the rich and famous go from adorable spoiled toddlers to drug-addicted teen models and eventually settle down…
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Sophie Theallet's Hot Look For the Gramercy Hotel
Designer Sophie Theallet has branched out from the runway to design her signature, sexy draped dresses for the servers at Gramercy Park hotel, including Rose Bar. Theallet said she wanted to make sure the ladies…
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One Life to Live Ends, Mr. Mickey Says Buh-Bye
Mr. Mickey has on his sad-face right now because the final episode of One Life to Live aired today at 2 p.m. EST on ABC. This is a tough blow, considering I still haven't recovered…
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People's Choice Awards Fashion Rights and Wrongs
Everyone knows that the best part of watching an award show is judging the shit out of what everyone is wearing. Here, Mr. Mickey weighs in on last night's People's Choice Awards' fashion hits and…
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Shit Liza Minnelli Says
Every time I watch a YouTube video of "Shit Some Fool Says to Some Other Fool" I think, "This will be the last one I'll think is funny." Well, leave it to show-biz legend…
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Kate Middleton! It's Your Birthday
Today is the 30th birthday of the universe's most popular royal, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. That's the former Kate Middleton for you non-followers of monarchy.As a rabid royal-watcher I rarely have anyone to discuss…
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Mr. Mickey's Shopaholic Diary -- Felt Sandwiches, Carrie Fisher's Memoir + Royalty Knickknacks
Hi, my name is Mr. Mickey and I'm a shopaholic. And I don't want to get better because I buy such cute stuff! Here's a peek at some of my online purchases that have arrived…
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