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POLLYTALK FROM NEW YORK
By Polly Guerin
September 21, 2009
NEW YORK’S THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN
Everyone wants to come to New York. It’s energy, it’s showmanship, the fashion shows, the
movie premieres, the cultural events, the museum openings, the parades, the celebrations go on
and on week after week!!! No wonder New York is the best show in town. Here’s the scoop!!!
COCO’s in town, opening September 25th at the Paris Theater with the film “Coco Before
Chanel,” but don’t expect this movie to be all about the celebrated fashion designer’s famous
Haute Couture days of wine and roses. It focuses on her early life from rags to riches, singing in
cabarets, plying her dressmaking skills and finding romance with wealthy male benefactors who
provided financial aid and abetted her meteoric rise to stardom and high society. PollyTalk
dishes out the real goods on Chanel’s life, even her unpatriotic alliance with a German officer
during WWII and the creation of her iconic Chanel suit in my blog http://amazingartdecodivas.
blogspot.com. This movie comes right on the heels of the anniversary of the 70-year old jewelry
firm, VERDURA and its association with Chanel. For the first time Verdura has re-created the
Maltese Cross Cuffs, a limited series of 70 gold, enamel and gem-laden cuffs which will retail for
$65,000 each. Mon Dieu, what a price, I shall no doubt wait for the costume jewelry replicas.
Remember Chanel is a registered trademark for fashion, accessories, perfume, cosmetics and all
sorts of lovely things. Do not use terms like Chanel-ed, Chanel-ized or Cheanel-issim, Lawyers
positively detest them.
All this on the heels of the movie, September Issue, featuring Vogue’s doyenne of fashion,
Anna Wintour. Here’s where you get an inside look at how a magazine produces those amazing
fashion issues. Just in time with the past week’s fashion show parade at Bryant Park. There was
a lot of showmanship on the runway with clothes that will never reach the selling floor at
department stores but other more understandable offerings like Tommy Hilfiger’s rather
wholesome American looks. Now the fashion paparazzi and editors are off to the fashion
extravaganzas in London, Pairs and Milan. When I attended the European shows I always found
that the Italians seem to get it right when it comes to “chic” fashion, lauding it over the Parisian
collections. As for the Emmy Awards. Did you ever see so much Red? It was one of the hottest
nights on the red carpet so a cool color might have curtailed the angst. We all know that the stars
usually get the gowns on loan or for free, but don’t those women have some style sense of their
own? Some of those gowns were perfectly awful. I can only say that Debra Messing looked
stunning in Michael Kors’ one shoulder red gown with waist cinching tie in front.
Talk about Parades this weekend’s choices gave us the 52nd Annual German-American Steuben
Parade on Fifth Avenue whirling to the tune of polkas and on Madison Avenue the Mexican’s took
pride with feisty music with crowd pleasers in costume and huge sombreros. Only in New York my
friends, Only in New York!!!
Not to be undone by all the fashion hooplala The Metropolitan Museum of Art sent out three
openings to bring in the culture vultures. If you want to see how the nobles entertained in the
1700s visit “Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier.” The exhibition includes the
recreation in the gallery of an extravagant table that was set just for the Archduchess Maria
Theresa for a banquet in 1740. In addition to the porcelain, elaborate table decorations and
pyramids of fruit sculpted from sugar, specially made for the exhibition, adorn the table. The
exhibit charts the history of the development of the Du Paquier factory, which was only the second
factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese. Insightful and
engaging is the exhibit, “Watteau, Music, and Theater” that presents Watteau’s oeuvre and sheds
new light on his talent for depicting music and theatre with French or Italian actors. Don’t miss
“Robert Frank’s exhibit “Looking in: The Americans,” which draws us into the black and white
exposure of how people looked and lived and loved in America’s back roads and cities. www.
metmusum.org.
That’s it for this week, my darlings!!! I’m off to take a vicarious trip to Paris and the Fashion
Collections. I’ll tell all next week. Remember that you heard all about it on the Big Apple News
Network. Fan mail is always welcome: pollytalk@verizon.net or go to www.pollytalk.com.
By Polly Guerin
September 21, 2009
NEW YORK’S THE BEST SHOW IN TOWN
Everyone wants to come to New York. It’s energy, it’s showmanship, the fashion shows, the
movie premieres, the cultural events, the museum openings, the parades, the celebrations go on
and on week after week!!! No wonder New York is the best show in town. Here’s the scoop!!!
COCO’s in town, opening September 25th at the Paris Theater with the film “Coco Before
Chanel,” but don’t expect this movie to be all about the celebrated fashion designer’s famous
Haute Couture days of wine and roses. It focuses on her early life from rags to riches, singing in
cabarets, plying her dressmaking skills and finding romance with wealthy male benefactors who
provided financial aid and abetted her meteoric rise to stardom and high society. PollyTalk
dishes out the real goods on Chanel’s life, even her unpatriotic alliance with a German officer
during WWII and the creation of her iconic Chanel suit in my blog http://amazingartdecodivas.
blogspot.com. This movie comes right on the heels of the anniversary of the 70-year old jewelry
firm, VERDURA and its association with Chanel. For the first time Verdura has re-created the
Maltese Cross Cuffs, a limited series of 70 gold, enamel and gem-laden cuffs which will retail for
$65,000 each. Mon Dieu, what a price, I shall no doubt wait for the costume jewelry replicas.
Remember Chanel is a registered trademark for fashion, accessories, perfume, cosmetics and all
sorts of lovely things. Do not use terms like Chanel-ed, Chanel-ized or Cheanel-issim, Lawyers
positively detest them.
All this on the heels of the movie, September Issue, featuring Vogue’s doyenne of fashion,
Anna Wintour. Here’s where you get an inside look at how a magazine produces those amazing
fashion issues. Just in time with the past week’s fashion show parade at Bryant Park. There was
a lot of showmanship on the runway with clothes that will never reach the selling floor at
department stores but other more understandable offerings like Tommy Hilfiger’s rather
wholesome American looks. Now the fashion paparazzi and editors are off to the fashion
extravaganzas in London, Pairs and Milan. When I attended the European shows I always found
that the Italians seem to get it right when it comes to “chic” fashion, lauding it over the Parisian
collections. As for the Emmy Awards. Did you ever see so much Red? It was one of the hottest
nights on the red carpet so a cool color might have curtailed the angst. We all know that the stars
usually get the gowns on loan or for free, but don’t those women have some style sense of their
own? Some of those gowns were perfectly awful. I can only say that Debra Messing looked
stunning in Michael Kors’ one shoulder red gown with waist cinching tie in front.
Talk about Parades this weekend’s choices gave us the 52nd Annual German-American Steuben
Parade on Fifth Avenue whirling to the tune of polkas and on Madison Avenue the Mexican’s took
pride with feisty music with crowd pleasers in costume and huge sombreros. Only in New York my
friends, Only in New York!!!
Not to be undone by all the fashion hooplala The Metropolitan Museum of Art sent out three
openings to bring in the culture vultures. If you want to see how the nobles entertained in the
1700s visit “Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier.” The exhibition includes the
recreation in the gallery of an extravagant table that was set just for the Archduchess Maria
Theresa for a banquet in 1740. In addition to the porcelain, elaborate table decorations and
pyramids of fruit sculpted from sugar, specially made for the exhibition, adorn the table. The
exhibit charts the history of the development of the Du Paquier factory, which was only the second
factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese. Insightful and
engaging is the exhibit, “Watteau, Music, and Theater” that presents Watteau’s oeuvre and sheds
new light on his talent for depicting music and theatre with French or Italian actors. Don’t miss
“Robert Frank’s exhibit “Looking in: The Americans,” which draws us into the black and white
exposure of how people looked and lived and loved in America’s back roads and cities. www.
metmusum.org.
That’s it for this week, my darlings!!! I’m off to take a vicarious trip to Paris and the Fashion
Collections. I’ll tell all next week. Remember that you heard all about it on the Big Apple News
Network. Fan mail is always welcome: pollytalk@verizon.net or go to www.pollytalk.com.