Laura Mercier
Mother Knows Bess
Edward Bess as his “own guinea pig”
Down in the subterranean cool of Bergdorf Goodman’s cosmetics department, you’ll find a modest patch of paradise presided over by makeup artist Edward Bess. At 20, he became the youngest person ever to have a line carried by the venerable department store. read more »
Like Bobbi Brown and Laura Mercier before him, Mr. Bess, now a geriatric 22, is building his brand with lipstick: a dozen silky shades with suggestive names like Night Orchid, Pure Impulse and Natural Seduction. They are not lurid or flashy, but rather better versions of our natural selves: deep peaches and pinky browns, a red here, a rust there.
Cosmetics Magnate Sells Chelsea Loft for $8.5 M. to Princess Nemesis
This time next year New York’s gorgeously extravagant real estate market could very well be a thing of the past. Will we all long, teary-eyed, for the days when makeup entrepreneurs bought nice Chelsea co-ops for a few million dollars one year and sold them a few months later for a few million more?
Either way, as New York’s financial crisis deepened this week, it was a bit odd to watch the wave of incredibly large apartment deals pop up in city records—deals that were done months ago, but because of delays at the Office of the City Register weren’t recorded and filed until recently. read more »
Sunday in the Park With–Park!
