It has belatedly occurred to me that not everyone understands what the iHog (aka Fernando von Bakonstein) is about. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. DON’T YOU KNOW WHO HE IS?!? No? Oh. Then click here and here. After a busy Saturday spent sightseeing and hog-nogging with an Oscar nominee, Fernando and I were…
Mother’s Day Is May 11
Get your mama a flower. A Wendy Brandes Lotus Flower Necklace, to be exact. Lotus Flower Necklace in 18K gold: $550 © Wendy Brandes 2007-2008 Photo by John Muggenborg Lotus Flower Necklace in silver: $110 © Wendy Brandes 2007-2008 Photo by John Muggenborg If the Lotus looks familiar, that’s because the design originated as the…
Bizarre Newspaper Error of the Day
The Washington Post (registration required) intrigued me with a brief profile of stylish photographer Zaida Ben-Yusuf, whose work is being shown at the National Portrait Gallery. The profile said she lived from 1869 to 1909 and emphasized that she died at the startlingly young age of 40. I went to the National Portrait Gallery’s site…
Dr. Melfi, I Presume? Plus iHog New York.
When I learned that Lorraine Bracco, beauteous star of one of my favorite movies AND one of my favorite TV shows, was having a tasting of her own line of wines, Fernando and I jumped in a cab and went to Sherry-Lehman. Lorraine Bracco poured me some Chianti with her very own hands and kindly…
Speaking of Shelly Duvall*
I loved the hairstyle on the woman towards the center of this photo. Seen on Fifth Avenue earlier this week. It reminded me of Shelly Duvall’s Olive Oyl hairstyle in Popeye. If you want to look like Shelly/Olive but don’t have the hair for it, you can buy some of Shelly’s movie costumes here. Olive…
iHog Gets a Haircut (Vicariously)
Fernando came with me to see hairstylist-to-the-stars Keith Carpenter. Having a pig around made us silly. Voila! An even shaggier ‘do. Does it remind you of Shelly Duvall‘s? Just a bit? Keith kept telling me to stop laughing. Do these Versace pants match the lamp growing out of my head? We went to dinner at…
Park Avenue Is Pretty in the Springtime
Fernando tiptoes through the tulips
Does Daddy Likey? Plus, Serious Stuff.
Does this Antik Batik dress qualify me for the Don’t Show-Cha Your Chocha feature, Winona? Hello! Goodbye! I wore this to a dinner for the Overseas Press Club Awards last night, where I had the pleasure of bumping into glamorous author Tracy Quan. Tracy and her friend Keith. MrB gave the keynote speech with Fernando…
The Blair Pig Project and the BBD
Instead of flying back to New York from Paris on Monday, we stopped in Washington, DC, for the annual dinner of the Atlantic Council. Fernando was hoping to see a monument or two, but sightseeing was canceled after Air France temporarily misplaced the luggage, leading to all sorts of logistical problems.We still made it to…
An American Pig in Paris
A few more Paris photos from Fernando von Bakonstein. It was spring… We took some family snapshots… Chillaxed at the hotel… and rode the Metro. “Those Marc Jacobs shoes are fugly,” thought Fernando, “but they do complement my complexion.” Alessandra says that the French are gaga for Castaner espadrilles. The luggage-misplacing surrender monkeys at Air…