The scorching city was no place to be when I returned from my trips to London and Beirut–and a series of white hot parties abroad–on Sunday. So I made it out to the Hamptons, where the social calendar was in full bloom and the greenery at least offered some shade from the heat wave.

My trip to London was a whirlwind of elegant parties and dinners, so what better way to wrap up my journey than with a casual visit to the home of some dear friends? Granted, these friends were Pavlos and Marie-Chantal, the Crown Prince and Princess of Greece. But it was also a pizza night! Also […]

Julie Macklowe, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos and Susan Shin hosted an intimate dinner party earlier this week at 620 Loft&Garden. The evening celebrated empowered women and marked the global partnership between Zacapa Rum and Seven Bar Foundation, a non-profit organization that extends ladders to women out of poverty and into self-sufficiency through microfinance.

The Challenged Athletes Foundation is due for a trip to the top of the Olympic medal podium. CAF, which encourages the physically handicapped to realize their sporting dreams–and provides the tools with which they can do it–raised an impressive $1.4 million at its benefit at the Waldorf-Astoria.

After 16 years and $20 million dollars raised in America, Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation threw its first London fundraiser at the immense Battersea Power Station on Thursday, June 7.

The Grill Room became a disco at Lizzie Tisch’s star-studded 40th birthday extravaganza.

This past weekend, I headed to Southampton with Rachel Peter Thomas and Patrick Thomas.

On Thursday, May 31, I went to a tasting at Amy Sacco and her managing partner Bobby Rossi’s new hotspot Number 8.

My friends Lily and Laura have launched an amazing new bathing suit line called Été Swim. The line is available via trunkshow on modaoperandi.com now through June 8th.