Welcome to my blog, Lily Pad! I will be reporting from the wild world of New York public relations, from product launches to red carpet events, from fashion shows to long power lunches--such as the one I had today. After I attended the Michael Kors fashion show (partly inspired by Ali MacGraw, star of Love Story, and once the stylist to floating bubble photog, Melvin Sokolsky) at Bryant Park, I met one of my clients--the handbag designer, Lulu Guinness--at Amy Sacco's trendy new WeChe boite, Bette. As I hollered, "More champagne for Lulu!" for the fourth time, the savvy Ms. Guinness reached into one of her handbags nonpareil, pulled out a copy of today's New York Times, and thrust this article under my well-exfoliated nose.
"Lily, did you see this article about underwear? Don't you have a few underwear clients? I don't see any of them mentioned." I nearly spit out a bite of my endive salad (no dressing, no gargonzola, no walnuts) across the A-list-filled room. I quickly scanned the article--which outlines the current state of underwear shopping (with a rather palsied attempt to re-ignite the sex wars, I might add)-- and was mildly annoyed to see that one of my treasured underwear clients, Freshpair.com, had been overlooked. "Don't get your knickers in a twist," Lulu told me as I reached for my cell phone, my Blackberry and an unusually sharp butter knife. "There are some rather dubious claims in that article--such as the alleged 'disappearance of thongs in fashion', according to fashion professor Valerie Steele."
"First of all, I'm not wearing knickers. Because I haven't had time to burn off all those holiday cocktails yet, I have my Spanx shapewear on underneath this Balenciaga suit--which by the way, won't be in stores until July," I said, perhaps a bit too defensively. "And second of all, I'm an underwear publicist -- I don't need some academic up in her ivory tower telling me whether women are still wearing thongs or not!"
"Hey Lily, how is everything. I see you ordered the fashion week diet special." This was Amy Sacco, the towering, 6'1" queen of New York nightlife. "I got the invite to your underwear launch next week--I will definitely try my best to be there." Amy's glamorous, amazonian presence made me momentarily forget my spasm of media rage.
"Oh yes, I hope you can make it," I coo. "The cast of Entourage will be modeling the latest styles of underwear. Bring your camera."
I'd love to tell you more about lunch, but I really must go approve the color of the gift bags for my next event. Tune in next time at Lily Pad, where I'll deliver my report from the front row of a fashion show by Manuel--the man who designed all of Johnny Cash's terribly chic, all-black ensembles. Ta-ta for now!
Love, Lily
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