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French Luxury Brand Givenchy Debuts Its First Texas Outpost at Dallas’ NorthPark Center

Billy Fong — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:14:04 +0000

French luxury brand Givenchy has opened its 10th location in the Americas in Dallas at NorthPark Center, just as the announcement hits that Sarah Burton has been named creative director of the brand, succeeding Matthew Williams, who departed in January...

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Dallas Retail News to Know This Fall — Buzzy Openings, Renovations, Residences, and Events

Billy Fong — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:24:24 +0000

Fall is officially here, and in anticipation of the new season, we’ve rounded up the most exciting retail openings, store renovations, residencies, and events. This is the Dallas retail news to know this fall — at the best local shopping destinat...

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12 Must-Attend Events in Dallas This October — Justin Baldoni, Fashion Shows, Art Crawls, and More

Billy Fong — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:31:01 +0000

For the past few years, I’ve felt like Miss Porter’s, with many coastal transplants grilling me about the charity scene in Dallas. My response is to get ready for the fall, since it’s nonstop luncheons, cocktail soirées, and black-tie galas, with...

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New Orleans’ Chicest Hotel — Checking Out Hotel Saint Vincent and the Best Of Magazine Street

Billy Fong — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 18:57:38 +0000

I hate being the last to a party. You know, the dreaded last person to discover something. For the past two years, I’ve heard mentions of Hotel Saint Vincent in New Orleans — and not in the jaded “been there, done that” tone. Instead, the vibe was: “Be...

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Go All In On Beetlejuice Beetlejuice With A Film-Inspired Pop-Up At This Experiential Dallas Bar

Billy Fong — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:03:56 +0000

Yes the title of this long-awaited sequel has the ghostest with the mostest’s name twice — Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. But don’t say it thrice, or you’ll conjure up that wiry-haired, white-complected wraith in the prison-garb-like striped suit himself, pl...

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An Artsy Dallas Staycation In Heart of It All — What a Weekend at JW Marriott Dallas Arts District Can Be

Billy Fong — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 02:35:54 +0000

As the clock ticks towards the inevitable return to reality — with post-Labor Day sending school kicking into high gear and the onslaught of Dallas’ busy fall social season — it’s time to think of making one last escape. With only days left...

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Thom Browne’s Subversive New Line of Luxury Home Goods

Billy Fong — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:22:59 +0000

The fashion Olympics recently occurred — and by that, we mean the cavalcade of gowns and tuxedos (generally avant-garde and on theme) that ascended the steps of the magnificent Gothic Revival building on Fifth Avenue for The Met Gala. Each year, the co...

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Scenes from the Klyde Warren Park 2024 President’s Circle Party — A Garden Party at Nancy and Randy Best’s

Billy Fong — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:22:25 +0000

As flowers bloomed and scattered storm clouds loomed, it was once again that time of year: the Klyde Warren Park’s President’s Circle annual garden party. On May 2, 2024, the prestigious event was held at the Preston Hollow home of park patrons Nancy a...

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Brit Brand Clements and Church Brings Wimbledon Style to a Chic Dallas Soirée

Billy Fong — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:21:03 +0000

If you were first in line to see Challengers then you would have been in heaven at the recent Clements and Church Wimbledon-themed cocktail party in Dallas. The British custom suit brand held a poolside party at Hôtel Swexan’s Pomelo complete wit...

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Bowie House Hotel is Texas’ Elevated Hub of Cowboy Culture

Billy Fong — Wed, 29 May 2024 22:00:24 +0000

If you’re making a trip out yonder — and by out yonder, I mean out west to Fort Worth — you have a new spot to rest your head and park those cowboy boots for the night. Bowie House, Auberge Resorts Collection, has opened, and I recently decamped for a ...

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The Scene from the Total Solar Eclipse at Klyde Warren Park

Billy Fong — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:01:51 +0000

The party invites were coming in fast and furious for the months leading up to the Great Northern Eclipse on Monday, April 8. Dallas was lucky to be the largest American city in the “path of totality.” I wanted to be in the center of the ac...

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The 2024 Art Ball Was a Dazzling Ode to the DMA

Billy Fong — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:11:28 +0000

Anything goes. That is my usual response when posed with “What should I wear to Art Ball?” My inbox often finds a story from GQ, Town & Country, or InStyle with a variation of this type of story: “What is black tie appropriate today?” Old school Da...

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Renowned Dallas Art Collector Marguerite Hoffman Hosts a Garden Dinner Party for The Conservatory

Billy Fong — Thu, 09 May 2024 16:23:08 +0000

Brian Bolke‘s long and storied career in the luxury retail realm has spanned learning the ropes at Neiman Marcus, co-founding Forty Five Ten in 2000, and opening The Conservatory five years ago. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Bolke’s...

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Mario Carbone, the Black Pumas, and Custom Couture — Inside Dallas’ Intimate Chanel Supper Club

Billy Fong — Mon, 06 May 2024 21:40:08 +0000

To properly honor the opening of the reimagined Chanel Dallas boutique, a two-part event was required. First, cocktails in the Peter Marino-designed Highland Park Village store, where model-like men greeted guests at the door with flutes of bubbles. Po...

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How Famed Accessories Designer Lele Sadoughi Entertains in Dallas

Billy Fong — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:23:43 +0000

At a party in Dallas several years ago, I complimented a lovely woman on her bold, bedazzled headband. She reached out her hand and said, “I’m Lele.” Yes, it was that Lele (Lisa to some) Sadoughi. She had recently moved to the city from New York, where...

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Emerging Dallas Fashion Brand Eve & Max Finds a Permanent Home at Grange Hall

Billy Fong — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:58:39 +0000

As part of a permanent residency at Grange Hall, Eve & Max unveils Namaloon, its third collection of women’s luxe ready-to-wear. Eve & Max was launched in 2021 by Dallas entrepreneur Maxine Trowbridge (a graduate of the London College of Fashio...

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Chanel’s Second Coming

Billy Fong — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:11:01 +0000

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” Those words from Coco Chanel herself are especially appropriate, given that walls were knocked down and grand new doors were installed for the recent unveiling of the two-story D...

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Anarchy at SMU

Billy Fong — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:26:19 +0000

To quote Henry Rollins, former lead singer of the seminal band Black Flag, “Questioning everything, and anything, to me, is punk rock.” Given that college campuses should be a hotbed of young minds questioning everything around them, we were excited to...

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PaperCity’s Guide to a Stylish April in Dallas

Billy Fong — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:08:15 +0000

Your ever-buzzy PaperCity bee has the latest scoop on what’s premiering in Dallas and what events are happening at our favorite haunts this April. If you see him and have some news, be sure to share. Shop Talk Luxury nirvana Highland Park Village is a...

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Deep Vellum’s Latest Book is a Larger-Than-Life Tale From Virginia Reeves

Billy Fong — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:00:15 +0000

I first met the inimitable Virginia Reeves in 2012 at the Crystal Charity Ball Fashion Show and Luncheon. Stunned by the gazelle-like creature that just slinked into the room, I nudged my girlfriend, Lucy Wrubel, to ask who it was. “Her?” W...

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