In New York, the end of summer happens to coincide with the beginning of Fashion Week, and on Thursday evening, the city’s style set kicked off the latter at the Academy Mansion, on East 63rd Street.
The former home of businessman William J. Ziegler Jr., it was built by Frederick Sterner in 1920 and is considered to be an architectural marvel. Inside, AIR MAIL Co-Editor Graydon Carter and Bloomingdale’s C.E.O. Olivier Bron, along with Isabella Rossellini and The Gilded Age’s Christine Baranski and Morgan Spector, presided over the festivities.
