Alex And Simon NYFW

Alex Is Writing A Second Book

Post from Radar Online.

Real Housewife of NYC Alex McCord is revealing the secret to married bliss in a new book she's writing about relationships, she tells RadarOnline.com exclusively.

Last season on The Real Housewives of NYC, Alex won the favor of her fans when she finally stood up to fellow cast mate, Jill Zarin.

Now the willowy, blonde mom of two is putting her newfound attitude into her second book, which she says will incorporate stories about her 11-year marriage to husband Simon van Kempen.

"It's going to be written much the same way as my first book," McCord told RadarOnline.com exclusively. "It will be about what goes on in relationships, particularly our relationship. We talk in a very snarky, irreverent way about the things that have happened to Simon and I over the last 11 years."

McCord also reveals the book will address Simon's first marriage, something that isn't really covered on RHONYC.

When asked if the show has resumed filming, McCord just giggled and said 'no comment', but she was eager to reveal she recently signed with the celebrity division of New York Model Management and has booked seven runway shows for Fashion Week.

Alex And Simon At 25 Park

Post and pictures from the Greasy Guide.

Robert Verdi was as stylish as ever on Fashion’s Night Out as the co-host at 25 Park. Verdi and designer Robin Brouilette styled attendees and dressed guests in the latest Fall fashions. Brouilette gave special guest Alex McCord and store owner Alison Brettschneider her latest Spring 2011 gowns hot off the presses to wear for the hottest night in the fashion world. Alex McCord and hubby Simon van Kampen where also in the house. Alex was raving about the Ecoya candles scenting the venue and begged to take home one of the Lotus Flower Mini Travel Tins.

Alex And Simon Attend The Walter Spring Show

Simon and Alex at the Walter Spring 2011 fashion show at Style360 in New York City.

Paul Hanging Out With Alex And Simon

Pictures from Paul when he was at Alex and Simon's home for dinner.

Alex And Simon Attend The Farah Angsana Spring Fashion Show

Pictures of Alex and Simon at the Farah Angsana Spring 2011 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Studio at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Designer Farah Angsana With Simon And Alex

Alison Rosen is Your New Best Friend

Video from Alex and Simon's website featuring them.

Alex And Simon At John Legend Listening Party

Picture of Alex and Simon from Aug. 30th when they attended a John Legend listening party.

Alex And Simon

Pic./tweet from Simon at a concert.

RT @stephskip: @SimonvanKempen: AAWWW! Pics of u both please! /RT @SimonvanKempen: An involuntary badge unlock. My love is right next to me.

Alex And Simon On Wendy Williams

A Very Happy Couple

Pic./tweet from Alex.

Great family day w @simonvankempen & chums-morning in Sag; afternoon at Montauk Point, sunset at East by Northeast

Alex And Simon Attend Bridgehampton Polo Closing Day

Simon and Alex attend the Bridgehampton Polo closing day hosted by Hamptons Magazine, Bing and Dwyane Wade at Bridgehampton Polo Grounds on in Bridgehampton, New York.

Alex and Simon with Samantha Yanks

Alex And Simon Attend The 2010 " Taste Of Tennis"

Alex and Simon at the 2010 Taste of Tennis at the W New York  in New York City.

@mccordalex and Simon @tasteoftennis!!!

Johan And Francois-RHONY Talk Future Careers

Post/Video from CNN i-report.

Posted by:celebbuzzz
As children, we have all dreamt of the future. Dreams of growing up to rocket towards far off galaxies or take care of things right here at home as a doctors, lawyers, teachers, mothers, fathers, princesses and maybe even president. Joyful hours of playful fantasies about what we would be when we grew up.

No doubt some of us imagined being celebrities and taking the large and small screen by storm. But what did our “celebs” dream of being and what do our celebrity “kids” have in the “plan” for when they are all grown up?
I asked some of my very cool, very friendly friends who just happen to be celebrities to share with me and they came up with a few things that even suprised me!

"Boys will be boys", but these little power houses have some big dreams (and a great pool)! Not too often you get these "pint size celebs" to sit long enough to share some wisdom with the world with the world.

Watch it! Their logic is very, very sound...Look out Trump!

Alex And Simon Attend The FIT Couture Council Summer Party 2010

Post from Black Tie Magazine.

Photo: Joyce Brooks

Quintessentially is generously FIT’s Sponsor for the FIT Couture Council Summer Party 2010 and The FIT Couture Council Annual Luncheon that will Honor Karl Lagerfeld. Inspired by their mutual passion for high quality service and attention to detail, Ben Elliot, Aaron Simpson and Paul Drummond joined forces in London to create Quintessentially, a private members club with a global concierge service, in December 2000.
Chairmen are Yaz Hernandez, Alexandra Lebenthal, Charlotte Moss and Liz Peek.

Designers that attended included Anait Bian, Edmundo Castillo, Maria Cornejo, Francisco Costa, Christina Cota, Cathy Hardwick, Joan Helpern, Eric Javitz, Pat Kerr, Daryl Kerrigan, Gemma Khang, Emmet McCarthy, Nicole Miller, Ralph Rucci, Zang Toi, and Patricia Underwood.

Other fashion industry guests that attended included Linda Fargo, Willa Kim (costume designer), Carson Kressley, Patrick McDonald, PJ Pascual, Helen O'Hagan, Lynn Yeager and of course Dr. Joyce Brown, President of FIT and Dr. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT.

Other guest that attended included Real Housewives of New York Alex McCord and Simon van  Kempen, James Andrews, Melissa Berkelhammer, Deeda Blair, Claudia Cisneros, Cece Cord, Suzi Cornish, Carmen D'Alessio, Christophe de Menil, Congress Woman Carolyn Maloney, Kathleen Doyle, Peter Davis, Martha Kramer Fox, Douglas Hannant, Anthony Haden-Guest, Jane Holzer, Tama Janowitz, Eleanora and Michael Kennedy, Yue-Sai Kan, Mariana Kaufman, Mrs. Ray Kelly, Scott McBee, Carlos Ponce, Judy and Peter Price, Jean Shafiroff, Hunt Slonem, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Barbara Tober and Alexa Winner.

The annual Summer Party is New York’s biggest August fashion event.While so many vacation this month, the fashion world is here preparing for Fashion Week. Designers, Upper East Side women and downtown hipsters all come together to make the event a success. As is tradition, Dr. Joyce Brown, president of FIT, gave the summer party toast.

Simon , Alex, and Patrick McDonald attend the couture council summer party at French Embassy in New York City.

Jill and Silex At Author's Night

Pictures of Jill/Alex and Simon at Author's Night at the East Hampton,NY Library.

 Jill Zarin, Beth Ostrosky Stern and Lisa Hartman

Bethenny Late To GLAAD Event

Post from Page Six of the NY Post.

Bethenny Frankel annoyed gay activists when she showed up an hour late for the GLAAD event she was supposed to host at 230 Fifth on Wednesday night. The "Real Housewives of New York City" star walked the red carpet and then left without going up to the rooftop for the gala because she had to rush to the set of "Larry King Live," witnesses reported.

Guests who stayed longer included "Housewives" co-stars Simon van Kempen and Alex McCord, designer David Meister and stylist Phillip Bloch.

Will Alex/Simon Return To The RHONY

Post from Crushable.com.

By: Erin Carlson
Will Alex McCord – and her uber-metrosexual husband Simon – return to The Real Housewives? We’ve heard rumblings that they won’t come back to the New York edition since April.


And now there’s chatter that money – and Bravo’s alleged stinginess with reimbursing their Housewives for baiting viewers with intense drama - might be a factor in such a decision.

“Bravo hasn’t decided yet whether season four is coming back,” Simon told Crushable at a GLAAD rooftop party and benefit last night. “It probably will and if we’re invited back, we’ll probably go back. Maybe.”

“We’ll see,” said Alex.

Alex, looking sleek in a turquoise dress, said she wasn’t sure that she would return to the show if BFF Bethenny Frankel dropped out.

“I don’t know,” she told Crushable. “I mean Bethenny’s a friend. We’re both crazy busy ,so we hardly ever see each other. But we were together this weekend. And she and I are good.”

A Bravo representative did not immediately return a request for comment on reports the Housewives are not happy with their paychecks.

Meanwhile, Alex and Simon mingled and partied on the roof of New York’s 230 Fifth nightclub, alongside Bethenny, Johnny Weir, Jill Zarin’s interior designer and various drag queens from RuPaul’s Drag U series on Logo.
“It’s important to support organizations like GLAAD or marriage equality or anyone that’s working for the LGTB community,” Alex said. Because the thing is, ’til it’s no longer an issue, you have to keep talking about it.”

Given the popularity of Housewives among the gay community, would Alex and Simon consider themselves gay icons?

“I would never consider myself an icon – be it gay or anything else!” quoth Simon.

To that, Alex responded: “I would never consider myself a gay icon either. Although, I’ve been surrounded by gay men since I was about 13. So whether it was my cousins or my friends in high school or my friends in college, you know, it just is what it is.”

Alex And Simon Support GLAAD Event

A few pictures of Alex and Simon when they attended The GLAAD Manhattan Event in NYC.

Video of Silex talking about being gay:

Alex/Simon Attend AZL-The Rita Hayworth Gala

Article and picture from Hamptons.com.

The Alzheimer's Association Rita Hayworth Gala Kicks Off In East Hampton
By Douglas Harrington

East Hampton - A stunning late July summer afternoon brought out an eclectic mix of celebrities from the world of fashion, art, finance and media for a cocktail party at the equally stunning home of Allen and Deborah Grubman. The event was a summer kick-off celebration for the annual Rita Hayworth Alzheimer's Association Gala that will take place in Manhattan in October.

An iconic star of Hollywood's Golden Age, Rita Hayworth was afflicted with the disease prematurely in her 50s, although early on it was misdiagnosed as alcoholism and then described as senile dementia. Cared for in the waning years of her life by her daughter the Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, the Princess has been a tireless supporter of the Alzheimer's Association work and this year will mark her 27th year as host of the gala in her mother's name to be held on October 26 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

Among the many notables in attendance were Chele Upton Chiavacci Gala Co-Chair, as well as long time supporter Alexandra Lebenthal and her sister Claudia Lebenthal, Lizzie Grubman, Jay McInerney and Anne Hearst McInerney, Hunt Slonem, Rachel Heller, Nancy Corzine, Cornelia Sharpe Bregman, Fern Mallis, Helena Inzerillo, Dick and Donna Soloway, Robert Zimmerman, Lady Liliana Cavendish, Simon van Kempen and Alex McCord. This year's Gala was chaired by Michele Herbert.

Princess Yasmin's passion for this cause is infectious and she still remains emotional regarding the devastating effect it had on her mother who died in 1987, "The average age is 65, but my mother started in her 50s, so she had the early onset of Alzheimer's, but we didn't even have the name for it in those days. I have personally met people in their 40s with Alzheimer's. It is worldwide and it is a dreadful disease, but particularly for the caregiver because they have such tormenting and incredibly difficult responsibilities."

Although there is no cure, with new medications and the ability of new techniques in brain scans for early detection the treatment of the disease has improved dramatically since Hayworth was first officially diagnosed in 1981. Particularly encouraging is the discovery of an Alzheimer's related protein recently at MIT, which may open new pathways to an eventual cure.

This year's gala Philanthropy Award honoree is G. Marlyne Sexton who like so many have had Alzheimer's personally touch her life, "I have an aunt in Dallas who has suffered with the disease since she was 60. She is in her very late 70s now, so it has been a long time. I have another friend whose father has it. It touches everybody." Her substantial gifts to the association have been designated strictly for research in an effort to find a cure for a disease that proliferates exponentially as a result of the population's extended life expectancy.

Also being honored this year are fashion designers Naeem and Ranjana Khan (no relation to Princess Yasmin) with the Rita Hayworth Award for their long time work in support of the Alzheimer's Association. Naeem noted, "Yasmin is a very dear friend of ours, she is almost like my sister. We have been involved with the Alzheimer's Association for the last nine years. It is a cause that is very close to us because we had a very dear friend, our neighbor in Connecticut, who suffered with the disease for a very long time, a very, very long time. It really touched our hearts and we wanted to be part of the efforts to see that comes to an end."

Many other guests at the event spoke of how Alzheimer's has in some way or another touched their lives, including van Kempen and McCord who spoke of her father's battle with the disease and her loss of him when she was just 11 years old. It will indeed be only the rare among us that will not eventually have to confront the devastating effects of this disease, either personally or as a caregiver to a loved one.

Gracious and hospitable the Grubman's generously gave over their home to give the Manhattan event in October a proper Hamptons summer kick-off. Undoubtedly all in attendance will also be at the Waldorf-Astoria gala, as the passion for this cause was palpable among every attendee.

Once again Hamptons altruism shone at its best as 15 year Alzheimer's Association Steering Committee member Deborah Grubman noted in giving over their home for the kick-off party, "It was truly our pleasure, it is a very worthwhile cause. I am hoping we do find a cure so we can move on to another worthwhile health charity soon."

Yes, as always, need finds hope and support in the Hamptons, as was the case at this year's Alzheimer's Association Rita Hayworth Gala Hamptons Kick-off.

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