Andy Warhol shot Ms. von Furstenburg in 1984, and like most women who sat for him, her face, neck and shoulders were covered in powder. The makeup reduced glare, enhanced facial features, and made everyone's skin look like porcelain. I shot DVF last night, 29 years later with no powder (or photoshop) and she still looks great.

PHILLIPS [formerly Phillip de Pury & Company] has had an interesting couple of years. They decided to move their Meatpacking District offices to a scary building in midtown, their former chairman, and one of reality TV's best and brightest, Simon de Pury, stepped down, and there have been endless rumblings about self inflicted mercurialism within the organization [we, of course, can not verify the latter because the art market is effectively unregulated, totally opaque, and entirely relationship driven—and that is the way they like it].