Photographs courtesy of William Jacob Photography. Take a stroll down Fifth Avenue on New York’s tony Upper East Side on a Saturday afternoon, and it becomes quickly clear that it’s not just the neighborhood’s two-legged residents who are living the high life. Dogs—particularly of the exorbitantly expensive, well-shampooed, small variety—are everywhere, peeping from designer carrying cases or tugging at hand-tooled leashes. But it’s a rare occasion when the area’s cherished pets are welcomed to that other hallmark of upper-crust New York: the society party. Last week, the Neue Gallerie, the Fifth Avenue museum specializing in early-20th-century German and Austrian art, did just that, inviting dogs and their owners to its Neue Hund holiday cocktail party on the ground floor. (Although people were allowed to visit the galleries upstairs, dogs scampered around the lobby level only.) Many of the guests were from the design profession—not surprising,...
- 12/15/2009
- Vanity Fair
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