Remember Kristina Stewart Ward, the "No Sex and the City" editor—and Mormon!—who wrote about being a total contradiction in terms in Vogue last month? She's back in circulation, in her old position as editor of ritzy summer-only Hampton Style, nudging aside Portfolio contributor Deb Schoeneman. Are Mormons taking over the whole world? Not really, but it sounded dramatic.
'The rich do strange and terrible things with their money' beat reporter Alex Kuczynski is supplanted at the Times today by second-stringer Deb Schoeneman, who introduces us to Brad Peik and Sara Kehoe, a couple who have retained a "personal manager" to help them invent their lifestyle. "'Allison is covering all the bases for me,' said Mr. Peik, who spends winters in Lake Tahoe in California and feels more comfortable navigating ski slopes than society. 'I didn't want to waste my short time here setting up an apartment and figuring out what we would do here.' His girlfriend, a photographer, was grateful that she didn't have to deal with the move. 'If I had no job and nothing going on, it would seem reasonable for me to do these things.'" [NYT]
What follows is like aversion therapy for those who might want to go to the Hamptons. On Saturday night in Amagansett, as Jessica Coen reported today at New York mag, the sundry foodie blogging glitterati gathered for a burger cook-off. Coen was there to support her man Lockhart Steele, our (and her!) former boss at this very website. She looks really happy. That "typical summer share house" was Eater honcho Ben Leventhal's, and it is called "Southfork." Julia Allison was there too! She was cozying up with College Humor's Jakob Lodwick. Later they would have a huge knock-down drag-out fight but then go on to make up. Former Glamour blogger and Gawker enemy Alyssa Shelasky was munching on Doritos poolside, as was weirdly attractive photographer Jessica Craig-Martin. Hampton's Style editor Deb Schoeneman was there, as was College Humor millionaire and (coincidence!) Hampton's Style Contributing Editor Ricky Van Veen. His pictures can be found here; the one above is the only one of Julia Allison topless, just to save you time searching.
How does Deb Schoeneman—editor of Hamptons Style magazine, Portfolio blogger, and one-time long-time New York mag contributor—actually live? Unsurprisingly, in a large-ish Water Mill house that has an indoor squash court. They use it as a guest room. Surprisingly, in a large-ish Water Mill house that has an extensive collection of literature on Judaism and the Holocaust. She also has an albino gay housecleaner named Marcos who only comes on Sundays and a virtual drumkit in one of the three two-car garages.
When unaging (at least around the face!) PR doyenne Peggy Siegal throws a movie party in the Hamptons, she bizarrely expects you to see whatever movie she's working on. On Sunday, it was some Jaime Foxx action flick called The Kingdom. When we rolled up for her party at Savannah's in Southampton about ten minutes before the movie ended, no one was in the restaurant yet. Peggy approached: Jackie Onassis meets Nan Talese meets Allison Janney. "Sorry, we're early!" said Deb Schoeneman, the editor in chief of Hamptons Style. Peggy's eyes were burning embers of annoyance in their deep sockets. "It's O.K. this time but not again. I'm in the movie business. Not the catering business," she said. Awkward! People arrived. Jeff Zucker, the short bald president of NBC Universal, worked the tables like a croupier.
Hamptons Style editor Deborah Schoeneman has managed to enlist another pirate on her Hamptons lifestyle pirate ship of bikinis and debauchery and pirates. Marshall Heyman, an editor at W much beloved of the social gals, will be joining the serial Moby-doer as executive editor. Together, they will put together packages on Shoes of Summer and Ladies Who Like Lotion Rubbed On Them By Houseboys. Or whatever they do. For the rest of you looking for work, Deb is camped out at Soho House.
