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Today, with U2 in town for a show at Madison Square Garden, Bono has the rare treat of staying in one of his homes, a three-story penthouse he purchased from Steve Jobs. (He also has places in Dublin and the south of France.) He lounges beneath a giant Christo drawing of The Gates (not Bill and Melinda but the Central Park installation), surrounded by art books. It's a lovely day to do nothing, but that's not really an option."I get very little time entirely alone," he says, moments before six people appear in the living room...
...Russian aristocracy. But in 1995, when Mendel opened the first J. Mendel outpost in New York City, the fur industry was under siege from animal-rights activists, and women who donned a mink in midtown Manhattan risked being pelted with red paint. To protect the windows of his Madison Avenue store from being smashed overnight, Mendel took the fur coats off the mannequins and designed dresses to cover them until the store opened the next...
...reluctant to join them. ?I wanted to come to it from my heart, not by necessity,? he says, but in 1981 he began apprenticing with his father. After eight months, he struck out on his own. ?My dream was to open a beautiful store on Madison Avenue,? he says. His first stop in New York City was Fifth Avenue and the headquarters of the Elizabeth Arden salon, where he was hired as chief designer for the in-house fur boutique...
...opened the Madison Avenue store, taking over chief design duties for the label from his father, who still runs the Paris shop. The younger Mendel, however, wouldn't mind if the company, still privately held, lost the family management by being bought by a fashion conglomerate. ?I'd like to do accessories, bags, shoes,? he says. ?I'd also have a more global reach. For that, I need additional backing.? His timing seems perfect...
...phone lines, advance reservations and jaw-dropping dinner bills. Some upscale restaurateurs have set up shop in more humble locations such as, uh, the sidewalk. Danny Meyer (of Blue Smoke, the Modern and Tabla fame) last year unveiled a ?roadside? food stand in New York City's Madison Square Park. The Shake Shack serves up affordable fare like cheeseburgers, crinkle-cut fries, hot dogs, frozen custard, beer and even breakfast?you can eat your warm heirloom apple fritter and Shack-a-ccino (total: $5.31) on a folding plastic chair under the shade of a tree. In nearby Bryant Park...