Word: schrager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never advertises and doesn't hang a sign on the door, Ian Schrager sure knows how to draw a crowd. At the recent opening bash for St. Martins Lane, his first London hotel, there were enough celebrities milling about, from Brad Pitt to Kate Moss, to pack a Hollywood premiere...
...VIPs in attendance were, as usual, wowed by what Schrager, 53, calls "hotel as theater." But these days the Brooklyn-born co-founder of New York's legendary Studio 54 nightclub and the man behind such chic cribs as New York City's Royalton and Los Angeles' Mondrian hotels, is looking for a broader audience--people willing to pay up to be put up in his brand of hotel hipness. Trying to stay ahead of the curve he started, Schrager is adding 10 hostelries to the five he had been running. "It's a very capital-intensive business, which doesn...
...either love them or hate them," says Bill Kimpton of Schrager's work. He's a former investment banker whose $400 million-a-year, 28-property boutique chain is one of a host of competitors, large and small, who are out to spoil Schrager's good time. Kimpton caters to less image-conscious business travelers who still prize a little personality, including free tarot-card readings, back rubs or goldfish. The San Francisco-based dynamo is establishing a growing national presence, converting bank buildings and department stores in places like Denver and Portland into small, Euro-style hotels...
Everybody loves ELOISE, the Plaza Hotel-dwelling urchin from the book by Kay Thompson. But perhaps ex-con turned innkeeper-to-the-image-conscious Ian Schrager loved her a teensy bit too much. Schrager published a parody of the children's classic in book form as a high-concept promotional brochure for his Miami hostel, the Delano. In Delia at the Delano, by Bob Morris, DELIA, right, sun-dries her own tomatoes, does Barbie liposuction and has a Prada ant farm. It's not unwitty stuff, but Thompson isn't amused. "I think they should be arrested," the nonagenarian eccentric...
...embassy in Port-au-Prince won't recognize elections that Haiti's military leaders are planning, American embassy spokesman Stan Schrager said, nor will the U.S.'s international allies. The junta's government functionaries said Monday they'd hold 10 days of meetings to arrange the general elections, but most Haitians are expected to ignore the balloting...