According to Gothamist.com, the Empire State building glowed green for Earth Day on Tuesday. It will be yellow on May 5th in honor of Project Sunshine, a non-profit org that offers children with medical problems free educational, recreational, and social programs. But the real meaningful light-up (hellooo sarcasm) will be today, in the lovely array of pink, purple and white in honor of Mariah Carey.

No, she didn’t cure cancer or donate millions to feed starving children in Africa. The reason is titled “Honoring a great New Yorker: Mariah Carey breaks records with E=MC2 album release”.

 Are you kidding me? (Boy do I regret downloading “Bye Bye” now.) This for the woman who reportedly cancels interviews because she’s “not a morning person,” brings 100 pairs of shoes with her on trips, and requires 11 bodyguards at a restaurant so no one can watch her eat? And like lighting the Empire State Building won’t add to  her ginormously inflated ego? What’s next? We erect a statue of the diva in Central Park? Oy.

*****This is so weird. About an hour after I wrote this, I was on my way to do a little shopping in the 34th Street area when lo and behold, who do I see getting out of a car with an entourage? None other than Ms. Mariah Carey herself. She (appropriately) was entering the Empire State Building and (predictably) wearing a shade of pink and purple. The irony of it all!! I didn’t bother to stop and try to get a picture. I had shopping to do!! 

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Last night I trekked down to the East Village (which apparently is what inhabitants prefer to call it nowadays, compared to the old “Alphabet City”) to attend the Colcci U.S. Launch Party at Bathhouse Studios. Gisele Bundchen is the spokes-model for the line, which originates from Brazil. It was hard to get a real feel for the line because of the sparse items they had set up around Bathhouse, but here’s my take: it’s a street-chic, colorful, vintagy inspired look complete with detailed jeans and tee shirts, strappy sandals (I had my eye on a pair of robin-egg blue ones), and bags with serious hardware and depth.

The evening was full of cocktails, mini-burgers and Gisele-watching. Believe it or not, she’s even more beautiful in real life than in her pictures.  James Blunt had just arrived when we got there, so we had a nice closeup of his paparazzi poses outside of Bathhouse. He’s quite the scruffy guy. At the end of the night Nigel Barker (photographer and judge on America’s Next Top Model) came in with his wife. Until last night I thought he was gay, which was actually a little easier on my heart. I think he’s so hot, so to learn that he has a wife was quite crushing.

OVERHEARD: An event staffer whispering to another, apparently more lowly staffer that he had to go fetch Gisele a specific drink. I guess Ms. Bundchen didn’t find the Pravda O.N.E. drinks appealing?? Who knows how long that poor boy was running around the city trying to find her Brazilian drink of choice.

All in all, it was a fabulous night with some hot celebrity sightings. For more information on Colcci, check out the website. And, for your viewing pleasure, a few pictures:

FYI: I’ll be at Te Casan next Wednesday to celebrate the signing of celebrity stylist Mary Lafayette with the Victoria Agency, hosted by America’s Next Top Model Bre Scullark. Check back for a review and more pics!

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 According to Page Six today:

 August 22, 2007 — HARVEY Weinstein – the P.T. Barnum of the movie industry – is hyping his version of “The Nanny Diaries” by offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who can identify the bitchy, shopaholic Upper East Side mom (played by Laura Linney) who inspired the authors of the best-selling roman a clef. Manhattan’s upper crust is buzzing over the identity of Mrs. X, who ignores her child and terrorizes the nanny (played by Scarlett Johansson). While the authors refuse to divulge any information, one suspect is Lisa Birnbach, co-author of “The Preppy Handbook,” who once employed one of the writers. At a recent screening of the movie, which opens Friday, Weinstein was overheard promising a few well-connected but tight-lipped socialites $100,000 for any information that would lead to Mrs. X’s unveiling. Source

LOL you know someone is going to dime her ass out in a second. (Even though 100 grand is chump change to these women.) What a fabulously evil way to promote a movie!

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