Alexandre and Alexandra?

"Ms. Brooks, née Cutter, was born in Palm Beach (her parents were introduced by legendary WASP designer Lilly Pulitzer, whose splashy prints she credits as a major style inspiration) and raised in Bronxville. She attended Horace Mann, Deerfield and then Brown, where she roomed with designer Carolina Herrera’s daughter Patricia, double-majoring in art history and the visual arts. Young Amanda was ostracized by the collegiate upper-crust after a freshman fling with fellow undergrad Alexandre von Furstenberg; he was dating future ex-wife Alexandra Miller at the time. Ms. Brooks refused to comment on l’affaire Alexandra to The Observer, but last year told W magazine (where her sister Kimberly is West Coast editor): "It’s taken me 10 years to be able to stand in the same room with those girls.""

Those catty bitches. Why don't you ever hear about this sort of social happening at say... Harvard?

I spent quite a while today with the New York Observer's "Power Punks of New York: 50 Baby Bigshots 35 and Under" (arrived at via Gawker.)

Normally this sort of article fills me with venemous hatred, but this particular list was well done. And by that I mean that there are people on it that had insular childhoods in middle class middle America who read A Wrinkle in Time many many times. The above quote is only indicative of about 20% of the people listed.