Vanity Fair Deputy Editor Bart Boehlert Pens Book

BART’S LOOKBOOK: With a little nudging from his friend Aimee Bell, Vanity Fair’s deputy editor Bart Boehlert has penned a memoir “How I Look.” In addition to his day job as senior writer, special projects at Ralph Lauren, Boehlert types away for his blog, Bart Boehlert’s Beautiful Things. While the first few chapters are fairly family-oriented, the style-centric Amazon book has some memorable vignettes. He recalled racing around town chauffeuring Perry Ellis in the designer’s bottle green Jaguar, and then in between drives assisting Isaac Mizrahi, Richard Haines and the rest of Ellis’ design team. Boehlert noted how Ellis and Laughlin Barker had two Fire Island summer houses – a summer one on the ocean side and a winter one on the bay. So gilded was Ellis’ eye, he once told Boehlert he liked his previous Jaguar better because the line around the back seat windows had a more graceful curve. Recalling his days working at Bergdorf Goodman, Bohlert described how customers “simply gawked” at the sight of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. “Women just stopped dead in their tracks…I had never seen anything like it in New York,” Boehlert wrote. The author himself had a petrifying moment with the former First Lady

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