Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

In the grand tradition of profiles that implore you not to hate the subject despite her embarrassment of blessings, Page Six Magazine's interview with Isabella Rossellini's daughter Elettra Wiedemann pretends to humanize her by using adjectives like "klutz" and "dork," and telling us that as a teen she wore a back brace for scoliosis, which made her cruel Nightingale-Bamford classmates tease her.  More

♦  Will The Rachel Zoe Project live to see a second season? Zoe doesn't know, but she hopes so. [The Cut]
♦  Charlotte Ronson is replacing Cory Kennedy as the face of Sebastian haircare. [Nylon]
♦  Charlotte was at Henri Bendel last night to help her future sister-in-law, Lindsay Lohan, celebrate the launch of her leggings line, 6126. [Marie Claire UK]
♦  Tory Burch's website is about to relaunch with content based "on her personal choices, from travel to entertaining to beauty." [WWD]More

• The inimitable Fug Girls were at Yigal Azrouël today and saw Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann (not sweating in leather pants, enthusiastically posing for a photographer), Miss J Alexander and Nigel Barker (chatting front row), Cory Kennedy (bored, disheveled), Alexis Bryan Morgan (still pregnant), Fabiola Beracasa (front row next to Katie Lee Joel), Nina Garcia (talking to reporters), and Kelly Cutrone (looking better in person than on TV). [The Cut]
• How bizarre that a designer with this much Fashion Week buzz is someone unheard of a year ago: Abigail Lorick (left), who designs the clothes for Gossip Girl's Eleanor Waldorf's fictional label, showed her collection last night and was rewarded with endless breathless coverage. [Elle, NYO, WWD, GoaG]

1) One of many Fashion Week kick-off events was the Agyness Deyn-hosted, Thierry Mugler-sponsored bash last night at Christie's, where Chloë Sevigny, Henry Holland, Kelly Osbourne, Peaches Geldof, Yigal Azrouël, Kelly Cutrone, Paul Sevigny, Kate Schelter, Jennifer Creel, Holly Dunlap, Genevieve Jones, Jen Cohen, Dori Cooperman, Ellen Von Unwerth, Padma Lakshmi, and Mary Alice Stephenson previewed the auction house's fall sales of post-war and contemporary art, impressionist and modern art, and fashion. [The Daily, Wireimage, NYO]

2) Last night Interview celebrated their September issue (and new look) with a party at the still-under-construction Standard Hotel. Andre Balazs and his daughter Alessandra, Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour, Glenn O'Brien, Fabien Baron and his daughter Arielle, Tommy Hilfiger, Donna Karan, Diane von Furstenberg, Patrick McMullan, Tory Burch, Julia Restoin Roitfeld and Magnus Berger, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Tara Subkoff, Lydia Hearst, Lauren Hutton, Lara Stone, Jessica Stam, Hope Atherton, Gavin Brown, Genevieve Jones, Taylor Momsen, Lily Donaldson, Angela Lindvall, and Sam and Kathryn Shaffer ate Nobu sushi and dodged exposed wires and electrical tape. [The Daily/PMc]More

Isabella and Elettra Saving the World | Elettra Weidemann says her charity JustOneFrickinDay.com, which funds development projects in Africa, was inspired by the weekends she spent as a child at a conservation center in Florida with her mother Isabella Rossellini—who, Elettra reveals, does "green pornos" for the Sundance Channel where she "dresses up as a bug, fly, spider, grasshopper...praying mantis, and explains how bugs have sex." Sounds much more fun than modeling for Lancome! (But not dissimilar from acting for David Lynch.) [NYO]

• Great news for those who don't want to leave the island: On September 11th, Target will open four pop-up stores, or "bullseye bodegas," in Midtown, Union Square, SoHo and the East Village; the stores will showcase forthcoming Go ranges like Sigerson Morrison shoes and Anya Hindmarch purses. [DNR via The Cut]
• Australian model-turned-actress Gemma Ward, whose alienish looks earned her millions as well as the attentions of the late Heath Ledger, is reportedly giving up modeling to concentrate on acting full-time. [SassyBella]

• Showbiz spawn Elettra Wiedemann Rossellini (left) and Dakota Johnson, along with nightlifer Leigh Lezark, are the new faces of Italian leather company Hogan. [Teen Vogue]
• Donna Karan isn't getting sued by Cartier anymore! After the French company accused her of using their copyrighted "Tank" name for her watches, they've now "resolved their differences" and Cartier has dropped the suit. [Marketwatch]
• The Times' Eric Wilson fashion-commentates the Olympic Games' Opening Ceremony: He's underwhelmed by Ralph Lauren's outfits for the US, and "most startled by the looks worn by the Canadian team." [NYT]

1) Lisa Salzer had a party last night for her jewelry line Lulu Frost, where hosts Alexis Bryan Morgan and Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann were joined by Erin Fetherston and Hedi Ferjani, Derek Blasberg, Luigi Tadini, Kathryn Neale Shaffer, Peter Davis, Kate Schelter, and Carole Radziwill, who were rewarded for walking up the five flights of stairs with a live Cuban band and cocktails. [Paper/style file]

2) Pure Yoga on the Upper East Side had its grand opening on Tuesday evening. Company CEO Harvey Spevak welcomed downward Dog fans like Jennifer Creel, Katie Lee Joel, Dylan Lauren, Stacey Bendet, Alison Brod, Beth Ostrosky, and Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch, who all came to check the place out. [The Daily/PMc] More