"I enjoy the collections here in New York under the tents more than I enjoy the collections in Paris. It's something I always look forward to, and I'm never disappointed."
Patrick McMullan was born in New York and raised in Huntington, Long Island. Educated at NYU, McMullan majored in business and "minored in Studio 54." The premier nightlife photographer in New York City, his work appears regularly in his weekly
New York Magazine column, the "Scene." McMullan's monthly columns include:
Allure,
Interview,
Flair Italia,
Hamptons,
Ocean Drive, and
Gotham, among others. McMullan is a contributing editor to
Vanity Fair,
ELLE UK, and
Men's Health. His photography has been featured in publications worldwide such as
The New York Times Magazine and
Vogue, and in international editions of
Harper's Bazaar,
Details,
Tatler, and
Out, to name a few. His published books include the critically acclaimed blockbusters
so8os: A Photographic Diary of a Decade (powerHouse Books, 2003),
Men's Show (Edition Stemmle, 2000), and
Secrets of the Riviera (Welcome Rain, 2000). McMullan has a photography studio and lives in New York City.
Katie Couric is co-anchor of NBC's
Today Show and a contributing anchor for
Dateline NBC. Couric is co-founder of the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA), an organization she established with the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF). The first installment of what has become an annual
Today series, Confronting Colon Cancer, received the George Foster Peabody Award. The NCCRA's and NBC's efforts to heighten colon cancer awareness have been recognized by the Archives of Internal Medicine and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Couric and EIF worked with NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center on the establishment of the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health, named for Couric's late husband, who lost a nine-month battle with colon cancer in 1998.
Fern Mallis is the Executive Director of
7th on Sixth and a VP of
IMG. She is widely credited with the creation of
7th on Sixth, an organization formed in 1993 to modernize, organize, and centralize the American runway collections.
7th on Sixth/IMG now produces Olympus Fashion Week in New York City and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios in Los Angeles. Mallis lives in New York City and the Hamptons.