POPSUGAR Fashion News

Annie Leibovitz Lowers Price of New York City Home to $29 Million

Justin Fenner — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:19:55 PDT

Annie Leibovitz has lowered the price of the highly personalized New York compound she created for herself, her family, and her photography from $33 million to $29 million.

The 10,000-square-foot home, which was originally listed in December, is comprised of three townhouses at the corner of New York's West 11th and Greenwich streets and surrounded by a private garden. Leibovitz bought the first two homes in 2002 and the third a year later. Since then, she's renovated and connected all three homes, which have seven bedrooms and 13 wood-burning fireplaces among them. Two of them now serve as living quarters; the third hosts a photo studio with its own kitchen and reception area.

"It's very rare to have something like this," said Paula Del Nunzio, the broker who's working with Leibovitz to sell the home. "She created it."

In 2009, Leibovitz put this home, another in upstate New York, and the rights to all the photos she's taken over the years up as collateral for a loan to repay $24 million in debt attributed to overspending. Those debts were later renegotiated and settled. Del Nunzio says Leibovitz is selling the home so she can move uptown to be closer to her three daughters' school.

A peek inside the home Leibovitz built, here in the gallery.

Photos via Brown Harris Stevens.

Inside the Six-Story Townhouse Steve Madden Is Selling For $9 Million

Justin Fenner — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:59:56 PDT

Footwear king Steve Madden and his wife have been buying up units of the historic Blacksmith House on New York's Upper East Side since 2006. Now that they own it all, they're ready to sell.

The home, which was listed just this week for $8,995,000, was originally built in 1860 and was subsequently cut up into separate apartments. Located on East 73rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, the house is spread over 6,000 square feet. Current floor plans feature seven bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, and the master suite opens onto a private garden. There are also three terraces - one on the parlor floor and another two on the top level of the house.

A look at the house and all that comes with it, here in the gallery.

Rag & Home: Marcus Wainwright's New $6.75 Million Brooklyn Mansion

Justin Fenner — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:36:04 PST

Turns out being the cofounder of one of the industry's coolest brands will buy you a whole lot of house. Rag & Bone's Marcus Wainwright and his wife, model Glenna Neece, are getting ready to move into a triplex in Brooklyn's Cobble Hill Historic District. The Greek revival mansion - which Curbed called the "Blogger's Brooklyn Dream House" - was originally built in 1844 and went through a top-to-bottom renovation between 2007 and 2010, when it was originally listed for $7 million. (Wainwright and Neece paid $6.75 million, according to the sales record.)

The freestanding home is one of three in its neighborhood that sits on a double lot, and has enough parking space for four cars. It actually features three separate dwellings: in addition to the main home, there are two rental units with separate entrances that bring in an estimated $56,400 a year.

But that's not the only thing that makes the home so attractive. It has garden space on all four sides, an art studio, plus details like mahogany floors, a roof-deck, and a patio off the kitchen paved in bluestone. A look at the home here in the gallery.

Photos via Brown Harris Stevens.

Inside Kate and Andy Spade's $4.75 Million Summer Home

Justin Fenner — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:45:51 PST

The shingle-style Summer home Kate and Andy Spade are selling in Southampton is almost as quirky and quintessentially American as the eponymous brands the couple once designed.

At nearly three acres, the property - whose asking price was recently reduced to $4.75 million from $5.45 million - is the largest in Southampton's Art Village, where artist William Merritt Chase founded a Summer painting school in 1892. Today, the estate includes a freestanding ballroom, a painting studio, separate servant's quarters, and a two-car garage in addition to the eight-bedroom main house.

The home's interior is filled with charming details like bead board and an apron-front porcelain sink in the kitchen. It also features three fireplaces, six bathrooms, a formal dining room, and three porches that overlook the gardens and sprawling lawns. Many of the walls are covered in bead board, and wide windows and a variety of wall sconces and chandeliers keep the place light. A look at all that, here in the gallery.

Photos via Saunders & Associates

Karl Lagerfeld Sells New York Apartment For $4.5 Million

Justin Fenner — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:04:19 PST

After several attempts to sell his apartment overlooking Gramercy Park, Karl Lagerfeld has finally made a deal.

Lagerfeld sold his three-bedroom, three-bathroom condo at 50 Gramercy Park North for $4.5 million, according to the New York Post. He paid $6.69 million for it in 2006, and though he had it renovated, he never moved in. CasaSugar reported last March that the home had been relisted for $5.2 million.

Investor Sebastian Barrack bought the fashionable apartment, which features a chef's kitchen, a system of automated curtains, and an open floor plan spanning 2,150 square feet. A look at the listing photos here in the gallery.

Photos via Douglas Elliman.

Homes of Their Own: Inside the Proenza Schouler Apartments

Justin Fenner — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:30:45 PST

The New York City apartment Proenza Schouler's Jack McCollough put on the market this Fall sold fast, but don't worry - Lazaro Hernandez's place is still up for grabs.

Both designers listed their homes for sale on the same day in October, and McCollough's two-bedroom West Village duplex just sold for $1,895,000. But Hernandez recently reduced the asking price for his apartment - which takes up the parlor floor of a townhouse in Chelsea - from $985,000 down to $950,000.

Why both places didn't sell immediately is a mystery: McCollough's light-filled, two-floor apartment has a modern, clean-lined sleekness to it that's warmed up with natural elements like a wall of wood cabinetry in the living room and dark gray stone countertops in the kitchen. There's even a small terrace just steps away from the study.

Hernandez's home is furnished and appointed a little more traditionally: there's a brick fireplace in the living room, which features wooden shutters on its windows. The terrace here is slightly larger than at McCollough's place, and accommodates a table, chairs, and an outdoor sectional.

Speculation has the couple pooling their resources and moving in together, but until then, here's a glimpse of both homes here in the gallery.

Photos via Corcoran.

Inside Karlie Kloss's $2 Million New York Apartment

Justin Fenner — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:31:33 PST

Karlie Kloss is officially a New Yorker. The 20-year-old closed the deal on her first Big Apple apartment - a $1.975 million two-bedroom pad in the West Village - earlier this month.

The multilevel home has a private front garden that leads into a sunken living room. There's a den down a short flight of stairs, and the eat-in kitchen, filled with marble counters and a French door refrigerator, is a few steps above the living room.

Upstairs, there are two bedrooms - one of which boasts a 20-foot stretch of custom closet space and a balcony overlooking the garden - and a glass-tiled bathroom.

Kloss told Page Six she was buying the home in September. "It's beautiful," she said. "I can't wait to have a home in the city, and finally feel at home. It's not easy to do. I've been back and forth between St. Louis and New York for the past five years."

We can't wait to see what she does with the place. A look at the listing photos here in the gallery.