Elettra Wiedemann
The Transom in Print, August 27, 2008: The Almost-End of Another Summer in the Hamptons; Josh Lucas at the DNC
Transom correspondent Spencer Morgan is in Denver this week, talking his way into all sorts of political-slash-celebrity bashes. At the Creative Coalition event on Monday evening, he cornered Josh Lucas, Alan Cumming and the West Wing's Richard Schiff.
Meanwhile, in the Hamptons, George Gurley sunned his buns and found Russell Simmons, Stephanie Wei and Liam McMullan hanging out at an American Red Cross party at the estate where Mariah Carey got married a couple months ago. The songbird was nowhere in sight, but Ms. Wei and Mr. McMullan were more than happy to share their thoughts on the summer. "The Hamptons are like Disney World!" sniffed Ms. Wei.
Also: Meredith Bryan chats with model-socialite Elettra Wiedemann (daughter of Isabella Rossellini) about her new T-shirt line, whose proceeds go to help hospitals in Burundi, and Jonathan Liu thinks he may have found the real Gossip Girl—and she's wearing teal velour.
Elettra Wiedemann Will Save the Children of Burundi With T-Shirts
Last week, on a bench outside the Bonsignor coffee shop on Jane Street, near where she lives ("that way, on the water," she said, motioning west), Elettra Wiedemann—soon-to-be biomedicine graduate student, international Lancôme spokesmodel and daughter of famed Lancôme model Isabella Rossellini—was describing her latest project, a charity website called JustOneFrickinDay.com.
"Originally we thought ‘JustOneDay,'" she explained. "We wanted it to be inspirational but we didn't want it to be-we wanted to give it a little bit of funk, you know? So we put in the frickin because it made people realize that it was very minimal, actually, and that if you pull together you can actually get a lot of stuff done. read more »














