Then, last week, came the unexpected minicrash of a famous marriage. After nine years, fabulously fashionable Calvin and Kelly Klein announced they were separating. Of course, the buzz was always that they had more of a working partnership than a love match. ““My assumption is maybe one of them wants to have a more intimate relationship,’’ gossip columnist Liz Smith told USA Today. If they divorce, Kelly would probably get to keep the $1 million pearl necklace Calvin bought her from the late Duchess of Windsor’s collection. Just three days earlier, the Kleins had thrown one of the summer’s most glamorous parties, on the deck of their spectacular house overlooking both the churning Atlantic and quiet Georgica Pond. About 100 guests – including Bianca Jagger, Regis Philbin and Dominick Dunne – gathered to celebrate the pub- lication of Edward Klein’s (no relation) new book about Jack and Jackie Kennedy. But no one dared to eat a peach from a lushly perfect, Czanne-like arrangement.
Some celebs say the Hamptons summertime livin’ is still easy if you know how to work it. Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart heads to the gym by 7 a.m., does her shopping and is home by 9. Of the fast-lane folks described in the New York Magazine piece, she says, ““Who are those people? Why are they being highlighted and who cares? I don’t know that Hamptons.’’ Peter Mayle, British author of the best-selling ““A Year in Provence,’’ moved to Gardiners Bay when he was besieged by tourists at his home in France. He’s as happy as a Shinnecock clam. ““Everybody here,’’ he says, ““is so busy watching for Barbra Streisand or Calvin Klein that I’m a complete nonentity.''
