The interesting thing, though? Tinsley’s M.O.—a classical one in the long history of socialites who have traditionally been loath to wear their politics on their couture sleeves—couldn’t be more different from that of her old dance partner, Lauren Santo Domingo.
She’s the one who, more than anyone, has bloomed into the number one anti-Trumpist in the creamy circles that once included Ivanka as a ranking member.
An agitator in Proenza Schouler, the Twitter feed of LSD (as she is frequently known) takes her war on Trump’s Washington to her 100K followers.
Exhibit A: “In the end, it will be @realDonaldTrump and @IvankaTrump alone in the bunker.”
And then: “Like his trophy wives he has trophy hires, @Omarosa, @KellyannePolls, @IvankaTrump,” she also boomed, back in November. “Smart honourable women need not apply.” (Note the actual Twitter handles spelled out in the tweets! She wants her old friend to see them!)
On another occasion, when a story broke about the first daughter sitting in Putin’s chair during a visit to the Kremlin, LSD quipped (about her erstwhile gala co-chair, ironically!): “She LOOOOOOVES to sit in important chairs. It’s kinda her thing.”
In her own intertwining years, the “Poland Springs heiress,” as she was once primarily known, had fully rocketed, it’s safe to say, owing first to her much-ado wedding held in Cartagena, Colombia, to the extraordinarily-wealthy-in-his-own-right Andrés Santo Domingo, dubbed “the first real society wedding of the century” (and during which Tinsley served as one of nine bridesmaids!).
There was also the span of her social reach (“Pick a high-profile charity event, and Santo Domingo has likely hosted, chaired, or sponsored it,” New York magazine once exclaimed).
A contributing editor at Vogue; the co-founder of the quite successful online-retailer Moda Operandi; the favorite of the “Truman Capote of Instagram,” as her BFF, Derek Blasberg has been crowned; inducted into Vanity Fair’s International Best Dressed List... the dynamo has been everywhere, including on Gossip Girl, where she played herself.
In fact, that’s something all three women—Tinsley, Ivanka, and Lauren—share, all of them having appeared, at one point or another, on the ultimate, one-time rich-kid serial.
That might be the only thing they have in common these days.
Lauren also goes after Ivanka’s husband for his adventures in nepotism, for example: “Hey Jared, how’s that peace in the Middle East thing going?”
At times, Lauren’s tone has shifted into one that is pitiful, if not plainly melancholic. When Ivanka, during one interview, mused that her father’s idea of arming teachers, in the wake of the Parkland massacre, might not be a bad idea, Santo Domingo struck this way: “Arming teacher is a terrible, no good, very bad idea. @Ivankatrump, what they done to you?”
It was a question that managed to strike deep at the heart of the deep fissures in New York society since the election of an emphatically New York character to the presidency—one that most New Yorkers did not vote for.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivanka-trump-tinsley-mortimer-and-lauren-santo-domingo-a-tale-of-three-nyc-socialites
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