Patricia Lecomte du Nouy Dear Diary: My 3-year-old granddaughter was "behind the wheel" on the play equipment at the Washington Market Playground in TriBeCa.
" 'I can make one and it will be a little more sturdy, with double wheels.' " His granddaughter, Sophia Richards, 4, was intrigued.
Her supporting cast in Mademoiselle C is made up of the people who have defined fashion's aesthetic for the past 10 , 20 years Tom Ford, Donatella Versace, Karl Lagerfeld (who is shown wheeling Roitfeld's newborn granddaughter around in a pram – "She's cute," he says of the baby, "but she doesn't talk much").
His great joy is to wheel himself down the road to watch his 10-year-old granddaughter at riding lessons.
Our narrator's grandmother, Nonna, decides the time has come to tell her granddaughter the story of her charm bracelet: the donkey, the piano, the bicycle, the piglet, the barn, the spinning wheel and the ship.
Kids were fish-tailing on big wheels, people were trying on hats and jackets and her granddaughter was nearby.
For hours, Ms. Bartlett followed her granddaughter down the sliding board, played with her on the swings, helped her ride her bicycle with training wheels.
"Why?" her granddaughter asked.
"That's my granddaughter.
Mandela's granddaughter, Nandi Mandela.
