Right Place at the Right Time

Marshall Heyman Conquers His Fear of Missing Out

One of the complications of being on the scene in Manhattan is that, more than most any other city, it is sort of, kind of possible to be in two places at once.

There is a certain ease to party-hopping here, a reliance on "doing a drop-by" and "making an appearance." It peaks during fashion week, when there is such an explosion of events featuring the same 35 people that everything blends together. But make one wrong R.S.V.P., or decide to stay at an event longer than the planned 15 minutes, and...