Fashion designer Elie Tahari shouted obscenities and brawled with a security guard at the Intermix store on Madison Avenue, as other customers cowered in fear.
Tahari and his ex-wife, Rory, were taking photos of the clothing in the shop on Saturday when a security guard asked him to stop and to leave the premises, a witness told me.
Pamela Mitchell, the longtime girlfriend of real estate developer Harry Dubin, said the Iranian-Israeli designer started yelling, “Don’t touch me! F—k you! I want your name!”
The two men got into a shoving match and crashed into a full-length mirror. Soon five police officers arrived.
“Little girls and their mothers were hiding in the dressing room crying,” Mitchell said.
Another source said Tahari was injured in the fracas, that no arrests were made and that there is video of the brawl.
Through a representative, Tahari declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for Intermix.
The Post reported in 2012 that the quick-tempered designer had purged his company of nearly all his top executives, and used an ex-Israeli army officer to do the firings.
Tahari was also said to look at employees’ e-mails. “He goes through these periods where he thinks everybody’s out to get him,” said one former exec.
Tahari might have been photographing Intermix clothes so he could copy them. The ex-staffer told me: “He’d always say, ‘If you can’t make it, steal it.’”
Do you really think so????? His features look far too feminine imo. Much like a Rupaul contestant (no malice intended!). But, different strokes...
