On Saturday, she was meant to perform at yet another fund-raiser in Palm Beach, this for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund, at Mar-a-Lago with Donald and Melania Trump watching. But at the last minute, the singer canceled yet again, still blaming bronchitis, and Jennifer Hudson stepped in.

Despite the lack of a certain pop star, much of New York was down in the Palm Beach area: Dylan Lauren signed her new book in South Beach; Jill Kargman signed hers, "Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut," at the Chanel store on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, and the artist Andrew Levitas showed a slew of his new Florida-based photographs at the Arcature Fine Art gallery across from the Chanel boutique.