Throughout my childhood, Maine was home to the farm where Wilbur the pig and Templeton the rat dictated words to the spider Charlotte, a bucolic state where Fern lived with her family in pastoral bliss. So perhaps it was no … Read More
Some decades ago, as a university student studying in Europe, I stood mesmerized in front of a painting by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) that hung at Tate in London. As a budding aesthete, I had dabbled in watercolors—and it was something … Read More
Years ago, as a university student in the South of France, I became entranced by the legendary allure of Deauville: the horse races and the Grand Casino that catered to European aristocracy, the grand hotels that lined the beach of … Read More
Amidst a mid-winter’s blizzard in Manhattan, a field of fragrant roses bloomed in Soho. As snow blanketed the city, rounding its edges into meringue, Tadashi Shoji introduced his inaugural fragrance, Eau de Rose, with the presentation of his F/W 2017 … Read More
Landeros New York draws inspiration from the designer’s love of Goth, as well as the atmosphere surrounding New Wave and New Romantic music that was popular in the Eighties nightclubbing subculture. … Read More
For a time, anyone who was young and beautiful and wandering through Paris in a purple haze ended up at Le Palace, the premier discotheque of the late Seventies. An erstwhile music hall, Le Palace was the European equivalent of … Read More
If there is any subject where this fractious republic might find consensus, then perhaps it’s in the beauty of Chihuly. Even those who might feel that the work of glass artist Dale Chihuly is crowd-pleasing anodyne would most likely admit … Read More
If we’re lucky as children, we’re taught which fork to use at the table, as well as proper table manners and eating utensil etiquette. And if we’re very lucky, we’re also taught how to be a gracious guest and an … Read More
