In honor of Haute Hippie’s new location at 81st and Madison, which opened earlier this month, Quest associate editor Elizabeth Quinn Brown talks to founder Trish Wescoat Pound about the brand’s expanding empire, design inspiration, and how its look of sultry chic all comes together. QM: What’s the inspiration behind Haute Hippie, and how did …
Month: March 2012
It’s 1966, and “Mad Men” hero/anti-hero Don Draper has a new wife and a new home on the Upper East Side. The LA Times has a great story on the decor of the imagined apartment. Set decorators at the popular TV show, which returned last week after a nearly two-year hiatus, imagined a modern apartment …
This Friday night Claiborne Swanson Frank, who supplied the beautiful photo for our March cover, will exhibit photos from her new book “American Beauty,” and will of course be available to sign copies. No RSVP required, so come on by!
Today marks the 49th anniversary of the release of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” which was filmed on the coastal Sonoma County town of Bodega Bay, not far from where I grew up. The occasion begs the opportunity to do a couple of things. For starters, paying homage to “Bird” siren Tippi Hedren, one of the …
TASCHEN has begun promoting legendary photographer and Quest columnist Harry Benson’s new book due out next month. “Harry Benson, The Beatles” showcases the two years Benson spent intimately chronicling the collective delerium known as Beatlemania. The book comes in a clamshell box, signed and limited to a print run of 1,764, and will sell for …
What’s the priciest four-block square in Manhattan? A little patch of land bordered on the north and south by East 71st and 70th Streets, and on the east and west by Fifth and Park. According to a recent post by PropertyShark.com, this block boasted nine transactions with a median sale price of $8.9 million. The …
Back when students dressed for class better than many today dress for work, campus shops such as the Yale Co-op offered the then all-male student body all sorts of Ivy League Look staples such as oxford-cloth buttondowns, rep ties, and tweed sportcoats.