The editor francine crescent told me they were sending a beautiful young woman to be the model for the entire December 1976 Christmas issue of French Vogue, which I was to photograph. The fantasy theme of the issue, to be edited by the French film director Roman Polanski, was based on Polanski’s upcoming film about …
Month: March 2016
British model Jean Shrimpton caused a huge uproar when she arrived at the Melbourne Cup Carnival in 1965 wearing a minidress five inches above the knee with no stockings, gloves, or hat.
Downton Abbey, the cultural juggernaut that had fans proclaiming one another “a total Mary” (a compliment, depending) or “such a Barrow” (an insult, always), has begun its sixth and final season. Taking its characters from the Edwardian era through the Roaring Twenties, the show bloomed with the accompanying fashion evolutions and revolutions. From corsets with …
Somewhat like New York City itself, Central Park is divided into two parts. There’s the nature, and then there’s the landmarks. I suspect—especially if the temperature is above 65 degrees and the sun is out—many park visitors are content simply being outdoors, looking at water and greenery. There is little in the world that compares …
When Glenn Horowitz is seated, he looks around Le Veau d’Or and observes that the place doesn’t seem to have changed much since the first time he came here with me. That would have been in 1980, a year or two after he first set up shop in a pretty elemental suite of offices in …
“Perhaps one of the reasons Doubles is still here 40 years later,” explains Wendy Carduner, proprietor of the private club in question, “is because each successive generation feels a connection to a place where they have been coming since they were two years old.” While celebrating an anniversary, especially one as important as a 40th, …
This being the Fashion Issue, here’s the most fashionable thing English elites did throughout the cold, dreary months of January and February past: watch the BBC’s version of War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy’s epic, televised over six Sunday evenings, proving yet again that the elegant past (Downton Abbey), and the even more elegant farther past …