“To describe the Moreschi style,” writes author Cristina Morozzi in The Italian Art of Shoemaking (Rizzoli), a publication depicting the Moreschi footwear family, “it is necessary to study the pre-boxed shoes leaving the production line, and to get to know them.” The passage that contains these words runs for several pages of tight text, one …
Month: March 2016
On March 9, Fountain House hosted its Associates Spring Breakfast, titled “The Emotionally Intelligent Mom,” at the Cosmopolitan Club with speaker Dr. Robin Stern. At the event, Dr. Stern—the associate director for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence—discussed the psychology of self-awareness and showed the audience her proprietary Mood Meter App, which charts moods and …
It first hit us in the speedboat as my husband Bill and I were crossing from Providenciales (“Provo” to locals) to Parrot Cay: the sweet, pure air that smelled of sea salt mixed with a bit of banana and coconut. I closed my eyes and felt the freshest air I had ever experienced. That air will …
He was a most unusual person, the likes of whom I’d never met before. Although no stranger to the world known as “Society” in the 20th century, he was the kind of character you’d read about in a novel but never think to know or meet. And yet, in his way, he was a simple …
One day, two people with very different aesthetic styles but a common purpose find their way to creative jobs at Louis Vuitton. Neither of them has calculated that, in just a matter of years, they might help redefine the luxury brand’s image. Louis Vuitton Windows (Assouline) is the story of merchandising directors Faye McLeod and Ansel …
Can a 30-year-old exhibition still be relevant today? If it is Bill Cunningham’s Facades, it is. After several reincarnations—most notably at the New York Historical Society—the evergreen exhibit is now on display at the Four Arts in Palm Beach. Facades is a prescient title. At first look, the photographs that Cunningham took of his friend …
Jay Rosenberg starts most workweeks here at his fashion company, Worth New York, in the Garment District of Manhattan, and this morning, he explains to me, there is a review of a future W by Worth collection. “Big fall season coming up,” he declares as his vice president of design, Diane Manley, stands behind him …