After their sensational first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, the Beatles flew to Miami on February 13, 1964, to prepare for their second appearance on the show. When we landed at the Miami airport, an onslaught of actual beauty queens befittingly dressed in bathing suits and their satin sashes had to be dragged away …
Bobby Fischer was actually the opposite of what I expected. The impression everyone had before meeting him was that he was effete and small, but the chess genius was actually tall, standing 6’2”, a strong, healthy man who worked out regularly and drank nothing but orange juice. His actions were big and lumbering until, amazingly …
His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. To me, he was the best-dressed man in the world, with the possible exception of the flamboyantly attired former King Edward VIII, HRH the Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor. I’ve always said that men’s magazines should emulate Prince Philip in their “how a man should dress …
It was 1984—not George Orwell’s 1984, but Tiffany & Co.’s utopian 1984. The legendary American luxury retail emporium had taken back its luster in a leveraged buyout from Avon, who had owned it since 1979. Tiffany’s celebrated design director John Loring was beginning to shoot for Tiffany Taste, his second book with his famous editor, …