Beautiful, cool, and kind—few people can claim that magical triumvirate (and naturally, those who could never would). Kick Kennedy is one of those people. For the March issue of Quest, we had the pleasure of shooting Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy at 212 Fifth Avenue, an iconic pre-war, neo-Gothic landmarked building and newly converted luxury condominium at …
“Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.” So said renown fashion designer Ralph Lauren, an icon of style himself. In the following pages we celebrate Quest’s favorite arbiters of that tricky, five-letter term known as “style.” Their sense of it has endured throughout the …
Just the mention of dear “Slim” brings a smile to my face. When he began his career in the late 1940s, Slim Aarons famously stated that, after the sadness of World War II, his main goal was to “photograph attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places.” And that he did, a phenomenon I would witness …
Ann Bonfoey Taylor’s son, Vernon III, remembers coming home from school one day to find his mother dressed to the nines “simply because she felt like it.” Wearing a chinchilla-trimmed silk-satin dress by Madame Grès, Ms. Bonfoey Taylor lingered in the hallway of her Denver home in 1967 (green was Bonfoey Taylor’s favorite palette for …
Palm Beach was founded as a playground for affluent Northerners during the winter’s cold months. As it evolved into the premier winter retreat for American aristocracy, it developed a style all its own. Here’s a Key lime slice of the Quest best of the island.
As our cover star Nicole Hanley Mellon and I drive up the winding road with Hanley CEO Frederick Anderson and photographer Cristina Macaya in tow, we eventually reach our final destination, Villa La Pointe. And what a destination it is! If Paradise was lost, perhaps now it has been found. Awestruck, we all walk up …
As the daughter of one of the most iconic fashion designers of the past quarter century, Carolina Herrera de Báez grew up surrounded by beauty. It’s no wonder that her work to this day is continually inspired by the values of Carolina Herrera herself. Recently, as a tribute to her mother, Herrera de Báez introduced a …