Vivienne Westwood Was Punk to the Very End

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. There’s a memorable photo of Dame Vivienne Westwood, her towering platform heels edging their way out of a gilded frame, a painting come to life. It was a promotional stunt for the designer’s Swatch collaboration in 1992—and it feels like the…

A Park Slope Renaissance

A few months back I ran into a former co-worker and his partner, and I asked him that age-old question: “What neighborhood do you live in again?” His response: “Well, we’re a long-term couple in our mid-30s, so Park Slope.” Park Slope’s reputation as one of Brooklyn’s premier social retirement communities persists for a reason:…