The designer has been the trusted collaborator of — and provocateur for — a pantheon of top directors, including Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, Steven Spielberg, Anthony Minghella, John Schlesinger, Brian De Palma, George Roy Hill, Hal Ashby, Joe Mantello, Jack O’Brien, M. Night Shyamalan, Stephen Daldry, James Brooks and, early in her career, Dino De…
About five years ago, executives at Compagnie Financière Richemont, the Swiss luxury group that owns 11 high-end watch brands including Cartier, IWC Schaffhausen, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Vacheron Constantin, began to notice a worrisome trend. “Watch and jewelry theft was increasing quite alarmingly,” Frank Vivier, Richemont’s chief transformation officer, said on a recent video call. “People in…
Susy Dyson, the British-Peruvian model who was a fixture of 1970s jet-set social circles, is a firm believer in letting things go. “When you put things for sale, things start to happen, you see,” she said during a recent phone call from Peru, where she now lives. “Energy moves.” Which is why she was not…
At her annual visit, the patient’s doctor asks if she plans to continue having regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer, and then reminds her that it’s been almost 10 years since her last colonoscopy. She’s 76. Hmmm. The patient’s age alone may be an argument against further mammogram appointments. The independent and influential U.S.…
The pharmaceutical industry, which suffered a stinging defeat last year when President Biden signed a law authorizing Medicare to negotiate the price of some prescription medicines, is now waging a broad-based assault on the measure — just as the negotiations are about to begin. The law, the Inflation Reduction Act, is a signature legislative achievement for…
Health officials in Washington State said on Friday that three people had died and two had been hospitalized in the Puget Sound area after contracting food-borne listeria infections in what appeared to be an outbreak. Testing indicated that all five patients, three men and two women, became ill between Feb. 27 and June 30 and…
“It’s the Loro Piana effect and it’s a smoke screen,” said William Norwich, a novelist and editor who, in a previous professional incarnation, had a front-row seat on New York’s moneyed elite as a gossip columnist in the 1980s for The New York Post’s Page Six. “It’s code,” he added. “You telegraph status without seeming…
The patient was a 39-year-old woman who had come to the emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Her left knee had been hurting for several days. The day before, she had a fever of 102 degrees. It was gone now, but she still had chills. And her knee was red and…
John Wilson likes trilogies. “There are only three seasons of ‘Jackass,’” he pointed out during an interview this month from his home in Queens. Mr. Wilson, 36, wore a white T-shirt like the one he usually wears while filming “How To With John Wilson,” his HBO documentary series whose third and final season begins on…
In 2004, Gilead Sciences decided to stop pursuing a new H.I.V. drug. The public explanation was that it wasn’t sufficiently different from an existing treatment to warrant further development. In private, though, something else was at play. Gilead had devised a plan to delay the new drug’s release to maximize profits, even though executives had…