PARIS — There’s no hiding when you’re the spokeswoman for the Élysée Palace. Especially if you are the first black spokeswoman for the Élysée Palace. Especially if you are Sibeth Ndiaye, the Senegalese-born public face and voice of President Emmanuel Macron of France, and you have no qualms about making a statement. It doesn’t always…
Victor VIRGILEGetty Images On the sixth day of Paris Fashion Week, an unwelcome prankster in a tweed suit darted onto the Chanel catwalk set under the beautiful art nouveau arches of the Grand Palais at the Champs-Élysées. Her name is Marie Benoliel, better known as Marie S’Infiltre, a self-described YouTube “infiltrator” who creates comedic videos…
Before Vern Yip transformed rooms on the American television series “Trading Spaces,” the popular progenitor to today’s home makeover shows, he studied chemistry and economics at the University of Virginia. “It’s part of the Chinese-American tradition,” said Mr. Yip, whose parents emigrated from China to Hong Kong and then the United States. “You can become…
The Bold Hue Oversized Cable-Knit Sweater Zara zara.com $49.90 There’s no need to stick to fall neutrals, or worse yet anything PSL-toned. A punchy color like electric purple is just what this season is missing.
In fashion, do all roads lead to France? That’s the obvious conclusion as designer after designer decamps — even just temporarily — to Paris from New York, London or Tokyo. It’s as if the only way to be taken seriously is to show in the French capital (the latest example: Telfar Clemens), as if being…
Early in this century, the documentary director Olivier Meyrou, at the invitation of Pierre Bergé, spent two and a half years filming the couturier Yves Saint Laurent and his employees and associates. Bergé, of course, was one of them: Saint Laurent’s longtime business manager, hard-nosed where Saint Laurent was dreamy, is a central figure in…
PARIS — The morning of Jacques Chirac’s funeral the sun came out. There was an autumn crispness to the air and Paris was, on Monday, as it is wont to be at such times, gleaming with pomp and a sense of circumstance past. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was in town; so was President…
LOS ANGELES — If you can navigate the maze of roads and freeways in this city and choose not to break a single traffic law, congratulations. You deserve a prize. That prize could have been $20,000, in fact, if you had enrolled in the first L.A.’s Safest Driver contest this summer. Deborra Sarei, 46, a…
The Greek Revival charmer that’s home to the husband-and-wife actors Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry looks modest from the road, rather like a playhouse for a sophisticated child. “We love that — our friends keep forgetting what we have here,” said Ms. Eikenberry, who starred for eight seasons (from 1986 to 1994) with Mr. Tucker…
ImageRuby City, a 14,000-square-foot contemporary art center designed by the British architect David Adjaye, debuts October 13 in San Antonio TX, and will house the art collection of philanthropist Linda Pace, heir to the Pace Picante salsa fortune, who died in 2007.CreditDror Baldinger/Ruby City and Adjaye Associates Red Jewel of Texas Linda Pace, a philanthropist…