Just a few months before Donald J. Trump became the Republican nominee for president, The New York Post published an interview with his first wife, Ivana. Speaking from her seven-story townhouse on the Upper East Side, the Czech emigrant praised the restrictive immigration policies proposed by her ex-husband, before adding, “As long as you come…
On Tuesday, Feb. 26, the second day of Paris Fashion Week, the city will wake up to 4,000 posters of Carine Roitfeld. The placards show her completely naked, looking out a window and making a peace sign with one hand. They will be placed in hot spots all over the city. No model, fashion editor…
Milan Fashion Week is officially underway and the must-have accessories of the season are already making themselves known: Oversized retro-shaped sunglasses, trapper hats, all the gold jewelry—and even a spiked collar or two. Click through to see all of the accessories you’ll want to start saving up for now.
For the past 30 years, Susanne Bartsch has been a fixture in New York night life, creating and producing costumed, fashion-forward, iconic happenings all over the city. Born in Switzerland, she moved to London at 17 and promptly fell in love with a British boy who was headed to New York. “My heart runs my…
It begins innocently enough. In the third episode of the Hulu comedy “PEN15,” the seventh grader Maya is playing with two My Little Pony dolls, mashing their pink plastic faces together in a fantasy make-out session, when her face flushes pink, too. For maybe the first time, she sticks a hand down her underwear, and…
Image Prada, fall 2019CreditAlessandro Garofalo/Reuters MILAN — In the soaring green-walled auditorium of the Fondation Prada, on the outskirts of Milan, pieces of gray foam packing material with an egg carton-like surface had been laid across the floor in a no man’s land of little peaks and valleys. Illuminating them was the sickly yellow glow…
Image Bottega Veneta, fall 2019CreditValerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times MILAN — When Phoebe Philo left Celine just before Christmas in 2017, an entire swath of female shoppers went into mourning. The designer who had given them a wardrobe that spoke to their minds and ambitions — that provided intelligent comfort without glitz, that…
After 16 years of hauling suitcases to the Four Seasons Resort Nevis, Ivan and Ann Highley-Gergel of Philadelphia no longer need to pack for vacations at the Caribbean island resort. About a year ago, the Highley-Gergels paid around $3.5 million for a furnished, four-bedroom villa that comes with a pool and a cottage and is…
During six years of singlehood in my 20s, I became a person I did not know. Before, I had always been a reader. I walked to the library several times a week as a kid and stayed up late into the night reading under my blankets with a flashlight. I checked out so many books…
Image Yelena Ambartsumian and Miroslav Grajewski began buying artwork together within six months of meeting. It led to a romance fueled by robust curiosity and the desire to build a legacy.CreditChristopher Lee for The New York Times Marriage, they say, is a negotiation, a protracted conversation built on trust, shared goals and infinite reserves of…