21 Questions for the New Gucci Designer

Last January, two months after Alessandro Michele shocked the fashion world by announcing he was leaving Gucci, a brand he had transformed into a trendsetter with $10 billion in revenue in 2022, the company named his successor, and that too shocked the fashion world. Who was this man, Sabato De Sarno, who would be stepping…

Our 34-Year Age Gap Was Showing

Nine years ago, a friend from my childhood in South Africa visited me in London. She reads Tarot cards and energies and offered to assess me, hovering her hands over my body, starting with my head. “Wow, you have a lot going on there,” she said. Her hands then hovered over my heart. “Here is…

Michael Wolff Draws a Crowd

Current and former media mavens gathered on Wednesday to toast Michael Wolff, still the bad boy of journalism at age 70, on the occasion of his latest book, “The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty.” The author has been taken to task by journalism watchdogs and even “Saturday Night Live” for…