“Shirley is always hip to new things, so whenever I present an idea to her, she’s able to think quickly and find a resolution,” Ms. Whack wrote in an email. “There are so many looks that Shirley and I pulled off. Recently for my show in New Orleans I sent Shirley a photo of this…
To Care and Carry I checked the time as we neared the airport, and my stomach sank. My wrist was bare, as it had been the day my son died suddenly more than 20 years before. Bad things happened when I forgot to wear my watch. My husband, who never knew my son, took my…
For the decade that Geraldine Brooks was a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, she kept a packing checklist in her bedside table drawer that included field dressings, a chador, a bulletproof vest and what she called a “king” suit — a set of good clothes, in case a dictator invited her to tea.…
Jimmy Han, 41, a bar owner in Los Angeles, was at Coachella in April when he and four friends decided to do a “bump” in a pop-up seafood restaurant — though not the kind you may be picturing. After ordering a seafood platter, he opened a gold tin of Regiis Ova caviar, poured a spoonful…
In a phone interview on Monday, Ante, 31, who lives near Stuttgart, Germany, and works in I.T., said he and his fiancée, 26, were perplexed and saddened after his proposal was waylaid. “Disneyland stands for dreams,” he said. “Our moment was destroyed.” He said that he had been planning the proposal since Christmas, when his…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Can high design reverse Murano’s decline? Could one transcendent lamp, or a single game-changing wine goblet, or a fruit bowl created on the Venetian island by one of today’s top designers restore the reputation of this glassmaking capital, whose legacy for…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Success in the design business can depend more on image than on product. High-quality furniture and fabrics can set a company apart, but if they are sold with a good story, that is even better. So maybe it is not a…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Combining features of Brutalist architecture with the transcendent experience of houses of worship, Divine Inspiration is a series of six new lighting collections by the British product and interior designer Lee Broom. On view through June 12 at Blindarte, a gallery…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Three years ago, when the over-the-top décor style called “maximalism” had reached dizzy heights and the word “pandemic” was on almost no one’s lips, Sam Baron envisioned a wildly exuberant trio of rugs. Mr. Baron, 46, a French designer, had been…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Maria Porro, the president of Salone del Mobile, represents a break from her predecessors. She is the first woman to run the event, which is known in English as the Milan Furniture Fair, and at 38, she is bringing a much…