Keith McNally Stirs the Pot

One of the luckiest things that can happen to a restaurant is for it to remain open long enough to become a place that famous people used to go. That was part of what made the March reopening of Balthazar, a SoHo mainstay since the height of the dot-com bubble, unusual. Jay-Z and Beyoncé turned…

Adrift in the Venetian Lagoon

Was it the Anne Rice-style casting? Or the banal installation by the artist Doug Aitken? Was it the anachronistic clothes themselves, with their lazy nods to other eras and periods, that left a viewer with the sense that the Saint Laurent men’s wear show — like the mirrored sets on which it was held —…

12 Best Linen Pieces to Shop on Amazon Now

Vittorio Zunino CelottoGetty Images Look in any closet, and you’ll find a variety of fabrics that appear over and over again. Think cotton, denim, leather, and silk. But no fabric emits a feeling quite like linen. Perhaps it’s the fact we associate the lightweight fabric with warmer, sunnier days or because it’s just so comfortable…