November 17, 2017

For Lisa Eisner, ‘Money Never, Ever Motivates Me’

Advertisement LOS ANGELES — Lisa Eisner is trying to get us killed. We are in her Lexus wagon, slicing through three lanes of high-speed traffic from […]
November 17, 2017

Cultural Studies: ‘Torch Song Trilogy’ and Me: A 35-Year Love Affair

On a Sunday morning in the fall of 1981, I was sitting in my fourth-floor walk-up studio apartment in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, flipping through […]
November 17, 2017

Making Watches for People ‘Who Can Read and Write’

BERLIN — If there is an argument to support the notion of a renaissance in German design, it might be found in a loft office in […]
November 17, 2017

Claude Sfeir is a Collector’s Collector

Advertisement On a balmy November afternoon in 2014, Claude Sfeir sat on the terrace of a Geneva hotel facing the lake, having lunch with an old […]
November 17, 2017

Time, With a Parisian Flair

Advertisement PARIS — At a time when luxury brands are racing to market with connected watches, the Parisian lifestyle retailer Merci is taking the road less […]
November 17, 2017

Putting a Bugatti on Your Wrist

Advertisement A sports car on the wrist? To hear the maker of the new Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti Type 390 tell it, that was his goal in […]
November 17, 2017

Wonder Woman’s Gold Tiara, for Your Watch

LONDON — Shoes were the focus when Alison Mary Ching Yeung established her business, called Mary Ching, in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2007. Then last […]
November 17, 2017

Dressing to Play a Power Woman

Advertisement LONDON — In 1977 Sidney Lumet’s film “Network,” about the struggles of a fictional television group, won four Academy Awards, including a best actress Oscar […]
November 17, 2017

Modern Love: 17 Million Frozen Sperm Await the Perfect Moment

Modern Love By LAURIE WAX Every other month I receive two vials of frozen sperm in a nitrogen tank, which is then emptied, the vials labeled […]
November 16, 2017

Social Q’s: Thanksgiving, Solved! How to Deal With This Dreadful Holiday

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES My wife and I have been married for two years and dated for three before that. That’s five horrendous Thanksgivings with […]