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November 17, 2016

Looking Back on the Making of ‘The Godfather’ With Francis Ford Coppola

“Oh, gosh, am I bleeding?” Francis Ford Coppola bleated out while ambling around his Napa Valley home, talking on the phone to a reporter. Though the […]
November 16, 2016

Where Everybody Knows Your Name and Accepts Your Politics

The wall on the left side of Neary’s, a green-canopied Irish restaurant and bar on East 57th Street that will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, […]
November 15, 2016

On Beauty: A Radical Feminist Hair Salon With Serious Cool-Girl Cred

On Beauty By KAT HERRIMAN Johanna Fateman is most famous as a musician — she was the founder, with Kathleen Hanna, of the germinal feminist dance-punk […]
November 14, 2016

Tattoo and Graffiti Artists Add Their Flair to Watches

For Cyril Phan, the French graffiti artist known professionally as Kongo, a recent project posed a less predictable obstacle than, say, staying dry while painting on […]
November 14, 2016

Virtual Reality Takes Fans Inside the World of Watches

Swiss watchmakers are nostalgic by nature. How else to explain their constant reference to a golden era of timekeeping, more than 200 years ago, when masters […]
November 14, 2016

When It Comes to Watches, She’s the Real Gomelsky

My last name, uncommon even in my native Russia, is like an uneven sidewalk: People tend to stumble over it. When my twin sister Julia and […]
November 14, 2016

Dominique Renaud, Revolutionary Watchmaker

RENENS, Switzerland — Revolutionary is a word often used with abandon. A color combination on the runway. A new hairstyle. A different way of steaming fish. […]
November 14, 2016

Christie’s Marking 40 Years of Patek Philippe’s Nautilus

No one raises an eyebrow today at a luxury watch made of — gasp! — stainless steel. But in 1976, when Patek Philippe introduced the Nautilus […]
November 14, 2016

This Fashion Pirate Prefers Hublot

It’s no surprise that a blogger with 180,000 followers would be drawn to a watch by its social media profile. “When Hublot took over a whole […]
November 12, 2016

Unbuttoned: Is Fashion’s Love Affair With Washington Over?

Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN On Wednesday, when Hillary Clinton stood in the New Yorker Hotel for her farewell speech, she did so in one of her […]