About 100 artists, musicians and artisans fill a building known as Le Doc with their work.PARIS — On a frigid evening in December, about 30 jewelry artisans gathered over drinks to talk shop, as they have been doing once a month for several years now.The venue was a ...
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The Spanish designer Luz Camino puts an emphasis on realism, particularly in her flower and fruit brooches.The fashion designer Carolina Herrera met the Spanish jeweler Luz Camino 20 years ago, through an agapanthus floral brooch. Ms. Herrera received the large sculpted metal bloom as a gift, and she ...
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For nominees who aren’t household names, it can take some resourcefulness to get dressed for one of the biggest nights of their careers.In 1997, Jessica Yu won an Academy Award for her short documentary “Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien.” “What a thrill,” she said ...
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The wife of the jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny plans to stride the carpet in a red Chloé gown to deliver a message of resistance.When Yulia Navalnaya arrives at the Oscars on Sunday night, it will not be her first time on the red carpet. She was in ...
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The wife of the jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny plans to stride the carpet in a red Chloé gown to deliver a message of resistance.When Yulia Navalnaya arrives at the Oscars on Sunday night, it will not be her first time on the red carpet. She was in ...
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Mel Brooks is a sophisticated guy. He collected fancy French wines and did a tasting on Johnny Carson’s show. He drops references to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls.” He was married for 40 years to that epitome of elegance, Anne Bancroft. He was a favorite lunch companion of Cary ...
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Mel Brooks is a sophisticated guy. He collected fancy French wines and did a tasting on Johnny Carson’s show. He drops references to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls.” He was married for 40 years to that epitome of elegance, Anne Bancroft. He was a favorite lunch companion of Cary ...
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Aria Hughes likes to stay close to her home in Harlem, where she’ll enjoy an Ethiopian lunch, a park bench and maybe a matinee.“I always knew that I wanted to write about fashion,” said Aria Hughes, the editorial creative director of Complex, a global youth entertainment network that ...
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The 2023 Academy Awards carpet’s champagne hue — a break with a 62-year tradition of the bright red rug — is the latest arrival rug to opt for a colorful palette.There are some fundamental truths in the world: The sky is blue. The grass is green. The Oscars ...
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LOS ANGELES — There was a moment during Versace’s runway show, held on the rooftop of a parking garage that had been glammed beyond recognition, as if the building itself had been Facetuned, that felt like attending service at a fashion megachurch.The spoken words from Prince and the ...
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A quintessential New York artist prepares for the ultimate red carpet.In the late 1970s, the photographer Nan Goldin began documenting hedonism and bohemia in New York City, chronicling the downtown lives of her friends and lovers with raw intimacy. Those images became a time capsule of a grittier ...
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As in fashion, design and cars, watches from the brands Breitling, Grand Seiko, TAG Heuer and Omega are revisiting the glamorous decade.“The 1960s is something unique,” said Eugenia Paulicelli, founder and director of the Fashion Studies Program at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. “It ...
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The life of a scholar used to be simpler, with success or failure whittled down to an easy dictum: “Publish or perish.”Today it’s more like publish and podcast or perish.“The definition of ‘public intellectual’ has really changed, and I’m proud to be a part of that,” Natalia Mehlman ...
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Even when it leads to heartbreak.Twenty stuffed animals lay ominously shoulder-to-shoulder on their bellies in a perfect circle on the floor. My 11-year-old daughter, Mary, sat in the middle, as though performing some esoteric ritual.I was used to such tableaus. Mary’s stuffed animals were more than things she ...
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