Plaza sweet
While The Plaza has been the backdrop for many literary works and films, the hotel remains the real star.
‘Fore’ward design
Successful interior design melds old and new into a unified and expressive whole.
The ‘Storie’ continues
The Valmont Group adds to its Storie Veneziane fragrance collection with two new collections that offer a Casanovian twist.
Wellness with a flourish
Michael Bruno’s vision of a wellness complex in Sloatsburg has become the Valley Rock Inn & Mountain Club.
Editor’s letter
February’s “Romantic Visions” issue offers a delightful hodgepodge, as it’s our annual love/romance/sex/body issue – topics everyone relishes, right?
To workers, with love
In the new book “Tightrope,” The New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and wife Sheryl WuDunn, who works in finance and consulting, consider what happened to working class America, particularly in Yamhill, Oregon, site of the Kristof family farm.
Russian diplomacy
Who needs therapy when you can lunch at The Russian Tea Room?
In love and war
Seymour Topping’s love of storytelling has been matched only by his love for his wife, Audrey.
Mindfulness
As founding president of L. Raphael Geneve, Ronit Raphael has created a skincare system and group of spas worldwide to nourish the body. But she also encourages mind and spirit through her Seven Foundations of Beauty, her Teen Program and her quest to end child abuse.
The dance-fashion pas de deux
A new exhibit at The Museum at FIT plumbs the symbiosis between ballet’s central figure, the ballerina, and fashion designers in the half-century between the 1930s and ’80s.
Make mine a double
For Nicole Melichar, doubles is as much about collegiality as it is about strategy.
Making an impression
Painter Felicity L. Kostakis believes in the power of art – and kindness.
Fashion forward
WAG caught up with Anastasia Cucinella and Debra O’Shea of Mary Jane Denzer before they headed off to Paris Fashion Week to get their thoughts on the year ahead in style.
Clip art
Clip-ons make a statement.
In the moment
For designer Jorge Adeler, jewelry is personal, individual and even spiritual.
Queen of sole
Kristina Cavallo’s passion for shoes has her Instagram followers clamoring for more.
Editor’s letter
We begin the new year – our year of Visions – with “2020 Visions” and a backward glance at a not-so-distant mirror of our time, the Roaring ’20s.
Great aspirations
Making a case for “The Great Gatsby” – the quintessential 1920s tale – as the great American novel
A not so distant mirror
The Roaring ’20s planted the seeds of the modern era.
20 acts toward the ’20 women’s vote
The story of women’s suffrage in the United States is one of jagged progress, rivalry among women’s groups and conflict between women and black men, who were also struggling to establish their enfranchisement. But in the end, women got the vote when the 19th Amendment was passed Aug. 18, 1920.