November 2012

QB or not QB

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Those who love to meld mind with movement will spend many happy hours tackling the new “Sports Illustrated NFL QB: The Greatest Position in…

Oops!

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On page 24 of WAG’s December “Power Brokers” issue, we flip-flopped the names and representative properties of Donna Beretta and Michelle Genovesi, two top…

Posh polish

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Time to upgrade your Caboodle, girls, because press-on nails are all grown up. A brand-new breed of nail styles has hit the market, even the…

Holiday form

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Winter glamour borrows the best trends of the season, spicing them with sparkle. Top names in New York City couture present glamorous gowns and body- skimming silhouettes of brights, blacks and just enough bling.

SILVER FOX

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Cindy Joseph spent decades as a makeup artist in the fashion industry before ending up on the other side of the camera as a fashion model, “discovered” at age 49. Now proudly 61, the Yonkers woman touts timeless beauty not only through modeling and a signature cosmetics line, BOOM! By Cindy Joseph, but by talking about the “pro-age revolution” every chance she can.

SAYING ‘NO’ TO HOOCHIE MAMAS

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The impetus for creating Stella M’Lia occurred when designer Stella McCaffrey’s daughter, Katherine, turned 12 and began receiving two to three invitations a month for bar/bat mitzvahs. “Katherine needed fairly dressy dresses, and the shock of it all was when you went out to the stores you couldn’t find anything that was appropriate or tasteful, because a lot of it was black, bedazzled, short and tight spandex, which made the girls look like ‘hoochie mamas’ before they were even technically teenagers,” McCaffrey says.

‘ON THE ROAD’ TO STARDOM (MAYBE)

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The long-awaited adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s important – some would say pretentious – novel “On the Road” hits the big screen in December. Will it make Brad Pitt-ish Garrett Hedlund – in the pivotal role of Dean Moriarty – a star at last?

ENCHANTING FASHIONISTA

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There’s something about the way Mary Jane Denzer carries herself – the glide in the step, the head held just so, the face and hair impeccable. In conversation, the words chosen rather than just spoken.
A true sophisticate.

A MILKSHAKE FOR THE SOUL

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“I like having 9,000 balls in the air,” says entrepreneur Amy Jurkowitz. “I do better that way.” The busy mother of five (three of whom are applying to college this year) isn’t kidding. With two businesses— Milkshake, a website she co-founded about individuals and organizations that give back, and Jurkowitz & Co., a consulting firm – the Greenwich resident clearly thrives on organized chaos.

LIFE UNDER THE AMALFI SUN

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Move over, “Under the Tuscan Sun” and “A Good Year.” There’s a new sheriff in town and she’s here to offer a variation on the foreigner-goes-Continental-in-search-of-love-and-life’s-meaning theme. Her name is Lisa Fantino, and her book, “Amalfi Blue: Lost & Found in the South of Italy,” is due out mid-January from Wanderlust Women Travel Ltd., her Mamaroneck-based concierge travel business.

OIL AND WATER DO MIX FOR JILLY DYSON

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Jilly Dyson has “sailed” the world on her marine paintings, whose swirling impasto evokes both Winslow Homer and J.M.W. Turner. I caught up with her on a beautiful fall day aboard SeaFair, the mega-yacht venue for exhibits and dining, when it was docked in Greenwich.