Romantic November enters with falling leaves and exits with falling snow, so keep transitional fall fashion all about luxe comfort. (After all, it’s the last month stylish New Englanders cherish before we start to look like we’re all wearing the same oversized black sleeping bag jacket).
James Bond, who celebrates his 50th anniversary in films with the release of “Skyfall” Nov. 9, is a man’s fantasy of a man the way Mr. Darcy is a woman’s fantasy of a man.
Image courtesy of powerhouse Books FRIDA KAHLO USED TO TELL FRIENDS THAT SHE APPROACHED GETTING DRESSED EVERY DAY JUST AS SHE APPROACHED PAINTING – WITH…
“Why don’t you get out of that wet coat and into a dry Martini?” Such was the suggestion Robert Benchley gave Ginger Rogers in the 1942 film “The Major and the Minor.” Today, the quip is printed on cocktail napkins lining the elegant oak bar in the Blue Bar at New York’s The Algonquin Hotel, a historic hub of witty words and liquid lunches.
Fashion Week came and went, but we’ll always have the pictures. Here’s a look into some of my week’s most glamorous and hippest highlights.
The man who famously predicted that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes is still enjoying his. The Metropolitan Museum of Art keeps the ball rolling with “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years” (Sept. 18-Dec. 31). The show plumbs the artist’s influence in 45 of his own works, juxtaposed with 100 by some 60 contemporary artists.
“I can see what’s going on in the world by looking at myself.”
That’s Asa Jackson’s take on his evolving artwork. Asa is a 23-year-old painter from Hampton Roads, Va., but recently he could be found on Greenwich Avenue where he held a solo exhibit of his large-scale, Expressionistic portraits at the Samuel Owen Gallery.
The prolific artist Roberto Dutesco stepped away from his role as an in-demand fashion photographer and dedicated 18 years of his life to photographing the legendary wild horses of Sable Island, a pristine place some 190 miles off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Although Sable Island is sometimes referred to as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” – it’s the site of about 350 shipwrecks – Dutesco embarked on a mission to document this wilderness and in turn discovered living beauty and a new home.
Kerri Halpern knew something was missing. Story and photograph by Zoë Zellers Jewelry images courtesy of MadStone The West Villager – by way of…
With everyone talking about Tim Tebow, I wanted to weigh in – not because I know anything about football but because I can’t stand…
Our editor here at WAG, Georgette Gouveia, recently shared that Westchester artist Marcy B. Freedman will be curating “Ups and Downs,” which opens July…
Few designers have explored the relationship between nature and woman as seamlessly and thoughtfully as René Lalique, the late glassmaker and credited inventor of…
Living with art Let this Cold Spring show house lead the way There’s a tree house in a bedroom in Cold Spring. And there…
Story and Photographs by Zoë Zellers The Big Apple (and Quince and Pear and Cherry, too) The Sweet Sculptures of Charlie Johnson Consider the…
Photographs by Bob Rozycki and Tim Lee From the moment you drive down the tree-lined allée, tires crunching on the gravel, you get the…
