The lure of the lake
byWhatmore’s Lake in Waccabuc is a place of beauty, serenity and creativity.
Marilyn Monroe
Around the world with Louis Vuitton
by“Travellers’ Tales: Bags Unpacked,” a new book from Thames & Hudson, takes readers along on a round-the-world trip with more than 50 notables – and their Louis Vuitton luggage.
Great design? Meh, maybe
byDesign implies a certain understated usefulness, as in modernist architect Louis Sullivan’s famous dictum: “Form follows function.”
Peerless Parzinger
byThe elegant designs of Tommi Parzinger are a familiar sight in Jennifer Pitman’s travels to the homes of Westchester and Fairfield county clients.
Quite a fit
byWe offer a sneak peek of the retrospective, “Norell: Dean of American Fashion,” opening this month at The Museum at FIT.
In hair and life, love is in the details
byWhen I was told the February issue would be all about love and romance, my wheels started turning. Before I knew it, it was…
To the Max
byWhen Peter Max was at The Art Students League of New York in the 1950s, he studied under Frank J. Reilly, who himself was…
Nine Love Potions
byAmong the senses, your eyes may deceive you, but the nose never lies. A scent can arise out of nowhere, catch you off guard…
Swing shift
byBy Debbi O’Shea I find it fascinating that like fashion, ideal body shapes for women seem to change with each decade. (Which one leads,…
Marilyn, c’est nous
byWhat could there possibly be left to say about Marilyn Monroe? Perhaps no other movie star has been so idolized and dissected by popular…
Marilyn as muse
byProlific novelist and short story writer Joyce Carol Oates still finds inspiration in Marilyn Monroe. The author conjured her 12 years ago in the…
Sold on sizzle
byFor 18 years, Stevens has helped clients ranging from financial firms to pharmaceutical companies to nightclubs make the transition from like to love as CEO of MSCO. He’s had a lot of time to think about what makes an individual or a corporation a dazzling sell.
Goddess
byThis month marks the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death and there are, not surprisingly, any number of new books and articles that would pluck at the heart of her mystery, so to speak – including Andrew Hansford and Karen Homer’s eye candy, “Dressing Marilyn” (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books), about William Travilla’s costume designs for the actress; and Lois Banner’s feminist reevaluation, “Marilyn Monroe: The Passion and the Paradox” (Bloomsbury). There’s also the soap operatic (read: addictive as a box of Godiva) NBC drama “Smash,” about the making of a Marilyn musical, and the recent “My Week With Marilyn,” in which Michelle Williams poignantly embodied rather than impersonated her.