Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2018 i Town & Country

ONE WOMAN SHOW “Imagine if your mother-in-law is Yoko Ono,” says Charlotte Kemp Muhl, who has been with Ono’s son Sean Lennon for more than a decade. She is looking at T&C’s September 1987 photo by Arnold Newman of the artist and activist in her home at the Dakota, shot for a story on the creative residents of Central Park West. “On Christmas morning she’s in haute couture. Her small talk is about hanging out with Marcel Duchamp, or how to save the world,” says Muhl, a musician who just wrapped a tour with her band, Uni. “Yoko is punk to the core, yet supremely elegant. The stuff of legends.”…

Every few weeks, usually on Sunday, a curious foursome get together for lunch at Cipriani at the Sherry-Netherland in New York. On the face of it they have little in common. Two of them are society royalty, a couple of 50 years who symbolize a sort of bygone elegance, while the other two are relative newcomers to the scene. But they all share an interest. The patrician woman is Carolina Herrera, 79, and the gregarious 32-year-old, as lanky as a martini glass, is Wes Gordon, who has succeeded Herrera at the label she founded 38 years ago with a show around the corner at the Metropolitan Club. Gordon, describing the ritual (whose other members are their respective partners, Reinaldo Herrera and Paul Arnhold), beams. For him it’s the ultimate blessing.…

Our hopes for the 21st century hit a high point in 1962—not with the Seattle World’s Fair but with an episode of The Jetsons featuring Rosie the Robot Maid. We haven’t reached a Rosie reality yet, but the Samsung Powerbot R7065 brings us closer. Unlike its predecessors, the Powerbot won’t tangle up tassels or bang into baseboards, thanks to sensors that create an ideal cleaning path. Cyclone force technology and triangle “ears” whisk away debris, and its self-cleaning brush dislodges hair or fur wrapped inside. When the Powerbot is finished, it returns to its dock to recharge. And you can schedule and review cleanings via your phone from bed, the store—or even your self-driving car.…

A round the time I was completing my art history studies at Columbia University, Geoffrey Beene commissioned me to write the program notes for his runway show at the Pierre. As payment he offered me an irresistible ensemble: a jumpsuit with a white cotton piqué bolero. Gradually, as our association developed into an artist-muse relationship, Beene began to dominate my wardrobe (and, to a certain extent, my life), and Bill Cunningham zealously recorded the process. Before long Bill’s photos of me in Beene—which appeared often in both his On the Street and Evening Hours columns in the New York Times Styles section—took on a life of their own. Sometimes it even seemed that I, or at least my newsprint image, had become public property. People would notify me if I…

After Marco Bicego introduced his three-tier Africa necklace—a bib of hand-brushed gold beads—I admired it so much it appeared in this magazine for three consecutive issues. And so it was not altogether surprising that, as I toured his workshop in Trissino, Italy, the designer himself stopped in front of one of the artisans patiently brushing a gold sphere and said, “Look, Stellene—your Africa!” That experience, of seeing favorite pieces in their embryonic phase, happened throughout the day. All of Bicego’s jewelry begins and ends right here, with a loyal team of craftsmen and the designer’s commitment to tradition. I stopped and stared as a man twisted each of the coiled gold strands of a Marrakech bracelet, and I watched another handpick the amethysts and aquamarines that would become a Jaipur…

When New York’s legendary Kenneth salon—known for its perfectly coiffed VIP clientele, who gossiped over William Poll tea sandwiches—closed in 2015, it signaled the end of getting your hair done with a capital D. The same year, blowout bars and on demand beauty service apps sprouted in cities and suburbs. Still, in 2018 the desire for exclusivity and escape—relics of the Kenneth era—is very much alive. For photographer Claiborne Swanson Frank, who has her hair done “at least once a week,” the stylist’s chair offers an essential refuge. “My house is full of noise, as I have two little boys,” she says. “The peace and quiet of leaving and getting my blowout and reading a magazine is a luxury.” She jumps between Eddie Plishti, off Madison Avenue, and Julien Farel…

VIRGO AUGUST 24–SEPTEMBER 23 Bruce Springsteen Mercury’s entrance into your birth sign sharpens your wits in September, and with Mars charging into your work angle on the 11th, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish. Much good will come out of your ability to articulate your feelings and your aims, so don’t hesitate to tell it like it is. Any financial issues are going to demand patience and diplomacy toward month’s end, but your efforts to find the right solutions will break the impasse. LIBRA SEPTEMBER 24–OCTOBER 23 Emilia Clarke You will be putting some stressful issues behind you as September gets underway, especially those concerning home and property. A bit of private time is imperative near the new Moon of the 9th, and until the Sun enters Libra on the 23rd,…

Just after he was elected to Congress in 2012, Beto O’Rourke was in a bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with several other newly elected pals. A woman came up, looked at O’Rourke, and said, “Are you who I think you are?” He had just won a long-shot race for a House seat that had garnered some national attention, so he said yes, he thought he probably was who she thought he was. She pulled him over to her table to meet her friends. They gave him high-fives and started taking pictures. “It dawns on me: They don’t think I’m Beto, they think I’m Joe Kennedy, or at least some Kennedy,” O’Rourke says. Finally he confessed, “‘I’m not who you think I am. I’m Beto. From El Paso.’ I could just see…

AMANDA GORMAN America’s first National Youth Poet Laureate is also a junior at Harvard and the founder of One Pen One Page, a youth literacy collective. Oh, and she’s plotting a 2036 presidential run. NATURAL HABITAT Speaking at UN summits. BRAGGING RIGHTS One of her poems was on display at New York’s Morgan Library. CLEO WADE As fashion’s conscience, the 29-year-old activist and artist uses her social media influence (400,00 followers and counting on Instagram) to advocate for justice reform, gender equality, and gun control. NATURAL HABITAT The front row, and the front lines of the resistance. BRAGGING RIGHTS A new book, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life. VERENA VON PFETTEN A former brand consultant, she co-founded Gossamer, a lifestyle publication for millennial marijuana smokers that debuted April…

RACHELE REGINI The London-based art history student is muse to Dior artistic director Maria Grazia Chiuri (a.k.a. Mom). NATASHA LAU The daughter of Shanghai socialite Lisa Xia is a Weibo powerhouse, Dolce & Gabbana model, and fashion management student at Parsons. LILY BAKER Nina Griscom’s daughter works at travel company Indagare by day and philanthropies (Save the Children, Teaching Matters) by night. LILY WEBSTER The daughter of South Carolina bigwig William Mendenhall Webster IV is a freshman at Washington and Lee. JULIA GARNER Although she’s still best known as an indie actress, the 24-year-old is a smash success as Ruth in Netflix’s Ozark series. SIMONE GARCIA JOHNSON The Rock’s model daughter works with Global Girl Media, training young women in digital journalism. JULIETTE DELAFONTAINE The Longchamp scion has apprenticed at…

“For the first time, I really feel true to myself,” Lee Radziwill told Judy Klemesrud of the New York Times in a September 1974 interview. Since leaving her marriage to Prince Stanislaw Radziwill, Lee was experiencing a burst of creative activity. Besides going on tour with the Rolling Stones two years earlier, her involvement in documentaries by Jonas Mekas and the Maysles brothers, and trying to write a memoir, Lee had embarked on a television career. If Jackie was finally found, Lee refused to be lost. Described by Klemesrud as a “society blue blood, ex-princess” and “little sister to one of the world’s most famous women,” Lee swept “into her bright red living room on Fifth Avenue…to talk about her latest endeavor: working.” Throughout the 1970s this was how she…

With Elizabeth Taylor gone, Joan Collins is the only actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood still working, still beguiling, still winning. We think of her as Alexis from Dynasty, but Dame Joan, who arrived from England in 1955 as 20th Century Fox’s new ingenue, has starred in such films as The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955), The Bitch (1979), and The Time of Their Lives (2017). More to the point, she has never stopped working; she is about to appear in the upcoming eighth season of American Horror Story. For any actress this would be a coup, but for one who played opposite Ray Milland and Richard Burton, it’s also a very hip gig. “We have all been obsessed with her forever,” says Brad Falchuk, co-creator (with…

A few years ago, when we launched Town & Country’s annual list of 50 Modern Swans, we decided to define the term clearly. Modern Swans are not, we stated, “to be confused with their more overexposed sibling, the mere ‘It girl.’” The Modern Swan is young, free, always invited, obsessively followed, and frequently photographed, but, to use a distinction first made by swankeeper Truman Capote, she is worthy not just of our attention but of our admiration. Swans are, in his words, “fledglings of the prettiest promise who may one day lead the flock.” Town & Country has, during its 172 years, chronicled the rise of great young women all over the world. And while earlier in our history their entries into public life were noted by their appearances at…

HAPPENINGS SAKS FIFTH AVENUE “JEWELRY ON 2” On Tuesday, June 5, Town & Country Editor in Chief Stellene Volandes and Saks Fifth Avenue President Marc Metrick hosted guests at the Saks Fifth Avenue New York flagship for a cocktail party to celebrate the opening of Jewelry on 2. Saks’ new floor provides clients with the quintessential luxury jewelry experience, including exclusive product and private viewing rooms, as well as design, repair, and cleaning services. SAKS.com SAN FRANCISCO OPERA BALL San Francisco Opera opens its 96th season on September 7 with the double bill of one-act operas, Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. The evening begins with the premiere benefit gala, Opera Ball 2018, chaired by the Opera Guild’s Shannon Cronan and Kathy Huber, and designed by renowned event…

Nicole Avant knows the importance of home. After two years as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas, away from her husband, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, and their two children, in 2015 she settled her family into a Hancock Park estate that had previously belonged to Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas and has since played host to Oscar parties and meet-and-greets with potential 2020 presidential candidates. Guests are greeted by the scent of tuberose and walls of striking black female faces, each painted by an artist she admires. “Home is the nucleus of everything,” says Avant, wearing a bright caftan in the Los Angeles heat. “It’s where you love, it’s where you eat, it’s where you connect.” Now she’s channeling that energy into her role as chairman of the board…

“Delighted to meet you,” says Eric, the Baron Rothschild, greeting me with a hearty handshake in the entryway of Château Lafite. It occurs to me almost immediately that it is a lapse of manners on my part to remind him that we were tablemates at a wedding a few years ago, especially after he is so gracious in his subsequent apology. Clad in a slightly rumpled double-breasted navy linen blazer, he exudes a warmth that helps counteract his imposing height, good looks, and pedigree. His wife Beatrice also apologizes on his behalf; she is equally hospitable, though her manner and attire are far more casual. Tonight I’m one of 10 guests who have been invited to help celebrate the 150th year of the Rothschilds’ ownership of Château Lafite, the most…

In Italy a shoe is not just a shoe. A stiletto is drama, fireworks, an aria of sex appeal and design. Shoemakers talk about their creations as if the higher the heel, the closer to heaven. Arianna Casadei is not a designer, but shoes are her birthright—she is the grand-daughter of the Casadei brand’s founders—and she preaches the gospel of fine footwear as smoothly as anyone. A good pair of heels, she says, knocks the wind out of you, “un pugno allo stomaco.” “It’s the accessory that, better than anything else, can lift your mood, embrace your personality, make you feel…” She pauses, searching for the word in English. “Complete.” Based on that premise, the Casadeis cultivated a business that turns 60 this year, riding what began as a mom-and-pop…

Even those who never put a foot wrong can be flummoxed when it comes to the social kiss. Is one enough, or is the double de rigueur? Start on the right side—or is it the left? And is it preferable to hover in the air and risk seeming disingenuous or make mouth-to-cheek contact and possibly smear your lipstick across someone’s collar in the process? Etiquette experts are nearly unanimous in their opinion that to air is to err (and it’s right cheek first). Thankfully, lipstick leave-behind is now a non-issue, courtesy of new matte formulas that stay put and last for hours. Fall’s new reds may be bold, but they’ll never leave a mark.…

In Dino Risi’s film Profumo di Donna, the charming, blind Captain Fausto, frustrated by his aide’s uninspired descriptions of the beautiful women they encounter, tells the young man he can use his sense of smell to sniff out the most desirable specimens among them. Were the film, which was released in 1974, set in modern times, it’s possible the protagonist would be utterly flummoxed. Indeed, the scent of a woman—and a man—is changing. In an age when one of the largest big box retailers in the United States is removing references to “boys” and “girls” in its toy aisles and the transgender bathroom debate continues to dominate the news cycle, fragrance makers are also blurring the line between the sexes, creating scents meant to be worn confidently by anyone. “The…

“I’M DRAWN TO CONTRASTING MATERIALS THAT TELL A UNIQUE STORY.” For Town & Country influencer and photographer Lara Jade, style begins with the details. When it comes to her design aesthetic, she is inspired by the intimate intricacies seen in objects and accessories—from the bold texture on a handbag to the futuristic shape of a vase. This fall, T&C visits Lara in her home as she reveals her approach to a layered lifestyle that is equal parts modern and sophisticated. To see more of Lara’s #VeryTandC timeless picks for a lasting impression, visit TOWNANDCOUNTRYMAG.COM/INSIDER/TCMUSE. @LARAJADEPHOTOGRAPHY LARAJADE.COM/BLOG…

LARSEN THOMPSON There isn’t much downtime when you’re Larsen Thompson. In addition to dancing in music videos for Katy Perry and Pink, she recently completed her debut, still-under-wraps feature film (produced by the hitmakers behind Get Out and Whiplash), and just landed her first major modeling contract, with Maybelline New York, all while juggling the academic responsibilities of a high school senior in Southern California. But her primary passion will always be dance, which she has been doing since she was four years old. “It’s an amazing art form where I can express myself through movement,” says Thompson, who credits her aunt, the Olympic gold medal gymnast Julianne McNamara, with inspiring her drive. SISTINE STALLONE Since making her debut as a T&C Modern Swan in 2016, Sistine Stallone—who is signed…

TYLER HANEY The former high school jock raised $57 million from investors like Google Ventures and Gwyneth Paltrow for her fitness apparel brand, Outdoor Voices. NATURAL HABITAT OV’s Austin HQ. BRAGGING RIGHTS Advised by former J.Crew CEO Mickey Drexler, now chair of the OV board. CAMILLA MARCUS The Wharton grad is behind West-bourne, a Soho café that gives 1 percent of proceeds to the youth nonprofit the Door—and hires workers through it. NATURAL HABITAT Eating her way through NYC and L.A. (her hometown). BRAGGING RIGHTS Trained under Tom Colicchio and Danny Meyer. PAIGE BELLISSIMO The equestrian and dad Mark Bellissimo, a Wellington, FL, developer, created the Great Charity Challenge, a show jumping competition that raises money for local nonprofits. NATURAL HABITAT Helping Dad transform Tryon, NC, into Wellington 2.0. BRAGGING…

ALICE HO The daughter of Chinese billionaire Stanley Ho inherited a knack for numbers—she studies math and computer science at MIT. SOFIA YEGANEH When not jetsetting with young royals, the Parsons student assists Lauren Santo Domingo at Moda Operandi.…

SABINA SOCOL The Romanian-born journalist and street style influencer, who now calls France home, worked for L’Officiel before going freelance. NATURAL HABITAT The vintage shops of Paris. BRAGGING RIGHTS Bylines in fashion publications worldwide; a stylish 11th Arrondissement apartment. LOURDES LEON It would be easy to cash in on Mom’s celebrity, but Madonna’s 21-year-old daughter is busy finishing her degree at the University of Michigan. NATURAL HABITAT In front of the camera—for fashion shoots or paparazzi. BRAGGING RIGHTS Dated Timothée Chalamet in high school. LORI HARVEY The daughter of Steve Harvey is Pat McGrath’s new makeup muse. NATURAL HABITAT Catwalking in Dolce & Gabbana’s show; with mom Marjorie and various other Harvey family members. BRAGGING RIGHTS The 20-year-old recently graced the pages of Brazilian Vogue. CAROLINE DAUR The German blogger…

Santo Sospir is, and was, neither mansion nor palace. Nestled at the tip of Cap Ferrat, between Nice and Monaco, the villa merely seems one among many large houses on the peninsula—not the kind that was ever meant to be photographed. For more than 50 years it was the retreat of the socialite Francine Weisweiller, a petite blonde who knew more or less everyone worth knowing: Marie-Laure de Noailles, her neighbor in Paris; Yves Saint Laurent, who considered her a muse so important that he often dressed her for free; Gianni and Marella Agnelli, who were frequent visitors to the house. But without question Weisweiller’s most important acquaintance—in many respects her soul mate—was Jean Cocteau. Invited for a week, the artist arrived at Santo Sospir in May 1950 along with…

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For masters of the universe, it’s not about the power meal so much as it’s about where they enjoy it. At Michael’s, the Manhattan fixture, it’s table 1, near the window. At the Grill, in Beverly Hills, the horseshoe booths are Valhalla. The zenith of all these places, however, is the Tower Bar in West Hollywood, where regulars’ white linen napkins are personally embroidered. The secret to its success? “The lighting, flattering to all,” as designer Paul Fortune recalls in his upcoming book, Notes on Decor, Etc. When the Sunset Tower unveiled a major renovation this summer, only one room went untouched……

HAUTE HONKY-TONK At the June 5, 1980, premiere of Urban Cowboy in Houston, Andy Warhol and Diane von Furstenberg hitched up at Gilley’s Club in Pasadena, Texas, to party with the locals: Lynn and Oscar Wyatt. Forty years later, couture cowboy style rides on.…

When Harry Winston, the King of Diamonds, established his flagship store at 718 Fifth Avenue in 1960, he had another monarch in mind: the Sun King. He reasoned that only an 18th-century French salon would be resplendent enough for his precious stones. Now that jewel box of a room serves as inspiration for the 718 Marble Marquetry series, part of Winston’s limited edition New York Collection. Evoking the floor’s refined black-and-white marble inlay, the sapphire and diamond set suits royalty, past and present.…

On any given day, the IV nurses from Rescue Lounge in Aspen are on call. They are summoned to the Hotel Jerome and the St. Regis. They are called to sprawling private homes in the mountains, where they often work on pajama-clad patients while a private chef fixes dinner. Usually the nurses administer a version of the Myers Cocktail, a mix of B and C vitamins, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and amino acids delivered with an intravenous needle. It provides instant hydration for someone recovering from a hangover or trying to prevent one. “Initially this was a hydration clinic,” says John Hughes, the physician who oversees the nurses at Rescue Lounge (RESCUELOUNGE.COM). But the IVs are more popular than ever, he says. “They’re becoming an immune-boosting nutritional replacement.” IVs have been…

Roseanne is very, very sorry. Or is she? Hard to tell, in this era of a wearyingly familiar one-two punch: public offensiveness followed by tearful—and often none too persuasive—public remorse. It’s been going on for a while, but things have accelerated since the internet and social media have made it possible not only for all kinds of misbehavior to become instantly public (take the video of New York lawyer Aaron Schlossberg going ballistic in a deli after hearing the employees speaking Spanish in May) but for public figures to tweak, massage, and attempt to recast their problematic utterances. MSNBC host Joy Reid has been apologizing pretty much nonstop since last December, when offensive posts she made on her blog were brought to light (“I’m a better person now than I…

Perched on a settee in the lobby of the Parker New York hotel, near Central Park, Carys Zeta Douglas certainly looks the part of celebrity daughter, in a lipstick-red Réalisation Par dress, black suede ankle boots, and delicate gold jewelry. She’s all dark eyelashes and long limbs, daintily sipping English breakfast tea as she talks about where she wants to travel (Bali), her dream prom date (Timothée Chalamet), and why she prefers a bound book to an e-book (“I like to mess it up and mark it”). She mentions her ardor for Häagen-Dazs, which, judging from her attenuate frame, it’s hard to imagine she ever, ever eats. “I’m picky about chocolate ice cream,” she says. “It can’t be too dark, can’t be too creamy.” All typical topics for a 15-year-old,…

For Kelsey Asbille the past year has provided an opportunity for a different type of semester abroad. The South Carolina native has been attending Columbia University—where she’s studying human rights with a specialization in indigenous issues—but the chance to put schoolwork on hold to film Yellowstone, the hit series that premiered this summer on the Paramount Network, was too good to pass up. “Some westerns paint the world as they want it to be, but Yellowstone tries to understand what’s really going on,” Asbille says. “It’s a story that hasn’t already been told.” The time off also offered an opportunity for Asbille, who started acting in her teens and had her breakout moment in 2017, courtesy of the movie Wind River, to pursue interests best explored outside the classroom. For…

HAILEY GATES The writer-actress hosts Viceland’s States of Undress, a series that probes social and political issues in the fashion industry. MALLORY HAGAN The Democratic House candidate in Alabama’s Third District faces an opponent who has held his seat since she was 14. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ The surprise Democratic primary winner from NYC, 28, could become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.…

MAYA HAWKE The offspring of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke started as a Calvin Klein model and last year joined the family business. NATURAL HABITAT Recently Atlanta, where she filmed Stranger Things. MODERN DEBUT Dropped out of Juilliard to star in the remake of Little Women. LETITIA WRIGHT The Guyana-born Brit starred in the year’s biggest flicks: Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, and Ready Player One. NATURAL HABITAT At church—she’s serious about her faith. MODERN DEBUT The role in Broadway’s Eclipsed that garnered Lupita Nyong’o all those accolades? Wright originated it in London. JODIE COMER The British actress became famous this year playing a fashionable sociopathic assassin in Killing Eve. NATURAL HABITAT Manchester, where she recently filmed a new Morrissey biopic. BRAGGING RIGHTS Her flawless skin has become an internet…