Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2019 i Town & Country

1972 A SIGNATURE LIFE Forty-seven years ago Diane von Furstenberg graced the cover of Town & Country with her then-husband, Prince Egon von Fürstenberg. The couple, who had two young children at the time, were fresh to the New York social scene and, according to T&C, “already the talk and envy of their contemporaries.” Fast-forward nearly half a century: The iconic fashion designer and women’s champion is still the talk of the town, and she appears on our cover again, this time with granddaughter Talita. “I think of aging as an acquisition, not a loss,” she says (page 100).…

It has been said, at least since Hippocrates, that the cure for everything is saltwater—sweat and tears to be sure, but chiefly the sea. Yet while beach time has always seemed to me a sine qua non of a life well lived, sailing—the purest way of engaging the sea—has not. I have crossed the Atlantic by ship twice and cruised, one-way, from Naples to Alexandria. But that was sailing as transportation, not as adventure. Which is why, seeking to correct this, I booked myself (plus daughter) on a seven-night Mediterranean cruise last August, from Monte Carlo to Barcelona on the Silver Muse, a Silversea ship. (Note that for similar departures late this summer you need to book far ahead, as in this month.) We would be sailing by night and…

Carolina Castiglioni is bathed in grays and sage greens. These are the colors she has chosen for the atelier of her new label, Plan C, but they also happen to match her temperament and that of her parents, Consuelo and Gianni, who founded the beloved Italian brand Marni 25 years ago. The Castiglionis never resorted to spectacle; their preternaturally cool garments spoke sotto voce to a woman who wasn’t “quirky” or “offbeat,” as critics often said, but confident in her individuality. It’s a brisk afternoon in Milan, and Castiglioni is holding court inside the apartment where her great-grandmother opened a celebrated fur business in the early 1960s. Castiglioni presented her first collection for the new label in September, two years after a disagreement with Marni’s corporate owners led the family…

Confession: I agreed to this trip mainly for the Emirates in-flight bar, an airborne speakeasy with a bartender serving martinis and snacks. I was duly impressed. As I was by the grand proportions of Dubai—notably of the Burj Khalifa, the lunchtime view from which I found both thrilling and sickening (jetlag and hangover from said martinis). Rested and fed, I headed into the desert aboard a camel to a tented feast celebrating Van Cleef & Arpels’s newest watches. The astrophysicist Isabelle Grenier pointed out constellations in the night sky, and the watches gleamed just as bright, each sign of the zodiac crafted from precious stones and glittering enamel, with stars lighting up on their own—a mechanical watchmaking feat in itself.…

Hair by Leon Gorman at Art Department. Makeup by Chris Colbeck at Art Department. Manicure by Gina Viviano at Tracey Mattingly. Tailoring by Yasmine Oezelli.…

Hair by Davy Newkirk at the Wall Group. Makeup by Jenna Kristina for Chanel at the Wall Group. Since Francesca Amfitheatrof joined Louis Vuitton as its artistic director for jewelry and watches in April 2018, gem aficionados have been eagerly watching the house’s every move. Amfitheatrof is a tour de force who designed for the likes of Chanel, Fendi, Marni, and the British royal jeweler Garrard before she became, in 2014, the first female design director of Tiffany & Co. Though she has yet to release a collection under her total creative direction, it’s fitting that Louis Vuitton’s Conquêtes-Regalia pays homage to powerful women. The 60-piece collection is rife with fleurs-de-lis, laurel wreaths, and other icons of achievement. One of the emblems carries a special significance: Two of Louis Vuitton’s…

Nancy Pelosi’s nine-year-old granddaughter, Bella, jumped up and down with proud abandon when Pelosi cast her vote for Speaker of the House on January 3. And weren’t we all, regardless of politics, with Bella there? Her Grandma Mimi had just become, at 78, the third-most powerful person in the U.S. government. The woman who admits to spoiling Bella with forbidden scoops of ice cream was ready for battle. Did you have a grandmother like that? I don’t mean the most powerful woman in America; I had two, and they were not. One started working at her father’s fruit stand on the Lower East Side when she was nine and fought her parents for the privilege of going to high school. She won, and she spent a lifetime as a bookkeeper—professionally…

In Frida Kahlo’s theater of the self, there’s always more to discover in the intertwined tendrils of her art and life. A multiethnic, multivalent figure who has been adopted as a feminist hero and a muse to pop stars and fashion designers, the Mexican-born painter and her signature unibrow are now found on everything from coffee mugs to Barbie dolls. Yes, Fridamania is a thing, and it has descended upon New York, with a show at the Brooklyn Museum that promises to deliver new insights. “Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving” focuses on the “ways in which the artist crafted her own image and identity,” says Catherine Morris, one of the show’s curators. “It’s an opportunity to nuance Frida Kahlo.” Featured alongside important self-portraits the artist made between 1926 and…

To the casual observer, the southwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights Boulevard is just another West Hollywood strip mall. Among the occupants of the site: a McDonald’s, a dental clinic, and a bank with a curious zigzag of a roof. Nothing about this plot of land, 8150 Sunset Boulevard, indicates that it was once one of the city’s most notorious destinations—or that it is once again at the center of controversy. For more than a century the story of Los Angeles itself has been reflected in this site, as it evolved from a fruit grove into Hollywood’s most decadent hotel, and then into its current incarnation as paved-over paradise. And now fate has new plans for 8150 Sunset: Architect Frank Gehry is poised, with developer Townscape Partners, to…

In 1849, when Pauline Moynat founded her eponymous luggage company, she was the only female trunk-maker in France. In keeping with its revolutionary founder, the company was quick to capitalize on a radical new trend—the car—snapping up patents on popular items like the automobile hat trunk and the limousine trunk. The trailblazing grande dame’s spirit endures with Moynat’s Oh! tote, a sturdy leather-trimmed canvas bag. Though its bright stripe and monogram recall glamorous travel days of yore, its ample interior and light weight will cut through modern thoroughfares with aplomb.…

Introduced in the mid–17th century, girandoles take their moniker from a type of candelabra, and, with the discovery of diamonds in Brazil in 1723, they became status symbols. Royals were frequently painted wearing theirs, but enthusiasm for the style waned during the French Revolution, when looking opulent risked the guillotine. Fortunately, the earrings survived, and extravagant girandoles can (and should) be worn once more.…

PISCES FEBRUARY 20–MARCH 20 Ansel Elgort It’s your birthday, and the planets are very much in your favor. But what you need to know is that Saturn in Capricorn is urging you to sort out your priorities, both professionally and personally. You’ll find that others are ready to support you, and the way will open up for you if you dare to move in a new direction. The new Moon of the 6th energizes you, so follow your dreams, and Venus’s entrance into your birth sign on the 26th sweetens your relationships. ARIES MARCH 21–APRIL 20 Vanessa Kirby With numerous planets in the preceding sign, you’ll gain inspiration and insight if you take a step back. You’re a doer, not a dreamer, but you’ll benefit if you tune into the…

Though she was born in Australia and raised in the U.K., Leila George seems at home on set at Owlwood, an L.A. estate that once belonged to Tony Curtis and where Marilyn Monroe was a regular houseguest. It’s no surprise, considering the 26-year-old George’s background. The daughter of actors Greta Scacchi and Vincent D’Onofrio, George has not only scored professional wins in her own right (she made her big screen debut in last year’s Mortal Engines), she has held her own alongside her parents, appearing opposite Mom in a production of The Seagull and starring this year in The Kid, Dad’s first feature as a director. George swears that D’Onofrio didn’t cut her any slack on the set of The Kid, which follows runaways mixed up in the hunt for…

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RICHARD DAVID STORY The writer and former editor of Departures has traveled the globe on assignment. To research “WHAT WOULD PLATO WEAR?” (page 72), he made a pilgrimage to Solomeo, Italy, to meet with Brunello Cucinelli, who recently celebrated his fourth decade as undisputed king of cashmere. BETHANY McLEAN The financial journalist, whose book The Smartest Guys in the Room remains the definitive account of the Enron scandal, is “fascinated by the ways in which fact and fiction inspire each other.” In “WHY WE STARE AT CRASHES” (page 56), she considers why the 2008 financial crisis—the subject of the new play The Lehman Trilogy, which opens this month in New York—still captivates us. THOMAS WHITESIDE “The von Furstenbergs are like family,” says Whiteside, who photographed this month’s cover story, “THE…

AKRIS CELEBRATES FASHION & ART IN ASPEN T&C hosted an intimate conversation celebrating fashion and art at the Akris Summer installation pop-up shop with Akris Global CEO Melissa Beste, Turnberry Chairman/CEO Jackie Soffer, and moderated by T&C Style Features Director Erik Maza. In partnership with Jazz Aspen Snowmass, guests enjoyed live music and sipped champagne while shopping the spring/summer line inspired by mid-century American designer Alexander Girard. AKRIS.com POMELLATO Pomellato kicked off T&C’s Philanthropy Series: Chicago at their stunning Oak Street boutique in partnership with OneGoal, a local educational organization. The evening brought together some of the city’s most well-known philanthropists, who shopped to support secondary education completion. POMELLATO.com ONEGOALGRADUATION.org DAVID YURMAN T&C hosted an intimate jewelry presentation and shopping experience with David Yurman at Neiman Marcus Tysons Galleria. Guests…

Botanica was a new café in a hip pocket of Silver Lake, but it was already one of the most Instagrammed restaurants in Los Angeles, thanks to seasonal vegetables served in adorable bowls. I was hoping to eat there—if I could get a reservation—and I was planning on taking a friend, Liz, who hates everything and never shows up on time. Just considering the arrangements was exhausting. Luckily, I didn’t have to organize it myself. My Bangalore-based assistant, Ravi (not his real name), secured the reservation and also helped calm my anxiety. “We have a phrase for friends like her here in the States,” I wrote to Ravi. “High maintenance. Anyway, I’ll report back about what Liz returns to the kitchen. PS—Bonus points if we can meet the chef!” The…

Here are three things you may not know about Brunello Cucinelli: 1) He is the only 65-year-old Italian male who, despite having an unflagging passion for soccer, would rather talk Aristotle than Fiorentina. 2) He very much identifies with the Jimmy Stewart character in It’s a Wonderful Life, who is “saved by an angel who takes the form of a man.” 3) Forty years after he started his made-in-Italy business, Brunello has never designed anything in black. “And never will,” he tells me. I first met Brunello about a dozen years ago, when I was a magazine editor and was invited to see his fall collection at Pitti Uomo in Florence. One fashion scribe at the time described him as “a god, timeless beyond trends,” and that made sense to…

According to legend, María Félix, one of the most famous faces in Mexican cinema, strolled into Cartier’s Rue de la Paix store in 1975 with a live baby crocodile and asked that her pet be immortalized as a necklace. The magicians behind the counter were not daunted—not by the design challenge or by the diva with the penchant for New Look fashions and exotic critters. The resulting necklace became an instant icon, with two intersecting 18K gold crocodiles studded with 1,023 yellow diamonds and 1,060 emeralds. Forty-three years later Cartier asked the same artisan who had made it to create the María Félix High Jewelry suite, a set with a necklace, a pair of earrings, a ring, and a bracelet that uses 14 rare Colombian emeralds totaling 46.45 carats. With…

SILVERSEA Experience unique history, traditions, and flavors beyond the coast, and away from the crowds. The ultimate reward for the discerning traveler, an intimate, all-inclusive Silversea luxury voyage embraces the pure essence of the globe’s most intriguing corners. Silversea takes you deeper to capture the authentic beauty of the world. SILVERSEA.com PALM BEACH MASTERS Home to Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ and FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ competitions, the Palm Beach Masters is a world-class competition series, showcasing the equestrian sport’s biggest names in a boutique setting. PALMBEACHMASTERS.com BRUNO MAGLI For showstopping jewels that put a pep in your step, look to Bruno Magli’s stunning day-to-night spring footwear collection inspired by wow-factor styles from the fashion house’s archives. You’ll have to act fast to own a pair of the shimmering, limited-edition…

“Desperately seeking no one’s approval.”—Madonna “Good taste is an illusion. My work is about beauty, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Most of the designers I wear are about deconstructing the norm. Their taste isn’t defined by a label on the front of your shirt.”—MICKALENE THOMAS, artist “My idea of elegance is Carolyn Bessette. That’s style that stands the test of time. We both grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and before she was CBK I knew her as ‘Carolyn who works in the city,’ which was how she was referenced whenever I mentioned my interest in fashion. The reply was always, ‘Oh, you should talk to Carolyn who works in the city.’”—LAUREN SANTO DOMINGO, co-founder Moda Operandi “Dressing up is my armor for any battle—in my case,…

Florence in the spring is already a cacophonous babel of tourists, guides, and souvenir hawkers clogging narrow streets, crowding ancient piazzas. But there’s a spot overlooking the Arno that’s a sanctuary from the frenzy, at least for the select few who are granted access. It is the Palazzo Spini Feroni, a 13th-century fortress that has been in the possession and care of the Ferragamos for the past 80 years. Rarely glimpsed by outsiders and shown here exclusively by T&C, it’s a prized family heirloom that may be the key to unlocking the secrets of a kingdom that began, rather inauspiciously, within this city’s medieval walls. For Wanda Ferragamo, the family matriarch, who died in October, this hidden jewel was the soul of the company and a reminder of its roots.…

“You have to buy them! Yellow goes with everything!” Who said that, me? It was only my second day in Dallas and apparently I had lost my mind. Maybe it was the 70-percent-off shoe sale. Or the cool, perfumed air floating through Neiman Marcus NorthPark, quite an escape from the 102-degree temperature outside. Or because Mia Brous, one of my shopping companions, was channeling Cinderella with every shoe she tried: a high-heeled navy suede Azzedine Alaïa evening sandal, a sensible brown leather Manolo Blahnik slingback, a yellow satin Manolo slide, which, in my defense, actually did go perfectly with her white pants and blue blouse. No, it wasn’t my mind I had lost, it was the sheer joy of department store shopping, a beloved pre-internet memory, when the thrill of…

HOLIDAY PREVIEW WITH BRAHMIN Tastemakers from around the Lowcountry gathered at Charleston’s Zero George for seasonal cocktails and an enchanting family-style dinner with Brahmin handbags at the forefront. Hosted by T&C Market Editor MaryKate Boylan, the intimate event introduced the stylish set of influencers to Brahmin’s Holiday Collection. BRAHMIN.com TO ACCESS OUR EVENTS AND PROMOTIONS, GO TO TOWNANDCOUNTRYMAG.COM/INSIDER & FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM @TOWNANDCOUNTRYMAG…

The objects we choose to surround ourselves with—and how we arrange them—reveal the deepest truths, as the art historian John Richardson has often observed. The 95-year-old has punctuated his Fifth Avenue apartment with talismans from a life spent among giants like Andy Warhol and his great subject Pablo Picasso. But he reserved a nook for his most trusted companion of all: his beloved cat, Loulou.…