Visits: 25 SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Though summer crowds have retreated from this exclusive enclave, one fixture of its landscape has lately become a year-round constant: a large white container truck parked on an overgrown lot by Agawam Lake. Its contents …
A Lawyer Finds Her Happily-Ever-After as a Romance Writer
Visits: 31 Jasmine Guillory likes H.E.A. As fans of romance novels know, H.E.A. stands for “happily ever after,” a guarantee that the protagonist will find her version of happiness. And probably sex, too. “Romance is a perfect thing to read …
Serena Williams’s Fashion Smash
Visits: 22 When Serena Williams steps out onto the hard courts of the U.S. Open on Monday for what may be her last tournament, she will do so in a little black (tennis) dress with long sheer sleeves, a six-layer …
Latisha Chong, Hair Stylist Who Helped Change Fashion, Dies at 32
Visits: 25 In work seen, among other places, on the cover of Vogue, she was part of a vanguard of Black talent that altered an industry and expanded the canon of beauty. When Telfar Clemens, the mischievous Liberian American designer, …
Where Rihanna Got Her Style Groove
Visits: 22 It was midafternoon in Barbados, and a tall gate swung open onto a wide yard. Lauren Austin led the way through her home-turned-costume-production factory, stepping around a dozen four-foot-tall wings, their fuchsia feathers stretching out across the floor. …
Art, Darling
Visits: 29 Antwaun Sargent sat nursing a Negroni at Frankies Spuntino, his haunt in Brooklyn, as he described the perks of his multilayered career. “I had dinner with Madonna,” he said on a recent Friday. “Coming of age as a …
Who Will Repair Their Birkins Now?
Visits: 31 June 30 will mark the end of era for a particular set of New Yorkers. That is when Artbag, the go-to store for ladies who lunched (when lunch was a verb) and who needed their choicest handbags repaired …
Spike Lee’s Children Are This Year’s Golden Globe Ambassadors
Visits: 22 Satchel and Jackson Lewis Lee are headed to Hollywood, but not for long, they say. The siblings are in town this weekend as this year’s Golden Globes ambassadors, a largely ceremonial role traditionally reserved for the children of …
Finding Art Miles Away From the Expected
Visits: 21 About four years ago I followed an emailed invitation to an art gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, not entirely expecting to find curious, provocative, contemporary work in that neighborhood, but I did. Now I return regularly to find …
Tom Ford on Wearing the Same Ripped Jeans and Allowing Himself to ‘Be Unproductive’
Visits: 43 VF You’re God? TF You’re not God of the world, but you are God of that film. You decide what people say, what they do, where they go, whether they die, whether they live. You create something, and …