DuJour Spring Issue

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SPRING 2013

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SECRETS, LIES & MONEY MISSPENT: FROM POLITICIANS TO OIL TYCOONS // New Rules of Fine Dining by Gael Greene

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Lucite looks

PA G E 6 4

STYLE 46

spring’s freshest uniform is infallible, effortless—and impossibly chic

PA G E 5 0

FAST & FURIOUS

48

THE PERFECT GUEST

71

GO FOR BAROQUE

50

MY FIRST BIG ART PURCHASE: MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV

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ROOM SERVICE

76

BAR CODE

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HEY STRANGER

82

MEET ME IN TEL AVIV

84

HOLDING COURT WITH ROGER FEDERER

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JEWEL OF JAMAICA

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LAP OF LUXURY

92

start your engines with racing watches featuring rugged, streamlined styling

an offshoot of classic and floral designs, wallpaperinspired prints are in bloom this season

SCHOOL OF PROENZA

52

ten years ago, two parsons graduates became the kings of new York

SPRING STOCK

53

up your style portfolio with investment pieces that are covetable and collectible

SLAM DUNK

54

new York knicks center tyson chandler is setting a new standard in off-court style

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BRIGHT FUTURE

58

spring’s suits lighten up with easy linen, relaxed tailoring and pops of color

CC FACTORY

60

By stepping up to save artisanal workshops, chanel is ushering in a new era Rooms fit for living

PA G E 7 6

LIFE

IN THE CLEAR

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see your way to this season’s most in-demand accessories—and not just because they’re transparent

at once glamorous and sporty, socialite c.Z. guest was a true original

the world-famous dancer recalls seeing his jean cocteau drawing for the first time

six top interior designers share how to find creative spaces in every corner

why the most exclusive seat in the house may not be the one you think

scoping out the trend of communal tables in fine restaurants, including 11 favorites

hip hotels, art galleries and old-school architecture abound in israel

the tennis star reveals his style secrets, his hobbies and how he spends his time off

for kingston-born art-world star nicola Vassell, there’s no place like home

a look at the life of eleanor ferdinand furcita fábrega-Bush, the cat of Barbara Bush and miky fábrega

clockwise from top left: ina jang, adrian gaut, thomas loof

WHITE COLLAR Off the wall

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Ed Henry’s mission

PA G E 1 4 0

WORK GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUNDS

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POWER SEATS: RICHARD MEIER

128

YOU’RE SCREWED. NOW WHAT?

130

STUART TAKES SPAIN

134

WEST SIDE STORY

138

D.C.’S PROM KING

140

women are figuring out their best tool in making money—and keeping it—is one another Hilary Rhoda’s on top

PA G E 1 8 6

the renowned architect thinks big in his minimalist office space shirt, $950, THE ROW, barneys. com. honey floppy hat, $365, EUGENIA KIM, eugeniakim. com. celtic noir nautical cable necklace, $1,595, and gold collection necklace with chain, $1,995, CHARRIOL EXCLUSIVELY BY ALOR, charriolusa.com.

FEET OF PLAY

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shoe fiends are embracing nips and tucks in the next wave of aesthetic surgery

POP-UP SHOP

98

from cc cream and bold lip colors to the latest designer fragrance, must-buys at the beauty counter

PLAY

PERFECT SCENTS

SLICE & DICE

100

spring comes into bloom with new fragrances boasting elegant and unexpected notes

how a small town became luxury shoe designer stuart weitzman’s headquarters

112

today, men are trading traditional pursuits for an amped-up role in the kitchen

TO FOAM WITH LOVE

102

COMEBACK KID

114

RENAISSANCE REDUX

104

GETTING FOCUSED

116

GROOM WITH A VIEW

106

WHEELS-UP GR ADE

118

ABOUT FACE

108

SNEAK ATTACK

120

light as air and packing a powerful punch, mousse is whipping up a comeback

Beauty inspiration can be found in an old master’s 15th-century portrait

some of the best new products for men come sized for your carry-on

men are jumping on the cosmetic-surgery bandwagon faster than ever

has the iphone jumped the shark? cue the revival of its rival BlackBerry

Zero in on the new cameras that are much more than point-and-shoot

from customizable planes to five-star food, innovative ways airlines are catering to fliers

get light on your feet with barely there sneakers

DILEMMA DUJOUR

122

the high life comes with problems. we’re here to help

THINK DRINK

124

a name-brand prosecco, better bouncers and a revamped nYc nightspot

Underwater images by Chris Leidy

PA G E 2 5 8

all eyes are on california attorney general kamala harris—and what of those supreme court rumors?

catching up with fox news’ ed henry, the man in charge of the biggest event on the capital’s calendar

CULTURE ART’S NEW ARENA

142

ROMAN RELOADED

144

ODE TO DEPECHE MODE

146

CULTURAL CLIFFSNOTES

148

GROBAN PAINS

150

would you like a holzer with that hot dog? the growing trend of art in stadiums

coppola returns to the director’s chair—and brings charlie sheen along for the ride. plus, page-turners that shed light on the past

hitting the dance floor with the godfathers of electropop, who are returning in grand fashion

Your cheat sheet to this spring’s films, books and theater—from highbrow to low

upending everything you think you know about josh groban

clockwise from top left: thomas whiteside, gettY images, chris leidY

BODY

lanny davis, crisis manager for the rich and powerful, on what you should and shouldn’t say

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ASPEN

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CHICAGO

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DALLAS

211

HOUSTON

214

LAS VEGAS

217

LOS ANGELES

225

MIAMI

231

the best alpine getaways; Brunello cucinelli comes to town; eye-catching art openings

the hype behind new restaurants; retail roundup on the gold coast; a breakfast with the sartorialist and cocktails at trunk club

a nature and science museum doubles as fantasyland; lela rose honored at fashion and lifestyle awards

PA G E 1 5 2

FEATURES THE K FACTOR

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fearless in the face of public scrutiny and a hopeless romantic in a cynical age, everywoman kim kardashian is impossible to define. at a shoot at Bruce weber’s miami home, inspired by his much-missed friend elizabeth taylor, writer alyssa giacobbe asks: is this kim’s golden era?

THE MAGIC OF MOONHOLE

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Born from a dream and fought over for years, a deeply secluded caribbean community is now finally getting a second chance to come to life. george epaminondas takes a trip to the tropics

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a parisian creperie opens; hot sauces with cult followings; the menil collection turns 25; necessary prep for rodeo season

simon hammerstein’s burlesque act hits the palazzo; chopard blings out the wynn; mandalay Bay’s revamped dining; four seasons’ art deco redo

hottest java spots; devi kroell’s poolside dinner; the reigning brow queens; tommy hilfiger’s weho flagship; l.a.’s rising bloggers; art extolling the city’s golden years

THEY’VE BEEN FR AMED

ten notables share with adam rathe the portraits they keep in their homes

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the secret supper club; a hostel that’s hamptons-style chic; tory Burch’s Bal harbour boutique; DuJour’s jason Binn captures the spirit of his second home; the locals’ favorite neighborhood

UNSINK ABLE

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self-made multimillionaire doug Von allmen made a fortune through ingenuity and hard work. as a reward, he commissioned the $37 million yacht of his dreams—only to be hit by unimaginable storms. lisa depaulo on how he weathered those crises and survived to sail again

NEW YORK

intermix takes the Bowery; back-walking beauty routine; moma fetes tarantino; atera’s underground lounge; dentist to the stars; fit’s shoe obsession; DuJour celebrates digital cover star coco rocha; atlantic city art; englewood’s iconic mansion

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AMERICAN BEAUTY

ORANGE COUNTY

256

PALM BEACH

258

SAN FRANCISCO

260

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hilary rhoda shows off some of spring’s most exciting looks and tells lindsay silberman the tale of her rise to the top of the modeling heap

THE THRILL OF SWANEE HUNT

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as an advocate for women worldwide, swanee hunt makes her own legacy. nina Burleigh talks to the heiress about her evangelical upbringing and billionaire tycoon father

THE GREAT DANE

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nikolaj coster-waldau made his name on Game of Thrones, but hollywood could be the next land the actor conquers. adam rathe charts his course

retro bowling; a russian-inspired black-tie gala; postmodern politics hits the art circuit

underwater photographs; polo’s hottest rising star; a pair of notable parties

hometown chef michael chiarello on the waterfront; julie wainwright shares labels she loves; vintage jewelry essentials; strand theatre’s long-awaited reopening; Belstaff’s neiman marcus bash; sweet and savory new dining spots

END NOTE Kors on Kors

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LAST WORDS

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courtney love lets her handwriting do all the talking

top to Bottom: Bruce weBer, michael mundY

Kim’s place in the sun

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Photo by Bruce Weber at his home in Golden Beach, Florida

With all of this momentum, it’s not surprising some of the most exciting brands in the world have become new members of the DuJour family. We’re all about being inclusive, and we have been lucky to have such a wide variety of supporters alongside our esteemed partners, Gilt Groupe—especially their fearless leaders Kevin Ryan, Tom Sansone and Liz Francis— and Hudson News’ Jimmy Cohen and his amazing wife, Lisa. All of these people understand what my dear friend François-Henry Bennahmias, Audemars Piguet’s new CEO, once said: “To break the rules, you must first master them.”

None of this would be possible without you—our readers who pick up the magazine, browse DuJour. com and are always talking, posting and tweeting (@DuJourMedia) about our stories. We’re thrilled to present you with our latest issue and can’t wait to keep sharing with you on- and off-line.

See you again in the summer, when our next issue— sure to be full of sun, sand and surf—arrives!

She’s bewitched! Here’s DuJour’s winter cover girl, Nicole Kidman, poring over her issue—which includes photos by Patrick Demarchelier shot on the French Riviera, near the set of Kidman’s Grace of Monaco.

MUNAWAR HOSAIN

elcome to DuJour’s spring issue. This season is all about coming into bloom, and our spring publication is a perfect example of that. On our cover is Kim Kardashian—or shall we say KIM, no different than how one would refer to Marilyn, Sophia or Liz—who has created a strong, lasting brand, style and sensibility all her own.

When I approached Kim about this project, I envisioned portraying her in a way no one had before. I’ve personally watched her go through many transformations and knew this was just the right time for her to been seen in an entirely new light.

The only person who could make that happen was my friend of over 20 years, Bruce Weber. As you can see, he knocked it out of the park. Kim showed up alone to the shoot, no entourage in tow, and she and Bruce worked together brilliantly. The imagery was so fantastic we decided to make it an 18-page feature— that’s the kind of quality that comes from a shoot lasting more than 14 hours, not to mention the many hours spent editing.

DuJour is about what’s coming into bloom right now—and we’re not the only ones who think so. Since it debuted in September of last year, DuJour has been recognized as “one of the most intriguing launches of 2012” by min and has received endless accolades and attracted millions of readers thanks to smart, interesting stories and breathtaking photography by worldclass artists. We’re not resting on our laurels, though; the bar here at DuJour just gets set higher and higher.

We recently welcomed a new chief digital officer, Robin Keller, to helm our website, which is already robust with the latest in style, celebrity, culture and travel and all the luxury-lifestyle news that you need to know.

(And if you like what you see, you can click to buy on almost every page.) Within just a few months, Robin’s already amped up our site—no surprise considering her amazing experience working for companies like American Media, Fox and CNET. Off-line, we continue to have a strong presence at important events, from Art Basel in Miami to the Golden Globes in L.A. Everywhere I go, I see friends and loyal readers of DuJour. Whether it’s Kellan Lutz at Lacoste’s party at Miami’s Soho Beach House or Nicole Kidman at BAFTA’s pre-Globes tea at the Four Seasons, it’s clear that the people, news and events we’re covering are what’s happening right now.

We’ve also hosted our own soirees, including a buzzed-about party with model, television star and DuJour digital-issue cover girl Coco Rocha and photographer and great friend Nigel Barker, along with his amazing wife Cristen, to celebrate their new hit show, The Face, at Richie Akiva and Scott Sartiano’s Manhattan hotspot The Darby, a truly magical location with a supper club.

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CORY ZELNIK “Go New York!”

JOSH “SCOOP” ESTRIN MICKY ARISON, KAROLINA KURKOVA “It’s the Miami Heat championship trophy”

OFFER NISSENBAUM “It’s nice to have a Peninsula”

ANGELA ARABO “Diamonds, diamonds, diamonds”

DJ IRIE “Heating up the holidays”

CRAIG KALLMAN “Sounds of music”

VICTOR DIAZ, DAVID MARTEN “Transforming a community”

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DOTTIE HERMAN “Location location location” ELANA BOURKOFF, LARISSA BOND “Happy birthday, Aryeh”

LA LA ANTHONY, LOREN RIDINGER “BFFs. Courtside of course”

ARYEH BOURKOFF “Lion hearted”

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TO MY HANDPICKED “EXTENDED FAMILY”

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Jacalyn Bouza-Longaro Randy Brandoff Seth Browarnik Nan Bush Sarrah Candee Andrea Chao Robert B. Chavez Guy Chetwynd Vananzio Ciampa

Carl Cohen Steve Cohn Emily Coppock Tracy Crane Lisa Dallos Chris Daly Liza DeAngelis Gil Dezer Mehmet Dokumcu

HOWARD, BRANDON AND BRIAN LORBER “Family first”

JAMES COHEN, CLIVE DAVIS “True leaders”

Susan Duffy Carin Ehrenberg Roger Ehrenberg Marcy Engelman Zach Enterlin Donna Faircloth Celeste Fierro Cliff Fleiser Trent Fraser

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TALY RUSSELL, ALISON BROD, ANDY RUSSELL “Always ready to pull the trigger”

Jill Fritzo Cori Galpern JP Geoghegan Isaac Gindi Stefania Girombelli Paul Goldfarb Larry Goodrich Bill Gould Efraim Grinberg

Amy Gross Desiree Gruber Dave Grutman Stephanie Hamada Jimmy Handcock Stacie Henderson Teri Hill Jeffrey A. Hirsch Nick Hissom

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EYAL LALO “Always on Invicta time”

STEVE ZACKS “Always up for stone crab at Joe’s”

BERNARD AIDAN “Trés chic”

HOWARD BRESSLER, JEFF ROSEMAN “Real estate moguls”

MATT LAUER, VERONIQUE GABAI-PINSKY “Style and substance” #zegnafrangrance

JAMIE FOXX “Merry Christmas, No. 8” #AmySacco

DAMIAN MOULD “Everyone needs a few days off.” #SohoBeachHouse #Belstaff

MELISSA PORDY “A true gem”

JYOTHI RAO, KEVIN RYAN “Gilt obsessed”

HRATCH KAPRIELIAN, RON JACKSON “Masters of complication”

NATHAN LIEBERMAN “My brother-in-law”

MITCHELL DAVIDSON AND NINA RENNART DAVIDSON “The best couple!”

Rudy Albers Tracy Anderson Jesse Angelo Audra Baldwin Avi Benayoun Jeff Bercovici Steve Birkhold Matthew Blank Peter Bonell Jacalyn Bouza-Longaro Randy Brandoff

FRED WILSON “The Midas touch” Seth Browarnik Nan Bush Sarrah Candee Andrea Chao Robert B. Chavez Guy Chetwynd Vananzio Ciampa Carl Cohen Steve Cohn Emily Coppock Tracy Crane

Lisa Dallos Chris Daly Liza DeAngelis Gil Dezer Mehmet Dokumcu Susan Duffy Carin Ehrenberg Roger Ehrenberg Marcy Engelman Zach Enterlin Donna Faircloth

LAURA DUPONT, LISA OZ, LISA COHEN “The real bosses” Celeste Fierro Cliff Fleiser Trent Fraser Jill Fritzo Cori Galpern JP Geoghegan Isaac Gindi Stefania Girombelli Paul Goldfarb Larry Goodrich Bill Gould

KARA AND STEVE ROSS “As good as it gets”

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CHARLES KOPPELMAN “The Energizer Bunny”

ANDREW HEIBERGER, NICOLE OGE “Perfect team” Marc Hruschka Jolie Hunt Samir Husni Michael Jesselson Mitch Kanner Iraklis Karabassis Jim Kerwin Madison Keyser Jessica Klein Diana Koo Neal Kusnetz

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something about themselves—reposition or rebrand. So much of success is about image and perception, altering how you see yourself or how others see you. Or both.

NV: Recreating your image, we found, can take on many

forms. Sometimes, it can be literal, like in our story about the increasing demand for “foot face-lifts.” Sometimes, it can require assistance. In our Q&A NICOLE VECCHIARELLI: The truth is that with crisis manager Lanny Kim Kardashian was a natural Davis—who’s bandaged the fit for DuJour. She’s something images of Martha Stewart, Bill of an everywoman: a self-made, Clinton and Whole Foods—he work-obsessed branding genius offers readers advice on how who also happens to look realto deal when your image isn’t ly good. Because she has pretty as good as it can be. (Whose much lived her entire life on the ever is?) For our story with record, the perception may be Nicole Vecchiarelli & Keith Pollock Kardashian, we were especialthat we know all there is to know about her, or that we have nothing to learn from her. ly excited to enlist the eye of photographer Bruce But there is, in fact, quite a lot to learn from Kim. Weber, who ultimately captured not just one new For starters, she’s flawlessly professional. She’s also way of looking at the reality star but multiple, leada master of reinvention, a woman who, after all, over- ing to our first-ever split cover. came a scandal to become one of the most powerful media moguls working today.

KP: The idea of becoming someone new also showed up in our profile of New York Knicks star Tyson KP: Reinvention became a running theme throughout Chandler. Not long ago, Chandler was searching for an the issue, in fact: turning things on their heads, creating off-court style that would suit him—and his 7-foot-1unexpected points of view. We know that most people inch frame. Not every experiment worked: his skater who’ve achieved great success have had to reconsider phase, for instance. Now, though, he’s regarded as one

of the best-dressed men in sports, and is helping other athletes discover their own personal style. We also spent time with Josh Groban, the “popera” superstar with surprising edge; the once-snubbed American supermodel Hilary Rhoda; and Eleanor F. F. FábregaBush, who went from living on the streets in Panama to playing muse to one of America’s most powerful political dynasties.

NV: Even food critic Gael Greene’s ode to eating at the bar is about a shift in perception. In her story, she dethrones the coveted restaurant corner table, arguing that the best seat in the house may be the one you least expect.

KP: Speaking of powerful politicians, as this issue was going to press, legendary New York City mayor Ed Koch passed away. Just weeks before, Koch had given one of his last interviews to DuJour—originally intended for our portfolio of celebrity portraits, “They’ve Been Framed”—in which he looked back at his work with gay rights, some of his more divisive decisions and the recent documentary about his life, Koch. He also, quite poignantly, talked about the importance of public perception—and how easily it can shift.

NV: We encourage you to check out Adam Rathe’s interview with Koch on DuJour.com and hope as you read it—and this issue—you’re inspired to look at the people, places and things in your life a little differently. Maybe even yourself. Maybe, even, a certain reality star.

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EITH POLLOCK: Let’s start with the giant reality star in the room, shall we? When we first began discussing our interest in putting Kim Kardashian on the cover of the magazine, we’ll be honest: We got some mixed reactions. It’s fascinating. No matter how successful Kim gets— and she’s phenomenally successful—she remains very polarizing.

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du jour [doo zhoor] adjective [from French: of the day] example: What is your soup du jour? Getting to know some of the talent behind this issue—lunch order and all!

GAEL GREENE

WRITER, “BAR CODE,” PAGE 80 Soup DuJour: My Mother’s Pea Soup For her debut story in DuJour, former New York magazine restaurant critic and essayist Gael Greene was forced to dine where she had never dined alone before: the bar. The author of Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess discovered the new trend of going solo was accompanied by charming service from the bartender and unexpected benefits. “It’s always sexy when you are a two, but it can also be sexy if you’re a one surrounded by people who are trying to make you a two,” she says. Her dream dining partner is The Omnivore’s Dilemma author, Michael Pollan, whom she would try to persuade to “let go and have a little pork belly.”

LYNN YAEGER

WRITER, “WHITE COLLAR,” PAGE 46 Soup DuJour: French Onion Longtime fashion journalist Lynn Yaeger admits her own 1920s-inspired style may appear at odds with the simple white shirt, the virtues and allure of which she explores in this issue, but she certainly appreciates the appeal of a uniform. “As I got older, I started to live out my clothing fantasies much more. My look is very much like the toddlers I see on the street wearing polka-dot tights, a tutu and a little sweater,” she says. “I think, Oh, that’s kind of what I’m wearing today, too!” Yaeger, who began her career 30 years ago as a fashion reporter at the Village Voice, is a contributing editor at Vogue and writes for other publications.

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ALLAN KENNEDY

STYLIST, “THE GREAT DANE,” PAGE 198 Soup DuJour: Vegetarian Chili Despite being a fan of Game of Thrones, Allan Kennedy resisted asking Nikolaj Coster-Waldau for spoilers, even though the actor recently wrapped filming on the upcoming season. For DuJour’s “The Great Dane” shoot with CosterWaldau, whom Kennedy says exudes a “rugged and relaxed” style, he chose clothes that weren’t too structured in order to allow the actor to lounge and act natural. The Scottish-born stylist has worked with everyone from Samuel L. Jackson to Michael Phelps to David Beckham.

Soup DuJour: Duck Soup “One day you are creating a snow-covered mountain ridge and the next day a Hawaiian beach scene,” says Dimitri Levas of the everchanging nature of his career as a prop stylist, which has placed him alongside such famed photographers as the late Robert Mapplethorpe and, in this issue, Bruce Weber, whose images of Cy Twombly, Louise Bourgeois and Eudora Welty are some of Levas’ favorites.

For the sun-dappled Weber shoot with Kim Kardashian, Levas took inspiration from a Hawaiian Polynesian princess and crowned her with a bold headpiece fashioned by artist Eloise Corr Danch.

LISA DEPAULO

WRITER, “UNSINKABLE,” PAGE 182 Soup DuJour: Any of Mom’s Italian Soups When Lisa DePaulo began researching the story of multi-millionaire Doug Von Allmen and his over-the-top yacht, she was intrigued by the strangely calm attitude of a man who lost a ton of cash to a larger-than-life Ponzi plot. “If there weren’t a Madoff, this would have been all over the place,” she says. “It was a sexier scheme, one with fascinating characters who all basically came from nothing.” DePaulo, who has written for GQ, Vanity Fair and The New Republic, was particularly fascinated by the boat, which “even included plans for an outdoor airconditioning system.”

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PHOTOGRAPHER, “THE GREAT DANE,” PAGE 198 Soup DuJour: Split Pea “Working with him was a total pleasure,” photographer David Armstrong says of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, the actor enjoying success for roles in TV’s Game of Thrones and the film Mama.

For the “The Great Dane” portfolio, Armstrong, who is one of the industry’s most celebrated men’s portrait and fashion photographers, took inspiration from his subject and the ideal ambience created by “divine” surroundings in an apartment on Washington Square in New York City. “The quality of light was perfect,” says Armstrong, whose work has appeared in French Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue and GQ. “I’m currently drawn to a high ratio of light to shadow and am particularly loving the darkness.”

ANDREA BENNETT

CORRESPONDENT, CITIES: LAS VEGAS, PAGE 217 Soup DuJour: Guy Savoy’s Artichoke Soup As the Cities correspondent for Las Vegas, Andrea Bennett most enjoys the “outrageous openings” that take place in America’s epicenter of excess. Luckily, those will be in abundance this spring, with an influx of technologically savvy spas, a new boutique from luxury jewelry maker Chopard inside the Wynn and chef Akira Back’s upcoming restaurant at Mandalay Bay. But Bennett also appreciates a throwback. She names the kitschy, 24-hour hangout Peppermill as her favorite oldschool spot on the strip, where its Fireside Lounge is complete with the “last real, live lounge lizards... and everyone else.”

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INA JANG

PHOTOGRAPHER, “GO FOR BAROQUE,” PAGE 51 Soup DuJour: Mom’s Kimchi Stew In pairing spring fashions with intricate wallpaper prints, Ina Jang conceptualized a bold new trend for this season. The photographer, who recently graduated from the fashion photography program at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, says that her goal was to “create an optical illusion, as if the model was cut out or merged into the actual paper,” while ensuring she appeared “simple and elegant.” As to whether she could pull off a daring wallpaperinspired print in real life, the New York–based Jang replies in the affirmative: “Perhaps I could wear Cavalli’s blue and white jacket with the backdrop behind me at all times.”

Soup DuJour: Fish Soup Chadner Navarro came to Jersey City by way of Manila 18 years ago and has made his career exploring the area’s burgeoning nightlife and culture scene. As DuJour’s Tri-State editor, Navarro explains that one of the most enjoyable aspects of the job is getting the opportunity to reveal to a wider audience many of the amazing places in Jersey City, “a town that lives in the shadow of Manhattan, which is not always a bad thing.” In this issue, the regional section spotlights Atlantic City’s transformation into an art hub with its new Artlantic project, which is installing contemporary artwork around the famous boardwalk.

ARMSTRONG: TK. GIACOBBE: SADIE DAYTON. NAVARRO: JASON ROWAN. JANG: SONJA GEORGEVICH.

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Soup DuJour: Minestrone While interviewing DuJour cover girl Kim Kardashian, Alyssa Giacobbe found the reality star “open and strikingly honest, even at a time when things are crazy for her,” with a new boyfriend and house and, of course, a baby on the way. Says Giacobbe, “I think a lot of people have this perception of her as stiff and calculating, but she is sweet, genuine and doesn’t make any apologies for who she is.” In this issue, Giacobbe also reveals a new trend of nips and tucks for the feet and discovers how the pampered pet of Barbara Bush lives, in “Lap of Luxury.”

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hat happens when you pair a reality-TV siren with one of the most highly regarded photographers in the world? Here’s a behind-thescenes glimpse: On set at Bruce Weber’s beachfront home in low-key Golden Beach, Florida, newly pregnant Kim Kardashian transformed into the exotic Tahitian princess Weber had envisaged, moving from his guest house to his garden and backyard beach (with paparazzi silently lurking, of course). Just as the sun began to set on the Atlantic,

the photographer’s shaded gunite pool served as the backdrop for the final shot—an image that ultimately became one of our two spring covers.

Later in the evening, Kardashian sat down with entrepreneur and former Warhol darling Cornelia Guest—who, like Kardashian, knows a thing or two about living in the cultural spotlight. For their on-camera interview (which you’ll find at DuJour.com), the two headed to C. Madeleine’s, a 10,000-square-foot vintage showroom on Biscayne Boulevard in North Miami Beach. From ’30s-era furs to

exotic-skin bags and everything couture in between, C. Madeleine’s is a bona fide fashion wonderland—and it also happens to be one of Weber’s favorite hunting grounds for unique pieces to use on set. (Guest was so taken by the store that she ended up falling in love with—and taking home—a sharp Thierry Mugler suit.)

During their chat, Kardashian opened up about the experience of working with Weber for the first time. “I’ve been such a huge fan of his work for so long,” she said. “It was just such a dream come true.”

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WHITE COLLAR Spring’s uniform is infallible, effortless—and impossibly chic.

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the obvious, the depressingly practical— not for this discussion are the khakisand-polo addict, the shift-and-stilettos settler. No, under our micro scope are those who’ve dreamed up ingenious solutions, stalwarts strong enough to stick to convictions even if their ideas are seen by the larger world as slightly nutty.

Or, sometimes, more than slightly.

Consider the case of designer Peter Marino, so comfor table in his own skin that he can stroll around town in full-on leather-daddy regalia, looking like the world’s oldest extra in The Wild One. Or recollect the choices of the Italian writer Anna Piaggi, whose i n s a n e e cle c t ic i s m e n c o m p a s s e d Poiret cocoon coats and McDonald’s employee aprons.A nd what of Diana Vreeland, with her all-black outf its relieved only by a cr imson mouth and a pair of rouged earlobes?

Or the artist Frida Kahlo, who spent the 1930s swanning around Mexico City in tiered peasant skirts and offthe-shoulder blouses? (Full disclosure: This author has for years—OK, decades—sported ensembles frequent-

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t’s crowded out there. Busy, noisy.

Even those among us who pretend to have no interest in fashion must have noticed the panoply of choices, the endless clamor of suggestions, the dizzying array of garments at every price point, for every enthusiasm, every fantasy: Floating ankle-length caftans or semipornographic jeggings? Jailbird stripes or exploded peonies?

With spring 2013 designs arriving by the truckload, is it any wonder that so many exhausted people, visually stimulated to the point of near-blindness, seek a solution by taking refuge in a uniform, a mode of dress that refuses to go in or out of style? We are not talking here Patti Smith

ly composed of a droopy cardigan and a glittery tulle dance skirt in places where other grown-ups thought a sober Chanel suit was in order.)

M a y b e yo u’r e t h i n k i n g , s u r e , that Peter and Frida can spend all of of the mir ror —but what about the vast silent majority who crave simpler solutions? Luckily for you, good news is afoot: Lots of chic characters have spent the past 200 years constructing clever uniforms around that blissful basic, the white shirt.

And—more good news, if you can stand it—this season those bits of starched heaven have been trotted down r unways from Balenciaga to Hermès to Stella McCartney (which mea n s t hat i nev it ably— a nd ve r y soon—Zara, H&M and Forever 21 will stock them too).

What other single item suits both Ralph Lauren and Janelle Monáe? Is there another innocent top that begs to be dressed up with a bowler hat and a

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pair of braces in a ’70s revival à la Diane Keaton’s Annie Hall but is just as appropriate covering the aristocratic Nan Kempner, dressed down for a bit of tony landscaping? And when it came to putting something atop a lilac Ve r a Wa n g s k i r t f o r t h e 19 9 8 Oscars, what did Sharon Stone employ? And how effortlessly cool is this item that when you emerge from the fitting room, wearing torn jeans and an Ann Demeulemeester youknow-what, with your hair a mess, and your best friend says you look like Patti Smith, you know exactly what she means? With a shirt so enticingly austere, we wouldn’t be surprised if Peter turns up next season with an expanse of tidy white f lung casually over a harness, or if even this author caves in and throws an oxford circus over her tutu.

WHAT ABOUT THE VAST SILENT MAJORITY WHO CRAVE SIMPLER SOLUTIONS?

“I like to be comfortable. Sex has never been my thing. I just wanted to feel like myself,” says Patti Smith about her personal style.

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Start your engines with racing watches featuring built-in tachymeters, chronographs and rugged, streamlined styling

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An offshoot of classic and floral designs, wallpaperinspired prints are in bloom this season

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in 1712, a wallpaper tax—a one-penny-per-square-yard levy on “printed, painted or stained” paper—was issued in england to hit the wealthy where it hurt most: their homes.

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or most people, the words “10-year reunion” are enough to send them into a panic, but for the boys behind Proenza Schouler, the post-college decade mark means a chance to bask in their prodigious accomplishments: a newly opened f lagship on Madison Avenue, a growing trove of CFDA Awards and a cadre of PYT fans, like Kate Bosworth and Rihanna. When Jack McCollough and Lazaro Her nandez showed their thesis collection before graduating from Parsons design school 10 years ago, they never imagined the kind of success it would beget. “We had no idea what was to come or the level of attention that followed shortly thereafter,” McCollough says. “As students, we would always dream, of course, but having our own company wasn’t talked about much,” Hernandez adds. “It really just sort of happened.” That’s in no small part thanks to Julie Gilhart, who was the fashion director of Barneys New York in 2003 and purchased the entire collection on first sight.

“When they were so young, their work changed the game,” she says. “I remember being surprised at the complete organization of the thesis presentation and the way they expressed their thoughts on the collection. It captivated me.” And 10 years haven’t done much to diminish their youthful glow. Despite 20plus collections, they’re still widely referred to as wunderkinds in the press. But perhaps even more tellingly, Gilhart still has—and wears—a metallic tank from that debut collection.—TRACEY LOMRANTZ LESTER

BACK TO BASICS: Finale look from Proenza Schouler’s spring-summer 2013 collection at a fitting in New York City, September 2012

Proenza Schouler’s popular “It” bags are named after New York City public schools: PS 1, PS 11 and, most recently, PS 13.

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Before Phoebe Philo was name-checked in a Kanye song and Karl Lagerfeld introduced Choupette to the world, both designers lent their talents to Chloé. To celebrate the brand’s 60th anniversary, the house is reissuing iconic archival pieces, including the camera bag and python boots.

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When Nicolas Ghesquière stepped down as creative director of Balenciaga last November, his fans wept and his critics fervently speculated how much the seismic change would rock the industry.

yet timeless twist.

The day of Mugler’s spring show, creative director Nicola Formichetti tweeted a photo of a bag with the caption, “This is ‘Monster X’ inspired

by Gaga’s great ass.” And thus his debut collection of handbags proved two things: The 40-year-old label has been reinvigorated with pop-culture f lair—and inspiration really can come from anywhere.

Versace has always given off a tropical vibe, so it’s only fitting that the label is releasing a new swimwear line for spring replete with glistening fabrics and gilded hardware. Think old-school Gianni, South Beach style, with bikinis, bags and heels emblazoned with the iconic Versace prints that only get better with age.

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After making their first foray into couture last summer, Dolce & Gabbana showed pieces that hover between ready-to-wear and high fashion—the spring show closed with a bodysuit worn under a corset made of bent cane. This ethos is evident in their latest jewelry collection, which is lavish in material but

As Saint Laurent’s new head designer, Hedi Slimane immediately dropped the Yves and injected some rock on the runway with bow-tie blouses and f loppy wide-brim hats.

Slimane’s debut pieces were instant “It” accessories, not only because they were a hit for the house, but because they signaled a new era is on

Raf Simons hit the ground running as the new creative director at Dior, with his ready-to-wear and two couture collections widely praised.

Each of his shows featured similar metallic pumps with a subtly curved heel that just might become Simons’ most recognizable accessory—and a must-have for the modern-day Dior lady.

is a nod to his reinvention of the brand, infusing Cristóbal’s

The simple driving shoe may Even a heritage label can play be Tod’s signature accessory, with this season’s punk trend. but this Italian luxury label Comme des Garçons has teamed isn’t afraid to walk on the wild side. They’ve recently up with Hermès to create two introduced a made-to-order limited-edition capsule collections of scarves, called “Noir et collection of Gommini loafers inspired by their bespoke DBlanc” and “Couleur,” with the entire “Comme des Carrés” line Bags. Handmade of calfskin leather, these spring f lats mixing classic prints with Rei give new meaning to the term Kawakubo’s black-and-white

CURRENT/ELLIOTT X MARY KATRANTZOU Mary Katrantzou’s trompe l’oeil prints and architectural silhouettes might make her an unlikely candidate to design denim. This spring, however, she’s taken on the challenge and partnered with Current/Elliott on a jean line that incorporates images of passports, postage stamps and bank notes.

Ousted Dior designer John Galliano could be plotting a comeback. In January, he was invited to work out of Oscar de la Renta’s studio and get back in the swing of things.

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Tyson Chandler is setting a new standard in off-court style.

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ou can’t help but feel a little bad for New York Knicks center Tyson Chandler. The 30-year-old is that rare breed of basketball player who u nabashedly loves fa sh ion , but be cau se of h is 7-foot-1-inch frame he has a hell of a time finding clothes that fit him. He can rattle off a whole look book of dashed hopes and disappointment: the Louis Vuitton sneakers impossible to get in a size 15, the Rick Owens rain jacket with sleeves that came to his forearms. And Prada? Forget it.

On the surface, Montreal-born, New York City–based menswear designer A nton io A z z uolo appea rs to be Chandler’s opposite in every respect, but he shares a similar frustration. When he moved

to New York from Paris, it seemed to his eyes that American clothes came in one size: too big. So, the designer (who’s “5 feet 9 inches tall on a good day”) started making his own clothes. Now, 13 years later, he has a booming custom-clothing business tailored to men who, he says, “want to express themselves and who take pleasure in dressing.”

Chandler is one of those guys, which is why, despite the unlikeliness of their pa i r i ng, t he duo se e m t o get along swimmingly at a fitting for a bespoke suit in the fifth-f loor offices and tailoring studio of Jeffrey, a high-end store in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.

As Azzuolo takes Chandler’s measurements, his eyes st ar t to pop: “A 39inch sleeve!” he exclaims as Chandler and his fashion and style consultant,

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Bespoke denim, $650, 3x1, 3x1.us. Necklace and bracelet, both price upon request, ANN DEMEULEMEESTER, anndemeulemeester.be.

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A Knick with a knack for fashion: Tyson Chandler and Antonio Azzuolo in the tailoring studio at Jeffrey.

Browne Andrews, smile, almost proudly. But the designer is not intimidated. “Tyson is... impressive.” he says about the athlete’s size. “Than kfully he’s lean. If he was a football player, it would be different.”

Seven years ago, before Chandler was getting fitted for custom suits or referencing top designers, his fashion journey started with a promise he made to himself: “I said, ‘OK I’m going to f ind things that fit me so I can express myself the way I want to,’” he recalls. His first step was a short-lived skater phase. (“That didn’t work out,” Chandler says, laughing.) Next came a vintage period, but there aren’t a lot of vintage jackets out there for a man with a seven-foot wingspan, so he had to get creative. “As my style evolved, I started to manipulate things and let in my artistic side,” he says. “I have this vintage U.S. Navy jacket I love that I got at a military surplus store. I put new sleeves on it and now I wear it with everything.”

Among his basketball peers—some of whom he accuses of focusing more on color and conspicuousness than on cut—Chandler’s burgeoning interest in fashion made him an anomaly. But soon all his teammates’ wives and girlfriends were begging him to stage interventions with their significant others.

Over the years, Chandler has seen fashion become increasingly significant in NBA culture—one of his teammates, Knicks forward-center Amar’e Stoudemire, joined up with Rachel Roy for a capsule

collection for Macy’s in 2011.

Today, ask Chandler about his style and you’ll hear the same two words: rugged and slick. Luckily, where the two intersect is right in Azzuolo’s wheelhouse. “I like the juxtaposition of dressing up and dressing down,” the designer says, “like $28 jeans with a custom-made $2,800 jacket.”

Such extravagances work for Chandler, who favors basic, albeit upscale, items like beanies and boots—but in all black and from fashion-forward designers. “That’s why I love Rick Owens,” he says.

“Because so much of his stuff is black. You have to be a great designer to pull off an all-black collection.” Black jeans, black T-shir ts, black YSL sneakers—it may all seem repetitive, but Chandler is careful not to go overboard. “Some people look the same every single day, but I don’t want to be one of those guys,” he explains.

That’s when he goes “slick.” This means a slimcut suit from American designer Waraire Boswell (whose Knicks-blue tuxedo Chandler wore last year to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala) or custom wear by Savile Row’s Ozwald Boateng, who has also made bespoke suits for Chandler’s style icon David Beckham. (“Whatever look he’s going for, he’s always nailing it,” Chandler says about the soccer star.)

Slick also means wearing a slightly shorter pant leg so he can show off his custom-made George Esquivel boot-oxford hybrid shoes, and it definitely

means the right accessory, which in Chandler’s case, surprisingly enough, is a brooch.

T hat’s r ig ht— to complet e a look , Cha nd le r doesn’t reach for a tie clip or a lapel pin, but for one of the many vintage brooches he’s collected. “My favorite is this old brass one with arty pieces hanging down that I got from a f lea market,” he says.

Chandler often finds inspiration off the beaten path, especially when it comes to his budding interest in photography (“When I’m on the street taking pictures and there’s this cool old dude that has a dope look, he makes the picture”), films (he was impressed with the suits worn in last summer’s Prohibition drama Lawless) and even women’s fashion shows. Yes, Tyson Chandler has a bit of a thing for ladies’ clothing. “I love Alexander Wang and Stella McCartney,” he says. “I go to women’s shows to enjoy the beauty, the fabrics and the ideas.... I like clothes that complement both genders, and I think fashion is moving more in that direction.”

The basketball star’s biggest source of inspiration, however, is the same as Azzuolo’s. They arrived in New York a decade apar t, but the city has completely changed the way each thinks about his own style. For Azzuolo, New York broke him of his exclusively Parisian sensibility and introduced a downtown vibe to his clothes. Chandler sees a similar change in himself. “New York—the streets, the grit—has really inspired me,” he says. “You’ve got to be able to mix it up.”

Chandler’s not the only boldface name with a thing for brooches: Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wrote a book on her collection, also the subject of an exhibition.

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before. “They [the Wertheimers, Chanel’s owners] let me do whatever I like,” Lagerfeld says.

The link between Scotland and France has historically been a strong one, and Coco Chanel herself had a personal tie to the country. During a 1920s affair with the fabulously wealthy Duke of Westminster, a young Chanel encountered Scottish woolen sweaters, Fair Isle knits, jersey yachting outfits, tartans and classic tweed jackets at the Duke’s Scottish spor ting estates. She loved the comfor t and unstructured informality of the clothes so much that she decided to adapt the cuts and proportions of men’s clothing by tailoring them to the female body.

Handwoven woolen fabrics with natural irregularities became a staple of her collections beginning in 1924. By the 1950s, Chanel’s braided tweed suits had become iconic and she was creating her own tartans as well as matching berets and their Scottish equivalent, tams. “Chanel discovered tweeds and knits here,” Lagerfeld says.

For 10 years, Lagerfeld has staged an annual extravaganza to highlight his Metier d’Arts acquisi-

tions. To celebrate the new Scottish brands coming into the fold, the company hosted “Paris-Édimbourg” at Linlithgow Palace, located 15 miles west of Edinburgh, an immensely grand skeleton of the original castle, which was the birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots. The event was as dramatic as you’d imagine: a ruined Scottish castle at twilight, light snow falling, the skirl of bagpipes and huge f laming braziers illuminating the massive stone walls of a shadowy interior courtyard. It was rumored that Chanel had spent close to $2 million on the venue alone, and on every seat there was a muted plaid woolen blanket embellished with the house’s entwined double C’s and an embroidered thistle.

The undisputed star of the show was Lagerfeld’s muse, Stella Tennant, who still lives within the Scottish borders where she grew up. To the international fashion audience and a sprinkling of celebrities, Lagerfeld showed a collection marked by classic elements of tartan and tweed reinterpreted, of course, in entirely original ways. The clothes made repeated and explicit reference to Chanel’s

Scottish model Stella Tennant, a Lagerfeld favorite, has an aristocratic lineage: Her grandmother is the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire.

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n Rue Cambon, a narrow street at the center of Paris’ 1st arrondissement and just steps from the splendors of Place Vendôme, is Chanel’s f lagship store, where Coco Chanel worked and entertained for 50 years, until her death in 1971. Today, the building remains fashion’s ultimate inner sanctum—the second f loor houses the legendary haute couture fitting rooms—but not, perhaps, the heart of Chanel.

That, one might argue, lies just four miles to the northeast, amid the infinitely less salubrious surroundings of Pantin, a nondescript industrial suburb, where on the Rue du Cheval Blanc a new facility contains several of Chanel’s so-called Metier d’Arts companies, long-established enterprises that manufacture everything from buttons to the world’s finest fabric f lowers.

For more than two decades, Chanel has been buying ailing companies vital to its couture business, conserving centuries-old practices that otherwise would have been irretrievably lost. The first purchase, in 1984, was Desrues, the button and costume-jewelry company. The milliner Michel and feather dresser Lemarié were added in 1996.

It was not until 1997, however, with the establishment of subsidiary company, Paraffection (meaning “for the love of ”), that these acquisitions were addressed in a settled policy, with the expressed aim of preserving the heritage and skills of fashion artisan workshops. In 2002, the embroiderer Lesage and the Italian shoemaker Massaro were brought into the portfolio, followed by the gold- and silversmith Goossens in 2005 and the fabric-f lower manufacturer Guillet in 2006. The embroiderer Montex was acquired in 2011. In many cases, these companies didn’t have the money, or they didn’t have the right people, to continue their businesses.

In 2012, the house bought glovemaker Causse and the famous Scottish cashmere house, Barrie Knitwear. For 25 years, Barrie had supplied Chanel with knitwear, including its famous two-tone cardigans. But recent times have not been kind to the Scottish cashmere industr y, which has been faced with relatively high labor costs and a f lood of cheap imports from Asia. Additionally encumbered by pension debt, Barrie was in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings, which is why Karl Lagerfeld decided to step in, as he’d done so many times

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other Metier d’Arts artisanal suppliers. For example, embroider y on chiffon by Lesage mimicked traditional Fair Isle knitwear patterns, while Lemarié had produced sensational pheasant-feather neckpieces.

And, of course, Barrie’s elongated cashmere cardigans were a showstopping highlight.

Afterward, I caught up with Lagerfeld to ask him about the genesis of his Scottish experiment and how it played into his goal to preserve fashion’s future (or at least Chanel’s). I suggest to him that conservation and fashion, with its obsession with novelty, are unlikely bedfellows, but he laughs.

“You can preserve things but make something different with them,” he says. “It’s not because we want to repeat things. We want to design new things but to employ the tradition and craftsmanship of the past.

We’re not creating museums!”

Still, while Lagerfeld’s love and admiration for traditional craftsmanship is transparent, he is also a shrewd businessman. The acquisition of companies like Barrie signals a policy of enlightened self-interest. Indeed, during our chat, he makes no effort to conceal the fact: “If you want to do haute couture, to do things that nobody else does, then you must have these companies,” he says. “If they disappear, you will disappear too.”

This is a sentiment echoed by the president of Chanel fashion, Bruno Pavlovsky, who notes that knitwear represents about 30 percent of the company’s ready-towear collections. “It is the second largest category after jackets. And knitwear is a growing business, given the casual nature of life today and the demand for ‘easy’ clothing. So this was not a vanity or a charity project, but a smart business venture,” he says.

To maintain its position within the industry, Chanel needs to have access to materials and accessories that cannot be readily duplicated. Potential Asian competitors enjoy cheap labor costs and can easily copy Chanel designs using inferior materials at a fraction of the cost. The acquisition of Metiers d’Arts companies is the way that Chanel intends to protect its market niche and to preserve its privileged status at the apex of the luxury market.

Before we part, I ask Lagerfeld if other acquisitions were to be expected. “I don’t foresee any right now,” he replies. “We have them all. There may be something in a few years, but now it is important to train a new generation of skilled seamstresses. I always quote my favorite saying from Goethe, his famous motto: ‘Build a better future by expanding on elements of the past.’

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The collection featured at “Paris-Édimbourg” is available in stores and includes workmanship usually found only in custom-made pieces.

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THE PERFECT GUEST At once glamorous and sporty, C.Z. Guest was a true original. With a new book on her style hitting the shelves, Jeffrey Podolsky pays homage.

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eauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know,” wrote the great poet. And in a certain (now long lost) time, an era in which socialites were celebrities unto themselves, Keats’ ode to all things aesthetic was taken very seriously to heart. Today, we hero-worship these so-called swans— Babe Paley, Slim Keith, Gloria Guinness, C.Z. Guest—for the way they unfurled their wings, whether it be for their impeccable plumage or decorous nests. In truth, there was a bit of the ugly duckling lurking

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in all of them. But, in many a way, Guest was the exception—the rara avis who would have most delighted in (or, more aptly, roared at) the notion that European nobility once contended that a swan’s neck made for the best toilet paper.

And in Susanna Salk’s C.Z. Guest: American Style Icon, published by Rizzoli in April, the majestic Guest prowls across its pages not for the social lion that she was but for the adventurous soul who embraced the good fortune with which she was blessed—and then ran with it. At full horsepower. Unlike many books of its sort, this effort, with its earthbound intimacy of text and photographs, leaves you with an indistinguishable itch not to revel in the past but to perhaps take a page out of Guest’s no-nonsense playbook.

She spoke in the genuine Boston Brahman lockjaw of her youth (who else could ring you up and declare “Tallyho! It’s C.Z.!” and get away with it?), but there was nothing precious or lily-livered about her. When she graced the cover of Time in 1962 in a button-front shirt, tie and jodhpurs, the magazine was distinguishing her from the rest of the f lock because of her sporting blood. She was sportif. “If others of her ilk were in the drawing room, she was also in the barn and on the tennis courts,” remembers the publicist Paul Wilmot, her longtime friend. Her coltish ways weren’t just the stuff of legend. The musical satirist and close friend Christopher Mason recalls waking up one morning at Templeton, the Guest property on New York’s Long Island (an English country estate where one was served breakfast in bed and one’s shoes were properly shined overnight) and peering out the window: “There was C.Z., cantering away on her horse. I thought, She really does do all that!”

Of course, she was graced with what her pal Truman Capote memorably termed “just blanc de blanc perfection” (“It was Grace Kelly who had her looks,” observes good friend and Vanity Fair contributing editor Reinaldo Herrera) and a fierce chic (Mainbocher, mainly) that expressed itself in its simplicity (picture a long, gray satin skirt coupled with a cashmere pullover)—as well as an adoring husband, Winston, heir to the Phipps steel fortune, second cousin of Winston Churchill and one of the premier polo players of his day, who could call upon Ernest Hemingway to be his best man. Hemingway no doubt admired the young hoyden who, as Wilmot notes, definitely enjoyed the trappings of international society—but saw the ridiculousness behind it too. “She liked things glamorous—yet she had a feel for the real deal,” he says (prior to marrying Guest, she posed au naturel for Diego Rivera: “That was C.Z.,” opines Herrera). She counted the Duchess of Preceding page: C.Z. Guest and her son, Alexander, at the Grecian temple pool at Villa Artemis in Palm Beach in 1955. This page, clockwise from top: Guest with socialite Woolworth Donahue at a party given by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1953; arriving at the

the year after Esquire published chapters of his Answered Prayers.

In 1944, Guest appeared on Broadway as a showgirl in a revival of The Ziegfeld Follies.

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Windsor and the Ayesha of Jaipur as good friends, Norwich, who penned the foreword to C.Z. Guest: but she reveled in shocking the stiff swells in American Style Icon. “She had a subtle compascrisp linen suits at Saratoga Springs by having a sion that life is hard.” Guest, for example, underwhite-hair-wigged Andy Warhol accompany her stood that the reclusive heiress Doris Duke had few to the races. She brazened her way into the home friends and was lonely—but, unlike some, did someof her neighbor Victoria Gotti to marvel at the thing about it and had her over for Thanksgiving.

Guest was a woman of mettle. She publicly upfaux Italianate statuettes, recollects her friend William Ivey Long, the Tony Award–winning braided the president of the Everglades Club in cost ume desig ner and chair of the A mer ican Palm Beach after he suspended her for bringing Theatre Wing. “‘Can you believe it?!’” Long re- along a Jewish guest, Estée Lauder. She famously stood by Capote after Babe & co. became a wedge members her saying. “‘You just have to see it!’”

Wilmot, for one, attributes her palpable excite- in flight following publication of the not-too-thinly ment at the prospect of meeting baseball Hall of veiled roman à clef La Côte Basque, in which he exposed their between-the-sheets Famer Reggie Jackson to her plucky conf idences. Then again, Guest spir it. The rabid Red Sox fan was was savvy enough not to have consi mply dulled by t he d r y-as- dust, fessed all her intimate secrets to a purely white bread, frosty WASPs of writer—not to mention, as Herrera her youth. It was she, he remembers, notes, “Truman knew she wouldn’t have whined—she would have gone ana Vreeland, from a dinner at River r ight up to him and given him a House to the then-nascent Studio 54. black eye.” True, Duke, Lauder and Later, C.Z. would write to its impreCapote were estimable figures in sario, Steve Rubell, when he was in their own right, but Guest savored a prison for tax evasion and wasn’t necpotpourri of people. “What amazed essarily the most popular guy in town. me was the incredible mix you’d She may have hailed from the Henry Ford II “Never complain, never ex- Equestrian socialite—and cover girl see when she enter tained,” says plain” school, but she was empathetic to the plight Herrera of her famous buffets of delicious comfort of others. “She was no fool about the ups and downs food amid the family Sargents, Dalís and signature of life—she got it,” says author and editor William leopard-spotted upholstery and rugs. “There’d be

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an aging hooker at a table with friends from her childhood. You wondered: What the hell are they doing here? Yet it worked.”

When Winston Guest lost a good chunk of his fortune in an eponymous airline that never got off the ground, his “Little C.Z.” went to work at full gallop, writing a syndicated gardening column for the masses (she didn’t just prune her beloved orchids, paper-white narcissus and peonies; she also raked which was illustrated by her dear friend Cecil Beaton) and hawking C.Z.’s Bug Spray. (Other ventures, such as growing heirloom tomatoes with the imprisoned John Gotti and trumpeting elephant manure— she termed it “zoo-doo” and had Siegfried and Roy sample the extremely rich substance—never quite germinated). Rather than navel-gaze, she became And when cancer struck, Wilmot recalls, her gritty refrain was: “Oh, I’m great. I have to go have my little cocktail at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.”

Prior to her death 10 years ago at the age of 83, she’d insisted there be no swan song. Toadyish testimonies weren’t her way. Yet it was only fitting that “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (sung by her masseur, John) was played at the funeral of this forceful, positive spirit who chewed up—or, rather, devoured—life with the same relish as her beloved pack of white Labs, Dalmatians and mutts who leapt into her hearse.

When Guest appeared on QVC to sell her goatskin gardening gloves, more than 1,200 pairs reportedly sold in less than 15 minutes.

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t was the winter of 1975, in Paris. I wandered into the Galerie Proscenium, where there were 30 or 40 pieces on the walls. The simplicity of this piece spoke to me. And the extraordinary resemblance [to Serge Diaghilev]. There’s something light about it; there are very precise lines as well

was staying in a hotel when I bought it, so I put it in my room and spent a lot of time looking at it before I went to sleep and in the morning. It was mine—and I was excited and proud.

It’s still very fresh to me. I’ve read so many stories about Diaghilev, the legendary impresario who opened the doors to Russian art at the turn of the last century. He was one of the most important people in Russian cultural life, period.

Without him, Russian art and the avant-garde would have been in a very different place.

This piece was the beginning, and I got hooked; I studied art and developed a larger interest. I never really considered myself a collector. I just bought what caught my eye whenever I had enough money in my pocket.

In the past few years, most of my art has been in storage.

Some of it I rotate—this piece has been in a few different homes: in Paris, in the Dominican Republic and in New York.

Sooner or later, it will be in the hands of my foundation. I’m not interested in contemporary art, the big, expensive pieces.

It’s more a business than anything else—and anyway, I can’t afford it. —As told to ADAM RATHE

Baryshnikov’s art collection, which includes works by David Salle and Merce Cunningham, had its own gallery show in 2012 at Manhattan’s ABA Gallery.

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he best-designed rooms look effortless, with everything—from furniture to colors— meshing together seamlessly. These spaces are never the result of any one bold stroke but come from countless touches and tweaks. DuJour asked six top designers to choose their favorite room to furnish and to tell us how to create inviting interiors of our own.

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Tone down the lighting. Skip harsh direct lights, and opt for fixtures like swing arm lamps, bedroom favorites of the pair. “Mood lighting can work well here, too,” Ingrao says. “I like it beneath a platform bed.”

Invest in a striking headboard. “A strong headboard makes the bed feel welcoming and embracing, and it can serve as the centerpiece of the room,” says Ingrao.

Bedside tables are always a must. “They should be good-looking and large enough to be functional,” Kemper says.

Standout item: A mirrored Lorin Marsh table lamp ($5,025) not only provides gentle light but also ref lects it. 212-759-8700

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“I WANT TO CREATE COMFORTABLE, PERSONAL AND FUNCTIONAL SPACES.” A kitchen is the center of the home just as much as the den, especially if Celerie Kemble has anything to do with it. Here, she created a special workspace with powder-coated blue desks so that their parents are cooking.

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Be practical. If something isn't easy to clean, Kemble says, it doesn’t belong in the kitchen.

Add a conversation piece. The map is more than a design element—the parents use it as a way to talk to their kids about travel and current events.

Go conservative with counters. “You can always change up the other elements later,” says pedestal table in this space.

Standout item: Paint the cabinet interiors with Rollinson Hues paint in Tranquil ($85 per gallon) to get a refreshing burst of color in a shade similar to these desks. christopherrollinson.com

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“The library should be cozier and sexier than other rooms,” says Penny Drue Baird, who feels as comfortable decorating tiny piedsà-terre as she does mansions. Created for a young couple, this room “is jewel box–like, but warm and welcoming,” she explains.

HER BEST ADVICE:

Use colors that make sense with the rest of your home. “As a rule, your public spaces should coordinate,” Baird says. Since the rest of the apartment is white, she amped up this room with gray and lavender.

Think about how often you’ll use the space. If you want the room to be more everyday, go for lighter wood and “friendlier” objects.

Add the unexpected. Baird’s favorite piece in the room is a Christian Liaigre cocktail table (not shown in photo), which can turn into a bar.

A unique lamp or rug could also work.

Standout item: This Christian Liaigre Cathare coffee table (price upon request) makes a strong statement and gives ample space for books, accessories and drinks. christian-liaigre.us

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“DESIGNING AN AREA WITH GREAT SYNERGY IS ESSENTIAL.” Kelly Wearstler focuses on color and texture

als in all my designs,” says Wearstler, who also has jewelry and ready-to-wear clothing lines. The decor of this particular room was inspired by the oversized lavender artwork.

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Use trays—lots of them. “I use one tray for magazines and incoming mail and another for my sunglasses, camera and other things,” Wearstler says.

Weave in decorative books and objects.

Don’t relegate your art and design books to other rooms. Move a few favorites into your office to give it a more personal feel.

Gravitate toward what you love. “Be inspired by the colors in your closet!” Wearstler says. “If you love to wear a certain shade, surround yourself in it in your home.”

Standout item: a lacquered malachite tray ($795), designed

by Wearstler herself. kellywearstler.com

French designer Christian Liaigre decorated André Balazs’ Mercer Hotel in New York City.

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Many people regard their living rooms as spaces to be seen and not touched, but Todd Alexander Romano sees his as the heart of his home. “I don’t think it should have anything so precious or off-limits that you and your guests would be inhibited from enjoying yourselves,” he says.

This space was a temporary living room while the designer was working on his apartment.

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“I’M ALWAYS STRIVING FOR SOMETHING THAT SURPRISES AND DELIGHTS.” As the creative director of Oscar de la Renta Home, Miles Redd has been dreaming up new table settings since 2003. “I like dining rooms to have a little bit of fantasy,” he says. He adores combining dining rooms and libraries—“dining with books is cozy”—and he also loves tented dining rooms. For this space, Redd channeled “the New York Public Library’s tables of reading lamps. And the color was inspired by [legendary interior designer] Henri Samuel’s living room in Paris.”

HIS BEST ADVICE: and walls right, the rest is easy,” says Redd.

Make over your tablescape. “A new setting can change the feeling of the room,” he says.

“It’s like changing the sheets on your bed.”

Pay attention to scale. “I think people love dramatic light fixtures, and I’m a fan of them too, in the right setting,” he says. “But you need to have high ceilings. When your fixture is scraping the table, you’re in trouble.”

Standout item: Oscar de la Renta Br ushstroke dinner plates ($46 each), designed

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Also inspired by the New York Public Library? Reproductions of its brass lamps, designed by architectural firm Carrère and Hastings, can be bought for $499.95.

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Seating is important. “Look at your living room after you've had guests over and see how they pulled out the furniture,” Romano suggests.

Then, arrange couches and chairs in a way that facilitates comfort and conversation.

Give it a “wow” factor. “Every room needs something glamorous, a thing that turns the owner on,” Romano says. Here it's supplied by the glossy blue walls and blue mohair couch.

Make peace with multi-purpose. “We all multi-task these days. Our rooms have to keep up with that,” the designer declares. So don’t be afraid to put a desk in the living room or section off an area for your children to play.

Standout item: A gilt-and-brass ot toman ($2,400) does double-duty—as seating and as a visual punch. toddalexanderromano.com

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eat out six nights a week, always meeting two or three friends for reviewing dinners. So I can’t quite say when eating at the bar finally crept into my consciousness. Maybe it was in September, when Ma n h at t a n’s L e Be r n a rd i n , st a id a nd ver y properly French, i nst alled a lou nge and int roduced a menu up f ront along with a shocking “no jacket required” policy. “Even some of our regulars want to eat

etiquette. The Friday-night jam waiting for tables is three deep, hands reaching for drinks between tall leather stools mostly claimed by bar diners. I look for a spot where coffee and a check seem imminent.

“You better tell the bartender you’re waiting,” a diner-about-to-exit warns me. I catch the bartender’s eye between a margarita and a spritzer. Kenneth, Gotham’s guardian of the 20-seat bar for a decade, could be a Hindu

“EVEN SOME OF OUR REGULARS WANT TO EAT AT THE BAR.” at the bar,” chef and co-owner Eric Riper t obser ves. “And not just for a quick snack.

Maybe they’re alone. Or they’re in a hurry. We have two women who eat only at the bar now.

They order from the regular menu.”

W hile waiti ng for a booth to clear a t c h e f L a u r e n t To u r o n d e l ’s A r l i n g t on Clu b St e a k hou se on t he Up p e r E a st Side, I was fascinated by the raucous bar scene. Barely visible behind a noisy clot of g reat-look i ng g uys and sav v y m illen n ial couples sipping cocktails and waiting for tables to turn was a pair of svelte dames, spike heels tucked into bar-stool rungs, sharing a steak, oblivious to the clubby din. Surreptitiously scoping out the pickup potential, I imagined.

When, I wondered, did bars—in restaurants high and low, uptown and down, at taverns and neighborhood hangs—become so cluttered with eaters that determined drinkers are forced to guzzle on the perpendicular, blocking the aisle, jostling up against tables? Chef Alfred Portale recalls perfecting black-painted wooden boards to span a break in the bar and make dining easier at the Gotham Bar and Grill almost 20 years ago, when he noticed that nearby Union Square Cafe was making noise with its bar menu.

I re me mbe r how my cou si n M it ch a nd h is wife, Alison, showed up once a week at Lupa, Mario Batali’s instantly popular, no-reser vation-required Roman-style trattoria. With hopefuls lined up outside, they perched at the bar. They drank and ate and drank until one day they were perceived as regulars and offered a table.

To n i g h t I ’m s o l o a n d a n o n y m o u s a t Gotham, trying to scope out the bar-eating

god with multiple arms, scribbling dinner orders with one hand, tapping the terminal with another, swizzling cocktails with a third. The busboy clears dishes. I hover.

“You can sit down now,” Ken neth says, smiling at me. “This is your home for the evening, my dear.” Just like that, I’m not really alone. I have Kenneth checking in and mydear-ing me. Then there’s chatty Trevor on my right, discoursing on what makes a great neg roni. A nd on my lef t, a nameless bareating regular grabs my stool when it starts to tip, helps me switch to a sturdier seat and recommends the chicken.

I haven’t been here in a long while. I love Portale’s embellished American cooking. If I gave stars, he’d get four from me. I order the $125 tasting menu and a French Syrah blend, a $10 glass that sells for $16 here. Actually, a very generous pour in a beautiful goblet.

I’m assuming the eaters around me couldn’t get a table, maybe decided on dinner at the last minute or saw the house’s raves online and arrived solo too.

Since he went on the road selling wines and usually dines alone, my Neapolitan friend Francesco has become a connoisseur of bar eating. In Los Angeles he favors Cecconi’s for the “great-looking barmaids” and the comfy chairs (“unlike the torturous stools ever ywhere else”). “The bar is open and airy, with a view of the room that makes for a convivial vibe. I’ve had luck meeting women there.”

I n S a n Fr a n c i s c o , h e p r e fe r s t h e b a r at Zu n i Café be cau se it’s op e n t i l l m idn ig ht on weekends, “ wh ich is late by Sa n Fr a ncisc o st a nd a rd s.” He’s a fa n of t h e m a r ve l o u s c h i c k e n fo r t wo. “ S o i f

stiff, I stagger to the coat check. Guess I’m not the adventuress I thought I was. Next time I eat at the bar, I’ll bring a friend.

In Virginia, it’s not just trendy, it’s the law: The state has a rule that drinking establishments must also serve food.

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I meet another single at the bar, I normally suggest we share the chicken.”

Francesco is a fan of the Spanish chef José Andrés and his tapas at Jaleo in Washington, D.C. “It has great service and a great choice of sherries. I run into other European expats like me who know tapas are best enjoyed at a bar counter.” Craigie on Main is his Boston-area call for excellent bar fare and killer cocktails, “especially since it serves a three-course prix fixe in the dining room.” In Chicago, he likes the Publican: “Great atmosphere at fantastic, tall cocktail tables, beautiful people and really good bar food, oysters to charcuterie.”

My f riend Bar r y Wine —the inf luential chef of the top-rated Quilted Giraffe till he got bought out by Sony—introduced me to the elegance of lunch at the bar of La Grenouille, with its signature explosions of f lowers in every corner. “It’s easier to get your second and third drink if you’re eating at the bar,” he obser ves. “At La Grenouille, Br yan the bartender is already shaking my next Tanqueray cocktail while I still have a few sips left in my glass. No matter how often you go to a restaurant, you rarely get the same waiter [twice]. But Bryan is always there at the bar.

He remembers what I ate, what I liked the last time, and he’s discreet about who I was with.”

Barry likes the brie stuffed with black truff les and Friday’s lunch special, pot-au-feu with horseradish cream. “A seat at the bar has a great view of the coming and going. I can say hello or goodbye to people I know.”

As for me exploring the bar scene, maybe I shouldn’t have ordered Gotham’s tasting. But the season for Nantucket Bay scallops is short, and I have a weakness for squab. Alas, it’s taking forever. If I were falling in love with my date or even f lirting with a neighbor, I might not mind. Now it’s already 11 and I’m alone.

The restaurant is full, but the bar is a desert with no Lawrence of Arabia in sight.

“May I top off your glass, my dear, so you can enjoy the wine with your squab?” Kenneth asks, making a hefty pour, half-f illing my glass again. The squab is rare and delicious.

I wa r n h i m I’m fa d i ng fa st. “Q u ick ly, please, dessert,” I beg. At last: yuzu crème on a sable Breton with yogurt sorbet, matcha tea crumble and two kinds of powder with a veil of pulled sugar. The critic in me f inds it too gussied up. But I’m wild about the intense little midnight-chocolate, vanilla and pistachio truf-

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MRS. WILKES’ DINING ROOM Late owner Sema Wilkes originally ran the kitchen in this space which used to be a boardinghouse. The lodgers left in the ’70s, but the dining room remained

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SALT OF THE EARTH Here, diners are instructed to “come as you are.”

Walk-ins can take a seat at one of the three communal tables on the sleek first f loor and watch chef Kevin Sousa in the exposed kitchen.

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pecorinos. Beyond the shop, communal tables and benches lend the vineria a rustic ambience.

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MOMOFUKU SSÄM BAR The crowd refuses to be tamed at David Chang’s boisterous East Village outpost, an early entry in his fast-growing Asianfusion empire.

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An in-the-know crowd gathers by 5:30 at D.C.’s reservation-less hotspot.

The weekly menu of northern and northeastern Thai dishes is worth the wrangling and the wait.

This New England destination by chef Will Gilson is heavy on the charm. The long custom tables harken back to a simpler time, even if you are eating lamb belly and Muscovy duck.

sunfare.com SERVICE AREA: L.A. and Phoenix BEST DISHES: Eggplant rollatini, chorizo breakfast burrito, French deviled eggs CELEBRITY FANS: Kate Beckinsale, Kim Kardashian PROS: A family-dinner program caters meals for

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CONS: Big containers make it hard to pack lunch.

PRICE: $41.95 to $63.95 a day

At this longtime Boston establishment, the wait for a table is agony, but the warm lobster roll on brioche is pure ecstasy.

This tiny locale is consistently overrun with fans for good reason.

pressedjuicery.com SERVICE AREA: Nationwide BEST JUICES: Greens 4, Root 4, Carrot Coconut CELEBRITY FANS: Mandy Moore, Nicole Richie PROS: Great for detoxing and none of that messy juicer cleanup CONS: Nothing to chew!

PRICE: $48 to $70 a day

IL BUCO ALIMENTARI & VINERIA A spin-off of the datenight destination Il Buco, this laid-back trattoria greets people with an alimentari pantry stocked with in-house cured salumi and cave-aged

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MEET ME IN TEL AVIV

Hip hotels, art galleries and old-school architecture abound in Israel. Mickey Rapkin discovers its secrets.

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el Aviv, a moder n cit y on the Mediterranean, has long been a tourist destination— complete with impersonal luxur y hotels and overpriced dining. But there’s a revolution afoot, if you know where to look. Hint: Head inland.

Touch down in this fast-changing spot, and what you’ll notice first are the construction crews. This is a city under siege, with cranes dotting the skyline. The story unfolding here daily is a dialogue between the old and the chic. A sleek glass residential, retail and office tower designed by Richard Meier rises on busy Rothschild Boulevard. The old Jaffa Flea Market is now

a next-level browsing experience, with cutting-edge jewelr y designers like Ruby Star. At Kitchen Market, chef Yossi Shitrit serves poached eggs with a Parmesan and white truff le foam.

Of ten refer red to as t he bubble, Tel Aviv is a city almost free of politics, a near Sodom and Gomorrah of cool. Start with the Brown TLV Hotel, the lobby of which could easily be mistaken for the set of Mad Men, fe at u r i ng 30 ro om s w it h c a l fsk i n rugs and 400-thread-count Egyptiancotton linens. But the selling point of this hotel is the rooftop, with its Instagram-ready views of the water. “I wanted it to feel like a motel in L.A.

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where Faye Dunaway once stayed,” says owner Leon Avigad. Naturally, the rich chocolates on your pillow are sourced from an Israeli company, Cardinal Chocolate.

Bout ique hotels i n Tel Av iv a re practically an epidemic. The Hotel Montefiore, housed in a 1920s mansion, has just 12 rooms—not to mention the best craft cocktail bar in town.

Meanwhile, the Rothschild hotel offers a quiet escape in a city known for its deafening pulse. Says general manager Alon Levy, “We changed everything we got mad about at other hotels.”

Nowhere do the historic and fashion-forward converge more thrillingly than in the Jaffa Flea Market, an old Arab stronghold, where men sell fresh pomegranate juice alongside Turkish coffee stalls. Home Workshop LTD— a well-curated housewares outfit that Anthropologie would be smart to loot from—operates out of a onetime carpenter’s workshop, and the building’s architect ure is so old-school that it borders on Old Testament. Explains owner Nava Shamay, “You can still see seashells in the wall.”

Tel Aviv is fast becoming a foodie destination. On the streets of Neve Tzedek, old standbys thrive alongside boundary-pushing outfits from chefs like Eyal Shani, whose upscale takeout spot Miznon is a smart rethink of the classic pita joint. Elsewhere, one gets the sense that the Israeli-Palestinian conf lict could be at least tempered over lunch at Haj Kahil, an upscale Arabic restaurant in Jaffa where portobello mushrooms are soaked in olive oil for two days and then grilled, and the stuffed lamb—rubbed with unprocessed paprika, allspice and cardamom seeds— cooks for about nine hours.

“We want the residents of Tel Aviv to be acquainted with gourmet Arab cuisine,” says chef Omar Iluwan.

There’s perhaps no greater symbol of Tel Aviv’s past talking (loudly) to its present than a pop-up store featuring wares from two up-and-coming fashion labels, Adam Gefen and the Muslin Brothers. Says Yaen Levi, of the Muslin Brothers collective, “This young city seems to have no rules or borders, and the limits are abstract. Everything is possible—and happening in front of your face.” Viva Tel Aviv.

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alk about surprises. The Efendi Hotel is situated on an unmarked side street in the Old City of Akko—a 90-minute train ride from Tel Aviv—basically the last place you’d expect to spa with more marble than most churches. And better wine, too.

Noted chef Uri Jeremias is behind the renovation of two 19th-century brokedown palaces, reborn as a sleek Zen escape with a 400-yearold Turkish bath and a roof deck boasting views all the way to Lebanon. With 12 guest rooms (starting at $320 a night), the hotel offers personal, detail-oriented service and chic furnishings, from the Recor clawfoot soaking tubs to the 180-year-old tufted leather chairs Jeremias rescued from a library in Denmark. And then there are the deep-tissue massages (370 shekels—about $100—a session) and the 2,000-bottle wine cellar featuring tasty chenin blanc from Israeli winery Kerem Shvo.

All this makes Akko, previously a day trip for Indiana Jones types interested in historic ruins, a worthy overnight destination. The Efendi’s cool marble and ornate, hand-painted ceilings prompt the question: What’s the cost of refurbishing an Ottoman-era stronghold? Jeremias remains mum, year renovation stretched to more than eight years. “I told people I always knew exactly when we would open,” he says with a smile.

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The Jaffa Flea Market stood in for Lebanon in Homeland’s “Beirut Is Back” episode in season two.

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Natasha Wolff descends on Dubai to learn the tennis star’s style secrets, his hobbies and how he spends his time off. PHOTOGRAPHED BY PATRICK DEMARCHELIER

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n the court, Roger Federer is famously precise, powerful, determined, tough and dominant. He’s also quite stylish. Even his very occasional bursts of hot-shot f lair—look up “Federer between-the-legs winner” on YouTube—seem to be a result of practice and ruthless efficiency.

Off the court, Federer’s not much different.

At 31, he re m ai n s t he nu mbe r t wo – ranked player in the world (and could easily find himself back atop the ATP ran k ings sometime this year). He is almost certainly the best tennis player of all time (it’s hard to imagine his record of 17 Grand Slam titles will be broken any time soon) and — along with Tiger Woods, Michael Phelps and maybe LeBron James—one of the most successful athletes of the 21st century so far.

Suffice it to say, his achievements afford him a comfortable life off the court, one in which everything—including his preferred method of travel, f lying private—allows Federer to concentrate on his game.

Living in the Middle East, it turns out, offers similar perks.

“In Dubai, I can really focus and put my head dow n and work extremely hard,” Federer says. “And then the next minute, I feel as though I’m on vacation. It’s very strange, actually. I don’t feel that way when I’m in Switzerland, because that’s home.”

In addition to its beaches and trendy restaurants—which he enjoys with his wife of four years, Mirka, a former tennis player, and twin daughters, Myla and Charlene—Dubai offers one other important advantage: relentless heat. Federer routinely flies in younger players whose playing styles match his rivals. They practice all over town, accompanied by his trainer, Pierre Paganini.

Roger Federer was the highest-paid athlete at last summer’s London Olympics, with 2012 earnings topping $54 million. Of that, $8.5 million came from ATP prize money.

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“The heat was a good thing for me, a Swiss guy, to get used to,” Federer says. “I struggled with the heat early on—the humidity. Then I bit the bullet and did three years in a row in the summertime, playing in 45 degrees [Celsius, about 113 degrees Fahrenheit] every day for two weeks, and I got strong.”

Of course, his strength extends beyond delivering killer 130 mph ser ves. His appealing image —in conversation, he’s very confident, gentle, well-spoken — combi ned with his controversy-free life and unprecedented success, has helped generate an estimated $45 million a year in endorsement deals with blue-chip brands. W hen he’s not compet i ng, he’s goi ng t he ext ra mile with his charitable pursuits.

H i s Rog e r Fe d e r e r Fo u n d a t io n works with local NGOs in South Africa, Malawi and Botswana—as well as in Switzerland—to support children’s early-learning and education initiatives. “I truly believe ph ila nth ropy has to be f rom the heart,” he says.

Mo s t r e c e nt ly, he h a s a d d e d Moët & Chandon to his endorsement portfolio. The French bubbly brand has been at the finish line of sailing and racing events for nearly a century, and as a global sponsor of the ATP World Tour, it’s a perdone this 10 years ago,” he says. “I would have felt too young, not authentic. But I went to Épernay, to see the Moët & Chandon wineries, and it was mind-blowing to see the winemakers and their effort. The passion for details that they have—

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“THE HEAT WAS A GOOD THING FOR ME, A SWISS GUY, TO GET USED TO.”

I feel very connected to that.”

Fashion is something else Federer has discovered an unex pected connection to. Indeed, his sar torial choices on court have become progressively edgier over the years.

Early on, his natty tournament attire—the neatly pressed whites, the custom Nike cardigans, the interlock ing R F logo — disting uished him from some of his less turnedout peers. But it was in September 2006 that he launched into an even more raref ied st ratosphere when Vogue editor Anna Wintour brought him along to Marc Jacobs’ spring runway show. Since then, Wintour has remained a sort of style adviser to Federer. “ I ’m h a p p y t o t r y o u t n e w things,” he says. “I started out with a lot of Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Louis Vuitton. But as I go along, I try out different, less-known designers as well.”

The pair’s friendship extends beyond his wardrobe. Last summer, to celebrate his 31st birthday and his Wimbledon win, Wintour hosted a soiree for him at New York City’s Beatrice Inn. “She likes taking care of me. She told me to invite whoever I want, from fashion to art, athletes to actors. We had a small group. I couldn’t be more thankful for her love of my family.”

Another thing they have in common? Tennis. “[Anna] has played ever y mor ning for 30 years,” Federer says. “She loves tennis. We crossed paths early on, and I didn’t know who she was, to be honest, but we stayed in touch.”

As for what’s next for him off court, he’s building a ski chalet and expanding his art collection with his wife. “It’s a great balance for me to think outside the box to do something else [along with] tennis,” he says of the latter. “Where I live right now, we don’t have much space for art anyway, so I’m in the learning p r o c e s s . A s k m e a g a i n i n f i ve years.” Roger that.

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JEWEL OF JAMAICA For Kingston-born art-world star Nicola Vassell, there’s no place like home. Alyssa Giacobbe explores like a local. PHOTOGRAPHED BY KAVA GORNA

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icola Vassell left Jamaica in 1996, but Jamaica never really left her. “You can’t truly cut the cord that connects you to a place like Jamaica,” says Vassell, a model-turned-gallerist. As a high schooler in Kingston, she’d been “discovered” by a model scout during a trip to the movies; by the time she graduated, staying home to pursue a career as a writer or an engineer, the original plan, was no longer an option. “I had another path,” she says, which included a contract with CoverGirl, runway shows for Calvin Klein and others and appearances in dozens of major fashion magazines.

Still, she explains, “Jamaicans are very nationalistic. The roots are very, very deep. I understood that only later in my life.”

Vassell left modeling in 2005 for the art world, in another case of fortunate timing. While studying art history and business at NYU, she met downtown gallerist Jeffrey Deitch, who offered her an internship.

At Deitch Projects, she quickly climbed the ranks, working closely with such artists as Kehinde Wiley and Francesco Clemente and becoming known around town for the salon-like gatherings she held in her SoHo loft. When Deitch Projects closed in 2010, she went to work as a director at the decidedly more uptown Pace Gallery, leaving last year to pursue her own projects, including privately dealing art. She’s currently developing an “ideas lab” that will curate and produce exhibitions and special projects and encourage social responsibility within commercial art.

But while her work keeps her traveling around the world—she spent a considerable amount of time in Vienna last year—she goes home to Jamaica as often as she can. During the Christmas holiday, it was for three weeks. Sometimes it’s just for a weekend. Often, she’ll take friends. Every time, she says, she discovers something new. “It’s like anything in life,” she says. “You go around the world searching for the mountaintop and you realize that it was here all along.”

The island—the Caribbean’s fourth largest—has, of course, been a vacation favorite for decades, an erstwhile destination for a glamorous Hollywood crowd that included Ian Fleming, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Bur ton, who valued its seclusion and shot a f ilm on location there. Bob Marley also had a little something to do with Jamaica’s recognition, and more recently Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, helped remind travelers of the country’s cultural riches.

But much of the credit also goes to hoteliers like Jon Baker and Chris Blackwell, whose proper ties blend luxur y getaways with Jamaican culture and topography, rather than provide gated, all-inclusive communities that focus on little more than beach and booze. At Blackwell’s newly renovated Strawberry Hill resort, for example, set

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deep in the Blue Mountains (where all the photographs seen here were taken), daily hikes offer a glimpse into organic coffee farming and dozens of species of local birds. Expansive views of Kingston are available at 12 Georgian-style cottages, including the one that housed Marley as he nursed gunshot wounds in 1976. It’s not stereotyping to say that Jamaicans love their reggae; indeed, it is about the only musical sound heard on the island.

Vassell’s own beloved destinations range from the serene to the extreme. To “marvel at the intense lushness of my island,” she explores the plants and rivers of Castleton Botanical Gardens, situated in the hills of St. Mary Parish. YS Falls in St. Elizabeth is another “great natural wonder,” with frothy, multitiered falls and underground springs. As an art professional, she loves the museums and libraries of the Institute of Jamaica, the chief archive of the island’s tory, whose permanent collection includes works by Jamaican artists like Mallica “Kapo” Reynolds and Edna Manley. And there are, of course, the beaches.

Vassell’s favorites are the simple, uninterrupted stretch of Negril’s Seven Mile Beach, James Bond Beach in Oracabessa and Frenchman’s Cove in Port Antonio, where, she says, “a freshwater river meets while cliff jumping at the Rockhouse Hotel in Negril. “I dare admit that Negril is my favorite place in Jamaica,” she says. “And Rockhouse is where I leave my inhibitions on cliff’s edge,” something that’s especially welcome after a long day of lazing about.

In fact, Vassell points to the Jamaican extremes as the most interesting aspect of her home country.

“There are many things about Jamaica that endlessly intrigue me,” she says. “but mostly it’s the fact that you have one extreme and then another, then another, and another. People sort of move in between these extremes, with very little road running to the middle ground. But what unites us is our shared sense of appreciation for a simple existence.

There’s a very distinct sense, in a place like Jamaica, that you don’t have to have everything to inherit the riches of the earth.”

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Right after he recovered from his 1976 gunshot wounds, Bob Marley went into a year-and-a-half U.K. exile, where he recorded some of his most famous work, including Exodus.

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was where I pretty much always was on Monday mornings: in the f lower pot outside an ad agency in downtown Panama City, pretending I was a feline Anne Geddes photograph, waiting to be discovered. Don’t get me wrong: Things weren’t awful. I love Panama.

It’s like one giant sunbeam. Plus, los ejecutivos would often bring me snacks, and I’d mew politely and let them call me Lady Gata. Copywriters are so clever.

When Miky walked by, I knew my life was about to change. I’m usually quite shy with strangers, but I’ve always been drawn to artists, and it turns out he is quite a well-known one, both in Panama and in the U.S. The next day, he was back, with milk and plans of a new life.

Soon after, I met Miky’s longtime girlfriend (and, I would learn, former First Daughter) Barbara, and instantly I knew why he wanted to bring us together. We’re both lovable, stylish and classically good-looking. Miky and Barbara named me Eleanor Ferdinand Furicita FábregaBush, because if anyone loves multiple names more than American political dynasties, it’s Latinos. Most everyone just calls me Wewie.

But I’m not just some pampered lap cat. Sure,

I spend lots of time entertaining, perfecting my backf lips, and acting as muse to the professional and recreational artists in my life. And, of course, I nap. Sometimes I dream of lounging in the Oval Office. Naps are muy importante because otherwise I won’t make it through Downton Abbey. For a while, I would answer only to Lavinia Cat, my favorite character. (Those bangs! That tragic demise!) But I’m also quite serious. I work with Mami on her nonprof it, Global Health Corps, and have plans to start my own, Kisses for Babies. Babies and I have a lot in common, and it’s not just that we look great in f lower pots. More than anything, we like to be loved. That’s one reason I don’t date. I don’t need to. I get plenty of love at home.

Ah, yes: mi casa! I live primarily in New York, though I retain dual citizenship and get back to Panama to visit my sister, Lola, whom I’m obsessed with, even though she’s a total dog. During one trip, I was detained for improper documentation. It didn’t even help to tell them my grandfather was once el presidente; believe me, I tried. “Not only do immigrants help build our economy,” I told them, “they also invigorate our soul.” Pero, no. Maybe some day.

Another Bush family pet, W.’s late Scottish terrier Barney, was criticized by Russia’s Vladimir Putin as unbefitting a world leader.

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Shoe fiends are embracing nips and tucks.

Alyssa Giacobbe uncovers the next wave of aesthetic surgery.

When times are tough—like during the Great Depression and after the dot-com bubble burst in the 2000s—women’s heels get higher, says a shoe historian.

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the ankles and the calves.” If the shoe doesn’t fit, well, there’s a fix for that.

And it has nothing to do with wearing sensible f lats.

In his Manhattan skin clinic and spa, Dr. Sobel offers services like acid peels and microdermabrasion that treat the foot in the same manner as the face, as well as laser treatments to get rid of discoloration and scars. After successf ul treatment with temporar y f iller, he’ll inject silicone for per manently padded feet. The der matologist also reports a rise in the number of women seeking aesthetic work—liposuction, sculpting and skin resu rfacing— on ankles and calves.

“Hig h heels mea ns we’re spending far more time looking at women’s calves,” Dr. Sobel says. “It used to be that people came in for lipo on their hips and thighs. Now it’s hips, thighs, calves and ankles.” That might mean giving an ankle a little more curve, reshaping the leg or eliminating cankles.

“I see many women who are very thin, totally straight,” he observes, “but they put on a pair of nice heels and their leg looks like a bat.” He performs operations with local anesthetic so that patients can stand up at the end of the procedure and get an idea of what their legs look like.

Of course, these treatments aren’t always preemptive. Sometimes they’re ularly harsh heels. Anyone who’s spent $1,400 on a pair of stilettos that require six months to break in knows that price doesn’t always correlate to comfort; in fact, it can be quite the opposite. “Some women can wear very high, very strappy shoes and have no problem at all,” says foot surgeon Dr. Ali Sadrieh of Evo Advanced Foot Surgery in Studio City, California, whose practice offers aes-

thetic toe shortening and lengthening, fat augmentation on the balls of the feet and the popular “Cinderella procedure,” a preventive bunion surgery that makes feet narrower. “But for many women, spending up to 10 hours a day in a pair of four- or five-inch heels can mangle and deform otherwise healthy feet.”

Alexandra Lentine is a conver t to taking these sor ts of measures. The 25-year-old was on her feet all day; by the time she was ready to go out for the evening, she could barely slip on a pair of heels—never mind go dancing in them. Philadelphia-area plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Davis injected Restylane into the balls of her feet for extra padding. “There is literally no pain anymore,” she says. “I’ve gone a little nuts in the shoe department since.” Now, she’s considering fat augmentation as a permanent solution.

But foot beautification doesn’t come without risks. “Cosmetic surgery for some things, like shor tening a long second toe, has the potential for serious complications,” says Dr. Michael Nirenberg, a podiatric physician and surgeon in Crown Point, Indiana, who has consulted with aesthetic patients as young as 14. “For that reason, I am very selective. If a procedure is strictly cosmetic and has the potential for serious complications, I will not do it.”

The American Podiatric Medical Association also encourages surgeries be performed solely for medical reasons.

The debate might not matter. “The foot has been part of our sexuality for 3,000 years, and women are going to wear the shoes they want to wear,” says Dr. Sadrieh, who argues that pretty, well-kept feet are signifiers of success.

“And as long as they’re wearing them, there will be a need for the feet in them to look their best.”

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n a n y g i v e n d a y, t h e n e w 22,000-square-foot shoe salon at Barneys New York’s Madison Avenue f lagship boasts thousands of pairs on offer, many of them more extreme than the next: strappy Tabitha Simmons sandals, towering Sergio Rossi stiletto booties, cr ystal-encr usted Christian Louboutin pumps that sell for $4,000 and make their wearer four and a half inches taller. But with each new height we’re willing to scale for great shoes, we’re also expecting far more f rom our feet. After all, what’s the point of splu rging on a pair of meticulously crafted shoes if they draw attention to feet that are a big old mess?

With the h ig h- end shoe i ndustr y growing at a rapid clip —women spend an estimated $20 billion a year on shoes—the field of foot aesthetics is booming. Cosmetic dermatologists and plastic surgeons are offering treatments that include foot narrowing, fat augmentation (for “comfort” padding) and the “pinky tuck,” to fix what happens when the last toe gets jammed into those extra-narrow Charlotte Olympias.

For women who come in complaining of feet unsuitable—too wide, too long, just too ugly—for their snakeskin Brian At woods, toes can be shor tened, lengthened, straightened or slimmed.

Nonsurgical procedures include Botox to reduce sweat (and, therefore, blisters), injectables like Restylane and Radiesse to make walking easier and laser therapy for uneven pigmentation and spider veins.

“Women are wear ing the highest shoes they’ve ever worn, five- and sixinch stilettos and platforms,” says cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Howard Sobel.

“And this puts pressure on certain areas of the body to look good, like the feet,

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From left: Cellular Mineral Face Exfoliator, $125, LA PRAIRIE, shoplaprairie.com. The Face and Body Gradual Tan, $85, LA MER, lamer.com. Moisture Surge CC Cream Hydrating Colour Corrector Broad Spectrum SPF 30, $35, CLINIQUE, clinique.com.

Double Serum, $85, CLARINS, clarins.com.

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Kabuki brush, $48, AERIN BEAUTY, aerin.com. Ambient Lighting Powder in Diffused Light, $45, HOURGLASS, sephora.com. Pure Color Nail Lacquer in Limited Edition Hot Spell, $20, ESTÉE LAUDER, esteelauder.com.

From left: Lip Color Shine in Frolic, $48, TOM FORD, tomford. com. Blushing Fabric Second Skin Blush in #8, $39, GIORGIO ARMANI, giorgioarmanibeautyusa.com. Perfect Matte Liquid Foundation, $66, DOLCE & GABBANA, saksfifthavenue.com. Perfume, $265, DRIES VAN NOTEN PAR FRÉDÉRIC MALLE, shop.fredericmalle.com.

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Guilty Black pour homme eau de toilette, $80, GUCCI, sephora.com.

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Essenze Italian Bergamot, $195, ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA, zegna.com.

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How you put on perfume can affect how long it lasts; applying scents to damp skin can make them last hours longer.

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Light as air and packing a powerful punch, mousse is whipping up a comeback. Marisa Fox contextualizes.

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fter a long winter of tamping down your hai r u nder oppressive ( but u ndoubtedly war m) hats ever y time you set foot outdoors, it’s time to rejuvenate. Here’s what you need to know about the coming months.

They’re about one thing: volume. “Hair is now being swept up, punked and pompadoured,” David Wolfe, trend forecaster with The Doneger Group in New York, says. “We’ve gone from the victimized waif to the 1980s power looks that speak to a growth in confidence.”

To get the look just right, forget the Johnnycome-lately gels and sprays you’ve become accustomed to running through your hair. Keeping it current is going to require revisiting a product you might have all but forgotten, that foamy grooming goop of yesteryear: mousse.

“Mousse used to be about stick-straight bangs and high hair,” Antonio Corral Calero, artistic director for Moroccanoil, says. “Now it’s about body without crunchiness. You can get tons of volume, but your hair will be soft, shiny and manageable.”

To wit, he recently sent models down the runways with tresses that looked like you could actually run your fingers through them.

At Alexandre Herchcovitch’s spring/summer show, Calero fashioned what he terms a “broken wave,” hair that was parted down the center and worn loose with only a subtle curve midway down.

It was the perfect counterpoint to the Culture Club hits playing to a catwalk full of bright, boldly patterned jumpsuits, boxy Ts and shirtdresses. Even when Calero went for the theatrical—rockabilly French twists at Catherine Malandrino and wispy, swooshy, undone buns adorned with f lower petals at Badgley Mischka—he kept strands looking silky and smooth. “We want it to be wearable, not costumey or gimmicky,” he explains. “People want hair that looks healthy, luxurious and fresh.”

There’s an explanation for the product’s more natural look. Chalk it up to mousse’s new formulation. “It’s now whipped, so it’s as light as air,” Calero says. “You can apply it directly onto the hair and pat it down, and it penetrates evenly.”

The Moroccanoil volumizing mousse contains Argan oil, which conditions and prevents frizz as it lifts and plumps. It can revive day-old blowouts, absorb oil from bangs and at the crown and restore waves and bounce. Tight curls can also be tamed, thankfully offsetting another 1980s hair trend: the pyramid effect.

Whatever your hair’s texture, the magic froth may be just the thing to whip your hair out of your face and mold it into a new, modern style.

So, when you’re reaching for that can of mousse, keep in mind the im mor tal words of one icon with a most impressive ’do, Pat Benatar: “Hit me with your best shot.”

Dear Violet: I love the chignons that came down the spring 2013 runways—some were wispy, some sleek.

But no matter which version I attempt, I end up looking more “Little House on the Prairie” than off-duty ballerina. Appearing “effortlessly chic” has become a colossal endeavor. Please advise.

Sincerely, Chignon Coveter Dear Coveter, Don’t be deceived: No worthwhile look is ever completely effortless. Even Brigitte Bardot’s sensually tousled mane required a superior stylist (or at least a few well-spent hours in the bedroom). For an elegant, smooth knot, begin with hair that has been blow-dried straight and parted in the middle. Create a firm ponytail at the nape of the neck and lightly mist with hairspray. Once you’ve built your base, you can style the chignon in a number of sophisticated ways: Wrap it in one direction for a classic ballet bun, split it in half for a double knot or leave the ends out for a devil-may-care version.

Or eschew the hair dryer altogether and simply spritz the locks—Oribe Après Beach Wave and Shine Spray is sexiness incarnate. Pull out a few romantic wisps around your temples before wrapping the bun, and off you go.

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hen Flemish painter Petrus Christus completed his Portrait of a Young Girl in 1470, he’d created a new sort of tribute to beauty and wealth—one in which the subject’s hair is

and dress that seem restrained but, on closer look, are of rare and sumptuous quality; it was Christus and his contemporaries, Hans Memling, Robert Campin and Rogier van der privileged favored such luxurious delicacy and in portraits we see symmetrical features and pale skin illuminating this pared-down perfection. Today the art world is seeing a renewed interest in classical painting and sketching, from the recent Leonardo da Vinci show at Paris’ Louvre Museum to the Frieze Masters art fair. “We look for qualities that will stand the test of time,” Andrew Renton, director of Marlborough Contemporary, says. Beauty, too, is returning to a classic stance, with heightened appreciation for contouring techniques. “The Dutch Masters understood how to use light, giving their paintings a three-dimensional quality,” James Boehmer, director of global artisty for NARS Cosmetics, says. “These same principles are fundamentals to makeup. Contrast in shadow and light, as well as texture, like a matte versus

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A number of contemporary artists are turning to the Renaissance, such as French artist Antoine Roger, who is inspired by the 16th century’s Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

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The number of male patients getting Botox has been hitting new highs in recent years—363,018

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ing it the most popular minimally invasive cosmetic procedure among men. As their numbers boom, what intrigues physicians is why this group is coming in. Women, still the vast majority of users, almost always rely on the toxin to knock a decade or two from their age. But guys are OK with showing their years—for instance, they leave their crows’ feet untouched. “Men with wrinkles there command more respect,” says Dr. Adam Kolker, a New York City plastic surgeon. So what are their priorities? “They don’t want to look angry, sad or tired,” Azizzadeh reports. And with the volatile economy and tight job market, high-achieving men are experiencing these feelings more than ever.

Dr. David E. Bank, a cosmetic dermatologist in Mount Kisco, New York, divides his male Botox patients into three groups. The youngest ones have grown up with procedures and see them as just a form of maintenance. Of the other two segments, he says, “there are the men who’ve achieved a level of success but who want to seem as energized as the guys nipping at their heels. And then there are the attorneys and bankers handling big deals and lawsuits. They want a look of calm so that at the negotiating table, they appear as if they can walk away at any moment.”

The main downside of Botox, of course, is its lack of staying power—it wears off after a few months. So physi-

“THE THREE THINGS MEN WANT TO AVOID? LOOKING ANGRY, SAD OR TIRED.”

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difference. As we age, we lose volume in our cheeks—in men, this comes across as haggard and exhausted. Adding Restylane or Juvederm to the apinjections can leave some bruising and swelling.

Knowing this, Dr. Bank and others schedule the procedures for men on Friday afternoons. “By opening bell on Monday,” he says, “the marks are gone.”

The plastic-surgery procedure that’s increased in popularity the most among men in the past 10 years? Butt lifts.

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SLICE &DICE Today, many men are trading traditional pursuits for an amped-up role in the kitchen.

Tyler Thoreson chews it over.

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or a musician,” says talent manager Scott Feldman.

He should know, considering he helped turbo-charge the trend by steering chefs—including Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio—out from behind the stove and into the spotlight.

“I don’t think it hurts that you have [host] Padma Lakshmi cracking the whip, in the form of a superhot woman who’s talking in a sexy way about food,” says Andy Cohen, a top programming exec at Bravo who helped grow Top Chef and its spin-offs into a juggernaut. But while no one’s going to quibble with the on-screen presence of Padma Lakshmi, what really motivates this new crew of home chefs are connoisseurship and craft, not titillation. Cooking well— like golfing well—takes practice, but the practicing

is actually fun. And while a minor error can ruin a golf shot, in the kitchen it’s no big deal: Even an imperfect cassoulet tastes pretty damn good.

The impact of more guys tending the stove is resonating far and wide. Christopher Bastin, creative director of clothing label Gant, was so taken with the intermingling of food and fashion that he decided to position the company’s hip Gant Rugger line as an extension of the New York dining scene, in the same way that Ralph Lauren draws inspiration from WASP gentility or John Varvatos from ’70s rock and roll.

“Restau rants used to be all about fat g uys in France running things, and all of a sudden you had all these young, cool entrepreneurs in their mid-20s,” Bastin says. “What was interesting to me was that all these guys who were starting things up were very stylish. It felt like a new lifestyle movement.”

Back in the ’90s, the Swedish label J.Lindeberg built awareness by d ressing pro golfers. Tellingly, the Gant team has taken to dressing chefs: Bastin shot the fall 2012 Rugger look book with the photogenic staff of the New York farmto-table restaurant the Fat Radish. And the crossover doesn’t end there. “ I f yo u l o o k a t w h e r e fashion is i n this cou nt r y r ig ht n ow, e ve r y t h i ng i s very artisan and handmade and real,” Rapopor t says.

“There’s a similar vibe in the cooking world. It’s not about the gadgets with six batteries in them. It’s more about the beautifully forged knives that you can spend $500 on.”

Parting gifts at the dinner celebrating Gant Rugger’s entrée into the food scene included a selvage denim apron and a specially designed chef’s knife from the on everything that I’m interested in, whether it’s vintage watches or cooking,” Bastin says. “It’s the geek that exists in most guys.”

But as f u n as it is geek out over all the gear required to become an accomplished home cook (trust me: golf gear is cheaper), there is more to the transition from the links to the kitchen than obsessing over paring knives instead of putters. “I don’t have a ton of creative outlets as a business guy,” Durette says. “For other people, they have music, or whatever else. For me, it’s cooking.”

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eter Du ret te is a senior executive at a multibillion-dollar company in Richmond, Virginia. On the cusp of 40, he’s got a smart, stylish wife, two kids and a gorgeous brick house in a tony suburb, with a pool and two German automobiles in the garage. He’s also a hell of a lot better with a chef’s knife than he is with a five-iron.

A generation ago, a guy in Durette’s situation might have limited his kitchen time to the seconds it took to saunter from the sofa to the fridge for another Heineken. But these days, more men are finding refuge from the demands of work and family not on the links or in a power-toolstrewn workshop, but in the kitchen.

“Whenever I go over to friends’ houses for dinner, at least half the time a man is doing the cooking,” Adam Rapoport, the editor in chief of Bon Appétit, says.

Today, he notes, “It’s OK to cook and be a man. You can still be masculine and confident about it.”

Chef Ma rcu s Sa muels son, who ow ns New York hotspot Red Rooster Harlem and founded the guy-friendly website Food Republic, agrees. “If you don’t know the latest beer or what wine to drink,” he says, “it’s like not k now i ng how to t ie a bow tie or not knowing the latest sneakers.”

There are plenty of role models for guys headed toward the kitchen. Since the cultural norms presented by The Brady Bunch have been superseded by testosteronefueled competitions like Top Chef and Iron Chef,

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ESPN analyst and former New York Giants quarterback Jesse Palmer shows off his epicurean side with his gig on the Food Network Canada show Recipe to Riches.

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012 was the year the rot set in at Apple. The core of the problem was its f lagship iPhone. (Let’s not even mention the iPad Mini.)

After years of innovation, the 5’s splashiest feature was...a bigger screen that simply aped Android rivals.

Its slim connector rendered current accessories redundant, while the Maps app was so woeful, it sent anyone looking for Berlin to Antarctica. Suddenly, carrying an iPhone no longer conveyed instant cachet but rather a helpless submission to the whims of Cupertino nerds, more conformism than effortless cool. This year looks to be even more bruising as Apple preps for a juicy battle with an old rival Sure, even the most dedicated keyboard apologist will admit that manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) lost its edge with a clunky operating system, unexciting handsets and a worldwide service outage that tainted BlackBerry’s rep for rugged reliability. But RIM has jettisoned its CEO and streamlined its workforce, reshaping the 29-year-old company into something more akin to a start-up. And now, RIM is launching new handsets and a reimagined OS. Until recently, the company relied on an OS built a decade ago for two-way paging devices that strained to cope with data-heavy smartphones. Think of it like splicing a Skoda engine into a Ferentire OS, reengineering it for the future of mobile computing. Some of the tech tricks are useful, if unshowy—the QNX platform makes it faster and easier to update software, for example—but others may make Apple acolytes envious. Time Shift is a camera tweak that auto-detects people in a photo and lets you scroll before and after a shot to correct blinking or red eye; astonishingly, you can do it one face at a time. BlackBerry Balance is like cellphone schizophrenia. With

one swipe, you can switch from a work to a personal setup, so those dealing with sensitive information, like lawyers, no longer need to juggle two handsets.

“Smartphones are an extension of you, a personal brand, and the problem is that Android and Apple are becoming almost indistinguishable—touchscreens with lots of apps. It means you’re now just part of a herd,” says Kyle McInnes of fan site Blackberrycool.com. “But BlackBerry 10 is speaking to a very partivity, a tool for entrepreneurs.”

RIM’s shot at Apple might succeed, given the device’s resilience elsewhere in the world. In Indonesia, fans camp out overnight before the newest handset is released, and in Nigeria an entire movie, BlackBerr y Babes, centered around women harassing their boyfriends to buy them the devices. And when a snapshot of a down-to-busi-

“SMARTPHONES ARE AN EXTENSION OF YOU, A PERSONAL BRAND.” ness Hillary Clinton became a viral meme, she wasn’t holdi ng an i Device. Power brokers, Hillar y made clear, had never abandoned the BlackBerry. As Kevin Michaluk of Crackberry.com explains, “BlackBerry is for people who have shit to do and ne e d t o get it done. T he iOS wa s really for people who didn’t have enough to do and were looking to kill time.”

Among BlackBerry’s loyalists are the fashion pack. Stylist and TV personality Joe Zee, who resisted the lure of Apple until recently, still hasn’t let

go of the stalwart on which he’s written entire columns. “In the front row, everyone does work on a Black Berry— until the show starts, and then they switch to an iPhone to take pictures.”

(Time Shift is an answer to that.)

Finally, it seems that even for technology, the adage “Everything old is new again” could apply. Paul Birardi of Odin New York menswear remembers being at a meeting with 13 or 14 people, “and I was the only person with a BlackBerry,” he says. “And someone said, ‘Oh, my God, you’re carrying vintage.’ ”

The nickname “Crackberry” became so popular in 2006 that it was named New Word of the Year by Webster’s New World College Dictionary.

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Zero in on the new cameras that are much more than point-and-shoot

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f you assume the smartphone has rendered cameras obsolete, you couldn’t be more wrong. A new class of models offers gorgeous visuals, in HD video as well as photographs, and extra features that make them well worth a closer look. There’s a style to suit ev-

Canon’s utilitarian G15 has a no-frills design for serious shutterbugs. The black anodized body of Leica’s D-Lux 6 is ideal for the simple sophisticate.

And for gadget-hounds, the ultramodern

—LINDSAY SILBERMAN

CANON, usa.canon.com

FUJIFILM, everypicturematters.com

Last year, a Qatari prince purchased a custom Leica lens—four feet long and 132 pounds—for $2,064,500, the priciest consumer lens ever made.

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From Internet obsessives to light sleepers, NetJets’ new fleet caters to every flier. Mark Ellwood climbs on board.

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errier-Jouët did it for champagne: $66,830 for a case of vintage bubbly blended to your own exacting specifications, dubbed By & For. NIKEiD and Puma’s Mongolian BBQ inspired sneakerphiles’ soles, allowing them to custom-design unique kicks. Now runway success NetJets has taken inspiration from such bespokery: It’s managed the seemingly oxymoronic feat of customizing its new f leet for the needs of every traveler.

Last su m mer, War ren Buffet t’s favor ite airline placed an order for 100 jets with Montreal-based manufacturer Bombardier, and an additional option of 175 planes took the total tally to a staggering $7.8 billion.

Buying in bulk, as NetJets Senior VP Patrick Gallagher explains, was a strategic decision. For the first time, the private-jet company could tailor-make its own planes, tweaking the standard layout much as a car company adjusts the interiors of a Lincoln or Mercedes when refreshing a f leet. This was a landmark moment.

“Historically, we had taken off-the-rack aircraft, but this time around we got a little more focused,” he says.

Over 18 months, the company’s management sifted through the feedback from more than 6,000 NetJetters to ture Series. The loudest request: Guarantee a quieter ride.

Every passenger wanted to arrive refreshed and relaxed answer was two-fold. Firstly, additional sound dampening was installed in the plane’s body. Secondly, in a radical plot, the interior was reimagined: All staff facilities—the

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galley and the crew’s rest area and lavatory, which traditionally bookend the cabin—have been front-loaded by wanting shut-eye or seclusion can then turn the rear seating area into a private undisturbed stateroom.

Technology was the next target. WiFi, which Gallagher calls “the price of entry” for private jet companies today, is standard on every craft. It also forms the basis of Passengers can use this WiFi network, via their personal iPads or the plane’s own stash of electronic devices, to aceven more impressive, though, is that every time a new tors, like Teterboro or Van Nuys, it syncs that database with a local server to refresh and update programming.

Finally, NetJets’ management addressed food and beverage. Dispelling the notion that only noxious coffee can be served on planes, they put a Keurig machine in every galley in the Phenom 300 f leet so java can be freshly brewed rather than loaded ready-made at takeoff. After they noted that most seven-seater crafts flew with three passengers or fewer, they cut capacity to six to allow extra galley space for storage. Now, meals no longer need to sit, forlornly covered in Saran Wrap, on seats when customers board. Clumsy spills were addressed by a modular design system that allows piecemeal replacements rather than having to recarpet the plane. As Gallagher explains, “That’s one of the lessons learned from 25 years of people drinking red wine.”

Airplane food is getting a five-star makeover

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rom Abu Dhabi to Doha, the Middle East has become a go-to luxury destination for avid travelers. And now, the extravagant experience begins from the moment you step on the plane. With the newly expanded launch of its in-f light chef program, Etihad Airways offers passengers traveling in Diamond First Class the added bonus of a professional chef onboard. Each one is classically trained with a minimum of six years’ experience at a five-star restaurant or hotel, and the United Arab Emirates–based airline currently employs over 110 of these culinary geniuses. With top-notch chefs come superb cuisine, like salmon-and-cucumber cannelloni with a citrus salad and honeydew-melon dressing, al dente pappardelle pasta tossed with black olive crumble and Parmesan or brioche with red berries, mascarpone cheese and anglaise sauce. But if nothing on the impressive menu catches your eye, you can order whatever you’d like—each plane contains a fully stocked pa nt r y equipped to ha nd le al most a ny request. Want to indulge in an elaborate breakfast in the middle of your red-eye? Go for it. The chef will prepare a “Farmhouse Breakfast” with scrambled eggs that come straight from the airline’s 200 free-range hens at Abu Dhabi Organics Far ms. So now you can dine like a king at 30,000 feet.

—LINDSAY SILBERMAN

Want to see what food will be served on your upcoming flight? Airlinemeals.net provides more than 26,800 photos of in-the-air cuisine.

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Get light on your feet with barely there sneakers.

Lindsay Silberman hits the ground running.

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o bare or go home: Running enthusiasts have been repeating this ditchthe-shoes mantra so often in recent years that it has become almost passé. But the thought of pounding the pavement sans protection can scare off most avid marathoners. Luckily, for those who want coverage but not bulk, a practical alternative awaits. Minimalist sneakers—gear without the high cushioned heels, stiff soles and arch support—provide runners with many of the perks of going barefoot, but ease their fear of stepping on something painful along the way. “For most of human evolutionary history, people ran either barefoot or in very minimalist shoes,” says Daniel E. Lieberman, a human evolutionary biology professor at Harvard who has studied barefoot running. “Now there’s an interest in doing things more naturally, getting back to how the body is designed a thin-soled shoe, Lieberman advises, runners should start with short distances and work their way up to longer runs. Less can be more—especially in neon.

Clockwise from top: Minimus Zero, $109.99, NEW BALANCE, newbalance.com. Type A5, $100, SAUCONY, marathonsports.com. Adipure Gazelle, $100, ADIDAS, adidas.com.

Many podiatrists disagree—New York City’s Dr. Rock Positano says barefoot enthusiasts reference cavemen but “the average caveman did not live past 20.”

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The high life comes with problems.

We’re here to help.

MY FAVORITE RESTAURANT BANNED ME FOR LIFE AFTER I HAD A FEW TOO MANY MANHATTANS AND CURSED OUT THE HOSTESS. BUT ISN’T THE CUSTOMER ALWAYS RIGHT?

Not when you throw around the c word, pal.

Listen: We’ve all been that guy, the one who really, really wants things to go his way and maybe lets slip a little “Don’t you know who I am?” this and “I own you!” that. But next time, you need to remember that old kids’ tale about the sun and the wind and the girl wearing the Balenciaga cape. Which gets My advice: Apologize to the owner, profusely and publicly, with a full-page ad—maybe a spread—in the Times. Be sincere. You’re sorry you acted like an overstuffed buffoon; as a gesture of remorse, you’ve made a donation to the owner’s pet cause (homeless cats!). Then overnight a Birkin to the hostess. And this time, the c is for crocodile.

A DATING DADDY

MY FATHER HAS STARTED DATING MY COLLEGE ROOMMATE—AND NOW HE WANTS TO DOUBLE. HOW DO I GET OUT OF IT WITHOUT COMPROMISING MY INHERITANCE?

Tell him you’re a lesbian. Next! OK, seriously. You’re a lesbian? That’s so great. So go ahead and let Dad know you’d be delighted to move some things around to join them at Le Bernardin, provided he picks up the check—you’ll take care of pre-ordering the ’98 Coche-Dury Rougeots—and plays nice with your new lady friend. He remembers marriage? Then, come armed with some fun stories of you and Roomie’s good old days as part of the tribe back at Princeton, when she had that threesome with those two non-legacies and then bombed medical anthropology.

Oh, wait—sorry, Daddy! That was you.

TRUTH SERUM RULES

WHEN MY BEST FRIEND ASKS ME WHAT I THINK OF THE COSMETIC WORK HE’S HAD DONE, WHICH IS AWFUL, DOES HE REALLY WANT TO KNOW?

Not even in the slightest. The good news: He already suspects something’s not quite right or he wouldn’t be asking (perhaps he was tipped off when you pointed out the oatmeal that had been stuck to the side of his face since breakfast). Which gives you an opening. So say: “Love, you know I adore you no matter how I didn’t intro you to my uber-exclusive doc. Needles is an absolute dream—his motto is ‘Shiny foreheads are for SoulCycle’— and he doesn’t see just anyone. But I’m positive I could get you in. I would do that for you.” Then let your friend pay for lunch, and text Needles that you got him a good one. Please, no need for thanks. He can repay you in Restylane.

“I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor’s office was full of portraits by Picasso.”—Rita Rudner

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Nightlife trends and libations set to take spring by storm

SPIR IT S OF T HE PA S T A COCKTAILS TIME LINE 1870s

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Allegedly invented for Winston Churchill’s mother, this whiskey drink was the toast of its namesake town.

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Giovanni Bassetti and Gian Luca Passi

hen it comes to wine, the future is sparkling.

Well, at least as far as a trio of Italian entrepreneurs is concerned.

“A year and a half ago, we decided prosecco—the wine we’ve been drinking since we were kids—was lacking attention,” Gian Luca Passi, one of the founders of the just-launched FIOL Prosecco DOC, says. “We wanted to create something people could be comfortable ordering by name.”

So far, it’s off to a good start.

FIOL, which has already cultivated a following in the U.K., Italy and Hong Kong, has made it onto the wine list at the see-andbe-seen Cipriani restaurants and at Sant Ambroeus, the socialitefavorite cafe with branches in Manhattan and the Hamptons.

Founded by Passi, an Italian cou nt whose fa m ily has long made wine for Villa Tiepolo Passi, their 16th-century home, and his friends, brothers Giovanni and Piero Bassetti, FIOL aims to set a luxury standard for prosecco and establish itself as the first name in Italian sparkling wine.

A s G iov a n n i B a s s e t t i e xplains, “Our ideal customer is someone who travels all around the world and is looking for a high-end experience.”

The goal for FIOL is to become a regular at the bar, and according to Passi, it won’t be long before that happens. “No matter where you go, there’s always a drink prosecco can be the right match for,” he says, noting the suddenly ubiquitous Aperol Spritz. “By next summer, it’ll be everywhere.”—ADAM RATHE

This mix of vodka, orange juice and herbinfused Galliano liqueur became a bar staple.

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ountless revelers have slipped into their f inest and headed out on the tow n, only to be stymied by three feet of velvet rope—and the brute controlling it.

But with spending down postrecession and more clubs than ever competing for customers, something unexpected has happened: The once-fearsome bouncer has become, well, nice. “ Te n ye a r s a go, b a r k i n g a t people was the norm,” says Dave Ferruolo, who works the door at Miami’s STK. “Clubs have realized that we need to value each and every customer. They want to feel like they’re welcome.” And if you want someone to order bottle se r v ice, not be r at i ng h i m is a good way to start.

W h i l e n o t e ve r yo n e i s g o ing to get past Jack Kennedy, a

former Army officer who runs security at L.A. boîte Rock & Reilly’s, the people he refuses are seeing a much softer side. “ Now you t u r n dow n p e ople w i t h h u m o r, o r g e t t h e m t o laugh a little bit,” he explains.

“You tell them to come back.”

Get ting t u r ned away at the toughest doors might be a little less painful these days, but even a gentle letdow n still doesn’t sit well. As Eddie Bilowich, of Manhattan’s notoriously selective 1 OAK, says, “Doormen can be as nice as they want, but they will still be perceived as jerks.”

—A.R.

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THE COSMOPOLITAN Sex and the City made this saccharine-sweet concoction the cocktail to fill a martini glass with.

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CAIPIRINHA

As drink trends turned south, the rum-based Caipirinha, the national drink of Brazil, became inescapable.

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or its 10th birthday, legendary New York club Marquee got something special: a complete overhaul.

“After we opened Marquee Las Vegas, the original had to be redone,” co-owner Noah Tepperberg says.

The club now features a top-of-the-line sound system, a design by nightclub veteran Josh Held and regular live music performances.

“It’s not a scene-y place,” Tepperberg says.

“It’s about the energy, the music and the space.”

This year, George Clooney and Rande Gerber will launch Casamigos Tequila, named after the homes both men own in Mexico.

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GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUNDS Women are figuring out their best tool to make money—and keep it— is each other. Nancy Miller shatters the glass ceiling.

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Mini notebook, $170, HERMÈS, hermes.com.

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t would be a stretch to say Joan was an accidental real estate investor—no one buys buildings in New York City by accident. But it would be fair to say it wasn’t on her list when she was first thinking about careers. “I thought I would teach forever,” says Joan, a former professor of my mom got very sick.”

So she stepped into the family business her mother had run since the death of Joan’s father many decades earlier. Turns out Joan had a gift—and ambition. She transformed a single Manhattan residential building into a real estate empire. But learning to manage her newfound wealth proved a challenge equal to

expanding the company.

Despite her obvious business sophistication, Joan says, “I operated in ignorance” when it For a long time, money, even more than sex, was a taboo topic of discussion among women, largely because men were in control of most of it. army of women into the realm of major wealth. According to the Spectrem Group, women under 56 now account for nearly 40 percent of wealth among adults who have a net worth in excess of $25 million. In small gatherings all over the country, they’re re-casting the chatter and turning to each other to discuss how to handle all this cash.

“There was a time when money was not considered a proper subject for ladies,” says Muriel “Mickie” Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, 45 years ago. It’s why people like Joan had nowhere to turn for advice on earning and spending and saving. That began to change when the activist Elinor Guggenheimer called Siebert to describe a road trip she took with her husband to visit his Yale Law School buddies. She had an insight: Men have a network, but women do not. Guggenheimer’s response was to launch the Women’s Forum, a group connecting that rare breed of female executive, especially the ones who were unprepared for their success.

Even if they “made it” they often stumbled, sometimes badly, in managing their money.

“W hen I sold my f irst company I got this big

There were 1,365 male members of the NYSE when Muriel Siebert, the “First Woman of Finance,” was finally able to join in 1967.

“IT’S ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS AND THE SATISFACTION WE GET HELPING OTHERS.” –HANNAH KAIN

check,” recalls Joyce D. Reitman, an angel investor and serial entrepreneur in San Francisco. At the time, she was sur rounded by big-time dealmakers —law yers at Wilson

ure out how to manage her wealth. she says she gave some of the cash to a neighbor, a stockbroker, to invest, almost as an afterthought. Fortunately, she didn’t give him a lot. The broker put some into a high-technology fund at the peak of the dot-com bubble, and the fund went to zero.

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tion. A few years ago, Joan found Tiger 21, a peer-to-peer investment group for the ultra-wealthy, where in workshops like “Portfolio Defense,” a for m of asset-management group therapy. But Tiger 21, and other groups like it, is a male bastion, and many women prefer a place where they can create their own brand of money talk and focus on connections and the satisfactions that come with boosting each other.

The Silver Bridge Institute in Boston aims to educate wealthy women through programs like “A Woman’s Perspective.” One recent lunch on

net worth is about $500 million, is known for throwing monthly dinners for women rising in the ranks.

Of c ou r s e, t he s e g roup s a nd gatherings give women a haven to discuss the emotional side of money, too. However they reap their wealth, women nearly always bear a mantle of guilt. When they earn it, there’s a part of them that feels they may have sacrificed their mar-

riages or their children, says Helen Dietz, president of Stanford Investment Group.

When they get it through divorce or widowhood, there’s a different kind of guilt. Women may tr y to allay it through charity. Or, when they look for help with their f inances, they may seek to replace the missing male in their life—and they don’t always make the right choices. One female broker recalls how prospect ive female client s would consistently select men who were charging them more money for the same services she offered.

Barbara Stanny unwittingly marr ied a compulsive gambler who spent the entire for t une she had inherited from her father, Richard Bloch, a cofounder of tax empire H&R Block. She didn’t even realize her money was disappearing until she got an “insufficient funds” message at the ATM. Women’s ver y different set of goals and approach to money is what can make them vulnerable but it’s also what makes them effective, says Hannah Kain, CEO of ALOM, one of the largest women-owned private businesses in California and the wife of an entrepreneur. Women aren’t risk-averse, but they’re more risk aware which means they’ll not only give money to places where they also give their time but also trust and connection.

“For women, it’s about relationships and the satisfaction we get helping others,” Kain says. Adds DeAnne Steele, a managing director and i nvest ment executive at U.S. Trust, “It’s not about a name on a bu i ld i ng.” Not t h at some thing like that is out of the question. Not anymore.

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Sheryl Sandberg’s advice can be on your nightstand —her new book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, is out this month.

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no one ever suggested she seek help managing her windfall. And so she didn’t. Like many female entrepreneurs in the late ’90s, she figured she could handle it herself. “I wish I had had someone like me standing there telling me ‘Okay, let’s map out the things you want to do in your life,’” she says. Instead, Reitman says she became a somewhat haphazard investor, putting money into things that came her way but not creating a strategic plan.

financial fundamentals promised to help attendees learn the basics of money management so they can “work effectively” with their family, advisors and partners.

“Women like to lear n and engage in really different ways from men,” says Dune Thorne, a partner at Brown Advisory who has been involved in teaching women about finance for the past decade. They organize themselves around “community, trust and collegiality.” Unlike men, women don’t want to talk products and retur ns as much as they want to talk about collaboration. While men view money as a means to power or independence, women with money tend to want to focus on interdependence and relationships, says Kate Levinson, aut hor of Emot ional Cur renc y: A Woman’s G uide to Building a Healthy Relationship with Money.

Take, for example, designer and ret ail queen Tor y Bu rch, newly enshrined in the church of billionaires, who’s putting a personal spin on charity by focusing on microfinance for women entrepreneurs.

Spanx creator Sara Blakely, who is, at 42, the youngest self-made female billionaire on the Forbes global round up, says she wants to change the world “one woman at a time.” Facebook Chief Operat-

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The renowned architect thinks big in his minimalist office space. (Hint: No computers allowed.) Adam Rathe drops by for a visit.

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strikingly unique. A Frank Stella artwork (above center) hangs next to sculptures by Meier and Michael Esbin and behind antique Josef Hoffmann chairs. White replicas of past successes. Above right: The Hague City Hall and Central Library and the Coffee Plaza in Hamburg. Opposite page, right: The Canal+ Headquarters in Paris, a Madison Square Garden redevelopment proposal and a Long Island residence. *More @ DuJour.com

One of Meier’s earliest projects, the Westbeth Artists’ Housing in New York City’s West Village, achieved landmark status in 2011.

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hose familiar with the buildings R ich a rd Meie r h a s de sig ne d know the Pritzker Prize –winning architect favors clean lines, wide panes of glass and white facades. Visitors to his office, an airy sixth-floor space in a building on the west side of Manhattan, will find those same qualities in spades.

“The openness, the light, the f lexibility of the space—that’s what was appealing about it,” Meier, 78, says of the place his company has inhabited since 1986. “We have a few private offices, but mainly it’s an open space where people can work and communicate easily. It seemed to me that it was enough space to do whatever we wanted in terms of growth.”

And grow they have. When Meier first moved in—which he did at the suggestion of his friend and collaborator, the designer Massimo Vignelli— only about 30 employees were housed in the off ice. Almost three decades later, he has twice that number working with him, in addition to a staff at

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his Los Angeles outpost and a portfolio including major projects in Taiwan, China, Tel Aviv and Brooklyn.

Meier’s st af f size isn’t the on ly thing that’s changed at the off ice, which sits on a desolate st retch of Tenth Avenue and calls a rare Manhattan gas station its neighbor. “At the time we moved in, the Jacob Javits Center was about to open on Eleventh Avenue,” Meier says of the formerly down-at-the-heels area. “Then they swept the streets, because with the convention center nearby they didn’t want visitors walking through a dirty area. It’s been wonderful ever since.”

Relics of just how wonderful are proudly on display throughout Meier’s office. Architectural models—like the most intricate, expensive dollhouses you’ve ever seen—line the hallways, showing off classic Meier desig ns (such as his iconic apartment buildings on Charles and Perry streets in Man hat tan’s West Village) as well as newer projects, like the Bodr um Houses near Turkey’s Yalikavak Bay

and buildings that were dreamed up but never constructed.

The models are made in a workshop in the back of the off ice, and what can’t be stored there is sent out to a 3,600-square-foot, open-to-the-public museum Meier keeps in Long Island City, Queens, for just that purpose.

“We devote quite a bit of space, probably too much, to storing and exhibiting the models,” he says. “We keep out where we should store them.”

But Meier doesn’t make a habit of holding on to much. He stores his passion projects, mainly collage work, at home and, except for a few keepsakes and photos of his children, his workspace is devoid of bric-a-brac. Books line the walls and sculptures—one by Meier himself, two by artist Michael Esbin—sit by the windows. The architect’s 10-foot-long desk is dotted with blueprints and the day’s newspaper but doesn’t even hold a computer.

In fact, the only thing disr upting the order of Meier’s office is a mas-

sive, colorful work by his friend the artist Frank Stella.

“That painting is pretty important to me; it was a gift from Frank very shortly after we moved in here,” Meier says of the complicated, str uctural artwork. “It came in pieces, but I’m not sure how we’d ever get it out of here. There aren’t many other places it could fit.”

Sure, there’s impressive art and the occasional notable visitor—a celebrity couple Meier declines to name stopped by recently to discuss their new home, and he counts an in-office breakfast with former Czech president Václav Havel as a personal highlight—but what’s most apparent throughout the space is the architect’s legacy of important design. (It’s one that will be celebrated this summer with an updated version of Complete Works, a coffeetable book chronicling his career.)

Indeed, when asked to sum up the greatest aspect of his space, Meier answers succinctly, “A lot of ter r if ic things happen here all the time.”

Meier’s extensive collage, sculpture, drawing and model work was on display for the first time in fall 2012 at the Hartell Gallery at Cornell University, his alma mater.

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YOU’RE SCREWED. NOW WHAT? Lanny Davis, crisis manager for the rich and powerful, on what you should—and shouldn’t—say but she wasn’t guilty of insider trading. In fact, the prosecutor never even brought that case.

So do you think the jury felt they had to convict Ms. Stewart of something because they’d already decided that she was guilty?

I assume sincerity, and I have faith in the jury system. But I can conjecture that the publicit y about the case —

You’ve counseled President Clinton. Despite his personal crisis, he was able to avoid impeachment and stay in office. Do you think a different outcome could have been possible in General David Petraeus’ case?

Yes. A nd he still hasn’t done what should’ve been done.

Which is what?

Tell it all, tell it early, tell it yourself.

When people are under investigation, their instinct often is to not talk to the press. But you say it’s a mistake?

Yes. It’s almost always it’s a mistake, and for a public corporation, it’s a major one. The story is going to be written whether you talk or not, so the question is, Are there things that can be safely said that can make the story more accurate and balanced? Saying “no comment” is the equivalent of a guilty plea, to most people.

You worked with Martha Stewart during the investigation into her sale of ImClone stock.

You’ve expressed frustration that her criminal attorney wouldn’t share what he knew with you. Do you think if he had, she wouldn’t have had to go to jail?

I strongly believe that Ms. Stewar t would not have been prosecuted as she was if her attorney and I had worked closely together. In order to do my job in a criminal case, I need the criminal attorney to share all the facts with me, so we can decide together if it’s too dangerous to say anything to a reporter. Ms. Stewart was accused—and convicted— by the media of an insider trading crime before she ever had her day in court,

When she was running for vice president in 1984, she was attacked about her husband [and his business dealings].

She put herself in a room with the media, and she said, “I’m not leaving the room until I answer every one of your questions. I don’t care how painful it is.” And she left that room battered and bruised, but it was over. You’ve gotta take that advice. I’m being an objective crisis manager when I say General Petraeus didn’t do it the right way, but I’m not criticizing him personally. All I feel is empathy for him.

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ou’re on the front page of the New York Times—but it’s not good news. Your company is under investigation. Shareholders are clamoring for your removal.

Employees are threatening a lawsuit. What to do? For the best connected, the answer is, “Call Lanny Davis.” A lawyer and author, Davis has worked with the likes of Bill Clinton (he was White House special counsel from 1996 to 1998), Whole Foods, Macy’s, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder and Penn State. In his new book, Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics and Life, he shares the lessons learned from 12 years

“SAYING ‘NO COMMENT’ IS

THE EQUIVALENT OF A GUILTY PLEA, TO MOST PEOPLE.” where she was prejudged by much of the media of having traded on inside infor mation—affected some jurors and their view of her. Then, when her lawyer didn’t let her testify, she didn’t have the chance to convey to the jury that she didn’t trade on inside information and that she’d made a few honest mistakes but not criminal ones.

But by stepping down from the CIA, didn’t he absolve himself of the need to do that?

General Petraeus thought that by writing a letter saying “I did wrong, and I’m resigning,” it was the end of the story, and it’s not. It’s actually making matters worse if that’s all you do, because everybody sees it as just pure PR. You’ve got to do what I call a Geraldine Ferraro:

Who has been your most challenging client, and why?

Congressman Charles Rangel.

I love him dearly, but he was the toughest. He was so angry.

He believed, as I believe, he’d done nothing morally, ethically or criminally wrong. [He was ultimately censured on the f loor of the House of Representatives for not paying income taxes for more than 20 years on his Dom i n ica n Re public condo; the total owed was about $10,000.] He’d been careless. But because he’s so proud, he was unwilling to take proactive measures to prevent the unhappy outcome we saw.

Do you ever get tired of solving problems?

Yes. I’d love to answer the phone and have someone say, “Hey, Lanny, I’ve got great news for you.” [Laughs] But my job is to handle the bad news. I didn’t choose that position, but I’m a lawyer, and I know the press, and I know politics, and it just happened. After I left the White House, people started calling me because their lawyers were telling them not to talk. They’d say, “What can I do? I want to tell my side of the story.” I had to invent a way to help them tell the truth.

—INTERVIEWED BY SHARON KUNZ

Lanny Davis’ son Seth is also in the public eye: As an on-air analyst for CBS Sports’ coverage of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, he’s watched by millions of people.

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STUART TAKES SPAIN

How a small town became luxury shoe designer Stuart Weitzman’s headquarters. Megan Conway tells the story of Elda. PHOTOGRAPHED BY AARÓN SERRANO

For the 2002 Academy Awards, Weitzman designed a pair of “Million Dollar” shoes, with 464 diamonds, which were worn by actress Laura Harring.

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hen Stuart Weitzman wal k s t h roug h t he n a r r ow s t r e e t s of E l d a , S p a i n , h e’s treated like royalty.

The sentiment is fitting: He owns four shoe factories in the town, and he jokingly refers to the area where they’re located—all within walking distance of one ano t h e r — a s “ St u a r t ’s l it t l e kingdom.” But whereas the 71-year-old luxury-footwear veteran means this mostly as a bon mot designed to deflect the signif icance of his role there, the 3,000 people he employs—more than 35 percent of the town’s shoe-industr y workers—might take it more to heart. He’s something of a one-man bailout plan for the Alicante region, where his base of operations has been for more than 30 years, producing

designing shoes under the label’s name and later creating a line with his name attached to the brand: Stuart Weitzman for Martinique. “I created a mini brand name at their exp e n se but w it h my work ,”

“SHOES HAVE BROUGHT ME A LOT OF FUN IN LIFE.” –STUART WEITZMAN

says Weitzman, an adept businessman with a degree from Wharton. In 1986 he severed ties with Caressa. But by then he’d grown to love Spain, so he decided to stay.

G ive n h is celebr it y st atus—last November, he was p r e s e n t e d w i t h Fo o t w e a r News’ Lifetime Achievement Award by Weitzman enthusiast Beyoncé—it’s impressive how intimately involved he remains with the production of his shoes. (When I visit him at his Manhattan showroom, I boot, sketches for future designs splashed around him on a desk.) He does the creative work of drawing and designing shoes in Spain, where he collaborates with two designers to produce patterns that they tweak until they’re good enough to make into samples.

He has a knack for identifying

on sight how a toe box or heel could be improved (comfort is his highest priority, if not something of a trademark).

Today, Spain’s manufacturing—an especially hard-hit sector of its battered economy—is the shoemaker is well equipped to adjust to his circumstances.

Elda is glutted with many shoe factories, but most operate on a contract basis for other bigname brands. (At the moment, he tells me, “all the espadrilles are being made there: Armani, Chanel, they’re all there.”) Few have permanent facilities in the region—and none has made the kind of powerful economic impact Weitzman has.

I n t h e c o u nt r y sid e s u rrounding his footwear f iefd om , Weit z m a n’s n a me i s prefaced with the honorif ic Don, a title given to him in 2007, when he was named el

Hijo Predilecto Adoptivo de Elda by the communities of Elda, Petrel and Rio Vinalopo (translation: favorite adopted son of Elda). He’s the only non-Spaniard ever to receive the honor. “It was the workers who nominated me, which made it ver y special,” says Weitzman, who is f luent in Spanish. Ever the entrepreneur, he prefers to focus on numerical motivations, but he’s clearly deeply touched by the accolade: “It’s the fact that they appreciate that they have been working in a good company. And I appreciate that they stayed with me.” Indeed, the average number of years people work for Weitzman is an astounding 22.

“I have no complaints,” he says. “Shoes have brought me a lot of fun in life —a lot of recognition but also a lot of pleasure.”

Ten years later, Weitzman created a follow-up—the “Millionairess,” with Swarovski crystals as the bling—which cost $595 a pair and were sold in his stores.

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favored by everyone from Kate Middleton to the brand’s current poster girl, Kate Moss.

We it z m a n s p e n d s m o r e than six months of every year in Elda, which sits just inland from the Mediterranean port of Alicante (and boasts one of the best fish restaurants in the country). About his earliest days manufacturing shoes in Spain, beginning in 1971, while Francisco Franco was still in charge, “I started out in a dictatorship that was really repressive for the people, and now it’s this glowing democracy. I star ted to build factories, so once you do that, you real ly pla nt t he t re e s; you’re not goi ng to leave.”

Each of his factories specializes in a certain kind of shoe.

“I cou ld have cheat ed a nd tried to make an evening shoe where they make moccasins, but they don’t have the hands for that,” says Weitzman, who tends to transmute old-school diligence into the language of necessity. “So every time I wanted to add something to the line, I had to build a

new factory.” In work-scarce Spain, Weitzman shoemaking has become a lifeline for underemployed families, who somet i mes pass dow n jobs through generations.

In fact, shoemaking was the Weitzman family business, too. Growing up, Weitzman apprenticed for his father’s footwear company, Seymour Shoes, based in Haverhill, Massachusetts, a mill town nicknamed Queen Slipper City. He and his brother took over the business in 1965 after their father died and right away they experienced the kind of shock and turbulence that’s still rocking manufacturing in the U.S. “I wanted to make shoes, and it [costs] millions to set up factories,” says the Queens native. “I had to find somepl a c e w h e r e I c o u ld s t a r t something.” So in 1971, when he was 29, Weitzman began searching for the best place to start over, figuring he would partner with an existing company until he had the resources to start his own.

He f lew f irst to Italy, famous for its leather and luxur y goods, but encountered a strike on the national train syst e m a nd a not he r st r i ke at his hotel. Next he visited Spai n, which has a st u rdy, c e nt u r ie s - old t r a d it ion of shoemaking. “In Spain they did anything I asked for,” recalls Weitzman, whose selfna me d compa ny ha s si nce become one of the best-loved high-end shoe brands in the world. “ T hey worked du ring the lu nch hou r to show me how they made a product, and I thought, I can’t put up with the Italian system.”

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Everyone’s eyes are on Kamala Harris.

Nina Martin talks to the California Attorney General about those Supreme Court rumors.

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t’s January 2013, but unlike most people, California Attorney General Kamala Harris isn’t talking about the coming year. Instead, she’s speaking about the past: her election in 2010. That night, even many of her supporters doubted she’d win her bid to become California’s next A.G.; in fact, her opponent—Steve Cooley, the popular, moderate Republican district attorney of Los Angeles—declared victory a few hours after the polls closed.

But Harris, who’d been out to dinner with friends and family, was oblivious to the fact that she appeared to have lost. She recalls, “We got to headquarters, and my consultant said, ‘OK, speak to the folks and the news.’ I go out. People are looking at me and crying, and I thought, ‘This is so wonderful.’

I give my speech—this is what we stood for, this is why we ran—and I could feel the mood shifting.”

Only after she walked away did the truth dawn on her. “Everyone was crying because they thought we had lost! I was the only one who didn’t think so!”

And she laughs so hard I’m afraid she might choke.

In the end, Har ris won, albeit by a margin so small—only 74,000 votes—that Cooley held out for three weeks before finally conceding. That close victory made her not just the top law enforcer in the most populous state in the U.S. but also one of the most powerful legal officials in the country. It was a job many believed that neither an African-American nor a woman would ever get, much less a liberal black woman who opposes the death penalty.

Every so often, a Northern California politician comes onto the scene who makes people in the area and nationwide go “Wow.” In recent years, San Francisco has had many: Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, and now Harris. Since she first got noticed in the mid-1990s, she’s been dazzling people with her political acumen, bold ideas and global-village glamour—and frustrating them with her relentless drive.

For these reasons, Harris, 48, is often compared to President Barack Obama, whom she’s known for almost a decade and for whose campaign she served as national co-chair in 2012. (Her brother-in-law, Tony West, holds the number-three spot in the Department of Justice.) She says, “[The president] and I have a relationship based on respect.” Harris was the only candidate for statewide office in the U.S. for whom

Obama raised money during the 2010 cycle.

When I googled Harris’ name recently, the first thing to come up was the rumor that she would be tapped for the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 79 and ailing, may step down in the next year or two, and some think Obama will want to replace her with a trusted, younger, multicultural woman, someone with political skills and legal chops.

When I ask about the buzz, Harris gives one of those evasive answers that keep the gossip mills churning: “I am very focused on what is right in front of me. I love this job. You can have a direct impact of the lives of 40 million people.”

She showed that to be tr ue with her f irst bold move as A.G. Shortly after taking office in 2011, Harris sicced her department on the big banks whose practices she held responsible for the housing crisis that had devastated California. (At one point, 9 of the 10 worst-hit metro areas in the U.S. were in the Golden State.) The banks weren’t amused. They were negotiating with 50 states and seemed likely to get a deal—paying only $2 billion to $4 billion to

California in compensation and receiving immunity from all future inquiries and suits—that was less a slap on the wrist than a brush with a feather.

Harris was outraged. “One of the things I love about holding statewide office is that we are more nimble [than the feds],” she says. “And because the buck stops with me, we don’t have to ask permission to do the things we do. If the voters don’t like it, they’ll let me know.”

In August 2011, she went to Washington, D.C., to meet with the banks. People familiar with the talks say their lawyers assumed that the novice A.G. must be a lightweight and that her loyalty to the president, who wanted a deal to shore up his re-election chances, would trump any reluctance she had.

“They didn’t know what they were getting into,” says Harris’ senior policy advisor Michael Troncoso

Even Kamala Harris’ movie preferences are strictly legal—one of her favorite films is My Cousin Vinny, starring Joe Pesci as Brooklyn attorney Vinny Gambini.

“DON’T TELL ME ‘NO.’ I EAT ‘NO’ FOR BREAKFAST.” that she knew she’d be judged on (which earned her criticism as an ambitious climber who was always looking several steps ahead in her career). She also made some serious mistakes. Her quick declaration that she would not seek the death penalty for the accused killer of a young police officer earned her the wrath of cops statewide, and when wrongdoing was uncovered in the city police lab, her office compounded the problem by dragging its feet.

In 2010, she was seen as far from a shoo-in to become attor ney general, especially since she’d be facing off against the well-liked Steve Cooley.

“Some people said to me, ‘Don’t go there because they won’t vote for you.’” she recalls. “But I said, ‘Everything and everybody is on the table.’”

In general, the drumbeat of news about her department’s accomplishments has been steady and

mostly positive. Harris, who oversees 1,100 lawyers, is proud of the action her office has taken to clear up its backlog of thousands of untested rape cases, and she thinks her efforts promoting use of a database to enforce state laws banning felons, spousal abusers and people with mental-health issues from possessing firearms could be a national model. She also worked with the major online platforms to hammer out a sweeping new mobile-app privacy policy.

The next year could be more productive. Since last November, when voters elected Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature and signaled their willingness to significantly increase taxes for the first time in 35 years, there’s been a palpable optimism in the air that lawmakers can partner

with Harris’ office to pass progressive legislation— on the environment and gun safety, for instance.

Still, there is one big potential danger. Forced into a corner by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2011 that extreme overcrowding in California prisons constituted “cruel and unusual punishment,” Governor Jerry Brown has implemented “realignment”—moving tens of thousands of inmates convicted of less serious crimes out of state prisons and into county and local jails or even back on the streets. Budget cuts have left police departments understaffed and overwhelmed, and there have been few additional funds to help local jurisdictions pay for the influx of prisoners. Already there are anecdotal reports that crime in some areas is on the rise.

Realignment is an easy target, but it’s Governor Brown’s policy. Why would Harris be the scapegoat?

Because as A.G., she is the person Californians associate with criminal justice, and she’s made her name touting similar policies. As D.A. and as A.G., she’s rejected the hard-line ideas that have nearly bankrupted California’s criminal-justice system and led to high recidivism rates (65 percent of the state’s ex-inmates will re-offend within three years of release). One of her pet programs in San Francisco, “Back on Track,” aimed to keep low-level drug offenders out of jail by providing them with services (everything from GED coaching to child care to gym memberships) and entry-level jobs. The program was successful enough that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a similar one into state law in 2009.

Harris is aware of realignment’s possible impact on her career. “I have no doubt—because this is what innovation involves—there will probably be glitches. This is a whole new way of doing business.” She adds: “The fear that every law-enforcement leader has is that if you do something different”—like not locking up someone who committed a petty theft— “you’re taking a risk that the person will go out and kill a baby, and everyone will say, ‘What were you doing?!’” (Harris knows this from experience: In 2008, the D.A.’s office didn’t prosecute an undocumented immigrant/gangbanger for lack of evidence, and three months later, he was involved in the killing of three innocent members of the same family.)

Should realignment end up succeeding, though, no California politician is likely to benefit more than Harris. Many see her running for governor when Brown is termed out in 2018 or perhaps heading to Washington. It’s clear, however, that she’ll be making her own decision about where she’s going next, and she won’t be put off by naysayers. As she puts it, “Don’t tell me ‘no.’ That’s a bad and wrong thing to say to me. I eat ‘no’ for breakfast.”

Among the new laws that went into effect in the animal-loving state of California on January 1 was one banning the use of dogs for hunting bears and bobcats.

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with a laugh. “Kamala’s a trial lawyer. She’s negotiated I don’t know how many plea deals, and she has a saying: ‘Don’t take “no” till the fifth time.’”

The meeting ended after an angry Harris declared, “I’m going to investigate ever ything. All of it. I have an obligation to my client, which is the state of California.” A few weeks later, she pulled out of the 50-state talks, and the gnashing of teeth could be heard from Wall Street to the White House.

Flash forward to February 2012. After a frenzy of negotiating, she announced a deal with the banks, including some $18 billion in compensation—with at least $12 billion of it guaranteed for Californians— and no immunity from future investigations or state lawsuits. Bottom line: If you underestimate Kamala Harris, you do so at your own risk.

“With Kamala, the sky really is the limit,” says her friend Mark Leno, the inf luential Sacramento lawmaker. As ethnic minorities become the majority in much of the country, Harris—the child of immigrants, half South Asian, half black—looks like the future. While Democrats try to wrest that future from Republicans whose hard-line ideas, especially in the criminal-justice area, have dominated the political agenda for many years, Harris has given them some of their most effective talking points.

Her optics don’t hurt, either. She’s beautiful and always gorgeously garbed. Her personality is no less appealing, though her huggy warmth can turn to cold steel in a f lash. She’s also hyperenergetic, demanding and hands-on. In many ways, Har ris sounds like her whirlwind of a mother, a Brahman from India who came to the U.S. in 1960 to study, married then divorced a Jamaican-born fellow grad student (he is now a professor emeritus in economics at Stanford) and went on to be a top research scientist. Shyamala Gopalan Harris (who died in 2009) exposed her two daughters not only to the era’s antiwar and feminist politics but also to the world beyond their modest Berkeley neighborhood.

Kamala, a couple of years older than sister Maya, was hard-working and a perfectionist, with a heart that bled for crime victims. Everyone expected her to be a civil rights or defense attorney. Harris, though, realized that prosecutors held the cards.

She got her undergraduate degree from Howard University and a JD from Hastings College of Law. She worked in the D.A.’s office in Alameda County for eight years and then in the San Francisco D.A.’s office. Because she wasn’t part of any existing political machine, she had to build her own coalitions to win a cutthroat race for San Francisco district attor ney in 2003. In her eight years as D.A., she targeted areas, like the homicide prosecution rate,

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ames Carville used to say that Wash i ng ton is Hollywood for ugly people. T hat may be harsh, but there is one night a year in the nation’s capital when the dogs of politics put on their sequins and tuxedos and rub shoulders with the gorgeous.

That annual soiree, called the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, is always a star-studded event, one where a Supreme Court justice can be spotted chatting with Justin Bieber or Steven Spielberg is whispering in the ear of the president.

This year’s W hite House Correspondents’ Dinner, which takes place on April 27, is sure to be as glamorous as in years past, but the man overseeing it is a slightly unusual one: Fox News Chan nel chief White House correspondent Ed Henry. A seasoned and award-winning Washington journalist who earned his chops as a reporter for legendary columnist Jack Anderson, Henry is a controversial choice because of his position as Fox News’ man in the Obama White House, where they’ve had a sometimes contentious relationship.

At a White House press conference in October 2011, Henry asked Barack Obama to respond to Mitt Romney’s comment that “if you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president.”

Obama retorted, on national television: “I didn’t know you were the spokesperson for Mitt Romney.”

But the Queens-born Henry rolls with the punches, presidential and otherwise. “I just think there is probably a unique spotlight put on the Fox correspondent covering Obama, because there has been some back and for th over the last four years—to put it mildly,” he told DuJour in an interview from a vacation in Florida with his wife, a CNN producer, and his two children. “I respect the president, and I think he respects me. My job is to challenge authority. I don’t really have any problems day to day in terms of covering them.”

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a f t e r Ob a m a’s r e election.

Hen r y’s road to the W hite House press room wasn’t predeter mined. He says his father spent most of his career as a supermarket manager in New York City, and Ed was the first member of his family to go to college. (He at tended Siena in New York.)

He moved steadily up the press corps’ ranks after arriving in Washington in 1991. After eight years covering the Hill for Roll Call, Henry went on-air at CNN. There he first adopted his trademark d apper look, at t racti ng the attention of AP fashion writer Samantha Critchell, who praised his sartorial signature, a pocket square.

The Mad Men accessor y and at tention to detail seem to f it Henr y’s r ol e a s p r e s i d e n t o f t h e W h i t e H o u s e C o rr e s p o nd e nt s’ A s s o c ia t io n .

I n t hat post, he’s t he organizer of a bipar tisan social lubricant—a larger-than-life version of an event that was once much more com mon i n D.C. That dinner “is one of those rare occasions when Republicans and Democrats come together,” Henry says.

Such events used to be regular occurrences in Washington,

“MY JOB IS TO CHALLENGE AUTHORITY.” –ED HENRY

part, says it has no particular beef with Henry. “Like every other professional journalist who covers the White House, w e d o n’t l i k e e v e r y w o r d that Ed has said on camera, but we work with him every day to provide the access and i n fo r m a t io n t h a t h e n e e d s to communicate to a sizable audience what’s happening at the White House,” spokesman Josh Earnest told the AP

where Georgetown doyennes broke out t he fam ily silver and china to seat members of both parties beside one another over meals and cocktails. That tradition was lost with the advent of the working wife and the new era of profound political acrimony.

W he n a s ke d whe t he r he thought the chummy, bipartisan dinner party of yore ought to — or even could—make a ret u r n in moder n Washington, Henry replies, “I would say there is a very fine line.

We as journalists should not be buddy-buddy with people we cover. We have a solemn responsibility to challenge authority, but we shouldn’t reach a point where we can’t have a meal with people we cover without people thinking there is something sinister going on.

There was a time when Republicans and Democrats sat down and had meals together without

He n r y s ays t he c ome d ic element at t he 2013 d i n ner will match those of previous years, which have seen legendary presidential roasts by the likes of Stephen Colbert, and in some cases have become YouTube sensations. But it’s he points out. Through their annual event, the White House Correspondents’ Association raises more than $100,000 every year for budding college journalists. The upcoming dinner will be no different. “ We a lw ay s g e t a lo t of bu z z for ou r W h it e Hou s e Correspondents’ Dinner. Lots of celebr ities come, people have a great time, and that’s good,” he says. “But we want to remind people that our organization is standing up for p r e s s a c c e s s a t t h e W h it e Hou se a nd st a nd i ng up for needy students. That’s import a nt t o u s. We shou ld g ive something back.”

Even the President gets in zingers: At the 2012 dinner, Obama joked about Hillary Clinton “drunk-texting” him from Cartagena.

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Wall-sized murals by the painter Franz Ackermann (right) and conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner (left) greet visitors at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

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es on her recently completed commission. Like some of her earliest video works, this ambitious new piece hinged on a series of provocative maxims—“Lack of charisma can be fatal” or “Ambivalence can ruin your life”—which were projected onto a screen and meant to induce “sustained cont emplat ion.” O n ly t h is sc ree n happened to be the 72-foot-high Jumbotron that’s perched above the gridiron at Cowboys Stadium, a beer-filled bastion of tailgating and chest-thumping that holds up to 100,000 scream i ng football fa ns —i n ot her word s, t he last place you’d expect to find highconcept video art.

Hol zer says her v ideo “ t r uism s ,” wh ich p op up b et we e n pizza ads and instant replays of a Marcus Ware, have caught some fans by su r pr ise. That was the point. “The reaction ranged from people pointing and laughing to others properly ignoring my stuff and tending to whatever else was around them,” she says.

But Holzer’s piece is not an anomaly inside the four-year-old Cowboys Stadium, located in Arlington, Texas, about 25 minutes

Cowboys Stadium tour guide Phil Whitfield is the venue’s unlikely art ambassador, having worked closely with each of the artists while they prepped their installations.

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Would you like a Holzer with that hot dog?

Stephen Heyman tackles a growing trend.

is among 50 other commissions by big-name artists like Olafur Eliasson, Lawand Matthew Ritchie—a collection that the National Endowment for the Ar ts called “museum-worthy,” adding, “Never before has art and athletics coexisted so seamlessly.”

Several of the works, which appear above conc e s sio n s t a n d s o r a t o p soaring stair ways, seem striking in the context of a moder n spor t s a rena.

T hese are not LeRoy Neimanesque murals glorifying athletic exploits.

Eliasson’s piece, a sculpture called Moving Stars Takes Time, is an amalgam of circular and elliptical solar orbits described in stainless steel and yellow glass. T he pai nter Matthew Ritchie takes the Xs, Os and arrows that football coaches use to diagram plays and scrambles them into a giant futuristic triptych.

And the noted conceptual artist Mel Bochner’s 38-foot-tall mural at the northeast staircase screams out synonyms of the word win: “VANQUISH! CLOBBER! KICK SOME BUTT!” “The artwork that’s there—my piece, Lawrence Weiner’s piece—they’re not backgrounds, they’re foregrounds,”

Top: José Parlá’s mural for Brooklyn’s new Barclays Center. Bottom: Brazilian artist Romero Britto’s colorful work above the entrance to the Sun Life Stadium.

“THEY’RE NOT MERE DECORATION.” –ARTIST MEL BOCHNER

ses’ epic ambition for their stadium to be not merely a sports arena but a cultural hub. (In addition to the artworks, the stadium has hosted a free simulcast Mozart’s The Magic Flute.) “We wanted a stadium that spoke to fans beyond

area, the team hired the San Francisco– based art adviser Mary Zlot, who was initially wary of the Cowboys’ foray into modern art. “Getting them to buy into this process to begin with was actually kind of a challenge,” Anderson explains. “They were like, ‘What are you doing down there?’”

By now t he Cowboys have d is said to possess the most significant modern art collection in any sports arena. Anderson declined to put a dollar amount on the team’s investment but confirmed that it was well north of $10 million.

A nd other spor ting venues have been getting into the game. The Minnesota Twins’ Target Field opened in 2010 with a trio of mosaic murals that out of porcelain and stone. In Brooklyn, the new Barclays Center—home of the Nets basketball team—has in-

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cant in their aesthetic meaning. They’re not mere decoration. That’s what makes their existence in a football stadium even more remarkable.”

Charlotte Jones Anderson, the executive vice president of the Cowboys, whose family, led by her father, Jerry Jones, owns the team and built its $1.1 billion stadium, says the art collection harks back to the “Greek and Roman times, when frescoes were on the walls of the great sports coliseums.” This

the world of football,” Anderson says.

She elaborates that her family, particularly her mother, Gene, has a deep appreciation for art but hadn’t the foggiest idea of who’s who in the contemporary art world. “That was out of our comfort zone,” Anderson says. So, after

stalled several noteworthy works, including a 70-foot-long mural by the gallery darling José Parlá, which was unveiled in January. And at Sun Life team owner Stephen Ross commissioned the famous — and famously commercial—Brazilian artist Romero Britto to make sculptures throughout vor,” says Ross, who’s planning to add more artworks after a large-scale renovation slated to begin next year.

But blending art and sports can be sive collection, which includes works

by Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore, the art dealer and Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has struggled to integrate artworks into his $600 million stadium, Marlins Park. The contempo-

public installations, but the stadium’s most conspicuous artwork is a $2.5 million animatronic sculpture by pop artist Red Grooms. Installed in center f ield, it is activated when the home

The piece is widely reviled. Take this assessment of a critic from the Miami New Times: “It’s like someone vomited a bunch of cliché South Flor id a i mager y on a Guy Ha r vey sh i r t af ter a roug h n ig ht on South Beach and then motorized it.”

The ire of Marlins fans over this eccentric sculpture notwithstanding, Anderson says that st adiu m habit ués aren’t immune to the charms of contemporar y ar t. Quite the cont rar y.

“Sports fans are also fans of art and architecture,” she says. “They appreciate people who excel at anything.”

This spring, video art from OpenEndedGroup featuring imagery inspired by children’s playground games will be projected outside the Barclays Center.

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After more than a decade off, Roman Coppola returns to the director’s chair and brings along Charlie Sheen for the ride

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n the 12 years since his f irst feature f ilm—the h ig hly st ylized 1960s CQ—Roman Coppola stayed plenty busy. The son of f ilmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (and brother of director Sowinery, worked as a writer Moonrise Kingdom and The Darjeeling Limited and is running his own production company, The Director’s Bureau.

Than kf ully, the multit alented 48 -yea r- old got back behind the camera for A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charle s S wan III, h is just-released madcap comedy, featuring over-the-top performances from Charlie Sheen, Patricia Arquette, Bill Mu r ray a nd Jason Schwartzman.

W hile Coppola ad mits he’d rather not wait another dozen yea r s to ma ke h is next movie, finishing this one does leave him feeling somewhat relieved.

“I’m enjoying the sensation of being free from the gnawing feeling of having

to finish a film,” the director says with a laugh. “I’m taking a moment to enjoy being off the hook.”

Here, Coppola answers a few of DuJour’s nosy questions.—ADAM RATHE So far, what has been the best day of your life? There’s a memory that pops to mind of when my dad bought a 1913 Ford Model T. He said we’d go for a drive, and I remember going across the Golden Gate Bridge. The car broke down, and we ended up having an adventure on the side of the road. It’s a wonderful, symbolic memory of those times when you don’t know where you’re going.

The worst?

I’d rather not talk about it.

If you could spend a day in someone else’s shoes, w ho would it be? Errol Flynn on the set of The Sea Hawk.

What’s your favorite hour of the day? Early in the morni ng, bet ween 7 and 8.

There’s quiet, and you’re

Page-turners that shed light on the past

not expected to be available.

If you could relive one day in history, what would it be?

I’d love to be on the set during the f ilming of Young Frankenstein when they’re doing “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”

What’s the best conversation you had today? I’m preparing a commercial project, so I’m talking a lot with a storyboard artist. Being in a session with an artist and collaborating is an exciting thing to do.

If you had to wear a uniform every day, what would it be?

A Battistoni suit with Albertelli shirt, Morini shoes and an E. Marinella tie. It’s what I’m wearing today.

I didn’t want to but today I...

Checked my e-mails. It’s generic, but true.

How would you spend your last day on Earth? It’s corny, but with my family. Maybe in Kyoto, eat i ng good food and relaxing under a cherry blossom tree.

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n the new CBS series Golden Boy, Bonnie Somerville plays New York City detective Deborah McKenzie. But there’s another side to the Brooklyn native: She’s a lover of history.

to play the medieval queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom she calls “one of the most powerful women of all time.” This month, DuJour’s own Nancy Bilyeau’s The Chalice hits shelves. Somerville checks it out and shares other must-reads from her favorite genre.

THE CHALICE by Nancy Bilyeau This author became a favorite of mine when I read her The Crown. The Chalice is a perfect sequel for heroine Joanna Stafford. I loved the story, the characters and the rich detail of the novel—making you feel as if you are there with Joanna in 1538, a turbulent time in English history. So much emotion and drama, and surprise twists for even the most hard-to-please mystery fans!

THE ROSE OF YORK by Sandra Worth York dynasty and its fall. It’s a different take on the classic tale of Edward IV’s court and his brothers, including Richard III, so maligned by history and by Shakespeare.

The battle scenes are particularly great and rich in detail.

THE MISTS OF AVALON by Marion Zimmer Bradley The story of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere and Merlin the Magician—it’s a classic. What a great combination of history, magic and romance! It’s perfect for readers who are intrigued by myth and legend.

FOUR SISTERS, ALL QUEENS by Sherry Jones An amazing book about four sisters who became queens in 13th-century Europe. This is the only family in history to have all sisters crowned! The characters are so compelling—it’s a book about female empowerment at a time when there was little to no power that a woman could have.

After restoring the 134-year-old Inglenook Estate into a winery, the Coppolas celebrated with a dinner party by chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten.

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The godfathers of electropop return in grand fashion. Anthony DeCurtis hits the dance floor.

Love the 80s,” VH1 decla red more than a de cade ago, and what’s not to like? Eighties music was garishly supersized with big hair, big record sales, big padded shoulders, big bass sounds and a big willingness on the part of artists to wear just about anything to attract attention on that addictive new visual medium, MTV. England in particular exported a never-ending stream of novelty bands in a second British Invasion with a lifespan measured in nanoseconds. How many groups who broke through during that era have sur vived it as more than a nostalgic punch line?

Happily, the answer includes at least one: Depeche Mode, who are releasing their thirteenth studio album, Delta Machine, this month. I might have added big synths to that list above, and Depeche certainly made a mark with their punchy, upbeat electronic sound, which was as frothy as anything else on MTV. But over the years the band has slowed down its beats per minute, upped its thematic ambition and created a live show Far from being a dismissible retro act, Depeche Mode is more contemporary than ever. It’s impossible to overstate sic, popular music’s formidable current trend. With Delta Machine, a seductive collection that retains the band’s appeal while trimming its excesses, Depeche Mode is poised to enhance their already larger-than-life stature. Indeed, after decades of success, this could be their true moment of greatness.

Electronic music was already being dismissed as a fad when Depeche Mode shot to superstardom. After forming in 1980, the group helped usher in the first wave of synth-crazy techno music. Revisiting the band’s clothes, haircuts and peppy hits, like “People Are People,” guarantees a nostalgic rush,

“THEIR SOUND IS ENTIRELY ALLURING, EVEN A LITTLE SCARY.” but the music’s impact has lasted and grown. The band has evolved through a couple of permutations since the early days (the lineup has consisted of founding members Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher since 1995), all while racking up sales of more than 100 million albums and singles worldwide. In fact, Depeche Mode may well have been the first band to prove the now takenfor-granted notion that electronic dance rhythms translate across cultures more easily than most other musical forms, and they were able to create a truly global audience in the process.

How did this happen? Par t of the

answer is that Depeche Mode early on discovered the soul in the machine, in all senses of that term. On Delta Machine, the band incorporates R&B, blues and funk elements into its sound, a development that not only livens up the aspects and seeming impersonality of electronic music. Even the new album’s title, with its nod to the Delta blues, speaks to this fusion. More explicitly, the band’s music refers to the state of our souls in a spiritual regard. “I was your father, your son, your holy ghost, your priest,” Gahan sings on the new song “Alone,” blending sacred and profane

love in a way that recalls the deepest traditions of gospel and soul music. (Remember, this is the band that brought you “Personal Jesus.”)

So many of the band’s songs have been, as the title of one of Depeche Mode’s most popular albums puts it, “songs of faith and devotion.”

That merger of lust and spiritual love runs in both directions. In the band’s haunting new single, “Heaven,” earthly love and our search for connection are imbued with an otherworldly quality. Finding your soul mate evokes the divine, but losing him or her condemns you to an inner hell. The dark, brooding quality that is such a signature of Depeche Mode’s sound is entirely alluring, even a little scary, an intimation that in every relationship involving love, everything else is also at stake. In the world of Depeche Mode, surrendering to love takes on a decided S&M quality in which pleasure and pain become indistinguishable and equally delicious.

The band’s music has always been presented in arrestingly dramatic terms, elevating Depeche into one of the most visually compelling bands in the world while shattering the notion that electronic music was one-dimensional.

This is seen not only in their exultant live performances, but also in their videos, many of which were directed by photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn.

Gahan has said that when he sings in the studio he imagines himself onstage, and his imagination becomes reality when the band plays in front of an audience.

He’ll get that opportunity again when Depeche Mode begin their world tour in Tel Aviv on May 7, and then travel throughout Europe until the end of July.

A full North American tour will follow.

More than three decades after their founding, Depeche Mode will once again be performing in arenas and stadiums full of orgiastic fans, their music, quite remarkably, more relevant than it has ever been.

Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Brandon Flowers of the Killers and No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani all claim Depeche Mode as a major influence.

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Your cheat sheet to this spring’s films, books and theater—from highbrow to low

THE MOVIE: Pack your bags; we’re heading back to West Egg. In Baz Luhrmann’s 3-D take on The Great Gatsby, Leonardo DiCaprio portrays the enigmatic title character and Carey Mulligan (with a flapper do) is his indecisive inamorata, Daisy Buchanan.

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THE PLAY: The life of Pulitzer Prize–winning newspaperman Mike McAlary will jump from page to stage in Lucky Guy, the new show penned by the late, great Nora Ephron and starring—in his Broadway debut—Tom Hanks.

YOUR TALKING POINT: Bringing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel to

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YOUR TALKING POINT: It’s not McAlary’s first brush with showbiz: The late columnist played himself in Ron Howard’s 1994 movie The Paper, and in 2011 his rise to fame was dramatized off-Broadway in The Wood.

THE MOVIE: Before Dorothy and Toto went to Oz, the wiz-

THE BOOK:

THE PLAY: Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke slips into Audrey Hepburn’s iconic role of Holly Golightly when Breakfast at Tiffany’s comes to Broadway in March.

The play pledges to be truer to Capote’s bittersweet novella than to the cheerier, less gritty film version.

YOUR TALKING POINT: Dozens of adaptations have gone down the Yellow Brick Road, but 1985’s Return to Oz holds the Guinness World Record for live-action sequel produced the longest after its predecessor.

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No stranger to the idea of aiming high, Hamid is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School and worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company before becoming an author.

YOUR TALKING POINT: This isn’t the story’s first time on Broadway. In 1966 an Edward Albee–penned musical version hit the stage, but the show lasted for only four performances before closing.

THE MOVIE: Cue the drinking, fighting, tigers and quickie nuptials: The Hangover is back for a third installment.

There’s no wedding this time, but that doesn’t mean Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha and the rest of the gang won’t find two hours’ worth of gross, hilarious trouble.

THE BOOK: After Gwyneth Paltrow was told she was anemic and vitamin D–deficient, she did what anyone would do: She wrote a cookbook. It’s All Good features 185 dairy-, sugar-, soy- and gluten-free recipes for those dealing with dietary shortcomings.

THE PLAY: An adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved Matilda comes to the Great White Way after a wellreviewed run in the West End. Hopes are high for the story of a brilliant young girl up against dim parents and a sinister schoolmarm. Watch your back, Annie.

YOUR TALKING POINT: Paltrow denied assertions that she used a ghostwriter for her 2011 tome, My Father’s Daughter. This time around, Julia Turshen, who worked on both books, is credited on the cover.

YOUR TALKING POINT: Dahl, who died in 1990, was rumored

screen is never easy: Truman Capote tried writing the Oscar-winning 1974 version, but the final script was rushed to completion by Francis Ford Coppola.

ard himself had to make the trek. So goes the premise of Sam Raimi’s new Oz the Great and Powerful, a prequel to the 1939 Victor Fleming classic, featuring James Franco as cinema’s most celebrated conjurer.

YOUR TALKING POINT: The last Hangover attracted at least

three lawsuits—including one from the tattoo artist who inked Mike Tyson’s face.

Philippe Petit, the performance artist who walked on wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, stays closer to the ground with his latest project, Why Knot?, a book on knot-making, including those that kept him from falling during his infamous stunt.

Everyone still loves Petit’s daring Lower Manhattan act, especially documentarian James Marsh, who won an Academy Award in 2009 for Man on Wire, his movie about the walk.

Best-selling author Mohsin Hamid’s latest, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, follows a nameless protagonist on his journey from rural poverty to high capitalism. This witty novel is written like a howto guide—even if the hero’s life isn’t always enviable.

Philippe Petit is best known for his Twin Towers walk, but he’s also performed his high-wire act at the Eiffel Tower,

to be disappointed with 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and is said to have called the 1990 film version of his The Witches “utterly appalling.”

the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and the Louisiana Superdome.

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out of Josh Groban’s mouth as he sits down at the hip Tribeca watering hole Tiny’s to talk about his new album. He’s telling a story about performing in a televised tribute to Marvin Hamlisch and his amusement over a censored lyric. It’s an unexpected introduction to the favorite heartthrob of housewives everywhere. Or then again, maybe it’s not. Because as the evening progresses, a sona couldn’t be further from his real-life game.

Groban is that rare artist who is as welcome at Lincoln Center as at Rick Rubin’s house, as likely to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand as to appear in a skit on Jimmy Kimmel Live (where he memorably set Kanye West’s absurdist tweets to music: “I make awesome decisions in bike stores.”). Groban’s latest record, All That Echoes (released last month), was produced by Rob Cavallo—better known for his work with hardcharging bands like Green Day and My Chemical Romance than with baritones. Ask Groban where he met Cavallo, and he’ll tell you slyly: “At a dinner party at Kid Rock’s place…as you do.”

The Book of Groban started when he was discovered as a teenager by the producer David Foster, who sent with Céline Dion for the 1999 Grammy Awards. Rosie O’Donnell happened to be in the room and booked him for her show, and he became a “popera” sensation overnight. Groban has since sold more than 25 million albums worldwide, earning the enduring love of the Obama White House, Gayle King and a legion of rapture-ready fans calling themselves “Grobanites.”

But if you’ve been paying close attention, you’ve seen glimpses of that other Josh Groban in the wings all along. You know, the smart comedy nerd and undercover ladies’ man who dated Mad Men’s January Jones for three years and weathered a rumored dalliance with Katy Perry (though neither has ever gone on the record

One of Groban’s muses? Nelson Mandela. He has credited the Nobel laureate with inspiring him to write the anti-apartheid song “Weeping,” a track on his 2006 album.

been making serious inroads in Hollywood, too, meeting with David Letterman’s company, Worldwide Pants, about collaborating on a daytime talk show (their idea) and playing Emma Stone’s douchebag boyfriend in Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Regarding acting, he says with a smile, there’s often some push-back from casting directors. “I’m always the long shot. I walk in there and they go, ‘We played your song at my mom’s funeral. Now make us laugh.’ ” He’s happy to play the fool—he ridiculous fun—but rest assured, he’s in on the joke.

The perception of him as a “classical crossover” is a very real obstacle, and one that makes him bristle. Sitting in a corner table upstairs at Tiny’s, a spot he’s visited enough that he suggests ordering the duck duo, Groban explains: “I hate the word popera.

People assume if there’s an orchestra, it’s not for them. Or that it’s stuffy and the personalities behind it must go home and think how great their music is and how everything else is beneath them.” Being

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just proud of the eclectic world he’s made while swimming upstream in an industr y that’s seen healthier days. His latest album is a stab at amping up the slumbering genre he’s been shoehorned into.

“The genre’s become almost like spa music,” he says. “It’s almost New Age. It’s lacking a rhythm.”

Not so on this disc. Recorded at Ocean Way studios on Sunset Boulevard—where Green Day recorded American Idiot—All That Echoes is a mash-up of sweeping ballads (“E Ti Prometerro”), SoulCycleready guilty pleasures (“Brave”) and emotionally executed covers (“Falling Slowly,” from Once). The recording process had a throw-everything-at-thewall approach, with Groban playing drums on a redo of Stevie Wonder’s “I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)” and covering an obscure track by a Danish indie band, Choir of Young Believers. It was also a damn good time.

invested than the other person and you have to let it go. It’s that old saying: When you squeeze the sand in your hand and it all falls out…” He declines to say exactly whom the song is about, but it’s a safe bet that we’d recognize her. “She will remain nameless publicly,” he says, standing firm. And he ad mits the ex in question doesn’t know the song is coming. “I do it Taylor Swift–style,” he says. “I like to surprise them with it.”

G roba n is si ngle t hese days, but he’s open to set-ups. “I heard a phrase I really liked the other day,” he says. “Love should be a friendship on fire. That’s what it should be.”

Apparently that wasn’t the case with January Jones; the two split in 2006—and before you ask, he’s not her child’s mystery baby daddy. “I’m pretty certain our breakup [and the child’s birth were] enough years apart that that wouldn’t be possible,” he says.

Still, Groban acknowledges that as he gets older, his mother has been pestering him to settle down.

“How quickly the time passes between the requests ‘Please don’t get her pregnant’ and ‘When are you going to give me a baby?’ My parents take that energy out on my dog. He’s the grand-puppy.”

The artist might not be on the doorstep of fatherhood, but he’s certainly taking a real stab at happiness. Three years ago, he packed up and moved from Los Angeles to New York City, renting uptown before buying a loft in a converted dairy factory in Tribeca. “It was a series of breaking points,” he says. “The very thing that makes L.A. the perfect place for most people is the thing that makes me crazy. I don’t do very well with laid-back. I fester when I’m in Los Angeles. When I’m in New York, I focus on living in the present.” His New York love affair is at times predictable (Central Park, Bouchon Baker y), at times ref reshingly nerdy (karaoke in Koreatown). “I do a mean Eddie Vedder,” he says of his sing-along nights. “Later, when everyone has gotten their food, it’s like, ‘You eat your nachos. Let me give you a 10-minute ‘November Rain.’ ” It’s not a stretch to say that he’s entering a new phase of his career: He’s an established global brand, but he’s itching to color outside the lines and hopes fans will come with him. To that end, he’s completed a feature film, Coffee Town, written and directed by Arrested Development’s Brad Copeland and produced by the CollegeHumor guys.

Naturally, Groban plays a disgruntled barista, opposite Adrian ne Palicki (Friday Night Lights).

“There’s a scene where I piss in a cup of coffee,” he says. “I drop the F-bomb quite a few times.”

And then there’s a proposed Broadway revival of the musical Chess in 2014; he meets with Tim Rice ever y couple of months to discuss the project.

“We’re serious about it,” he says.

When you’ve sung a duet with Céline Dion be-

“THE MAIN MISCONCEPTION IS THAT I’M NOT A NORMAL 32-YEAR-OLD GUY.”

Even Zooey Deschanel has succumbed to the charms of Groban’s dog, Sweeney.

fore graduating from high school, you know YOLO. What Groban now seems to be, more than anything, is comfortable in his skin. “I started from such a place of uncertainty and insecurity as a terrified 17-year-old. I was a student and a pro at the same time. I was terrified to have a good time, terrified it was all going to go away. Honestly, I feel like I can take ownership of it and enjoy it.”

She tweeted at Groban: “is that a wheaten terrier????”

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him. “The main misconception,” he says above the restaurant’s alt-rock sound track, “is that I’m not a normal 32-year-old guy.” When pressed for proof, he runs through a litany of “unlikely” happenings in his life. Like the time he and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers collaborated on a duet of “Ave Maria.” Or how he wrote a “party anthem” for hard-core rocker Andrew W.K. Or how Mindy Kaling reached out via Twitter to offer him a guest spot on .

Or what the vibe is like at Kid Rock’s epic dinner parties. “He’ll invite a teacher he met in Brooklyn, then someone from the Beastie Boys, a professor and me. We’ll all sit at this long table and have political conversations. Then we’ll get drunk and dance on his stripper pole.”

“The cool thing about working in one studio space every day is that lots of people wind up coming in,” he says. “Who’s next door? Oh, it’s like, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Or the remaining members of the Wu-Tang Clan.” Groban’s 7-year-old Wheaten terrier, Sweeney, would wander down the hallways exploring the other studios. “He’d come back and his fur would stink of marijuana,” Groban says. “Some rapper would come in and be like, ‘Yo, whose dog is this? He’s adorable!’ ” The album isn’t just a return to form; it’s also highly confessional. Groban says songwriting is “better than therapy,” and gossip columnists would be wise to listen to “False Alarms,” a strings-heavy ballad about a love gone wrong. “There’s nothing worse in a relationship than realizing you’re more

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threat; Jon Hamm said something much worse—but seemingly everyone follows her in some way, at entirely unprecedented levels. Even Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara have a Kardashian-inspired comedy bit. “If the United States had a royal family,” went a question on a recent episode of Family Feud, “who would it be?”

The Kardashians came in fifth, following the names Kennedy, Obama, Bush and Clinton.

“Kim truly represents a new sort of American,” says Janice Min, editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter. “She’s post-racial and incredibly modern and intangibly alluring to a whole range of people.

When my baby was born, my nurse flew from New York to L.A. to help, and the first thing she wanted to know when I picked her up at the airport was, Do you live near the Kardashians?” If her success often vexes people, says Min, it’s because she’s made it look so effortless. “There are millions of people in Hollywood who should be interesting, but aren’t, and the fact that Kim made it big through reality TV annoys many,” says Min. “But what if your talent is just being irresistible on TV? The public can sneer, but the fact is that this is the medium all people can relate to, and do.”

Of Kourtney, Kim and Khloé Kardashian, the three sisters who form the focus of the shows, Kim, the 32-year-old middle, is the most popular, or at least the most paid-attention to, something she works to maintain.

She’s in Twitter’s top 10 and has more followers than any other user on the photo-sharing site Instagram, where she posts daily shots of her nails, her shoes and what’s for lunch as well as the occasional inspirational aphorism, such as, Maybe you should eat makeup so you can try and be pretty on the inside, bitch. “When you live your life so publicly, like on a reality show, people assume that they know every side of you already,” Kardashian says when we meet in Miami in January. “But they always want more.” She obliges. When the cameras are rolling, they’re really rolling; the sisters don’t even remove their

microphones to pee. An early episode of the recent season of Kourtney and Kim Take Miami featured a scene in which Kim slathers her legs with Kourtney’s breast milk in an effort to cure her psoriasis.

“Doing a TV show with your family, it’s really hard to hide or be guarded,” she says. But really, the thinking is far more genius—and purposeful: By inviting viewers into her life in such an all-access way, she has provided their most unrestricted entrée into Hollywood to date.

“Besides,” she adds, “we don’t want to film a show if we can’t be who we are, because that’s just too much work.”

The shows’ relationships and personalities are convincing even when the situations seem contrived; she says most fans tell her they like KUWTK because it reminds them of their own family in some way. On-screen, she emits an appeal that’s particularly wide-ranging, with qualities that combine to form what Min would call “her X factor, her secret sauce.” She is at once very serious and very funny. She tries to do the right thing, though it doesn’t necessarily always work out, which helps keep fans on her side. She is almost cartoonishly beautiful and sometimes makes questionable fashion choices. She talks of dieting and her gym addiction one day, and professes her love for Golden Oreos the next. And she is an unapologetic workaholic who isn’t afraid to admit that there’s also something really appealing in the idea of falling in love and living happily ever after. In this way, she is not so unlike her personal icon, Elizabeth Taylor (whose public image was, of course, similarly polarizing). But as Roddy McDowall once said of Taylor, his friend and co-star, “People who damn her wish to hell they could do what they think she does.” And so it goes with Kardashian.

Bruce Weber, who photographed Kardashian for DuJour at his home in Miami, says it was Kim’s complexities that drew him to her, and that her similarities to Taylor inspired much of the story. “I didn’t know Kim loved Elizabeth Taylor before we met, but I imagined

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y mother calls me to say that her Wednesdaymorning golf group is requesting a Skype call.

They’ve heard I’ve interviewed Kim Kardashian, and the ladies have a few questions.

Mostly, they’re concerned with how she looks: Is she really that pretty? Could I verify her eyelashes? What, if I had to guess, is the real-to-fake ratio of the hair on her head? They want to know why she decided on some see-through gray skirt she’s recently been photographed in, without underwear. They want to know if her “trunk,” their word, is as prodigious as it appears to be on television.

“Well, did she talk about Kane?” Mom demands.

“It’s Kanye,” I say, but she doesn’t really care and not only because this is a woman whose music collection consists of ABBA and Martina McBride, on CD. Although Kardashian’s love life is a steady topic of conversation—an Internet search for “Kim Kardashian boyfriend” generates more than 45 million results—she has long been the headliner of her relationships. The men in her life, even the famous ones, are largely an afterthought—at the very least, secondary to her hair, if you polled her multitude of fans. A recent photograph that Kardashian shared, for example, captioned “I cut bangs for real this time!,” solicited nearly 237,000 more “likes” than the one in which she revealed her relationship with rapper/singer Kanye West, her first boyfriend since the widely publicized divorce.

In the five years since the debut of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the flagship of the ever-expanding network of reality shows starring Kim Kardashian and her family, she has become an object of undeniable fascination, an American phenomenon, perpetual headline news. People love her or they hate her—Jimmy Kimmel once described her as a national

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she would,” says Weber, who regarded Taylor as a close friend. “The great thing about Kim is that she’s so strong and independent, but she also makes you want to take care of her. Working with her made me really miss Elizabeth.”

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ive days after West announces to an Atlantic City audience—and, thus, the world—that Kardashian is pregnant with his child, she is on the couch at her friend Loren Ridinger’s Miami house, giving herself a manicure. She’s flown in from a paid appearance in Calgary by way of Houston, a 12-hour travel day she made, threemonths pregnant, in a pair of brand-new five-inch tan suede Jimmy Choo pointy-toe stilettos and full makeup.

She says she does not wear flats, not ever, unless she’s on the treadmill; tomorrow at 8 a.m. she will show up at the photo shoot wearing a pair of Lanvin track pants and Tom Ford platform suede boots, with fringe.

In her everyday life, Kardashian says she wears formfitting clothes less out of a desire to look sexy than to dress for type; she loves fashion but favors what she thinks is flattering, for which she has been called, at turns, “the sparkly showgirl” and “Princess Leia gone wrong.” The barbs don’t bother her and, in fact, she’s even called herself out on a few fashion misses, like a boxy canary-yellow jacket, about which she wrote on her blog, “Where were my sisters or my boyfriend when I needed a good opinion?! LOL.” “I think because I have big boobs it could make me look heavier if I don’t, like, show off my waist or something, so I just have kind of learned to dress one way only,” she says. “Khloé can wear flowy, pretty things because she’s really tall. Kourtney is, like, really little.

I’m just kind of in between, so it doesn’t really work.”

The manicurist has forgotten the right shade of nude.

While she’s off at Walgreens, Kardashian wastes no time sitting around and begins to clip and file her nails herself. She thinks she knows how to remove the semipermanent shellac nail polish, so she swabs some sort of solution she finds in the manicurist’s kit across her toes

and wraps them in tinfoil. “I used to have to do this myself all the time, manicures and whatnot,” she says. “I actually like it. It’s sort of like meditation.”

West’s announcement wasn’t exactly planned but, Kardashian says, was a nice surprise, as was the pregnancy itself. Doctors had told her that, like her sister Khloé, she would have a difficult time conceiving. “I just feel so blessed and excited and ready for the next phase,” she says, noting that 2012 was not her best year, and she’s grateful it’s over, even if her brief marriage to professional basketball player Kris Humphries technically is not. Humphries has refused to sign divorce papers; he’s suing her for an annulment instead, claiming Kardashian orchestrated the wedding as a moneymaking PR stunt, which she says it wasn’t—that is, either a PR stunt or, after expenses, particularly moneymaking.

She and her sisters spent most of January publicizing the new season of Kourtney and Kim good-humoredly delivering the following line to talk-show hosts: “If it were for PR, she might have married someone people had heard of!” She’s annoyed she’ll likely have to appear in court to get divorced while many months pregnant.

Otherwise, she says evenly, pregnancy has so far been no big deal. She’s had no morning sickness, no cravings, no fatigue. She says she rarely drinks alcohol anyway—although in a recent episode of Kourtney and Kim she does get drunk and forget where she left her new kitten. “I don’t even like champagne,” she says, noting that not having to spend her twenties hungover allowed her to be very productive. Back when she was 15, her father, Robert, taught her two things: the importance of a strong work ethic and to drive, so that she could take over when Kourtney and her friends partied too hard. Kardashian says she liked being the good girl.

As close friend and designer Rachel Roy says, “Kim has very nurturing, calm and fair qualities about her.

And her work ethic is like no other.”

Now, since she’s had to forgo her Diet Coke, her worst vice is the occasional iced tea. “I used to always say I can’t wait to get pregnant because I will just eat

whatever I want, but it’s completely different,” she says as she makes her way through an apple pastry. “I’m like, OK, I want to eat as healthy as possible. Though lately I’ve been watching shows like I’m Pregnant and Addicted to Meth. It definitely makes me feel better if I’m wanting one sip of Diet Coke or, you know, too much sugar. I’m like, This woman is on meth.” She loves reallife murder mysteries and cop shows and says in another life she’d be a crime-scene investigator.

She and West have been dating since April, though they have been friends for many years. But, she says politely, tucking her foil-wrapped feet beneath her, she doesn’t really want to talk about him. She won’t even refer to him by name. “My boyfriend has taught me a lot about privacy,” she says. “I’m ready to be a little less open about some things, like my relationships. I’m realizing everyone doesn’t need to know everything. I’m shifting my priorities.” She’s started to be more selective when fans ask for her photograph in airports or when out to dinner, especially when she’s with West.

“I just tell them, sorry, but my boyfriend won’t let me,” she says. West has not been interested in co-starring on any of his girlfriend’s shows, though he made the occasional appearance on last season’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians, in which he’s seen giving Kardashian’s closet a makeover, weeding out anything too bright, too tight or too shearling, and then selling it on eBay. Kardashian says that the upcoming season of KUWTK, which began filming last month, will not include any explicit “baby stuff,” including doctor appointments, prebaby shopping or giving birth, but she can’t say for certain whether West will appear or not. “We haven’t really gotten that far yet,” she says.

Certainly, Kardashian has reason to limit the amount of airtime her love life gets. Having to watch the demise of her relationship with Humphries play out and see herself cry all the time on TV was upsetting, and she didn’t think the public backlash she faced was fair, either. “Going through a divorce for anybody is devastating and heartbreaking, and then to have to do it and feel

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like you have to explain what is happening is such an awkward thing,” she says. “You have to explain your choice to millions of people, and then they’re disappointed. I’m disappointed. Why are they disappointed?” (Khloé says, “Kim never had to endure any bullying in her younger years. I think to be thrown into a lion’s den with everybody attacking her really hit her hard. It was very painful.”)

And yet the fact that her humiliation and heartbreak played out on such a public stage has also earned Kardashian a unique sort of adulation. Like Elizabeth Taylor, she is a hopeless romantic, and her willingness to love, and fail, and love again makes for compelling celebrity. “Kimberly believes in fairy tales,” says Khloé.

“It’s the best part about her.” Adds Roy, “Kim loves very strong and very hard. What would break many, she pushes through with grace and dignity.” When we look back on Kardashian 40 years from now, perhaps her greatest legacy will lie in that fact: She really can’t be kept down, at least not for long.

“When the Kardashian hype first started, people said, This will be over soon,” says Min. “When her 72-day marriage ended, people said she was through.

But Kim perseveres. She actually came back bigger.

One day, there will be academic courses taught on the topic of Kim Kardashian.”

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he morning after the manicure, I arrive to the shoot to find Kardashian enmeshed in a Twitter exchange with a disenchanted fan.

“She keeps saying I’ve changed,” Kardashian says frustratedly, without looking up from her phone.

“She says I’m a snob. She’s calling me all these names.”

She doesn’t get it, but she won’t drop it, either, as if she can’t let it go until she’s convincingly pleaded her case.

(Second to crime-scene investigator in her list of other life careers, says Kardashian, she’d have been a lawyer, like her dad.) An hour later, she’s still going back and forth with the girl, whom she’s never met nor likely ever will. She thinks she may live in the Middle East.

Since she was a kid, Kardashian has always cared what people thought of her. This constant need for approval has made her likable to millions of women who feel the same way—but it’s also helped fuel her brand.

She is the rare star who asks for fan feedback and then actually takes it. She’ll ask her Twitter followers, all 17 million of them, what they want her perfume to smell like, what nail-polish colors they love, what they think of a certain shade of lipstick from her new makeup line.

This may be one reason that although her face and name have proved themselves powerful sales tools—she’s branded everything from cellphones to diet pills and has appeared on enough magazine covers to wallpaper an entire room of her house, and not just theoretically— she’s still trying to finesse high fashion, an industry not especially interested in the notion of crowd sourcing, even if she does move product. As UK designer Roland Mouret noted, he’s more likely to get orders on a dress that Kardashian’s worn than, say, Kate Middleton.

But she is trying. In the last year, Kardashian’s clothing choices have become more streamlined and classic.

The wild patterns and plunging necklines that made her an easy target for sartorial snobbery have been replaced by tailored blazers and pants and feminine dresses in blacks, grays, whites and neutral tones, not to mention a sophisticated black crocodile Birkin. Exceptions are made, of course, like for the $6,000 calf-leather-andpearl booties designed by West that Kardashian wore not long after telling the ladies of The View that she was chasing “a simpler life” of staying home and cooking in. Though she started out as a wardrobe stylist before opening the first location of Dash, the sisters’ chain of clothing boutiques, Kardashian has stopped styling herself. In recent months, Mugler creative director Nicola Formichetti has worked with Kardashian to help her recreate her image and use clothes to capitalize on her relatability. “I think she is so fucking hot,” he’s said. “She isn’t just a pin; she is much more sexy. Kim represents a very important woman now. We know everything about her; I am really into her.”

Though there are now three locations of Dash, the store has largely become a tourist attraction and a branding tool. There are still clothes—midpriced contemporary lines, mainly, “California casual” stuff the sisters wore back before they became the brand themselves.

But there’s also $10 bottled water featuring the sisters on the label and a line to get in. Kim and her sisters don’t get there much anymore. “I love styling, so I would love putting outfits together and seeing someone come out of the dressing room and really feeling good about herself,” she says. “I miss that. Back when we started, we were painting the walls and I was doing the register, and that was a fun time for us. But now when we go in the store, we take away from the customers’ experience. It becomes about, you know, just something else.”

The family has signed on for two more seasons of KUWTK—season 8 began filming in February and will premiere in June. The show, Kardashian says, has been “truly, the best family movie ever,” even when she’d rather not replay some of the scenes. And she’s not talking just about those with the exes in her life. In the second episode of this season’s Kourtney and Kim, for example, which aired three weeks after she announced she’s expecting but was filmed long before, she calls older sister Kourtney, a mother of two, a “slob kebob” and says that she’d “die” if she had children right now.

“If you knew how boring you’d become,” Kim asks her sister, “would you still have had kids?” After season 9, she says, she’s done.

But, as always, she makes no apologies—or promises. Today, she says season 9 will be the last, but a branding superstar like Kardashian doesn’t ensure longevity by being inflexible. “I think there’s always an evolution of, you know, what you want to do in life,” she says. “It’s all about finding things that really excite you and motivate you and spark you all over again. I’m realizing that no matter what, if you go into something with all these expectations and plans, once you’re actually living it, it could be completely different.” And that, in fact, it probably is.

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BORN FROM A DREAM AND FOUGHT OVER FOR YEARS, A DEEPLY SECLUDED CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY IS NOW FINALLY GETTING A SECOND CHANCE TO COME TO LIFE WRITTEN BY GEORGE EPAMINONDAS PHOTOGRAPHED BY DOUGLAS FRIEDMAN

n the daisy chain of glittering Caribbean islands known as the Grenadines, Bequia is something of a tropical wallf lower. To its north lies Saint Vincent, a bustling resort destination where one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies was filmed. To the south is Mustique, the orchidaceous getaway beloved by rock stars, royals and the international jet set. Bequia (pronounced Beck-way) has no hotel chains, golf courses or Nobu. It possesses only powdery beaches, sylvan glades and a blissfully indolent ambience. But Bequia does have at least one well-known landmark to call its own: Moonhole, a private residential community situated on the island’s southern tip. The story of Moonhole is as thorny, tangled and convoluted as the scrub-covered slopes from which it springs. It is

the tale of paradise found, paradise lost and, recently, paradise regained.

Most of all, Moonhole confirms Jean-Paul Sartre’s sly assessment that “hell is other people.”

Glimpsed from the sea, Moonhole resembles a crumbling city engineered by the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. On closer examination, the original structure, perched under an enormous stone arch, could be a Gothic fortress conceived by The Hobbit director Peter Jackson. In fact, the community comprises 17 singular homes that were constructed between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. The free-form, Gaudi-like dwellings, connected by steep staircases, sprout from the rocky terrain like wild mushrooms. Long before environmental architecture became

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a movement, Moonhole championed the idea of living as one with nature. Building materials include volcanic rock, native cedar and South American hardwoods, as well as whale bones, driftwood and shells for quirky embellishments. The houses are open to the elements, boast spectacular sea views and are powered mostly by propane gas. The absence of electricity, WiFi and running water—rainwater is stored in cisterns for bathing and washing— lends Moonhole an idyllic charm.

The idea for Moonhole was hatched by Tom Johnston, a khaki-clad iconoclast, and Gladys Johnston, his ever-diligent wife. Tom, an advertising executive from Chicago, was so enamored of Bequia’s uninhabitable western promontory that he bought the entire 30-acre tract in the 1960s. With no formal training as an architect and an aversion to straight lines, he enlisted local masons to realize his eccentric ideas, which included rooms with three walls, a bar fashioned from a humpback whale’s jawbone and interiors assembled around trees.

When his discerning friends requested homes on Bequia, he produced those, too. He dubbed the community “Moonhole,” using the Bequian name for the tremendous rock formation framing the original house. After Johnston died in 2001, he bequeathed his controlling interest in the Moonhole Company to a trust for the protection and preservation of the property.

“He wanted to keep it as a secluded retreat for writers, artists, friends and people who could appreciate getting away from it all,” says Carroll Rooth, a Moonhole resident since 1972.

Yet for most of the last decade, it seemed that Moonhole was in danger of being eclipsed.

The sun-dappled serenity that the Johnstons worked so assiduously to create became clouded by external threats, litigation and neglect.

On an island where whaling is still legally sanctioned, the Moon holers began hurling harpoons at one another. As several owners vied for control, and the number of devoted staff dwindled, some of the homes were abandoned and left to decay. Picture Grey Gardens relocated to the Grenadines, with iguanas and manicous standing in for cats. The biggest challenge to the property came from Jim Johnston, one of the founders’ sons, who contested his father’s will in a Caribbean court.

“We went through nine years of entropy,” says Amos Eno, one of the t r ustees. Th ree years ago, the court ruled in favor of the trust.

Since then, Moonhole’s most dedicated residents have returned to restore the settlement to its former glory and retain the loyal Bequian

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staff, many of whom have worked there for more than 20 years. Several of the homes have been spruced up and made available for weekly rentals. The grounds were cleared and replanted with indigenous trees; trustees work to protect the nesting turtles, iguanas and birds.

To outsiders, the travails of Moonhole might seem like a tempest in a teapot. But those on the inside believe it’s imperative to keep the Johnstons’ quixotic vision af loat. “The place has u ndergone a generational shif t,” says Robert Rooth, a trustee. “In many cases the original owners have passed away or become too elderly to visit, and the next generation haven’t taken up the interest in staying there.”

Indeed, five of the Moonhole houses are for sale—their asking prices range from $300,000 to $1.2 million—and several of them remain in a shambolic state. But there is tension among the homeowners as some refuse to contribute to the cost of upkeep, while others have altered their abodes in a manner that brazenly f louts the Johnstons’ original manifesto, with such things as gaudy tile and paint color. Another nettlesome issue is the constant stream of rubberneckers who willfully trespass on the private property, until they are escorted off by security. As for the original house, it has been off-limits ever since massive boulders from the arch became dislodged and plummeted though its roof.

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fodder for a gripping book, you might be cheered to learn that one owner, architect Charles Brewer, will soon release his version of events at Moonhole. News of the forthcoming tome has inspired cocked eyebrows among some of his fellow residents. “He should really consider getting a ghostwriter,” says one.

Trustee Amos Eno says Brewer “was there taking pictures during the time of the lawsuit, when legally we had no control over what he was doing.” Considering the fate of the prototype house, which has become a symbol for all the animosity, Brewer should probably subtitle his book “People Who Live in Stone Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones.”

Despite all the Sturm und Drang, Moonhole endures as an eco paradise, a Zen retreat and an architectural gem. The homes, which front a postcard-perfect beach on one side and a cobalthued bay on the other, are a bravura display of design ingenuity. They’re a unique fusion of cozy cave and playful tree house, equal parts Flintstones and Gilligan’s Island, set on an untouched wildlife sanctuary. Johnston’s contextual buildings mirror the sinuous lines of the island and the majestic vistas of the peninsula.

“One time masons were putting up a wall for a house and Tom asked the voluptuous housekeeper to come out of the kitchen,” remembers Car roll Rooth. “He had her lie down on the f loor on her side; he backed all the men up and said, ‘Look at the curve of her hips and how that echoes the hillside in the background. That’s what I want.’”

THEIR FAMOUS FACES ARE KNOWN WORLDWIDE, BUT HOW DO ARTISTS PERCEIVE THEM? TEN NOTABLES INVITE US TO LOOK AT THEM THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE’S EYES. WRITTEN BY ADAM RATHE

JACKIE COLLINS BY SHUQIAO ZHOU

“I’m not one of those people in Beverly Hills who wants a Picasso here and a Monet there,” says Jackie Collins, the best-selling author whose latest book, The Power Trip, is out now. “It doesn’t visually stimulate me.” What does excite Collins is this portrait (above) from the 1980s, the decade in which she wrote her wildly successful novel Hollywood Wives. “I have a few portraits of myself, but they’re hidden,” she says. “It’s kind of campy, you know?”

MICHAEL KORS BY MICHAEL VOLLBRACHT

It’s fitting that fashion icon Michael Kors’ prized portrait (opposite) was done by another sartorial star, illustrator and designer Michael Vollbracht. “I fell in love with his illustrations as a fashion-crazed teenager,” Kors says. This picture, a gift from Kors’ husband, Lance LePere, shows the masterful hand that landed Vollbracht as an illustrator at Henri Bendel and Bloomingdale’s. Kors notes his astounding eye, saying, “He captured the moody side of me perfectly.”

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“Being painted is different from being photographed,” Christy Turlington Burns says, and she would know. The supermodel-philanthropist appreciates the collaboration that goes into a portrait like this one (opposite), which hangs in her Manhattan home. “There’s more time to talk throughout the process,” she says. “I think it feels like the essence of who I was at that particular moment in time.”

DIANE VON FURSTENBERG BY ANH DUONG

“a lot of artists tend to accentuate the glamorous,” diane von Furstenberg, the decidedly dazzling designer, says. “But anh is very probing, honest and forthcoming in her work, which I love. I think she captured my vulnerability.” Von Furstenberg liked the portrait (above left) so much that she hung it in her new york headquarters.

PETER BRANT BY URS FISCHER

W hile his wife, stephanie seymour, has inspired works by ar tists including Maurizio Cattelan, media mogul Peter Brant isn’t as open to having his portrait done. still, he was won over by this wax statue (above right), created by urs Fischer for a 2010 show at the Brant Foundation art study Center. “It was important to urs and to the show,” Brant says.

SALMAN RUSHDIE BY FRANCESCO CLEMENTE

soon after salman rushdie relocated to new york from London, his friend Francesco Clemente, the Italian artist, painted this portrait (at left). “I used to joke that it was too gloomy—I’m not that gloomy,” says the author and intellectual. “But that’s how Clemente saw me that day. His later portraits of me seem to have cheered up.”

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santi White, who performs as santigold, wanted to revisit iconic collaborations between musicians and artists—like andy Warhol and the Velvet underground—for the cover of her 2012 album, Master of My Make-Believe (opposite). “Kehinde is one of the most relevant painters of our time, so I reached out,” she says. “He nailed it. I could look at it all day.”

LAPO ELKANN BY IAN BERRY

dapper Italian marketing man (and Fiat heir) Lapo elkann insists one of his prized possessions is made of denim. “It was a total surprise, organized by a close friend of mine,” elkann says of the piece (above right) by Ian Berry, a.k.a. denimu, whose medium is the fabric. The portrait made such an impression that elkann installed it over his desk.

PARIS HILTON BY MARGUERITE MOREAU MCCARTHY

as a child, Paris Hilton was inspired by films depicting grand mansions with portraits hanging above the stairs. “I always said that when I bought a house, I would do that,” Hilton, who runs 42 eponymous boutiques, recalls. This painting (above left) now hangs in her Los angeles home. “I love that I look so proper, refined and elegant,” she says.

REX REED BY BRYAN ORGAN

“Very few people can paint me,” says film critic rex reed, “but he got the youth, the petulance, the ennui.” reed must have been particularly inspiring, as Bryan organ is said to rarely paint americans—and he offered to do this one (at left) for free.

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SELF-MADE MULTIMILLIONAIRE DOUG VON ALLMEN EARNED A FORTUNE THROUGH INGENUITY AND HARD WORK. AS A REWARD, HE COMMISSIONED THE $37 MILLION YACHT OF HIS DREAMS—ONLY TO BE HIT BY UNIMAGINABLE STORMS. HOW HE WEATHERED THOSE CRISES AND SURVIVED TO SAIL AGAIN WRITTEN BY LISA DePAULO

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n O c t o b e r 7, 2 0 0 8 — t h e day the stock market would plummet another 500 points and the f inancial world as ever yone k new it imploded—Doug Von Allmen was having a meeting about his yacht-in-progress. It wasn’t just any old boat. Von Allmen, the son of a Kentucky milkman and 67 at the time, had amassed a fortune in the hundreds of millions of dollars, enough to not think twice about building a $37 million f loating “work of art,” as he calls it, even though he already owned two luxury yachts. This one, the Lady Linda, would be a knockout, named for his wife of 23 years.

At 8:30 that morning, Von Allmen gathered the yacht design team at his sprawling duplex on the 74th and 75th f loors of the Time War ner Center, from which he could gaze over Central Park or, if he swiveled in his chair, take in the George Washington Bridge. “The view was so spectacular that it did not quite register as real,” noted G. Bruce Knecht, a former senior writer at the Wall Street Journal, who was there to research his book, Grand Ambition (out this month), on the building of the Linda—and was about to have much better material than he ever dreamed.

Evan Marshall, the yacht designer, had f lown in from London with a stack of renderings. Von Allmen and his wife were impressed with his idea to recreate The Chariot of Aurora, a carved, painted and gilded relief that had graced the interior of the Normandie, the French passenger ship built in 1935 that had set

a gold standard for ocean liners. Marshall thought it could be the centerpiece of the Linda’s main entryway, wrapped around the grand staircase.

That morning, as the meltdown was happening literally outside his panoramic windows, Von Allmen was mostly concerned with making sure the stairs wouldn’t “creak”—some steps on one of his boats creaked and that annoyed him, Knecht wrote. Assured the steps would be silent, they moved on to other matters of import. Such as the headboard in the master suite, which Marshall envisioned as a backlit panel of etched glass, And the plans for the sky lounge on the top deck, which would have a grand piano.

The meeting ended near noon, with Marshall declaring he needed a gin and tonic. In retrospect, they all should have had a drink.

The story of the Lady Linda started out so simple.

Von Allmen just wanted a new yacht. And damn it, the man had worked hard for it. He’d come from nothing and earned millions by buying profitable companies and making them even more profitable. But one thing he couldn’t improve was the economy. While he was building the Lady Linda, the U.S. markets crashed, his net worth and everyone else’s shrank, and panic set in.

But unlike most people, Von Allmen isn’t the panicky type; in fact, his calm is astounding. Which kept him af loat not only through this financial storm but also another to come.

That day, as he and his wife fretted over creaks and what to etch in glass, the economy was in freefall.

“I usually have CNBC on,” Von Allmen says today,

“but I never have the sound on.” It wasn’t until the after noon that he realized the market had taken a nose-dive. “And you know? It wasn’t a big deal with me,” recalls Von Allmen from his home in Florida in January. “I wasn’t in the stock market, per se, and I really didn’t think it would affect me. But it ended up it did.” He says this with a breezy nonchalance.

But a few days after that meeting, Von Allmen wasn’t so nonchalant, recalls Knecht, who had lunch with him to see how he was holding up. “That’s when he began to say, ‘My God, 85 percent of my expenses are boats’ and ‘I don’t know if I can afford it.’”

And with the bottoming out of the economy, Von Allmen also found himself in a morass of headaches with Linda’s construction. The yacht-building business was sinking, and his boat’s components were coming in late and way over the $37 million budget.

Marshall recalls, “There was only so much leverage Doug could extract, because he was also in financial

Von Allmen would soon add to his difficulties by making a highly unusual investment, one he thought would solve his problems and help cover the boat’s ballooning costs. What he put his money in would turn out to be a Ponzi scheme—and a cagey one at that.

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on Allmen built a career on tr usting his own judgment. He wasn’t a stock-market guy, and he wasn’t the type who valued other people’s opinions over his own. His fortune was amassed by his own shrewd instincts.

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And it was against the odds. As a boy growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, he saw his father lose his job as a milkman. The family moved to Florida, where his father began selling reconditioned tires. Doug dropped out of school and got a job. Then when Doug was just 17, his father died at the age of 42. He and his mother and started working in a cardboard-box factory.

At that job, he realized he wanted more out of life.

“He told me how he came home and said to his mother, ‘I’m going to go to college,’” Linda recalls. “She said she didn’t know how he would do that, and he replied, ‘I don’t know either, but I’m going.’” With money his mother borrowed from a relative and through her own efforts (she took on a variety of jobs and as Doug likes to say, “she could save money even when there was no money to save”), he enrolled at the University of Kentucky, where he studied accounting and graduated second in his class.

(Thanks to a $5 million gift, the college’s School of Accountancy was named for him.)

Doug Von Allmen landed a job at a top accounting firm, where he heard about a client who’d borrowed money to purchase a business that he re-sold for a profit. Von Allmen thought that was a smart way to ear n a living—plus, he could be his own boss. He hunted for small companies to buy. Things went well until the recession of the early ’80s. He lost a fortune, and his first marriage fell apart.

He did, of course, rebound, financially and emotionally. In 1984, Doug was set up with Linda on a “blind lunch.” They were each divorced with kids (he had two; she had three). They both loved to dance.

“One thing that was so endearing is he never picked me up for a date without bringing me a gift—like chocolates, a scarf or a card, things that took time and thought,” she says. They married in 1985.

Over the next two decades, he made canny and highly lucrative acquisitions, always of cash-cow companies to do better. Every one of the dozens of businesses he bought turned out to be a great investment, including a chain of sunglass stores that was sold to Sunglass Hut for $142 million in 1995. His biggest windfall came after he and his partners consolidated 20 professional beauty-supply distributors into one company that L’Oreal reportedly paid $400 million for in 2007. (He later called this sale “a mistake.” Why? Because, according to the self-made Von Allmen, “striving is a lot more fun than arriving.”) It was around this time that he commissioned the Lady Linda.

Given his M.O. and his own background, it was both shocking and not-so-shocking that he’d be seduced by Scott Rothstein, a pushy, f lamboyant attorney who moved into a house on the same street as the Von Allmens. The Bronx-born Rothstein, son of an “itinerant condom salesman” (yes, condom, not condo), made quite an impression when he relocated to the well-heeled part of Fort Lauderdale and opened a firm with 70 lawyers. His $6,000 suits, his ostrichskin boots, and his collections of pricey watches and cars (including two Rolls-Royces, three Ferraris and a Lamborghini) made him a character on the Intercoastal, as did the painting he hung in the lobby of his

opulent offices—of Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather. And then there was his new wife, Kimmie, a former bartender.

In many ways, the reticent and Southern-gentlemanly Von Allmen couldn’t have been more different from the in-your-face Rothstein. Still, both were staunch Republicans who donated heavily to their party’s candidates and they were car nuts. (Von Allmen keeps an Aston Martin and McLaren for street use and races a Porsche and Ferrari at the track—about this hobby, he likes to say, “I’m the oldest and the fastest.”)

Plus, Rothstein had a product to sell that was enticing in that post-crash time. What he was offering was brilliant in its simplicity and its audacity, and it was something that Von Allmen, who prided himself on grabbing the kinds of assets no one else had the wisdom or foresight to grab, could appreciate. What Rothstein, who bragged about handling sexual-harassment and workplace-discrimination suits, was “selling” were settlements he’d acquired for clients and were to be paid out over time. Like lottery winners, some clients, he said, were willing to take a smaller amount up front, enabling “investors” to make an appealing but realistic were those of women who’d allegedly been wronged by Jeffrey Epstein, a shady one-time friend of president Bill Clinton (further enticement to a Republican like Von Allmen). None of this was the least bit illegal. The only problem? There were no lawsuits and no settlements. However, there was a convincing paper trail of phony documents and statements created by Rothstein.

Von Allmen did his due diligence, hiring someone up putting $105 million of his diminishing fortune in Rothstein’s plan in the spring of 2009. For him and his wife, the tip-off that something was wrong came when Linda ran into the lawyer at his favorite restaurant in late October 2009. Rothstein was at the bar nursing a martini. A large payment that the couple had been expecting from him had not arrived and, as Knecht wrote in Grand Ambition, she confronted him.

“Sorry, I’m having a bad day,” he replied.

Learning that federal agents were closing in on his cause it didn’t have an extradition treaty with the U.S.) on October 27 on a chartered Gulfstream jet, having wired $16 million there. Four days later, he sent a text to his law partners: “Sorry for letting you all down. I am a fool. I thought I could fix it, but got trapped by my ego and refusal to fail, and now all I have accomplished is hurting the people I love. Please take care of yourselves and please protect Kimmie. She knew nothing. Neither did she, nor any of you deserve what I did. I hope God allows me to see you on the other side. Love, Scott” Persuaded by the authorities, he returned less than two weeks later. Rothstein had conned a total of $1.2 billion from individual investors and from hedge funds. In January 2010 he pled guilty to five federal counts of racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Even though Rothstein’s con exceeded $1 billion, it received

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after they’d just returned from a cruise to Fisher Island.

On that trip, they learned that everything they’d invested with Rothstein was gone.

“As soon as they came in, I could see on their faces that something was wrong,” remembers Marshall.

“Linda took me into the Great Room and said, ‘Evan, this weekend we got some extremely bad news of a financial nature, and it’s really just devastated us.’”

Doug suggested to Marshall that they keep an eye on the budget. Some changes were made—The Chariot of Aurora was scaled down to a painted mural, bringing the cost from $100,000 to around $15,000; the carpeting would be synthetic, not wool; and the sky lounge wouldn’t have a grand piano—but they weren’t that significant. Von Allmen, the pragmatic businessman, had decided to sell the boat after it was completed, and he realized the best way to sell the yacht was to build the most beautiful one he could.

What was most striking to Marshall and Knecht was that Von Allmen never lost his temper or his cool. Marshall had seen clients blow up over far less stressful events, like the wrong paint color.

But Doug remained Zen-like. Knecht asked him how he was able to stay so composed: “And he said to me, ‘If you show people you’re angry, you allow them to control you.’”

Within weeks of the October 7 meeting, Von Allmen had put his Time Warner spread on the market for $18.45 million; it sold in 2011 for $15.7 million. (“I miss that apartment terribly!” Linda told me. “I loved it. But as Doug said, ‘You can go to New York any time you want, and it’s a lot cheaper not having that place.’”)

The Von Allmens also sold much of the duplex’s contents. “Furniture, paintings, knickknacks—even garbage pails—were all labeled with detailed descriptions and

prices. Although nothing was inexpensive, the little signs had transformed the grand apartment into a kind of rarsat for the design meeting was tagged for sale at $10,500.

While Linda showed the pieces to appraisers and a housekeeper vacuumed, Knecht was sitting with his subject: “Doug Von Allmen said, ‘I have been poor and I’ve been what I guess you could call rich’—the milkman’s son was never comfortable using that word to describe himself— ‘and to tell you the truth, it’s easier to be poor than it is to be rich.’ Gesturing toward the housekeeper... he added, ‘When you’re poor you don’t need to have all these people around you all the time.’”

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inda Von Allmen says that one of her husband’s strengths is his ability to keep things in perspective. And Doug’s childhood is never so far behind.

While he admits to indulging in the best of everything—yachts, cars, shoes—he still has the thriftiness of someone who’s come from nothing. He’s a man who’s never once ran up credit-card debt in his life. “If I can afford it, I’m not frugal about things that I want. On the other hand, I get upset if somebody walks out of a room and leaves the light on.”

He is talking to me on this late January day from his bayfront home in Fort Lauderdale, where the Lady Linda is docked in his backyard.

“Oh, she’s absolutely beautiful, I’m looking at her now! She’s right behind my house!”

Von Allmen is remarkably chipper for a guy who’s been through so much. It helps, of course, that he recovered a portion of his losses from the Ponzi scheme through settlements from TD Bank.

But still, his beloved yacht is up for sale. After all the Sturm und Drang, isn’t he a little sad?

“Well…I’m not gonna be sad about not having two boats!”

He now has a 50 percent partner, automotive billionaire Roger Penske, in the other yacht he still owns, the Linda Lou, now re-named the Lime Light. This has cut ing a luxury yacht, Linda says, “it’s a bottomless pit”; in fact, a boat that size is estimated to drain up to $4 million to $5 million a year.) The Lime Light was also the boat for which he once received—and turned down—a $100 million offer. He’s gotta regret that, right? “ Nooo,” he says, chuck l i ng. “I don’t regret anything in life. I mean, if I made one change...”

Yes? What would that be?

“If I made one little bitty change to my life, it may have resulted in me walking across the street and getting hit by a car, you know? So I don’t regret anything!”

We chat for a bit longer, and then Doug Von Allmen has to go. He’s leaving on a cruise—on the Lime Light, his half-a-boat. He and the real Linda will be sailing from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles.

And not on the Lady Linda?

“Actually,” he admits, “we’ve never been overnight on that boat.”

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scant attention in the media, dwarfed by the much vaster enterprise of Bernie Madoff.

Von Allmen, who says he was as shocked as anyone by the lawyer’s duplicity, recalls that he and Linda socialized with Scott and Kimmie “a little. We were probably out to dinner with them three times because they were in the neighborhood. He was normal one-on-one.”

(The Von Allmens are in litigation over the scheme so are unable to comment further.)

Not long after the scandal broke on Halloween weekend 2009, Von Allmen spoke to Bob Norman, a Palm Beach blogger who followed the Rothstein case. “The amount of money [I lost] was substantial,” Von Allmen said. “It was an amount I wish I’d given to charity instead of that investment.” However, he declared, “It won’t change my lifestyle that much, but it was a nice sum. I will still eat out at a restaurant every night—this is just something I need to get through.”

In another interview, he added, “All I can say is it’s a damn shame. This does nothing good for anybody.

Hopefully everybody affected by this will still have a good life. They may not have as many toys.”

But to his team working on the Lady Linda, he was

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n a chilly January day, I meet Hilary Rhoda for lunch at a casual, rustic restaurant in downtown Manhattan, the sort of place where you order at the counter and seat yourself at a distressedwood table. Rhoda walks through the door shiv-

eyes shimmering in the way eyes sometimes do right before they well up with tears.

But Rhoda is all smiles. Her slouchy knit beanie covers a mop of air-dried dark hair, and she’s barefaced, like a friendlier, pared-down version of herself.

She is thin, but athletically so, a hint of muscle tone visible even beneath her wrinkled chambray shirt.

Judging by her skin’s pale, almost ethereal glow, she is the kind of woman who slathers on the sunscreen and assiduously avoids the rays.

Since she was 15 years old, Rhoda has been quietly tiptoeing her way into the modeling industry—as quietly as a 5-foot-11-inch, raven-haired, all-American beauty can. At first, it was like an illicit affair. In high school, she would often disappear for days at a time—like she did one Thanksgiving to shoot with Bruce Weber in Florida—but would always return to

my friends] and made something up until the pictures or something.”

With a slim physique and eyebrows that earned her comparisons to Brooke Shields, Rhoda was beloved by commercial clients from the start. The jobs were abundant: campaigns for Hollister, Ralph Lauren and Abercrombie and Fitch. So abundant that as her friends began to daydream of college—the wild parties, the dorm romances—Rhoda envisioned a different plan.

She visited only 1 of the 10 colleges she applied to but knew that once the tour was over she’d never be back. lege written on my graduation pamphlet.”

But while commercial modeling had been a fun

homecoming parades—once in New York City she set her sights on the runway. It was an untraditional trajectory, for sure. Most models use runway work as a vehicle to drive recognition—and, ultimately, score those lucrative commercial contracts. Rhoda, of course, had round of Fashion Week castings, the feedback she got

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response. It was all Brazilians and Eastern European girls at the time when I started. There were literally no Americans.” Which was why Rhoda’s big break happened in Paris, where Balenciaga’s then-creative director, Nicolas Ghesquière, handpicked her to walk signers jumped on the bandwagon.” Not long after, Rhoda, then 19, was chosen to open for big houses like Valentino.

By the time she returned to New York City, it was as if the tectonic plates of the fashion industry had

events frequently, but alone. She is very close to her parents and older brother, who live a few blocks away.

Meanwhile, fashion’s hunger for fresh-faced American models hasn’t dissipated a bit. By now, Rhoda has walked in hundreds of shows at home and in Europe—Chanel, Donna Karan, Derek Lam and YSL, to name a few—and her trademark brows have graced the pages of Vogue, Elle and Harper’s Bazaar. Since 2007, she’s been recognized as the face of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder. She’s undeniably helped pave the way for many of her contemporaries, girls like Karlie Kloss, Lindsey Wixson and Joan Smalls. Not since the days of Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington has the American model been so relevant. come up with something new, something different,”

they were just afraid to do something different, putting some girl on the runway who was not what everyone else looked like.”

Seven years later, over a lunch of green salad with grilled chicken, her face framed by a chestnut curtain as clean-cut all-American, with a reputation to match.

Now that she’s mastered the modeling world, Rhoda is ready to take on a different kind of challenge—Hollywood—so she’s recently started acting classes.

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THE of THRILL SWANEE HUNT

RAISED IN AN EVANGELICAL HOUSEHOLD WITH HER BILLIONAIRE TYCOON FATHER, SHE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO HAVE A VOICE. NOW, AS AN ADVOCATE FOR WOMEN WORLDWIDE, SWANEE HUNT MAKES HER OWN LEGACY. WRITTEN BY NINA BURLEIGH PHOTOGRAPHED BY ADAM DE TOUR

n a foggy winter morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts, inside a sprawling 19thcentury house with 10 fireplaces, a Chinese ter ra-cotta war rior and a group of George Segals, 13 women from war-torn nations, including Afghanistan, Colombia, Liberia, Syria and Myanmar, gathered in a room the owner calls her ballroom. A harp and baby grand piano filled one corner.

Fringed lamps, tables and antique couches were arranged in groupings for maximum social lubrication, and the walls were hung with a tasteful if eclectic art collection, featuring the owner’s own photography from global travels, portraits of her parents, folk paintings from the Balkans and African masks.

Servants quietly replenished coffee urns and silver platters of quiche.

While one woman lectured the group on “the three C’s of communication,” a second woman, 62, petite with close-cropped blond hair, slipped into the room

in stocking feet, slacks and a plain sweater, completely unobtrusive—except for the African gray parrot perched on her shoulder. The women looked up and met their hostess, Swanee Hunt. They were beginning a weeklong seminar of training, networking and encouragement as “peacemakers” at Hunt’s Institute ers in countries ravaged by war and grooms them to be power players.

First on the day’s agenda was teaching the women how to tell a compelling story to the people they would be meeting in the coming week: Harvard University academics, military personnel, American reporters and wealthy donors. Hunt, who served as ambassador to Austria from 1993 to 1997 under President Bill Clinton, set the tone with her own story, a yarn about the moment that led to forming the Institute for Inclusive Security. While in Vienna, she had a 20-minute meeting with a female doctor who

years later, sitting on the edge of her own mother’s deathbed in a Texas hospital, Hunt saw television footage of a new refugee exodus from Kosovo.

“Old ladies were being pushed in wheelbarrows, and old men were dying in the backs of trucks next to women giving birth,” Hunt recalled. “I started to cry, and my husband said, ‘Your mother feels no pain,’ and see, I knew the doctor who had come to see me was in there somewhere. And that’s when I realized I wanted to dedicate my life to helping women working in situations like that.”

Philanthropy isn’t unusual among the American super-rich, but the source of Swanee Hunt’s womanempowering cash is. Her father, Dallas billionaire oilman H.L. Hunt, considered the richest man in the world at one point, was a “Red” hater who wouldn’t let his family shop at Neiman Marcus “because Jews owned the store.” Hunt was rumored to be a bigamist

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Left: Examining sculpture with Bill and Hillary Clinton while serving as U.S. ambassador to Austria. Right: Hunt is sworn in by Vice President Al Gore, with her mother, Ruth, holding the Bible, in 1993.

and philanderer, and it’s fair to say his attitude toward women was premodern.

Fast-forward a generation. Hunt, staunch conservative and occasional villain in JFK assassination conspiracy theories, has died, and the multimillions from his fortune are funding global women’s empowerment, gender parity in U.S. politics and the abolition of prostitution—all causes, one could assume, that would have given him apoplexy were he alive.

A chief distributor of this largesse is Swanee, the youngest daughter from his second wife. Along with her sister Helen LaKelly Hunt, Swanee Hunt has doled out as much as $100 million to various progressive causes through the Hunt Alternatives Fund.

There was not much encouragement for feminist philanthropy in Dallas or, for that matter, anywhere in the world in the 1950s. The fact that the leaders of American feminist philanthropy would turn out to be H.L. Hunt’s progeny is a plot twist worthy of Swiftian satire.

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wanee Hunt credits her mother, Ruth Ray, with inspiring her. “When I look back, I know that she was extraordinarily tender,” says Hunt, clad in a paisley fur-trimmed jacket, reminiscing in a rolling Texas drawl.

If a lady of means in last-century Dallas had an urge to do some good and the church collection plate felt small, she had to rely on her allowance and ingenuity, because Texas women did not hold the purse strings. When Swanee’s mother learned her maid’s house had burned down in the early 1980s, she found her way into the blighted neighborhood, pulled up at a 7-Eleven, looked around and told the clerk she needed “two of everything.” She paid with a credit card, because she didn’t have much money of her own. “She had enormous capacity to give to others, but she didn’t know how to become part of the financial scene with my father,” Hunt recalls.

“He gave her an allowance, and he gave her credit

ca rd s. It is ver y ha rd to be ph ila nt h ropic w it h credit cards.”

Ruth Ray was H.L. Hunt’s kept mistress for many years, bearing him four children while living in a separate house until first wife Lyda died, and Hunt married Ruth. Moving into the Big House, Swanee, sisters Helen and June and older brother Ray were now under the same roof as their mother’s frequent gentleman caller, whom they then learned was their father, along with a cast of others, including “the help.” Later, a mentally ill adult half-brother from Hunt’s first marriage left the institution and moved back home, at Ruth’s insistence.

Hunt was well into his 60s by then and a formidable figure to his small children, who sometimes hid when they saw him coming. When he was in the mood for family entertainment, he would call the girls into the parlor to perform anti-Communist folk songs. Ruth, raised Methodist in Idabel, Oklahoma, somehow reconciled her Commandment-breaking lifestyle with lifelong evangelical Christianity. She was fond of telling her daughters that, except for drugs, feminism was the greatest curse the country had ever known.

She also made sure her children went to church. from hell resonated differently than expected, Swanee recalls. “At the end of the church service, singing the hymns, we might be in tears thinking, What can I do to help this other person from burning eternally in hell?

But I don’t believe in hell, and I don’t believe people burn eternally. And the great commission—baptizing all the nations in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost—I didn’t want to go around baptizing people, but I did want to be there for them.” So the blond baby girl of the Hunt clan (H.L. sired 14 with three women), who could easily have become the sort gun-running operations for the likes of Oliver North, instead set out on the road to become a liberal activist.

At 20, while a sophomore at Southern Methodist University, she married her church boyfriend, Mark Meeks, a baker’s son four years her senior, and eventually bought a ranch southwest of Denver. There the young couple lived a hippie-ish existence, albeit with a bedrock of trust-fund stability, growing vegetables that time was Mark,” says Hunt.

The couple had a daughter, Lillian, and Hunt began studying religion, earning a master’s in religion and a doctorate in theology. At the seminary, she decided to start giving away her father’s money to progressive causes. By 1981, she and her sister Helen started Hunt Alternatives Fund. Swanee and Mark divorced in 1985—the marriage foundered partly over class issues, she wrote in her autobiography, Half-Life of a Zealot.

She moved to Denver and entered civic life.

There, on a board, she met her second husband, Charles Ansbacher, a Vermont cellist and orchestra conductor. They would have three children.

In 1992, she was coaxed into her first really big political donation—$250,000—to the Clinton political campaign. “I never knew how becoming such a player in politics would propel me as it did,” she says, sipping tea. “I never saw the upside to that. What I feared was the downside. When [former Colorado Representative] Pat Schroeder said, ‘You need to be an ambassador,’ I said, ‘I can’t possibly—because I gave this big contribution.’ She said ‘This is how it’s done.’ And I said, ‘I’ve been a card-carrying mempeople buying ambassadorships!’ Well, sure enough, I ended up in the New York Times an example of how Bill Clinton was selling ambassadorships. I think Common Cause itself sent out a fundraising appeal with me as a poster child.”

Swanee Hunt pauses to laugh.

“That was what I feared, and it was real. But what I didn’t understand was how much I would be able to

“I HAVE NO DESIRE TO BE FAMOUS.”

Dancing with Dad--Texas oil tycoon H.L. Hunt was 61 years old when Swanee was born and married to a woman not her mother.

do. And that was wonderful.”

Hunt was sworn in as ambassador to Austria in 1993. In Vienna, Swanee first got involved in the Bosnian refugee crisis, becoming a hero of sorts to Bosnians like Mirsad “Miki” Jacevic, a college student during the breakup of Yugoslavia, who is now vice chair of Hunt’s Institute for Inclusive Security, based in Washington, D.C. The Vienna years were complicated by family trauma: Her bipolar daughter, Lillian, was repeatedly hospitalized for breakdowns and suicide attempts.

“I know that when my daughter was in the hospital and I was sitting there doing, let’s say, 10 appointments a day and a speaking engagement, people thought I was completely present,” Hunt recalls.

“I could look them in the eye and respond, but 60 percent of me was at the hospital, where I knew my idly psychotic and sleeping near a roommate with no legs because she’d thrown herself in front of a tram.”

Lillian’s mental illness manifested in childhood and worsened through her adolescence, uncontrollable for years until a doctor recommended the right

her efforts to support women, especially mothers,

caring for family.

“I had a mentally ill half-brother. I had a mother without a husband and four children. It made sense to me to work on mental-health issues and to found the Women’s Foundation of Colorado. [As philanthropists] we don’t have to ask, What am I reading about in the newspapers? It can come out of our own lives.”

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he focus on women’s empowerment was personal in another way, too. Like their mother, the three Hunt sisters (older sister June has her own global evangelical radio show) were not “empowered” themselves, not at first. Their eldest brother, Ray, ran the family business without them, in Texas fashion. He proved himself an able and pr udent businessman—Swanee calls him “brilliant”—but he was not inclined to bring his sisters into the boardroom, or even give them control over their own money. The sisters lived, like their mother, on allowances doled out by men.

“Helen at one point was in tears saying to me, ‘How can we work on the empowerment of women when we don’t have the kind of full status that we should have in our family?’” Hunt recalls. “I said to her, ‘Helen, that’s why we work on the empowerment

In January, the group of women from war-torn countries who met Swanee did go on to hobnob with policy makers at planned Boston events. Slipping quietly into that ballroom, parrot perched on shoulder, was a relatively subdued entrance for Hunt. She has been known to turn up at events clad in red cowboy regalia from head to toe, bang out songs and hymns on any piano she encounters or burst into show tunes

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Swanee and her sister Helen. In 1981, the two sisters founded Hunt Alternatives Fund, which has funneled millions to social causes.

of women, not because we have solved it, but because we have that empathy.’” The sisters eventually won control over their money, which was tantamount to a feminist revolution in Hunt family history.

“That was the 1970s, when men were expected to control family wealth,” Swanee says. “Our business restructuring was hard, complicated, with terribly tough tradeoffs. But bottom line what Ray did then— and since—has yielded hundreds of millions for our philanthropy.”

The three sisters have now established that they are part of the family enterprise. “That’s what we needed to do,” Swanee says. And their brother has stated that they have changed his view of women dramatically.

Today, in Cambridge, the house may be open to cocktail receptions, coffees and daylong networking sessions for the causes she supports, but the house is also the inner sanctum of a woman of means and a certain age who pretty much does what she pleases.

One friend called her sui generis. She’s an amalgamation of Helen Reddy and Auntie Mame, trailing a little New Age magic dust.

Since Hunt bought the house in Cambridge, a multitude of recipients of Hunt Alternatives Funds have gathered in it. For Demand Abolition Colloquium, survivors of prostitution from the United States, many perts, speaking as panelists and educating policymak-

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“TO BOIL HER DOWN TO A WORD: GUTSY” from the musical Oklahoma. Extrovert to the core and often on the move, she frequently tweets and snaps iPhone photos, signing dashed-off e-mails to friends, “Swan, now nesting in Belgrade”—or wherever she happens to be at the moment.

The girl can be taken out of Texas, apparently, but Texas stays in the girl. Her f lamboyance and willingness to say whatever’s on her mind, unfiltered, have earned her the occasional “She’s nuts” from colleagues and co-workers, but also words of admiration.

Heiress and philanthropist Abigail Disney, whose Hollywood dad was at least as famous in the same era as Swanee’s father, is a fan. Disney, encouraged in her own pursuits by Swanee’s sister Helen, says she would not have made her award-winning 2011 film about war, women and Liberia, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, had it not been for Swanee taking her on a trip to the blighted country.

“To boil her down to a word: gutsy,” says Disney, 52. “There are no unnamed elephants in any room with her. She is all about speaking the truth. That’s not to say she is not diplomatic. She just operates in a straight-on kind of manner that is very refreshing.”

New York Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who tution issues as well as shared concerns on issues of gender parity in politics, is another admirer.

“Swanee Hunt gets it,” Maloney told DuJour in an e-mailed statement. “She understands both what needs to change and how it gets changed. Her work on opening doors for women is changing the landscape and shaking things up. America needs more women like Swanee Hunt, who seek justice tirelessly, lead fearlessly and act compassionately. She is one of my heroes.”

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stories they would have to share during their networking in and around Harvard, Hunt takes me on a house tour. Walking up the steps to her

small bronzes, two by Rodin and two by Camille Claudel, the artist who was Rodin’s lover and muse.

“Aren’t these lovely,” she says, leaning in and stroking one of the Rodins. She lays her head on it and murmurs, “Oh, I just love these.” without examining it in person. “Sotheby’s sends me these catalogs, and I sometimes just buy what I like,” she says. That’s how she found a quartet of life-size from the catalog, and when they were delivered, she found their expressions terribly “dour,” she says. So rather than install them together in a group, as the artist had, and concentrate that dourness, she separated them and has them facing away from one another around the patio and lawn.

Up another f light, we enter her bedroom, on the door of which hangs her mother’s silk-and-lace dressing gown. The room is decorated in shades of mustard

rado Senate seat vacated by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (since resigned), but Governor Bill Ritter did not appoint her. She has researched a political gambit and for now is not going there. “I have done the calculation, and I think the chances of my winning the

Swanee was married to her second husband, acclaimed conductor and musical director Charles Ansbacher, for 25 years.

and white. She points to the drapes enclosing the bed.

“I had those installed to protect Charles from the light when he was dying,” she says. After a 25-year marriage, Ansbacher died of a brain tumor in 2010, a year after being diagnosed. Hunt still grieves. She often tears up looking at his pictures on the gallery along the stairs. A copy of Joyce Carol Oates’ memoir, A Widow’s Tale, is on the bench by the bed. She keeps Charles’ ties draped over a chair nearby, and his shirts still hang in a closet. Some of them she has made into teddy bears for the grandchildren.

Hunt says she is compelled to share intimate details of his dying and wants to write a book about how she and her children managed, because she realized that she knew so little herself. If she, with all the resources of the does everyone else cope? Her husband spent almost no time in the hospital and died in his own bed. Friend and neighbor Yo-Yo Ma played cello at its foot the night before he died. By then Ansbacher had lost the power of speech, and his breathing was labored.

Hunt says, “The next day I lay down beside him and said, ‘Charles, I’m going to take a nap, and while I’m asleep, it’s OK if you let go.’ And when I woke up, he And I lay there beside him and held on to him and felt the warmth drain away. Did you know, when someone dies, the chest stays warm a very long time. It is the last to cool. And then I called the nurse.”

“Charles was my greatest supporter and toughest critic,” she says. In 2008, he encouraged her to throw her name into the ring as a replacement for the Colo-

60 percent. And the cost to me of doing that in terms of opportunity cost compared to what I can do in support of other candidates and my philanthropy—it’s not a smart thing for me to do. And as soon as I say that, I hope I’m not one of those women who says, ‘Oh, well, it’s not really for me.’ I don’t not run because I am afraid of being out there or afraid of the scrutiny of my family. I looked at it very carefully.” She pauses.

“I would never say never!”

For now, she is throwing her support behind female candidates of both parties and is hoping to see Hillary Clinton run for the presidency in 2016. Hunt was an early and forceful HRC backer in 2008 but unequivocally shifted her support to Barack Obama as soon as it became clear he was going to be the nominee.

“We had to understand it wasn’t just about Hillary; it was about ourselves,” Swanee says of women’s dashed hopes in 2008. “She became secretary of state, which she wouldn’t have if she hadn’t been a presidential contender. I desperately hope that it is her stepping-off place to be president. She is more than electable four years from now, if she chooses to run.

She has the energy, and she will be a brilliant, brilliant president.”

And what would H.L. Hunt make of a daughter who is an avowed supporter of a woman for president? Surprisingly, neither Swanee nor her sister Helen think their father is turning over in his grave as they send his money to feminists and liberals. Helen thinks he would be tickled pink.

“Dad was an iconoclast, an out-of-the-box thinker, and he followed an inner passion and an inner voice— he thought he was doing the best thing for society,” Helen says. “I think he would be so proud that he couldn’t possibly button his buttons.”

In her memoir, Swanee wrote, “I’ve rejected most of Dad’s social and political values, while trying not to reject him.” When asked which of her character traits she inherited from her legendary father, Swanee Hunt answers with a family parable.

“They used to say, ‘Follow H.L. Hunt and get rich.’

But once, Dad drilled 99 consecutive dry holes, and that was before seismic. Back then, you would go out there and make a hunch about where an oil field is. There intuition, like people with divining rods. Dad was going around punching holes in the ground, and that costs some money. People started saying, ‘Follow H.L. Hunt and go broke.’ Dad loved that story. He would say, ‘I wish I could lose it all and start all over again.’ For him, it was about the challenge. I have no desire to be famous, or rich and famous. I want to use resources like Dad did, to go after the impossible.”

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NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU MADE HIS NAME AS A WARRIOR IN FANTASTIC REALMS ON GAME OF THRONES, BUT HOLLYWOOD COULD BE THE NEXT LAND THE ACTOR CONQUERS AS HE LIGHTS UP THE BIG SCREEN ALONGSIDE TOM CRUISE IN OBLIVION. ADAM RATHE CHARTS HIS COURSE. PHOTOGRAPHED BY DAVID ARMSTRONG STYLED BY ALLAN KENNEDY

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hen Nikolaj Coster-Waldau first encountered fame, he did his best to outrun it.

“I had this weird success in Denmark, but I didn’t stick around to enjoy it,” the 42-year-old actor says of the celebrity that came with his 1994 Danish hit Nightwatch. “I wouldn’t have known how.”

Almost 20 years later, he still doesn’t seem entirely comfortable with stardom, in spite of his own steadily increasing visibility.

In January Coster-Waldau shared the screen with Jessica Chastain in the thriller Mama, and soon he’ll costar with Tom Cruise in the sci-fi nail-biter Oblivion and will play opposite Juliette Binoche in A Thousand Times Good Night. And then there’s the March premiere of the hotly anticipated third season of Game of Thrones, the hit HBO fantasy series in which Coster-Waldau plays the seductively sinister Jaime Lannister.

The show’s coming season, he says, is the reason he signed up to play the aristocratic, bloodthirsty and incestuous Lannister in the first place.

“I came on hoping we would get to shoot season three, because so many great things happen to my character,” Coster-Waldau explains. “Something I love about the show is that in all lives, people face preconceived notions. They might be positive or negative, but rarely does it match the way we see ourselves.”

That’s especially true for Lannister. “It’s very clear he lives in a world where everyone has a very negative opinion of him and they fear him,” he says. “And none of it has anything to do with the way he sees himself. More of that is revealed in this season.”

And despite being a welcome g uest in millions of homes on Sunday nights, Coster-Waldau has trouble recognizing his accomplishments.

“I still don’t know what ‘making it’ means,” the married father of two admits. “But I’m working.” And that’s been the plan for as long as he can remember.

“I always wanted to be an actor,” he says. He left home at 17 and moved to Copenhagen, where he attended the National Theater School. After graduation, Coster-Waldau went to England, where he enrolled in and promptly dropped out of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did his best to lose his Danish accent.

“I moved to London and stayed with my sister, and we made a rule that we couldn’t speak Danish to one another, and for two years we didn’t,” he says. “I also got work back home, so I’d go there to do a project and then come right back.”

One such project was Nightwatch, a thriller about a young man working the graveyard shift in a morgue. The movie hit it big, and an English-language version was put into development, helping Coster-Waldau find an agent and land meatier roles. “It was then I got my first big job, a movie called Bent that had me making out with Clive Owen,” he recalls. “The movie was beautiful and very intense. That’s how it all started.”

Steady work followed, including a starring role on Fox’s shortlived 2008 series New Amsterdam, about an immortal New York City cop, and, beginning in 2011, Game of Thrones and the rush of roles that have come since. He’s even taken a turn as a playwright, recently staging a reading of Cardamom, a play he penned, in Dublin. It’s a long way from a small town in Denmark, dreaming of a career in movies.

“It sounds great when you describe it like that,” Coster-Waldau says with a laugh, “but you don’t want to get carried away.”

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restaurant features a custom-built pizza

PROSPECT AT HOTEL JEROME

330 East Main Street hoteljerome.aubergeresorts.com the opening of its prospect restaurant means yet another reason to visit the hotel Jerome. Chef rob Zack began his career 20 years ago as a line cook at the

SNOWMASS KITCHEN westinsnowmass.com one of the most thrilling new arrivals at the ski-in/ski-out Westin snowmass re-

but is the new belgium ranger station,

of the area’s best establishments. now Zack is overseeing this upscale bistro,

BRUNELLO CUCINELLI

508 East Cooper Avenue brunellocucinelli.com It’s surprising that the well-heeled resort town of Aspen and the stylish Brunello Cucinelli have taken so long to come together. Finally, shoppers goods at its outpost in the downtown shopping district. The 1,400-square-foot store’s lodge-like

and shearling outerwear and accessories, plus its expanded home collections. “The simple rusticity of the store will evoke in our customers a sense of quiet, intimate luxury,” says CEO Brunello Cucinelli.

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Alexander Calder’s Rising Sun, Sickle Moon (1967)

BIG NAMES AND UP-AND-COMERS

KATHRIN SONNTAG

Aspen Art Museum, 590 N. Mill Street aspenartmuseum.org at its best, art can give us a fresh perspective on april 21, you can get just that from the work of view at the aspen art museum. incorporating

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CASTERLINE | GOODMAN GALLERY Blame It on Morandi (2011)

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GREAT NEW PLACES TO EAT, DRINK AND UNWIND

GRACE

652 West Randolph Street grace-restaurant.com An endlessly creative pastry chef and advocate for small, local farms, Curtis Duffy is living up to the hype. He’s composed an artful menu around

LITTLE MARKET BRASSERIE

10 East Delaware Place littlemarketbrasserie.com Ryan Poli and Mercadito Hospitality are tweaking the classics at this spot in the Talbott Hotel.

His casual eatery is vaguely French and boldly American—resulting in entrées like New York strip steak and short-rib cognac poutine with cheese curds—and it’s open all day.

RENO

2607 North Milwaukee Avenue renochicago.com From the team behind Bluebird, Telegraph and Webster’s Wine Bar comes Reno. Daytime choicthe Pine (chicken thigh, white cheddar, dill pickGrilled Wagyu beef with matsutake, salsify and mashua leaf at Grace

a well-curated wine and whiskey list—the kind of picks that made Chicagoans drunk with love.

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CITY WINERY

City Winery

1200 West Randolph Street citywinery.com DIY wine, live music (recently: Wyclef Jean), comedy shows, French wine tastings or just wining and dining... There isn’t much you can’t do, see—or drink—here.

RM Champagne Salon

RM CHAMPAGNE SALON

116 North Green Street rmchampagnesalon.com Romantic and glowing, warm and welcoming, celebratory and spartoasts artisanal growers whose

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pumpkin with lemon balm, grilled Wagyu beef with mashua leaf, and kampachi with Thai basil.

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NEWIN BEAUTY DINE STYLE Stop at the new Burberry store another branded suite to its already chic collection (Dior and Tiffany are two others) via a collaboration with English luxury carmaker Bentley. The 1,700-squarefoot suite features opulent ing crystal chandeliers and a Tiffany are two others) via a collaboration with English luxury BLOW carmaker

BY BLOW Bentley.

The 1,700-square-foot suite 67 Oak Street, 3rd Floor features opulent design blow-by-blow.com There are few more luxuricrystal chandeMulsanne for ous indulgences than getting use within a 10-block radius. a blowout. And this new (stregisnewyork.com) —C.N. salon makes it affordable:

Eskandar

a shampoo, blowout and style cost $35. Stylists are also available to perform fancier coifs and updos, and the well-priced basic blowdry packages—a 12-pack for $360—mean this will be an easy habit to develop.

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here have been hints of an Oak Street/Gold Coast revival over

nally in full swing. In October, Emporio Armani (25 E. Oak St., armani.com) opened, featuring a sweeping staircase and two stories of black and silvery space to house the big brand’s diffusion line for men and women. Christian Louboutin (58 E. Oak St., christianlouboutin.com arrived at the former home of the Esquire Theater, promising to transform the Windy City into the Red-Soled City. The Zaharoff (110 E. Oak St., zaharoff360. large-scale mural—and tailored suits, ties and shirts for the classic gentleman—while Gallery Aesthete (46 E. Oak St., galleryaesthete.com) brings men Comme des Garçons, Rick Owens and Ann Demeulemeester. One block south on Walton, here’s hoping the third time’s the charm for (

alivelovely.com), the vintage, indie, local—and beloved—designer’s women’s shop that has once again resettled. Brit-based Eskandar (70 E. Walton St., eskandar.com) ushered in luxe and clean-lined looks with its new store, as well as a varied selection of housePVC and patent tote, $1,495, wares and accessoCHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, ries. We’re looking forward to seeing what spring and summer look like from Marmot, which opened

Gallery Aesthete

just in time to buffer Chicagoans against biting winds with its 932 Rush St., marmot.com). Lanvin (116 E. Oak St., lanvin.com) swung its doors open, after nearly a year of anticipation. Just north of Oak on North Rush, an impressive twolevel Starbucks—there’s booze at the bar upstairs—has emerged next to Prada, which completes the makeover that includes , Ted Baker London and Scoop NYC. And other retail prospects abound: Saint Laurent is said to be coming to the Waldorf Astoria with new neighbor Brioni, and Tom Ford will take up space in the Esquire.

The Gold Coast has become more gilded than ever.

CELLULAR INTELLIGENCE LUXURY MEDSPA

100 East Walton Street cimedspa.com This specialized skincare spa has been quietly serving those in the know with laser therapy, microdermabrasion and oxygen infusions. Now the spa’s newly released BioPerfect Antioxidant 3+, a potent serum promising to reduce wrinkles and stimulate collagen, lets clients take a little piece of the luxury home with them.

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SARTORIAL CELEBRATIONS Taylor Prokos and Sailu Lammata

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Kelly King, Terry Yormark II and Aksana Navumenka

Joe Matthew, Hasan Ali Sheikhani and Lauren Jarrett

Amandalyn Jones and Amanda Bodhaine

It’s hard to imagine plusher headquarters than Trunk Club’s River North penthouse. The revelers who joined CEO Brian Spaly to inaugurate the new digs agreed, as they sampled food prepared by Jared Van Camp (Old Town Social, Nellcôte) and drank craft beer and cocktails. The celebration was cohosted by Gant Rugger, one of the biggest lines that TC stylists pull from. The expansive space is large enough to accommodate the company’s growing team and to display its menswear collections. But with a bar and impressive city views from the roof deck, will anyone ever want to go home?

Kerry Diamond and Kelly Hurliman

Susanna Negovan and Scott Schuman

THE SARTORIALIST BREAKFAST AT COACH

Corri McFadden, Erin Brennan and Bridget White

Scott Schuman, the New York City–based blogger and fashion photographer better known as the Sartorialist Sun Times’ Susanna Negovan at a breakfast and Q&A at the recently renovated Michigan Avenue Coach boutique. The enthusiastic audience of photographers, stylists, writers and style-savvy Chicagoans—including Heiji Choy Black, Corri McFadden, Ahmed Braimah and Emily Fiffer—enjoyed coffee and quiche as Schuman described his work methods and the secrets of his success. Every guest received a copy of Schuman’s new book, Closer, and they queued up afterward to shake his hand and get his autograph.—Anna Blessing

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BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL Spring’s latest styles are mesmerizing, with an abundance of optical prints and luxe textures.

Dallas fashion experts share their favorites.

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CONNIE SIGEL

Elements, 4400 Lovers Lane

MAKING THE SEASONAL SHIFT IN STYLE

“I love the colorful photo prints from Emma Cook and Obakki, the painterly effects in printed fabrics by Daniel Vosovic, and the ink blot and kaleidoscope prints from McQ

by Alexander McQueen, with their pops of neon color.”

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Stanley Korshak, 500 Crescent Court “We’re thrilled to have picked up Wes Gordon’s spring collection, tion and modern fashion.”

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Dress, $1,166, McQ BY ALEXANDER McQUEEN, available at Elements

In December, the Shops of Highland Park became a one-stop looking-good destination with the opening of L.A.-based beauty lounge Blushington. You’ll bask in the glamorous old Hollywood ambience while you sip champagne and choose to be made up in one of six signature looks. Founder and CEO Stephi Maron is a fan of one particular service: “I love to get my brows and eyelashes tinted weekly.” And there’s no need to blush at the cost—at $40 for a full makeup treatment, the services won’t break your budget.

Forty Five Ten, 4510 McKinney Avenue “Every spring, I buy three Sneakers, $389, COMMON PROJECTS PROJECTS, pairs of classic white Comavailable at Forty Five Ten mon Projects sneakers.

I like them to be pristine, and I wear them everywhere, with a tuxedo to the Dallas Art Ball or with a swimsuit in Mykonos.

They’re very unassuming, but people in the know know.”

Red suede bag with leather tooling, $1,995, RALPH LAUREN, ralphlauren.com

TINA CRAIG from Ralph Lauren. Luscious red suede is juxtaposed with ornate laser-cut calfskin, which adds a dash of spice to the timeless saddlebag shape.”

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NATURAL AND MAN-MADE WONDERS ABOUND

PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE

Expanding Universe Hall at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science

2201 North Field Street

KLYDE WARREN PARK A perfectly crisp evening was an auspicious start for the grand opening of this Arts District park in October. As gala host and honorary chair, Dallas native and actor Owen Wilson was there to welcome guests to a weekend’s worth of festivities, including a movie screening, a by the Polyphonic Spree and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. Since then, the park has become a burgeoning social hub for young Dallas families, offering fun activities for all ages that include storytelling, yoga, chess matches, concerts and children’s entertainment. It contains a host of special areas to explore: a botanical garden, a games courtyard, the groves of Jane’s Lane and the Chase Promenade, and the Ginsburg Family Great Lawn.

In the middle of the year, chef John Coleman—previously of the Ritz-Carlton—plans to open a restaurant, Savor, which will add sumptuous food to the mix. The gastropub will emphasize fresh food and dishes made for sharing.

FORTINWORTH DINE STYLEFOCUS

The opening celebration ended with Owen Wilson introducing his movie for a screening in the park.

Barry McGee’s (2011)

FORT WORTH OPERA FESTIVAL: LA BOHÈME

Bass Performance Hall 525 Commerce Street Applaud Giacomo Puccini’s tragic opera, a tale of two young bohemians’ doomed love affair, set in the Latin Quarter of Paris during the 1840s.

MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH 3200 Darnell Street

As part of its FOCUS series, the museum spotlights San Barry McGee, who creates drawings, sculptures and installations as well as street art.

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based fantasyland, racing a T. rex along the 55-foot interactive running wall in the Sports Hall is a must for any child (or adult).

Visitors can also test their speed against a cheetah, and Cowboys fans can try their luck against running back Felix Jones. The space itself is worth checking out: Pritzker Prize–winning architect Thom Mayne has designed an environmental masterpiece.

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FGI DALLAS: FASHION & LIFESTYLE AWARDS “NIGHT OF STARS”

Renee Rouleau and Heidi Dillon

Faisal Halum, Meghan Looney and Brian Bolke

David Martin and Gregg Asher

Attired in fanciful gowns and cocktail

Chuck Steelman and D’Andra Simmons

Alan Cumming and Cindy Rachofsky

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One of Rose’s spring designs

Hamilton Sneed, Shona Gilbert and LeeAnne Locken

The scene at Two x Two

Amy Phelan, Charlotte Anderson, Richard Phillips and Melissa Meeks Cindy Rachofsky and Richard Phillips

Artwork at Two x Two

Nancy Rogers and Karla McKinley

TWO X TWO FOR AIDS AND ART

Capera Ryan and Sheryl Maas

Foundation for AIDS Research, and the Dallas Museum of Art, a coterie of collectors raised over $4.5 million in one night during the live and silent auctions. Going, going, gone were works by Jim Lambie, Dana Schutz, Richard Phillips and other talents. Nancy Gonzalez bequeathed a series of 10 one-of-a-kind bags customized by world-class artists. As the coup de grâce of the evening, Karl Lagerfeld offered his exclusive services—one lucky bidder won a private portrait sitting with the Kaiser for $125,000.—Maxine Trowbridge

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to the Fashion Group International of Dallas’ annual gala. Lela Rose, a native Dallasite, was honored for her career achievements. The evening was jam-packed and fast-paced, with four runway shows, a cocktail reception and a silent auction. Guests witnessed the philanthropic Fashion Police strut the runway, and Rising Star prizes were collected by Nha Khanh for Fashion Design, Bret Slater for Fine Art and the for Accessories. The debut of the Shelly Musselman Design Award went to Cassandra Bumpous.

Lela Rose and Phillip Cottone

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A banana, strawberry and Nutella crêpe at Sweet Paris

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SPICING THINGS UP

FROM SWEET TREATS TO BOTTLES WITH SERIOUS BITE

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Briggs True hot sauces have developed a cult following among Houston chefs and

by couple Allison Young and Ivan Lee Briggs started stirring up and and his friends couldn’t get savory choices; vegan and glutenidea for the café was born after briggstrue.com

CRAVEIN CUPCAKES DINE STYLE 5600 Kirby Drive cravecupcakes.com

PETITE SWEETS

2700 West Alabama Street petitesweetshouston.com

low bars and red-velvet whoopie chocolate-dipped cones are sure to be favorites when temperatures

($3.50/single; $39/ dozen gence is made with pure Madagascar

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decadent portions allow clients to be is serving up dainty decadence and

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2420 Rice Boulevard sweetparis.com

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THE MENIL’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY

Isabel Lummis, Franci Crane, Susan de Menil, Sara Dodd-Spickelmier and Karen Pinson

Allison Sara Dodd-Spickelmier and Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso then dined in a sprawling white tent on the front lawn

celebrated the milestone anniversary on the dance Mary Ellen Carroll and Toby Kamps

Josef Helfenstein and Lynn Wyatt

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Laurie Schaub and Caroline Walker

Carlos and Luvi Wheelock

David Bamford, Lindsey Dinges, Mary Stanton Smith, Lisa Holthouse and Lacy Baird

CANCERFORWARD FUNDRAISER AT SAKS

Christian Louboutin of well-heeled city residents for a sold-out dinner at

Ron Frasch and chairs Elizabeth and Gary Petersen Joyce and Hugh Echols and Susan and Mike Plank co-hosted; sponsors for the event included Sewell Automotive

Becca Cason Thrash and Ceron

Gary and Elizabeth Petersen

Christian Louboutin and Ron Frasch

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utton busting, bucking broncos and bull riding, oh my!

Spring means it’s time to polish your boots and slip into your gear for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo at Reliant Park and Stadium (through March ). But despite the Garth Brooks song, that doesn’t require chaps, a cowboy hat or spurs. Local handbag designer Mary Nichols Patton says there’s a modern way to do rodeo.

“Rodeo and chic are two words

you don’t tend to see together, but stylish Houstonians pull it off,” she explains. Her idea of the perfect ensemble for cowboys and cowgirls?

Jeans in a dark wash, a chambray or plaid shirt, exotic-skin boots or bag, and statement turquoise jewelry like the to-die-for pieces from Past Era. “A Texas-inspired silk tie or a vintage Ralph Lauren concho belt will dress up your look while adding a little western,” she adds. rodeohouston.com—Holly Crawford

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PINTO RANCH FINE WESTERN WEAR

1717 Post Oak Boulevard pintoranch.com Shown is a sampling of the store’s more than 3,500 handmade cowboy boots—the largest inventory in the U.S.—with exotic skins, inlaid leathers and Swarovski crystals. Brands include Lucchese, Old Gringo and Rocketbuster. Boots, $410–$1,465

MARY NICHOLS

PAST ERA FINE ANTIQUE JEWELRY

2015 West Gray Street shopmarynichols.com Like a perfect neutral, the Rebekah python envelope clutch in muted gold goes with everything and still stands out, thanks to the metallic sheen.

best vintage bijoux at Past Era. Try a chunky cuff with a white T-shirt and jeans for head-turning results. Sterling silver and turquoise cuff, $495

ably under your arm, but large enough for your iPhone and makeup. $850

PARIS TEXAS APPAREL CO.

paristexasco.com Trade in traditional neckwear and celebrate what’s great about the Lone Star State with a tie that $75 each

HAMILTON SHIRTS

5700 Richmond Avenue hamiltonshirts.com Plaid or pinstripe, there’s nothing more luxurious than a hand-cut and -sewn shirt casual shirt is rodeo wear at its best; pair with your favorite broken-in denim.

Western plaid shirts, $295 each

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3433 West Alabama Street pastera.com An oversize piece with provenance will dress up anything,

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A LITTLE BIT OF FLASH SPARKLY STORE OPENINGS AND INDULGENT DINING

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Prerna Balani and Caroline Scheufele

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THE CHOPARD BOUTIQUE DEBUTS AT THE WYNN

Sir Elton John

the chopard Las Vegas Boutique at Wynn has been awaited by devotees of the jewelry and watch company, known for its liberal but beautiful use of bling. Its recent ribbon-cutting was led by a Sir Elton John, who’s also known for a bit of Elton John had bling, presided alongside co-president and artistic dia busy weekend in rector Caroline Scheufele. Actresses Malin AkerLas Vegas. In addition to attending back-to-back man and Christina Hendricks were both draped in jewels, and sir elton wore a one-of-a-kind two-skull performance of “The Million watch—a gift from scheufele. During a weekend of Dollar Piano” residency at the Colosseum at Caelavish festivities, chopard hosted friends of the brand sars Palace.

showed off the latest pieces from its La Vie en rose collection: a necklace with giant morganite stones, a rare green-diamond ring and a showstopping necklace with nearly 75 carats of diamonds. over the decadent meal, clients toasted the collection and asked scheufele about the necklace. “It’s a good value!” she joked. “the spinels are removable, so you can wear it two ways.”

Kobe burger is served with a bottle of chateau Petrus 1995 poured in Ichendorf Brunello stemware. the staff will even ship the glass to you after dinner.

At chef Masa takayama’s barMASA in Aria (arialasvegas.com), the Masa toro with caviar is a mountain of fatty toro topped with osetra caviar and served with crisp, buttery brioche ($240). Just leave $100).

L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon at MGM Grand (mgmgrand.com) is the sole Vegas restaurant with three Michelin stars. find out why with its 16-course Degustation menu. Warning: you’ll need serious time for the Gault Millau chef of the worthwhile hours.

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here better to indulge in excess than Vegas? Here are some of the city’s most extreme pleasures.

At Hyde Bellagio (hydebellagio.com), led by ceo sam Nazarian, spend $250,000 and you’ll get a table high above the foun- L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon tains of Bellagio, a 30-liter bottle of Ace of spades champagne, and a swag bag of goodies. Bonus: you get to hit the launch button on the choreographed fountains at showtime.

Be sure to come hungry—and thirsty—if you plan to order the fleur Burger 5000 at Fleur by Hubert Keller in Mandalay Bay (mandalaybay.com).

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UNIQUE DESTINATIONS GET SET TO SIZZLE THIS SPRING

The new Red Square restaurant at Mandalay Bay

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s Morgans Hotel Group and MGM resorts International are in the process of replacing the 1,017 rooms in the tower of Mandalay Bay’s old hotel with a new Delano Las Vegas—projected to open in early 2014—restaurant and nightclub pioneer the Light Group is also revamping the property’s restaurants, opening a nightclub, and amping up the overall energy. Mandalay’s dining scene has been strong since its 1999 opening, but in a town whose clubs and restaurants have a notoriously short shelf life, regular reinvigoration is a must. out are china Grill and red White and Blue; in are Light (a new cirque du soleil–themed nightspot), a revamped red square, and a citizens Kitchen & Bar. DuJour caught up with recommendations.

RED SQUARE Having undergone a face-lift, the russian-inspired restaurant now offers more approachable favorites (think chicken Kiev with bacon Brussels sprouts) and a new range of inventive vodka-based cocktails—like the russian Apple Pie with Grey Goose, apple cider and Leopold Brothers Apple Liqueur.

DON’T MISS: the zero-degree Vodka Vault. It’s hosted by a special ambassador who helps guests devise their own custom infusions. fur coats and russian-style military jackets are provided at the door. While you’re there, look for the statue of Lenin’s head frozen in a block of ice.

CITIZENS KITCHEN & BAR still American in concept, citizens now aims to be that place where you go for a great dinner at 4 a.m. after you’ve been clubbing. New design elements include

subway tiles and edison lights, ornate lampposts on the patio and counter stools with a view of the casino.

DON’T MISS: Bacon-wrapped meat loaf and all the other comfort foods from chef Brian Massie that Vegas visitors crave after a big night out.

LIGHT Light is the name of the club that started the scene at the Bellagio, but the moniker is the only holdover. the club, which opens this month, “is a marriage between cirque du soleil and the nightclub,” sasson says. “the deejays are the main focus.” expect a massive sensory overload: 38,000 square feet of cirque theatrics, performers, video, and you in the middle.

DON’T MISS: the upholstered-leather tunnel from the casino—which leads you into the space—has the urban-chic feel of an abandoned warehouse.

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!or the new year, all 424 of the rooms and suites at Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas (fourseasons.com) underwent a modern, Art Deco–inspired transformation. It’s much improved—backlit lighting makes the bathrooms wonderful places for basking, and, perched high in the Mandalay Bay tower, there are stunning also more high-tech: All the televisions now have multimedia hubs (in the baths, they’re integrated into mirrors).

As the Palms Casino Resort (palms.com) redesigns its rooms in the Palms tower, big changes are under way elsewhere. The ONE Group, known for high-energy hot spots and restaurants, is building Xishi, a sexy lounge with a DJ spinning nightly, offering casual bites as well as a full menu of Pan-Asian fare. Next

Heraea, also from the oNe Group. the MGM Grand’s massive $160 million renovation (thegrandrenovation.com) to its 3,570 rooms and 642 suites is complete. It includes a major greening (LeD lighting and solar-powered shades were installed), but the jewel in its refurbished crown is Hakkasan, opening on Memorial Day weekend.

A new venue has arrived at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas (wynnlasvegas.com). Named Andrea’s by ceo steve Wynn in tribute to his wife, the Asian restaurant will be helmed by Joseph elevado. the boîte, which sparkles with champagne-colored Venetian glass, is sure to be packed, both for the music (thanks to resident DJ its vast menu. Diners can sample Dungeness crab

DVF IS TRANSFORMED

She has been called the mother of reinvention, and Diane von Furstenberg’s dynamism is in full effect in her new store concept in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace. The black-and-white interior features dramatic canvas wall coverings in black steel frames, setting off the designer’s trademark colors and patterns. “The Vegas woman is bold, and she embraces color. She is not afraid to go for it,” von Furstenberg says. In the new space, look for an expanded accessories lounge accented by her iconic lip pattern. While in Vegas, you just might see DVF herself: perhaps staying at the Wynn, browsing the Forum Shops or the dining at Le Cirque or Guy Savoy. dvf.com

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INTERACTIVE SPA TREATMENTS AND OVER-THE-TOP EXPERIENCES

SPA VDARA vdara.com At spa & salon Vdara, the therapists specialize in holistic health. the massages, treatments and facials are built around natural ingredients from herbs,

Bellagio Spa’s Aquatic Therapy Room

agave nectar toning wrap or an Italian for the body. for extra detox, get a four-hands massage, and to add to your relaxation, spend the rest of your day in one of the six spa cabanas at the Vdara Pool & Lounge.

YOGA AMONG THE DOLPHINS AT THE MIRAGE mirage.com At the Mirage, achieve Zen-like calm in the underwater viewing area at siegfried & roy’s secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat, where you can practice your poses in a 60-minute session with an instructor as the habitat’s resident mammals swim by. take it one friend to paint a work of art together.

We’re serious—you even get to take the masterpiece home with you.

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ARIA’S INDOOR HIKE arialasvegas.com sign up for a hike at Aria resort & casino, and a personal trainer will lead you through sets of stair climbs, squats, push-ups and crunches. It’s grueling but also edifying—the workout also includes a tour of citycenter’s $40 million art collection (which houses works by Henry Moore and Jenny Holzer). consider capping off the experience with a relaxing breather in the softly illuminated shio salt room at the spa & salon.

AQUASTRETCH AT THE BELLAGIO SPA bellagio.com With Aquastretch at spa Bellagio, you’ll work on stretching and decompressing with a therapist in an otherwise empty pool—and the only therapy pool on the strip. As you lie in the water, buoyed and stretched. It’s like getting a thai massage in four feet of 94-degree water.

Book a couples treatment to share the bliss with a loved one.—Andrea Bennett

Naughty nightclub owner Simon Hammerstein has landed in Vegas! His New york and London clubs offer everything from titillating burlesque to drag striptease, and you can expect more of the same—with heightened theatrics—at the Act at the Palazzo. No expense was spared at this new venture: Windows were sourced from Grand central station’s old doors and mirrors came from other historic locations; and the madcap, 15,000-square-foot labyrinth includes theater boxes, all the better from which to see whatever pops out next. palazzo.com

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Hipster central. Local-wildlife sightings include the indie-rock blogger, the Girl Who Thinks Lena Dunham Stole Her Life and the underemployed screenwriter.

Coffee snobs, downtown 9-to-5ers jonesing for a caffeine fix

In the morning, harried assistants fetching their higher-ups’ orders; during the rest of the day, a stream of industry talent and the agents who shill for them

Santa Monica’s usual suspects: car-pool moms, producer types, off-duty celebs like Jessica Alba and Michelle Williams

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A trailblazer in carrying directtrade and seasonal coffees, this Chicago-based company continues to raise the bar with its expert baristas and latte art.

This coffee shop is so serious that it sells only three items (espresso, coffee, au lait) and offers nothing (sugar substitutes, soy milk) that might compromise the joe.

CBTL—as loyalists call it— delivers a solid cup of joe, if not quite of the same caliber as nearby offerings. Extra points for being native to SoCal.

Taking cues from northern Italy, Caffe Luxxe brews a chocolaty espresso (called Testa Rossa).

Pair it with steamed milk in a latte, and…that’s amore.

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FASHION FODDER WHAT’S CURRENTLY ON OUR STYLE RADAR

NEW STORE ALERT TOMMY HILFIGER’S WEHO FLAGSHIP The laidback SoCal lifestyle is a on Tommy was only natural that the designer would want to put down retail roots here.

“I’ve always looked to L.A. for new ways to mix the four elements of F.A.M.E.—fashion, art, music and entertainment—into my designs,” he says. The North Robertson Boulevard store houses the entire array of

featuring a rotating display of iconic celebrity pieces from our vintage archives,” he says. usa.tommy.com

SPLITS59 ACTIVEWEAR

Running errands in yoga pants and a sports bra is as much an L.A. parking ticket. And no one does fresh-off-the-elliptical fashion better than high-performance women’s wear label Splits59. “Our designs’ fabrications and silhouettes are stylish without compromising functionality,” says co-founder Jonathan Schwartz (son of Calvin Klein executive Barry Schwartz).

In 2008, Schwartz launched the line in Venice with friend and former Dolce & Gabbana market-

ing guru Keith Peterson. As for why he opted for SoCal over NYC, Schwartz says, “It felt a bit disingenuous to be on Seventh Avenue.

We wanted to be close to the culture we cater to.”

For spring, the pair is focusing on geometric shapes, color blocking and ergonomic seaming. They also brought back their popular mesh inlays. “It offers transparency in strategic places,” Peterson explains.

“You can wear a poppy-colored bra and show a little peek of it.”

Inspired by the 2012 Summer Olympics, each piece is named after

a former U.S. female competitor, so there are Flo-Jo running shorts and Serena W. embroidered tanks. “It was our way of paying homage to these incredible women,” Schwartz says. splits59.com

Performance tights, $88, and bra top, $50, splits59.com

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“The patio at Chateau Marmont. There’s always a cool mix of people; it’s a great atmosphere.”

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Spring fever is sweeping L.A. this season with capsule collaborations and special projects from a bevy of designers. In April, jeweler Martin Katz celebrates his 25th anniversary with a retrospective collection by digging deep into the vault for iconic pieces like the chandelier

“The Peninsula in Beverly Hills. The rooms feel like a home away from home.”

SHOPPING

“Vintage shops in L.A. are unparalleled—like Decades, American Rag, What Goes Around Comes Around and Lily et Cie. Their owners are like curators.”

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“If I’m traveling with my wife, Dee, we usually head to Madeo for lunch right after we check in.”

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necklace named for Julianna Margulies (martinkatz.com). Citizens of Humanity is marking an anniversary—its 10th—with a pop-up shop in West Hollywood that carries both COH apparel and local artisans’ wares. (citizensofhumanity. com). Also in April, Guess rocks

out with its Music Festival collection. Inspired by Coachella, the line features festival-appropriate attire such as reworked vintage music tees and studded denim jackets (guess. com). Meanwhile, perfumer Lisa Hoffman and jeweler Tom Binns are adding earrings to their line of scented jewelry, graced with unique scents like Japanese agarwood and Madagascar orchid. Asked if she has any plans to continue working with Binns, Hoffman—who is married to actor Dustin—jokes, “I’ve been thinking about leaving my husband for Tom. I’d be honored to collaborate with him on any project” ( ).

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DINE IN STYLE NATALIE PORTMAN: THE Stop at the new Burberry store another ACTRESS AS MULTITASKER branded suite to its already chic collecL.A.’S RISING BLOGGERS

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STELLA MCCARTNEY AND FORD TEAM UP

Frustrated by L.A. car culture’s sizable carbon footprint, eco-minded designer Stella McCartney selected the new Ford C-Max hybrid as the ofAveraging 47 mpg, it zips around town, delivering McCartney’s designs to VIP clientele, and rarely needs to stop to refuel. “Stella McCartney is a shining example of a designer who walks the walk and talks the talk when it comes to living green,” says Ford eco-ambassador Danny Seo. “Now her L.A. store is driving the drive!” Ford C-Max hybrid, starting at $25,200, ford.com

When it comes to cultivating an online voice, all the experts agree: Blog what you know. For Marlien Rentmeester, the impeccably dressed former West Coast editor of Lucky cally, affordable fashion. On her popular site Le Catch (lecatch.com), Rentmeester culls pieces from every price point (a Proenza Schouler PS1 bag, a Forever 21 sweater, a J.Crew skirt) to create effortlessly chic, shoppable ensembles. Meanwhile, at Spoon Fork Bacon (spoonforkbacon.com), food professionals Jenny Park (a stylist) and Teri-Lyn Fisher (a photographer) pool their extensive knowMarlien how to devise easyRentmeester to-follow yet inspired recipes like apple-pie egg rolls and boozy bacon jam. Boasting ravishing images, the site is worth a look for the food-porn factor alone. And if you’d like some lessons in living the good life, check out Heather Taylor’s L.A. in Bloom (lainbloom. blogspot.com), where the gallerist and linen designer serves as a Martha Stewart to the indie set, chronicling her charmed day-to-day existence while doling out advice arrangements to must-try beauty products.

Natalie Portman has discovered a tion andlife Tiffany are atwo others) big (Dior perk of in L.A.: garden that via a collaboration with English luxury blooms year-round. “There are all carmaker Bentley.

The 1,700-square-foot these oranges blossoming in my gar-

den,” says the Oscar-winning actress. like crystal chandeliers and Not “It’sglittering an amazing night fragrance.” that Portman has much time to stop are others) a collaboration with andtwo smell ’em.via She has been juggling English luxury carmaker Bentley.

The family life (she has a son, Aleph, with 1,700-square-foot suite features Benjamin opulent her husband, choreographer tal chandeMulsanne for use within a just wrapped back-to-back Terrence 10-block radius. (stregisnewyork.com) —C.N. duties as the face of the Miss Dior fragrance. This spring, her plate is particularly full: Portman will be promoting the newly redesigned scent, which Dior’s in-house nose François Demachy created. With top notes of Bulgarian rose, blood orange and Tunisian neroli oil, the perfume is as lovely its spokesmodel. Almost. dior.com

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RADICAL SKINCARE Peptide Infused Antioxidant Serum, $190, radicalskin care.com

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THE NEW BROW QUEENS Ask any L.A. beauty insider whom she goes to for her brows, and you’ll probably get one of two answers: Kristie Streicher or Kelley Baker. Both women opened studios last year, catapulting each from we’d be hard-pressed to pick a favorite. So let geography guide your choice: Streicher is in WeHo; Baker, in Venice.

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Armed with only a pair of tweezers, the California

Having seen the toll that inconsistent sunscreen use took on her skin, Vicki Nguyen designed a skin-care line packed with ingredients to combat UV damage. Natural skin-brightening extracts, like licorice root, target hyperpigmentation; tripeptide-38 smooths out wrinkles; and alpha hydroxy acids promote cell turnover. Her products’ multitasking magic makes them great for busy women who, Nguyen says, “don’t have time to use several different regimens for each skin-care issue.” fairiche.com

RADICAL SKINCARE

Inspired by their father, a renowned professor of plastic surgery, sisters Rachel and Liz Edlich developed an antiaging product range that gets tough on Its effectiveness lies in its Trylacel technology, which preserves antioxidants at their maximum potency; clinical trials showed an antioxidant component 300 percent more powerful than that of major brands.

“When our friends started knocking down our door for more products,” says Rachel, “I knew we had something very special.” radicalskincare.com

DRYBAR

The purveyor of the perfect blowout is reaching new heights. The L.A.-based company is debuting a range of hair-care products and tools, all developed by founder Alli Webb, designed to enhance its signature service. “I wanted it all to be about what’s perfect for us,” she pany’s bar motif, the goods have names like Happy Hour conditioner and the Morning After shower cap.

Webb’s personal favorite?

“The 100 Proof smoothing oil. It’s great for layering and doesn’t get too greasy or heavy.” thedrybar.com

Kelley Baker Brows Beverly Hills brow king Damone Roberts handpicked Baker to be his protégé in the late ’90s. After honing her craft at his salon, she took a brief detour into makeup

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for herself at Warren-Tricomi in New York City with her less-ismore approach, steering clients away from the pencil-thin, overplucked look and using custom tinting to lend a sense of thickness

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For the Feathered Brow, Streicher narrows the arch but leaves the ends fuller to achieve a natural—and slightly untamed—effect that frames the face and distracts from dark circles. Think Jennifer Connelly and Keira Knightley.

an Abbot Kinney salon, across from Steven Alan.

Baker spends up to 45 minutes with each client, alternating between waxing and tweezing to create full, well-groomed arches that accentuate the eyes and bone structure.

Clients with bushy brows, take note: She’s a whiz at trimming.

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Her custom-blended salves for pre- (Aforé oil) as well as post- (Après calming cream) tweezing treatments help minimize redness and irritation.

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She recently launched a product line that includes brow powder, brow gel, a highlighter pencil and tweezers. A DIY brow-shaping class is in the works for spring.

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at Warren-Tricomi, 8327 Melrose Avenue streicherbeautybar.com

1636/38 Abbot Kinney Boulevard kelleybakerbrows.com

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ART EXHIBITS THAT DEFINE THE CITY

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he Getty’s “Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 19401990” offers a glimpse of the city’s golden years of urban planning through a series of

ries and photographs. Here’s your chance to learn about, for example, the origins of the freeway network (through July 21). Meanwhile, 2013 will be another good year for Ed Ruscha. Fresh off a LACMA exhibition (and the “Overdrive” show), the L.A. artist will be in the spotlight again with “In Focus: Ed Ruscha,” a survey that examines the role of photography throughout his career (through September 29; getty.edu).

MOCA takes a walk on the wild spective dedicated to the famously provocative Swiss artist Urs Fischer.

The exhibit clocks in at more than 65,000 square feet, and nearly all of Fischer’s important works from the past decade are present and accounted for—from skeleton sculptures to houses made of bread (through August 19; moca.org).

Zhe School and early Ming Dynasty court paintings are the subjects of the “Ming Masterpieces” at LACMA. With pieces on loan from the Shanghai Museum’s permanent collection, it explores the art’s implicit political agendas. Opening the same day, “Matisse: La Gerbe” focuses on the large ceramic wall that an L.A. couple commissioned in 1952. The artist died two years later; the wall, which echoes the design of his iconic multicolored cutouts, is both through June 2; lacma.org).

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Julius Shulman’s Department of Water and Power Building at Night (1965), from “Overdrive”

Ed Ruscha’s Standard, Amarillo, Texas (1962), from the Getty’s “In Focus: Ed Ruscha”

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HITTING THE SOCIAL CIRCUIT

Crocodile Night pochette, $7,500, devikroell.com

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DEVI KROELL DINNER AT SUNSET TOWER

The East Coast luxury brand received a warm West Coast welcome at a poolside dinner hosted

by Ali Larter, Minnie Mortimer and Claiborne Swanson Frank at the Sunset Tower Hotel. “I never compromise quality when it comes to accessories. That’s what I love about Devi Kroell— it’s modern and luxurious and never goes out of style,” says jewelry designer Anita Ko. To the delight of partygoers including Crystal Lourd, Liz Goldwyn and Shiva Rose, the brand came bearing gifts: luxe skin pieces from the spring/ summer collection! Given that the label is soon opening an L.A. boutique, it was a preview of good things to come.—Evelyn Crowley

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3328 North Miami Avenue copperbox.com the secret supper club has arrived in miami. chef gabriela machado’s copperbox uses lavish, intimate dinner parties (there’s a maximum of 24 guests) for her guerrilla gourmet experiments. on thursdays and saturdays, atelier Nights begin with bubbles and hors d’oeuvres, before eight seasonal courses are served. a sommelier pairs wines with each dish (after dinner, corkage is available). it’s no wonder these events, sometimes announced only 72 hours beforehand, have waiting lists.

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1111 SW 1st Avenue hoxtonmiami.com a Nobu alum’s British-inspired trio has blossomed in Brickell. Diners can start their night with happy hour at the Hoxton, a beach house with live music and classic cocktails with miami twists, and continue on to rustic fare (think grass-fed butcher steaks and hearty vegan entrées) at BoxPark before spending the night over drinks at lounge Harvey Wolf.

JELSOMINO 247 23rd Street jelsomino.us Finding a decent karaoke venue in south Beach is tough. But that’s changing a bit thanks to Jelsomino, an upscale spin-off of an Nyc club. Book private rooms or take the main stage with backup singers and fog machines. and while waiting your turn to belt out the Verve, sip the Bitter sweet symphony cocktail, a moscow mule/mojito mashup.

HYDE AMERICAN AIRLINES ARENA

601 Biscayne Boulevard hydeaaarena.com Hot on the heels of opening a location at the sls Hotel, los angeles import Hyde lounge makes it a double with this outpost at americanairlines arena. But the venues couldn’t be more different.

While the design of the beach’s Hyde borrows from midcentury Florida, the across-the-bay spot took design inspira-

WYNWOOD BREWING COMPANY

565 NW 24th Street wynwoodbrewing.com mojito-mad miamians are warming up to good old american beer. case in point: Wynwood Brewing company, which has opened a facility with tasting and tap rooms in the arts district. “it’s the perfect location, since our beers are like works of art,” founder luis Brignoni says. two standout brews: a blonde ale and a double iPa with notes of mango and guava.

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1661 Meridian Avenue khongmiami.com the folks behind the perpetually packed yardbird southern table & Bar are hoping to do the same for regional thai specialties that they did for fried chicken. Khong river House has a team of chefs from tiny thai towns who have tapped local farmers to grow unusual ingredients like galanga and pandan leaves so they can prepare dishes like those sold in street markets back home. Will miami diners warm to boat noodles, char-grilled issan sausage and marinated meats served steaming in banana leaves? all signs point to yes, and the house tropical cocktails—showcasing gin rather than rum—should help convert any nonbelievers. a smart selection of dry rieslings and fun gin concoctions also serve as perfect pairings for the spicy asian cuisine.

THE CYPRESS ROOM

3620 NE 2nd Avenue thecypressroom.com Blink and you’ll miss farm-totable chef michael schwartz’s latest, the cypress room, tucked near a freeway overpass in the Design District.

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35 NE 40th Street 465 Brickell Avenue oaktavernmiami.com cipriani.com chef and restaurateur london’s famed cipriani David Bracha has delivered completes downtown miami’s another pearl to patrons of overnight transformation from Brickell’s the river seafood ugly duckling to swan. Designed & oyster Bar. But rather by michele Bönan (the same than a menu of mostly architect behind DownAlso: Giorgio seafood, his followtown mayfair in Rapicavoli’s beloved up, oak tavern in london and DownCoral Gables Eating House restaurant has the miami Design town ibiza, as well made the leap from District, serves as cipriani monte pop-up to permanent. eatinghousemiami.com stick-to-your-sides carlo), the blue small plates (think and white nautical gnocchi with rabbit décor suits the glamorous as well as housemade charcuterie and artisanal cheese boards).

With a prime location—opt for seats under the majestic oak tree in the charming courtyard— Bracha has added another feather to his toque.

miami venture for maggio and ignazio cipriani, whose greatgrandfather founded Harry’s Bar in Venice—hence, their bar’s familiar layout—and whose grandfather and father are also veteran restaurateurs. consider-

ing their mentors have hosted Queen elizabeth ii, as well as Hollywood royalty, there’s no telling what boldface names will visit this two-story hot spot.

TOSCA

210 23rd Street toscamiami.com maison d’azur proprietor stephan Fortier is back on the beach with tosca. most of the places on collins avenue boast about dients, but Fortier’s meticulous prices—manages to one-up even the snootiest restaurants. For example, why settle for plain lobster when you can dine on

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one-in-2-million blue specimens? Kobe ribeye graded a5 with 12 marbling, Pata Negra Jamón aged 36 months and region also appear in his menu of delicacies.

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1545 Collins Avenue jameshotels.com With one of the most fun and enlightened menus in the state, chef Kris Wessel revisits family recipes for his Florida cookery at the James royal Palm Hotel. a descendant of miami Beach pioneers, he produces sun-kissed appetizers like alligator empanadas and corvinaand-grapefruit ceviche and creative entrées like the wild boar chops and sorrel-lychee-glazed local quail—served with pork-studded pink lentils and a watercress salad dressed in a hibiscus infusion.

THE FREEHAND OPENS

The Super 8 room at the Freehand

the communal-style boutique hostel (from the same team behind New york city’s Nomad and the ace properties in New york and Palm springs) opened just in time for art Basel. the aesthetically minded crowd appreciated the Hamptons-chic interiors, as well as work by miami-based collage artist sky Farrell. But it’s as social a place to stay as it is stylish: guests can enjoy movie nights, games of ping pong, and meals from Jeremiah Bullfrog, founder of one of miami’s most popular food trucks. enjoy a cocktail from Broken shaker, concocted with herbs from the Freehand’s garden.

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If anyone knows how to party in style, it’s the people behind the Bal Harbour Shops. The luxury center closed early one evening to throw a fund-raising bash for Miami Project to Cure Paralysis’s Buoniconti Fund, along with presenters Micky and Madeleine Arison and honorary co-chairs Tommy Lee and Dawn Jones. Guests supped on delicacies from Barton G. under the stars as Emilio Pucci creative director Peter Dundas presented his latest collection. “I love how he strategically placed transparent panels instead right undergarments!” says attendee Kim Wood. An Enrique Iglesias concert was the cherry atop the overthe-top evening that raked in $31 million.

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Marc Buoniconti and Gloria Estefan

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9700 Collins Avenue toryburch.com at tory Burch’s new Bal Harbour shops boutique, the concept is beach. amid a soft, island-inspired color palette, special touches like hand-stenciled coral-print walls, pale pink sofas and denim-blue drapes. “We always consider location when designing our stores,” Burch says, “but it still feels like our

100 NE 11th Street Now that the miami Design District has gone full-blown luxury, much of its art crowd has decamped for downtown. that includes DWNtWN artHouse, an artists’ community housed in the former captain Harry’s Fishing supply along the city’s rough-and-tumble nightclub row. the miami Downtown Development authority came to the rescue of displaced artists whose studios were being razed to make way for boutiques—this property is a temporary donation by urban developers miami Worldcenter associates. as part of the Design District’s model of development through art, Naomi Fisher and Jim Drain, her beau and fellow artist, relocated their studios and BFi, an exhibition and cultural programming foot compound, Fisher says. “the move gave us the chance to rebrand BFi to mean several things such as Build Future investments and Beach Front imports, depending on the show, and to establish its new mission to celebrate the city’s unique qualities and offbeat people and places.” also at the DWNtWN artHouse are turnBased Press print shop and the

orange lacquer doors. Here, the designer’s favorite places to be and to be seen in miami.

studios of tm sisters and of Frances trombly (an artist who’s one third of the on-site, artist-run gallery Dimensions Variable), among others. art Basel miami Beach goers got a taste for what’s to come from BFi during its Weird miami bus tour where participants made memorable stops at a teeth-grill fabricator in Hialeah, a lively cuban city within miami-Dade county, all to a soundtrack of vintage mix tapes streaming through the coach’s speakers. Fisher plans to offer customized tours that dovetail with its exhibits. so a tour of chicago-based tyson reeder’s beach paintings series will give visitors postcard-worthy views and studio time on the sand just as the impressionists had painted en plein air. “oddly, it took an out-oftowner to see the beach as a subject that miami artists never seem to notice,” says Fisher, who also hosts art theory discussions. “We want to broaden art’s accessibility without dumbing it down.”

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“Nothing beats the pool here, with its scented towels and grove of towering palm trees.”

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“The Frank Gehry–designed space is worth a visit. It looks and sounds amazing.”

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Order one of their fresh seafood pastas.”

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“This eclectic vintage clothing store has everything from Edwardian blouses to motorcycle boots.”

YVES DELORME has unveiled a new collection with and shells--inspired by America’s most tropical city. “Miami’s crisp, clean architecture recalled our white percale linens,” says designer Evelyne Julienne of “Postcards from Miami,” carried at the house’s New York store and at ThreadCount in the Miami Design District. “We emulated the here.” yvesdelorme.com

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1905 Purdy Avenue eberjey.com For the décor of its second miami boutique, the favorite hometown lingerie line opted for a blend of beach and industrial chic. metal chairs, cloth mannequins and whitewashed wood for lacy underpinnings and pajama sets in liberty london prints. also available are stylish swimsuits and cover-ups.

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1787 Purdy Avenue pbsteak.com Neighborhood pioneer Pubbelly multiplies yet again. PB steak, nary concept, tackles regionally sourced surf and turf in a dining room of reclaimed wood walls, black tufted-leather banquettes and a communal table. along with the small plates, like bluecrab bread pudding, there is an extensive raw bar.

JUGOFRESH

1935 West Avenue jugofresh.com Proving miami isn’t all about partying and overindulgence, Jugofresh churns out cold-pressed juices, superfood smoothies and raw, vegan fare. For new breakfast on-the-go ideas, try its raw oatmeal with cashew “mylk,” agave, vanilla and grey sea salt or its take on the açai bowl with Brazil nuts, seasonal fruit, mint and raw honey.

FLYBARRE

1919 Purdy Avenue Flywheel’s cycling classes reinvented cardio; upstairs studio FlyBarre is now reinvigorating body sculpting. instructors inject excitement into the intervalbased class—a mix of circuit training, yoga, Pilates, stretching and strength building—with their custom playlists. Ballet barres in two heights mean tall and petite friends can work out together.

PANTHER COFFEE

1875 Purdy Avenue panthercoffee.com the young couple who jumpstarted miami’s cafe culture with Wynwood’s Panther coffee have opened a second, larger location across the bay. caffeine addicts can still get limited-edition roasted beans, as well as pastries like (Brazilian cheese bread). stop by on saturdays for complimentary cuppings, or tastings.

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DUJOUR’S JASON BINN HITS THE TOWN AND CAPTURES THE SPIRIT OF HIS SECOND HOME, MIAMI, IN SNAPSHOTS Power lunch with Morgans Hotel Group CEO Michael Gross at Casa Tua

Reminiscing with old friends and nightlife mavens Chris Paciello and Light Group founder Andrew Sasson at the Delano

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Dear friends and an amazing couple: Jeffrey and Linda Chodorow

and hearing more about her handbag line, Deesigns for HSN

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DuJour’s October cover star celebrated the launch of the brand’s T-shirt, designed by Brazilian art duo the Campana Brothers.

Kim has shot her reality show here for years but had never been to C. Madeleine’s until our cover shoot. She shopped the store’s vintage treasures while wearing a Lanvin top and pants and an Invicta watch. Speaking of Invicta, I bumped into its CEO Eyal Lalo the next day, a Miami native who loves yellow (even in a pen!).

Richie Akiva and Lenny Kravitz catch up at EMM Group’s new Catch restaurant at the James Royal Palm

ROCKING OUT AT THE EDEN ROC

It’s all about giving back. I stopped by the Eden Roc Resort during Art Basel and dined with general manager Greg Cook and executive chairman Bill Marriott. Afterward we headed to the ballroom for Miami Heat player Shane Battier and his wife Heidi’s South Beach Battioke fundraiser for their Battier Take Charge Foundation, which funds education and scholarships for at-risk youth.—J.B.

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Near and dear to me: Christian Dior Couture president Pamela Baxter and Bruce Weber at the Dior Homme store party for Weber’s Can I Make the Music Fly?

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arly in their careers, brothers Khajak and Haro Keledjian set out to do much more than just build a store: They wanted to transform the way people shopped. “Most customers were geared to buying headsays of the prevailing retail experience in 1993, when he and Haro opened the

played by brand; instead, it was mixed, matched and merchandised with the

This ingenious approach, which championed personal style, was a hit in Manhattan. And it didn’t take long for the one-store operation, where Khajak wore every hat, from buyer to saw the back end, to grow into what after joining retail heavyweight Gap’s family of brands, the men are preparing to open a boutique on the Bowery.

They’re careful to make sure the same ingredients—stock that speaks directly to neighborhood residents and an interior that complements the clothing—that have gone into every one of their bricks-andmortar stores are present. “We have a

Khajak explains. “There’s uptown, downtown, Greenwich, Miami. So even though we have more than 30 stores, each shop comes across as Bowery outpost, with its exposed brick, tin ceiling and lush greenery covering the walls, will feature some of the edgiest pieces yet for ers to embark on their next 20 years in business. intermixonline.com —Chadner Navarro

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The sewing room at 3x1

DOWNTOWN DESIGNERS STEP IT UP FOR SPRING

3X1 SEWS UP BESPOKE DENIM

Denim-brand founder (he created Paper Denim & Cloth and Earnest Sewn) and lover (he owns more than 300 pairs of jeans) Scott Morrison took on his most ambitious project with high-end label 3x1. His 4,000-square-foot atelier in SoHo targets fellow diehards with its bespoke service, which starts at $1,200 and includes the customer’s choice of 175 different fabrics and some one-on-one time with Morrison himself. “This is a passion project for me,” he explains. “This was about pulling back and doing something really special.” So special that after only a couple of years, 3x1 has already found

ability to customize is like icing on the cake,” Schuman says. 3x1.us Silk Massa scarves, $395, at Bergdorf Goodman

ORLEY REENVISIONS KNITWEAR

Knits are getting a jolt of excitement, thanks to local fashion label Orley, a justlaunched family operation from Samantha Florence and brothers Alex and Matthew Orley. With an emphasis on playfulness, the downtown trio’s line of vibrant sweaters, scarves gauge cashmere/silk blends and cottons that transition well to warmer months.

Orley’s fall collection evoked both Mondrian and Malayan tigers, and this season’s line abounds with subtle abstract geometric patterns inspired by Islamic tapestries, in a palette of cotton-candy pastels. “I think these prints add a bit of unexpected youthfulness to the pieces,” says Alex Orley. orley.us

Emily Weiss carries the leather Cosmos clutch ($395, at select Neiman Marcus stores)

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Designer Derek Lam’s empire shows no sign of slowing down. This season, his popular diffusion line 10 Crosby (named after the address of Lam’s

been so much enthusiasm for 10 Crosby—expanding was a natural progression,” says Lam, who started his label in 2003 after cutting his teeth at Michael Kors. While styles, they’re the kinds of pieces that women about town will love: envelope clutches and slouchy hobos in deerskin and calf leather in soft, seasonal hues of yellow, sand and pistachio. They’re easy, effortless—and amazing. dereklam.com

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DR. MICHAEL APA KEEPS US SMILING grinding and the moving of teeth.” patients dr. Michael apa, a partner in the rosenthal apa Group, is taking dentistry to a new level, at his upper east side practice include enterthanks to his expertise in the science of facial them are chloë sevigny, Matt dilaging. to apa, a good smile is not lon and andré balazs. “i created a just a function of the teeth and lips “My client Chloë but also of how the face moves with Sevigny has always niche of people who want a natural had a lot of aesthetic,” he says. “these customthe mouth. “people want to look character in her natural. We’ve learned to create indismile,” Apa says. royal family are among his most viduality with each patient,” he says. loyal patients—they bring all their since 2007, he’s been perfecting the use of noninvasive procedures to slow the toll for days when they’re in town. after your of time. “a good aesthetic dentist controls own appointment with apa, you too will have how the lower part of the face looks as you rosenthalapagrp.com age,” apa explains. “it has a lot to do with the

Matt Dillon, Chloë Sevigny and André Balazs: They all owe their smiles to Apa.

Gino Bifulco of T.O.Dey Shoes

T.O.DEY SHOES SOOTHE OUR SOLES neatly clad in alligator loafers, Gino bifulco and his brother thomas stand atop custom-footwear empire t.o.dey, which has worked with everyone from Jerry seinfeld to Jennifer lopez. their cobblers have made backstage calls for Madonna and delivered emergency ballet shoes to lady Gaga. the bifulcos have been at the helm since their father, a shoemaker from italy, passed away. a visit to the store begins with a foot assessment, which is used to make a last—the wooden model around which any of the more than 300 leathers and exotic skins can be stretched and stitched. as many as eight different artisans

may work on each shoe. “Whatever you want, we can do,” says Gino, a third-generation cobbler. “one customer wanted a hornback alligator boot with horns everywhere, from vamp to heel. it took 10 skins, but we did it.” bifulco estimates that bill cosby must own 60 pairs.

“When someone has a number of homes, they don’t want to carry shoes,” he explains. “they get multiple pairs and keep one here, one in aspen, one in palm beach.” still, you don’t need to be a celebrity to be treated like one at his shop. “our goal is to make everyone comfortable,” bifulco says. todeyshoes.com —Lindsey Keenan

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57 East 57th Street fourseasons.com There are plenty of famous faces at Hotel, but backs are getting the real visitors alike clamor to get the Accupressure with Back-Walking massage $245 for 50 minutes circulation and relieves muscle tension.

And if that’s not relaxing enough, the swanky spa also offers a sauna, steam room and whirlpool bath to melt away any tension left in your back—or any other body part.

CAUDALIE’S PREMIER CRU FACIAL AT THE PLAZA 1 West 58th Street, 4th Floor caudalie-usa.com

harnesses the anti-aging powers of its wine-based treatment to improve your visage. The 80-minute facial $235 a soothing massage and an applica-

to up the blow-dry-only game with

and Moraetes’ hair destination boasts 13 styling options and client-based

you the perfect blowout every time.

501 Fifth Avenue joannavargas.com

winter climes can be as easy as trading in your heavy coat for lighter-weight attire. But your skin may require a bit

No247 has essential oils like pine, eucalyptus and lavender to energize a room.

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blueberry-and-paprika peel and a relaxing botanicalsrich strawberry-and-bluefact that you are getting a

Midtown spa, the Berry Brightening designed to refresh the complexion after months of cold weather. A diamond peel

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JOANNA VARGAS’ BERRY BRIGHTENING FACIAL

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Joanna Vargas Vitamin C Face Wash, $65, joannavargas.com

THE LAUNDRESS’ DEBUT CANDLE COLLECTION

Gwen Whiting and Lindsey Boyd’s company, the Laundress, is known for its impossibly gentle detergents. Now, with the debut of a candle collection, the brand enters the realm of home goods.

The line comprises three scented objets in gorgeous glass jars—Lady, Cedar and No247—all packed with a captivating combination of more than 15 different essential oils, including bergamot, grapefruit and rose. Candle set, $60, thelaundress.com

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Andreia Chaves’ Invisible, a pair of mirrored shoes, at the Museum at FIT

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his spring’s selection of exciting exhibitions ranges from impresSide to pumps, sandals and booties

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rarely seen prints and drawings by some of history’s most renowned painters, “The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark” Starting March 19, the Museum of Arts “Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design.” Expect to see more than 75 prime examples of modern woodworking—from oversize installations to furniture—created by the

Kinky Boots stars Stark Sands and Billy Porter

madmuseum “German Expressionism 1900–1930: Masterpieces from the Neue Galerie Collection” is a showcase of Expressionist works from culled from the museum’s permanent collection of early 20th-century German and Austrian art, which largely explore themes of primitivism and modernity through April 22; neuegalerie.org more fashionable fare, head to the MuShoe Obsession for a look at 150 extravagant pairs

—Joe Davidson

KINKY BOOTS With a book by Harvey Fierstein and songs by Cyndi Lauper, Kinky Boots follows Charlie Price (Stark Sands), a young man who inherits a struggling shoe factory, as he works with Lola (Billy Porter), a drag performer, to save it. Opens April 4 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. kinkybootsthemusical.com

Gary Carsley’s Wave Hill (detail inside cupboard, 2012) at the Museum of Arts and Design

THE NANCE Playwright Douglas Carter Beane brings his latest work of genius to Lincoln Center Theater. In The Nance, a gay man (Nathan Lane) plays a campy version of himself to big laughs on the burlesque stages of 1930s New York—but his personal life isn’t so funny. Opens April 15. lct.org

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John Legend and Chrissy Teigen

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DOM PÉRIGNON’S POWER OF CREATION DINNER

Candice Pool and Casey Neistat

Anne Pasternak and Casey Neistat, along Kelly Rutherford and K’Naan, at the historic St. Bartholemew’s

kicked off with spellbinding performances by Lang Lang and John Legend, followed by a Josh Capon, who created dishes to pair with three

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Jim Clerkin and Trent Fraser

Marjorie Gubelmann, Lorenzo Martone and Xiao Wen

and Aaron Young

Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Daphna Kastner and Quentin Tarantino

G COUTURE JEWELS LAUNCH AT BERGDORF’S Tamara Mellon and Glenn Spiro at the private viewing party hosted by Dori Cooperman and Lizzie Tisch

Lizzie Tisch and Katie Holmes

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Henry and Marie-Josée Kravis

MOMA FIFTH ANNUAL FILM BENEFIT Quentin Tarantino. The night started with a presentation of like Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds. Guests

John Slattery and Josh Lucas

Titus Theater for dinner and entertainment. After dessert, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman Harvey Keitel and Katie Holmes hit Diane Kruger RZA performed for the crowd.—Lindley Pless

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Adam Fleischman’s West Coast chain, Umami Burger, expands its cult base with a Greenwich Village satellite this year. umami.com

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Local purveyor Paramount Caviar has tapped Le Bernardin’s Eric Ripert for a brand-new creation.

Made of roe farmed in Italy, China and Israel, the caviar is both nutty and briny. “I love its creamy texture, and the quality for me is key,” Ripert says. $525/4 oz., paramountcaviar.com

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ATERA’S NEW LOUNGE

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In this town, deciding on a place to eat is never a simple proposition. The options are endless: Should you go to the new fusion joint on the LES, stick with a tried-and-true favorite in Midtown or experiment with that new food truck... and where is it parked? This season, a spate of hot spots are clamoring for your reservation. Chef Matthew Lightner’s Michelinstarred Financial District spot Atera has been tough to get into (especially because it seats fewer than 20), but now that it’s expanding into a subterranean lounge,

Pretzels at Runner & Stone

The main dining room won fans with its unusual but delicious New American fare, from foie gras peanuts to cured scallops with meringue. The lounge, done up to look like an old-school den with glamorsofas, serves a limited menu and cocktails.

“The drinks carry an element of surprise,” Lightner says. A perfect example: The geranium and juiced grapefruit, lending a giving the drink more depth. ateranyc.com

Matthew Lightner

Through 2013, Park Avenue restaurant takes over for the neighboring Loews Regency Hotel during its renovation ( ); JeanGeorges replaces Pipa at ABC Carpet & Home with ABC Cocina, which sources elements of its small plates from Union Square’s farmers’ market ( ); Seersucker’s Robert Newton and Kerry Diamond showcase Vietnamese cuisine at new eatery Nightingale 9 in Carroll Gardens ( ); Blue Ribbon and Per Se vets Chris Pizzulli and Peter Endriss team up for Runner & Stone, a bakery, restaurant and bar in Gowanus ( ).

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couldn’t keep guests away from a party at the

competition show The Face The Face apparent from the playful photos that came out of

Minkoff while noshing on buttery lobster rolls Crissy and Nigel Barker

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has just unveiled its new collection, which celebrates the familiar sight of Karl Lagerfeld wears Shamballa.

Himalayas. Here, we break down the pieces by the numbers.

Ruby bracelets from $13,610, wempe.com

Scheduling a last-minute appointment at your favorite spa or salon can be a frustrating, if not nearly impossible, task.

But thanks to BeautyBooked.com, New Yorkers now have access to the calendars of a select list of pampering destinations, boosting your chances for a spur-of-themoment visit. beautybooked.com

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The number of life’s elements, each symbolized by a

uses a rainbow of gems to convey these elements: rubies, sapphires, emeralds and green tsavorites, turquoises and white and brown diamonds.

How many master craftsmen it takes to cut each raw gem into a small square plate, which is then braided into the Lock bracelets.

The scene-stealing choker has this many pavé diamonds, laid by hand.

The cost in dollars of a small Lock bracelet, which is made with unusual peach moonstones and white pavé diamonds on yellow gold. It’s one of the line’s starter items.

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NEW SPACES, BAUBLES AND START-UPS Bronze chain-link bracelet, $400, at Diesel Black Gold, 212-966-5593

Bronze ring, $245

Diesel Black Gold has tapped Italian jeweler Ugo Cacciatori, whose mile-long résumé includes previous partnerships with Emanuel Ungaro and Marni, for Handmade by Italian artisans, the head-turning bronze

coating process lends each item an iridescent glow, adding just the right amount of whimsy.

HALSBROOK’S STYLISH TAKE

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Street in SoHo. Town has become a sought-

after employer, not only for its success in the customer, you’ll come in looking for an apartment and you’ll end up wanting to move into this industrial-chic space.—C.N.

Boston native Halsey Meyer Schroeder is going against the grain to champion the cause of fashionable older women with her new e-shop, Halsbrook.com. “Online shopping largely caters to a young, edgy demographic,” the Harvard Business School graduate, now based in New York, says. “You’ll see a pretty dress styled with distressed-leather boots. That’s too to the sensibilities and tastes of women over 35 looking for a sophisticated, stylish stock of clothing and accessories that will take them from a daytime meeting to a casual dinner. On the site, shoppers can browse luxe cashmere sweater-coats, subtly detailed dresses and statement jewelry from high-end brands like Armani Collezioni, Max Mara and Paule Ka. “We’re focused on quiet elegance,” Schroeder says. halsbrook.com

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Bobby Flay signing books

SAVOR BORGATA

Just days after Hurricane Sandy tore through the area, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa staged

ADVENTURES IN ART

New Jersey’s seaside gaming mecca is undergoing a

party-and-go reputation. Spearheaded by Lance Fung, a New York City–based curator who has worked on

raise people’s spirits and celebrate one of the John Roloff, to create installations for two locations near the historic Boardwalk. Conceptual artist Robert Barry, a Teaneck resident, constructed large-scale illuminated words like Wonder and Glorious from materials such as anchors and LEDs and embedded them

country realize that A.C. has much more to offer than what is in the paper,” Fung says. artlanticblog.com

tertainment hot spot: food. For two days the Wolfgang Puck to Bobby Flay, were on hand hosting demos and workshops. During the ty’s restaurants set up stations of sushi, steak, desserts and more, feeding and satisfying 600 guests. theborgata.com

ARTLANTIC: LAYMAN LEE; SAVOR BORGATA: COURTESY OF BORGATA HOTEL CASINO & SPA

Wolfgang Puck’s steak and gnocchi

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COCOA BAKERY

former nobu pastry chef Jessica isaacs has set up her own bakery in Jersey city’s bustling downtown. the raw-chic interiors

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backdrop to isaacs’ ready-made and custom cakes, cookies and pastries. her specialties

inaugural new Jersey locations. the fall brought an outpost to summit, followed by

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and cycling classes, the paramus location will offer other signature classes like Barre Burn, metcon3 and Whipped! equinox.com

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tine stone-sculpture centerpiece. along with

cream and bound with spun caramel—all of which are packed with premium ingredients, like tcho chocolate from san francisco and valrhona from france. gluten-free folks: fret not! after the opening buzz simmers Peanut caramel squares and chocolate pistachio petits fours at Cocoa Bakery

(content yourself for now with her delicious wheat-free cookie). cocoabakerycafe.com

REAL ESTATE

AN ICONIC ENGLEWOOD MANSION

A limestone double staircase defines the home’s grand entrance.

NEW TO THE MARKET: THE GLORIA CREST and a celebrity-studded past. poland’s Count Stefan de Poniatowski commissioned it in Joseph Kennedy Gloria Swanson Ed ward Turen a home theater. soon after, Woody Allen used gloria crest in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion was held here; among the guests: Zac efron, sothebysrealty.com.—Lindley Pless

still has the origi stone fireplace.

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Swivel necklaces, $52, 31 BITS, 31bits.com

BOWLMOR LANES BRANCHES OUT

2405 Park Avenue, Tustin bowlmor.com Bowling and artisanal cocktails aren’t the most obvious combination, but Bowlmor Lanes Orange County pulls off the pairing with panache. Part bowling alley and part upscale lounge, the sleek, retro-inspired space contains 30 glow-in-the-dark lanes, an arcade, a full-service dining room and a bar that, come spring, will feature a revamped drinks menu. To get a taste of what’s to come, mix up a Pineapple Almond Daisy with this Bowlmor recipe.

Kallie Dovel, then a college student, found her passion—and profession—in 2007 when she traveled to Uganda. There she met a community of women who had exceptional jewelry-making skills but were struggling to make ends meet. The following summer, Dovel returned with friends, and the group came up with a business plan to market their 100 percent recycled-paper bead necklaces in the States.

Today, the Newport Beach company, 31 Bits, employs 108 female artisans in northern Uganda. And its support goes way beyond regular paychecks: “We open bank accounts with them and provide English lessons, health education, business classes and more,” explains Alli Swanson, one of 31 Bits’ cofounders. It also operates a four-year training program that prepares employees to launch their own small businesses. “Our she says. “They are dreaming for their future, and it’s amazing to see them thrive.” 31bits.com

GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS

21095 Raquel Road, Laguna Beach thepearllaguna.com Herb’s the word at The Pearl Laguna this spring, thanks to the eco-chic resort’s new medicinal tea garden. Co-owner Katresha Moskios grows a variety of exotic and domestic plants, which she brews into beverages to treat guests’ problems, including issues such as eczema, stress and insomnia. Adding to her teas’ popularity? They’re delicious.

PINEAPPLE ALMOND DAISY 1 ounce Bombay Sapphire ¾ ounce Disaronno ¾ ounce pineapple juice ½ ounce lime juice ½ ounce simple syrup 5 mint leaves Combine all ingredients in a glass. Shake vigorously, then strain into a highball glass with ice. Garnish with a pineapple wedge and a lime wheel.

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Eva La Rue Kalinka dancers

AROUND COSTA MESA AND LAGUNA BEACH

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

For its ninth annual Diamond & Pearl Ball, Beckstrand Cancer Foundation transformed the Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center into Moscow’s Red Square, complete with enormous Fabergé egg centerpieces, Kalinka dancers and Russian Standard Vodka– bearing waitresses who swooped down from the ceiling. The black-tie gala honored the late Farrah Fawcett (who succumbed to cancer in 2009) and the actress’s close friend Alana Stewart for her continued advocacy efforts as president of the Farrah Fawcett Foundation. During the evening’s live auction, host Eva La Rue’s husband, Joe Cappuccio, paid a cool $100,000 for the actress to help test-drive and select the 2013 Robb Report Car of the Year.

Oday Shakar with models

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“ELEPHANTS & ASSES” OPENING AT AR4T GALLERY

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Threee Brothers’ The Unity Plan

Laguna Beach’s AR4T Gallery exercised its right to free speech with “Elephants & Asses,” a politically charged group show that reached across party lines to comment on the state of our government. Local art patrons were on hand for the opening of the exhibit, which included pieces by Adam Mars (Girls Say Obama Has a Big Debt ), David Blake (Trickle Down Economics ) and Nick Simich (Vote Spicoli ).

One highlight was a mixed-media work by on-the-rise trio Threee Brothers entitled The Unity Plan, which melded political and cultural icons into a large postmodern collage.—Evelyn Crowley

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Moti Ferder, Joe Cappuccio, Eva La Rue, Idit Ferder and Stuart Winston

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PHOTOGRAPHY, SPORTS & VINO

UNDER THE SEA WITH CHRIS LEIDY

“Life is better underwater,” Chris Leidy says. But things are looking pretty good for him on dry land, too.

The grandson of fashion icon Lilly Pulitzer, Leidy is making his own mark on the world—not through clothing but through art. The selftaught photographer, who owns a gallery in his native Palm Beach (219 ) specializes in images of the aquatic realm.

“When I’m underwater, I tend to get lost in my own world,” he says.

That much is clear from his photographs, most recently those shot in exotic locales that include Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Still, no waters stir Leidy’s creativity as much as the ones in Florida.

“Just take a look around. My home is sitting on the ocean and its peaceful white beaches,” Leidy says. “There’s no place better than Palm Beach for an underwater photographer to get inspired.” leidyimages.com

Barracuda School (2012) by Chris Leidy

NIC ROLDAN: POLO’S HOTTEST RISING STAR

Argentina native Nic Roldan, 30, is the youngest person ever to win the U.S. Open Polo Championship. A third-generation player who lives in Wellington, he opens up about sports, stardom and life

Nic Roldan

Where’s your favorite place to play polo? For me, Wellington is the greatest—the facilities are some of the best in the world. I also enjoy the Hamptons and Santa Barbara for summer polo and

Aspen, where I usually play polo in the snow.

What’s it like being on Nothing compares to polo for me. It’s an extreme sport. We put our lives on the line every

What do you love most about polo? The horses!

They’re such beautiful animals. I’ve been riding since before I could walk.

What’s the dating scene in Wellington like? I’m in a serious relationship.

It’s tough with all the traveling I do, but we manage very well.

While winter calls for warming red wines and summer’s heat is best cooled by a chilly glass of white, the spring months offer the opportunity to serve your guests a wider variety.

Mariya Kovacheva, sommelier at Palm Beach’s Café Boulud, shares her picks for the bottles to bring out this season. danielnyc.com

IF YOU LIKE SPARKLING...

Rosé champagne can be an aperitif or it can be paired with vegetables, seafood and light meats.

IF YOU LIKE WHITE...

Arinto wines from Bucelas,

IF YOU LIKE RED...

Reds from Sicily, like Nerello Mascalese or Frappato-Nero D’Avola blends, are great with

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FROM RESORTS TO ART MUSEUMS Classic Ferraris on display

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GRAFF’S KICKOFF PARTY FOR THE CAVALLINO AUTOMOTIVE CLASSIC

Henri Barguirdjian, president and CEO of Graff, celebrated the launch of the Cavallino Automotive Classic, a six-day event for Ferrari owners and car enthusiasts, with a cocktail reception at the Breakers Resort. On the front lawn, guests like Bridget Koch, Lawrence Moens and Hilary Geary Ross enjoyed caviar, vintage cars and many carats of

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cushion-cut Burmese ruby. “We are thrilled to be sponsors, and what a perfect time to celebrate with our friends,” Barguirdjian says.

Wilbur and Hilary Geary Ross

Malcolm and Lorrain Hall

Howard and Allison Lutnick and Henri Barguirdjian

GRAFF: COURTESY OF GRAFF; PARADISE FUND: LUCIEN CAPEHART PHOTOGRAPHY

Tony Antoine, Rodena Waldmann and Todd Bacinich

Bobby Leidy and Kendall Fabian Jeffrey Berman, Cori Seaberg, Winston Lapham and Bettina Anderson

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THE PARADISE FUND WINTER GALA

“The Great Gatsby hosting Casino Royale”—that’s how Paradise Fund chair H. Loy Anderson dedraiser. Held at Palm Beach’s Flagler Museum, the black-tie event attracted a mix of locals and visiting

Kent Anderson, H. Loy Anderson, Chris DiSchino and Hilary Jordan

chef Clay Conley, and drinks were from New York City cocktail bar Death & Company. “For one night, we bring Monte Carlo to the island. It’s elegant, energetic and fun,” Anderson says. “And the best part is we get to do it all for a great cause: helping children near and far.” As crooner Doug Acosta performed, revelers danced and gambled for the chance to win amazing prizes, including one-of-a-kind earrings by John Brevard.—Adam Rathe

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SAN F≤NCISCO ONES TO WATCH

Michael Chiarello’s new Live Fire cookbook is out April 16.

THE REAL DEAL

eye early on: Her mother taught her the color wheel when she was little more Julie than a toddler. Today Wainwright is Wainwright the founder and CEO of the RealReal, an online resaler of luxury brands like Prada, Balenciaga and Lanvin marked down as much as 90 percent. (Bonus: They even take returns.) With celeb stylists (Jeanne Yang, Elizabeth Stewart) and consignors (Jennifer Garner, Courteney Cox), Wainwright has access to the most fashion-forward pieces. therealreal.com

BAY AREA NATIVES RAISING THE BAR

What is your signature accessory? A classic Chanel bag is timeless.

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Chanel bag

Vivica A. Fox

Rick Owens jacket

Who is your favorite celebrity consignor? Vivica A. Fox’s shoes absolutely blew my mind—she proves that every woman can be gutsy with footwear.

Which pieces from your current sales are you pining for?

Alaïa caged booties, Chanel dresses, Rick Owens jackets and a pair of mesh cutout Louboutins.

Which innovative designers do you admire? Victoria Beckham’s line is to die for. I love the Row, too. Their materials take my breath away.

MICHAEL CHIARELLO: A MAN OF MANY TALENTS

Looks from Victoria Beckham and the Row

With his popular cooking shows, restaurants, cookbooks and NapaStyle stores,

terrace so that tapas may be savored with the stunning views.

At Chiarello Family Vineyards in Napa, the chef hosts a beloved tradition

his newest ventures are Coqueta, mean-

slow-cooks a young lamb or kid goat on an iron cross. Having grown up with

5 in the Embarcadero, and a cookbook, Live Fire, both coming soon. Inspired by years of trips to Spain, the chef is tack-

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preparing tiella, a vegetable casserole roasted until it’s caramelized, bubbly and succulent. The father of four thinks a vineyard is the perfect place to raise a family. “I try to live as

Basque Country and bringing them to the Bay Area. ted the new waterfront eatery with a glass-enclosed

Your weekday go-to ensemble? Pencil skirt, Chanel jacket and Louboutin heels, four inches or higher.

the cycle of life, and my children and I get to watch our michaelchiarello.com

Georgia O’Keeffe

Favorite style icons?

Georgia O’Keeffe wore an effortless uniform in all black to focus her creative energy on her canvas. When I was growing up, my mother was always current with graphic ’60s prints, and her hair was just so, but she was still edgy for southern Indiana.

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Trevor Traina, Stevie Nicks and Alexis Swanson Traina

THE REVAMPING OF THE STRAND THEATRE Greg Lopez and Rick Collins Sloan Barnett and Eric Francis

Laurie and Jeff Ubben, raised funds for the refurbishing. In keeping with the Victorian

Jason Goldman, Ken Fulk and Susie Meyer

dressed to kill as gladiators, vampires and even popes. The space was transformed for the benefactors dinner prepared by renowned chefs Gary Danko, Tyler Florence, Jennifer Puccio and Nancy Oakes moon, partygoers rocked out to a performance by Stevie Nicks, who thanked San Francisco for being the place where it all began for her. “We really pulled out all the stops this year and hope to make it an annual

Stevie Nicks performing

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Mary Ann Opperman and Vanessa Getty Summer Tompkins Walker, Gina Peterson, Juliet de Baubigny and Peter McMillan

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BELSTAFF’S NEIMAN MARCUS BASH cups and a chic dinner at Quince in Jackson Square.

As lovely as the English roses on display, Claiborne Swanson Frank, Vanessa Getty and Connie Nielsen celebrated the revival of Belstaff’s tailored clothing by CEO Harry Slatkin and head designer Martin Cooper. Thanks to their efforts—and a gorgeous ad campaign featuring actor and rebel Ewan McGregor—the 89-year-old brand is hot again. “Belstaff is an aspirational brand but also one

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The devil was in the details at man-abouttown Ken Fulk Strand Theatre. Shuttered for 10 years, the former cinema and grind house is reopening as a venue for the American Conservatory Theater. The costume party, held in

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Black ravioli with prawns and squid in smoked pimiento cream at Belli Osteria

TOP OPENINGS FROM TOP CHEFS

BAR TARTINE’S SANDWICH SHOP 561 Valencia Street bartartine.com

hipsters can order sandwiches—to eat in or to go—at his new cafe and bread shop in Bar Tartine. Crowd-pleasers include the smørrebrød: an open-faced rye-bread sandwich spread with either chicken liver pâté, apricot and parsley, or corned beef, horseradish cream and fried onion.

The bakery’s famous bread is made from heirloom grains and baked in a custombuilt oven.

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authentic Spanish and Basque comfort food includes classic tapas—both frios (cold) and caldas (hot)—like fritos mixtos, canalones, croquettas, albondigas and cazuelas; leave room for Canales’ paella, too. In a loft above the kitchen, guests can enjoy some of the Bay Area’s best musicians, such as Charlie Hunter. Among the offerings in Duende’s on-premises bodega are artisanal olive oils, house-made charcuterie and confections, and Ici Ice Cream by the sweet and savory breakfast creations and the expertly made Verve coffee and espresso drinks.

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468 19th Street, Oakland duendeoakland.com Oakland’s uptown has much to celebrate with the opening of Paul Canales’ Duende, next to Flora, which he cooked up with partner Rocco Somazzi. The Spanish phrase tener duende means “to

BELLI OSTERIA

2016 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley belliosteria.com Craving a taste of northern Italy? Berkeley’s cozy new osteria offers heaps of pasta that will knock you into a satisfying daze. Fresh ravioli brim with surprising

DANDELION CHOCOLATE

and drawings by students at 826 Valencia,

740 Valencia Street dandelionchocolate.com

by author Dave Eggers (some proceeds

At Dandelion, you’ll pore over artful displays on bean anatomy and how to taste chocolate. The High Seas bar ups the enlightenment factor—packaged with the salty sweet is If I Were a Wizard Chocolatier, a book of stories, poems

The chocolatiers roast, crack, sort, grind, conch and temper small batches of highquality beans, which they then hand-mold and package. Sip hot cocoa at the café overlooking the workroom, and see the care this staff puts into all the products.

and caramelized onions to roast duck and shiitake mushroom. Devour squid-ink tagliolini with tarragon prawns—they’re sprinkled with pecorino bread crumbs that you’ll chase to the bottom of the bowl.

Warm-hued with brick and bright-red walls, Belli is casual and inviting. And don’t fret when your meal winds down: There’s still heavenly lemon verbena panna cotta to enjoy.—Nicki Richesin

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FAUNA

KATSU

1900 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland

and raw bar is a great happyhour hangout.

From perennially packed Flora grew sister bar Fauna, where you can have a cocktail as you wait for a table next door.

160 W. Main Street, Los Gatos katsulosgatos.com Los Gatos has welcomed a chef bearing an impressive pedigree (Katsuhiko Hanamure worked at Nobu) with this decadent, upscale Japanese restaurant.

813 Main Street, Napa thethomas-napa.com Housed in a historic building that boasts Napa River views, this

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BELCAMPO MEAT CO.

2355 Broadway, Oakland sweetbarbakery.com

chael Jackson’s former chef.

2405 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur belcampomeatco.com This organic meat shop—all animals are pasture-raised—brings farm to butcher and farm to table

FAMOUS LAST WORDS Rabble-rousing rocker Courtney Love has a lot to say—but here, her handwriting does most of the talking

People who have an innate musical skill often form letters that look like musical symbols, like the f and d seen here.

Her letters vary greatly in size—the variability usually suggests an emotional, sensitive type.

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Notice the elegant, whimsical way she forms her letters and connections— it’s a sign of aboveaverage intelligence and fluidity of thought.

Love’s dominant middle zone may indicate she’s an extroverted people person with an interest in psychology and learning about what makes people tick.

She uses a combination of print and script, which is a sign that she’s a skilled writer—and it might even be her calling.

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ith a last name like Love, it seems almost too fitting that singer-songwriter, actress and artist Courtney Love would operate based on a heart-centric mentality. But judging by the latent messages her handwriting sends, the rock superstar does just that—though it might be something she’s changing. After the words “Rule to Live By,” Love crosses out the symbol of a heart,

See the wide spacing between words? She has difficulty connecting with others and difficulty linking her unruly emotional process to logic and intellect.

perhaps indicating that earlier in her life, her “rule” was to follow her own heart, explains Toronto-based graphology expert Annette Poizner. “That’s not a successful way to live. However, if she adheres to the sensibility she describes in this quote, she could become a great role model for other emotional, sensitive types,” says Poizner. The 48-year-old Hole vocalist and guitarist—whose writing

The big presentation of her signature and her handwriting in general is characteristic of someone who enjoys being the center of attention.

demonstrates intelligence and musical skill—calls the quote, originally spoken by actress Jacqueline Bisset, “the wisest thing I have ever heard.” What does it mean to Love, exactly? “It means that age is not an issue, nor are looks,” says the musician. “It means that character is the most important part of being sexy or being youthful and of standing for something.”—LINDSAY SILBERMAN

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