No one captured the lives of the rich and idle of summers past as diligently or decorously as photographer Slim Aarons. Over these long languid days of summer, a few of his featured works.
Giacomo and Stefania Montegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como, 1983.
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Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies”
is a ravishing dream
of violent gangster life in the thirties—
not a tough, funny, and, finally, tragic dream
like “Bonnie and Clyde”
but a flowing, velvety fantasia of the crime wave
that mesmerized the nation early in the decade.
The scowling men in long dark coats and hats,
led by the fashion-plate bandit John Dillinger (Johnny Depp),
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Yves Saint Laurent residence photographed by Ivan Terestchenko
“This is not a book on decoration.
It is a window on two shared lives.”
~Pierre Bergé
Those with the most discerning of tastes, will undoubtedly find this tome to be one of the most remarkable documents ever published on Yves Saint Laurent’s private realm.
Pierre Bergé was Yves St [...] Read Full Story
Academy Award Winning Actor Karl Malden (1912-2009) and Vivien Leigh in Tennessee Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire, 1951.
German choreographer Pina Bausch (1940 – 2009) dancing one of her famous choreographies, “Cafe Muller.”
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It is rumored that Karl Lagerfeld has asked modeling sensation Sasha Pivovarova to illustrate a book based on Russian fairy tales. If the rendering she crafted (above) for the recent restaging of the Chanel Paris-Moscow fashion show is any idea of her talents, the book promises to be as magical and incandescent as she.
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If you’ve ever wondered if those must-have acquisitions you just had to have or whether those choices you spent significant portions of your life fretting over have resulted in a quantifiable surge in happiness, read on:
A new study conducted by Dr. Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist and author of “Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer [...] Read Full Story
“Why am I always expected to wear a dressing-gown,
smoke cigarettes in a long holder
and say ‘Darling, how wonderful’?”
~Noel Coward
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A fresh new face for fashion-forward Calvin Klein whose reputation for discovering talent in the raw is legendary. Newcomer’s name Will Defiel. His look: simple, elegant and smart.
Shot by David Sims, styled by David Bradshaw for the F/W campaign, Will is a study in contrasts: crisp black style, blinding white frame. All cool for an [...] Read Full Story
