This fall, designers are smitten with surrealism. Or so the editors and stylists who translate their work are telling us. While the very suggestion of a mass lockstep into this trend has me reconsidering wardrobe staples such as my trio of Thai jeweled beetle brooches or the wristlet resembling a banana, I also resist censoring my personal whims solely on the basis of the industry’s marketing conceits—however deafening they can become.
Got a very sad call today: Paul Starr is no longer with us.
Paul was, literally, one of the shining stars in beauty, a talented makeup artist who loved the artifice and hassle of achieving looks that at times only otherwise existed in a fertile imagination.
As she marks her ruby anniversary with a film, retrospective show and new Left Bank flagship and team, the fiercely independent Sonia Rykiel faces a brave new era as stylishly as ever.
What’s even nastier than un-pedicured toes hanging over the front edge of a sandal? The anti-marriage backers of California Proposition 8, an initiative proposed for this November’s general election, which, if passed, would amend the state constitution with wording that would essentially ban same-sex unions.
With looks like his, it was only a matter of time until superstar matador Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez had the glitterati roaring olés.
To prepare for his lead turn in the upcoming biopic of the matador icon Manolete, Adrien Brody trained for weeks with Cayetano on a Spanish ranch.
