Indholdsfortegnelse for September 2024 i Town & Country

2012 THE END OF THE AFFAIR (OR IS IT?) It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are? Check under the table. That’s where we found them in our March 2012 issue, when we asked Jade Hobson, fashion editor extraordinaire, to imagine how the end of a fabulous, very T&C dinner party would look. Because sometimes the best part of the evening is those final moments, when the Dom Pérignon buzz has fully kicked in, the good tea (as in gossip) starts to spill, and the kids, who never actually went to bed, sneak out to eavesdrop—and steal a bite of dessert. It’s most fun when only the people you really like have stuck around, but of course there are always a few who can’t take a hint—that’s what…

In certain circles the buzz about bees has become deafening. Take, for example, earlier this year, when David Beckham exchanged beekeeping tips with King Charles III, or when the singer Zayn Malik gave Kelly Clarkson honey from his farm during an appearance on her talk show. (Clarkson revealed she has bees on her property too.) Should you find yourself in a conversation with Beyoncé or Martha Stewart, bring up their backyard hives and you’ll surely win some points—or a jar of honey. “Our world is drunk on AI, performance, algorithms, and optimization, but making honey hasn’t changed in centuries,” says Richard Christiansen, owner of the gardencentric lifestyle brand Flamingo Estate, which sells $250 jars of the stuff harvested from Tiffany Haddish’s Los Angeles yard (proceeds go to charity). “It’s this…

Sometimes a crisis can be a boon for creativity—a necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention kind of thing. In jewelry history this truth is most evident in pieces designed during the 1940s. Platinum had been banned for decorative use because of the war effort, which is why yellow gold dominated. The availability of precious stones became limited as trade routes did, which resulted in the rise of the semiprecious. And with images of tanks seen in newsreels every day, the bejeweled geometry of Art Deco gave way to a new aesthetic: bold, high-wattage pieces that telegraphed strength in beauty. These are the kind of pieces you’ve seen on the cinema stars of the era, but they were largely born out of the reality of scarce resources—and of imaginations fueled by the need to innovate. This…

Talking about celebrities might as well be the national pastime. We dissect everything they wear, eat, say, and do with gusto. Everyone loves a bit of harmless gossip, right? Lately, however, much of the talk around famous men has taken on a new flavor. It has turned speculative in a way that was previously reserved, predominantly, for women. Ladies and gentlemen, men have entered the plastic surgery chat. Historically, male facelifts have been glaringly easy to spot. There are plenty of reasons for this, according to David Shafer, a plastic surgeon in New York City, but mostly it was because traditional facelift techniques were largely developed and performed on women, leading to a “cookie-cutter approach” that did not take into account the different anatomy and aging process of the male…

Tracking down John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg is not easy. Even though he is a ubiquitous presence on social media, Jack, as he’s called, is tough to find IRL and even harder to get on the phone. I spent most of the spring and early summer trying to reach the 31-year-old scion of America’s most illustrious political dynasty (and graduate of Yale, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School) to see, well, if he’s okay or whether he’s lost his mind, given the series of bizarre videos he’s been posting lately on Instagram and TikTok. “Can you tell him to email me in a month?” he wrote to a mutual friend. I seemed to be getting somewhere. This might happen, I thought. As instructed, I emailed him after 30 days. He…

The boy died sometime in the night, encased in a waterproof sack from which he could not escape. He had been dead for several hours by the time staff found him. The 12-year-old had been placed in the bivy—which is typically used by campers as a protective encasing for their sleeping bags—on the floor of a small cabin at Trails Carolina Camp, a nature-based therapy program that promises to “help teens work through behavioral and emotional difficulties” and “give your child the confidence, coping mechanisms, and communication skills that will help them become the best version of themselves,” according to its website, which has since been taken down. Identified only as “CJH” in press reports, the boy came from a well-to-do New York family and attended an elite private school…

ARABELLA FIRST HUSBAND As a teen Arabella met railroad tycoon Collis Huntington in a seedy Richmond joint, becoming his mistress, then wife. SECOND HUSBAND Henry Edward Huntington, Collis’s nephew, yearned for his aunt for years. She said yes in 1913. CHILDREN Archer Milton Huntington, Arabella’s only child, was raised to become a scholar, museum founder, and philanthropist. ALVA FIRST HUSBAND Alva married the massively wealthy William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1875 and divorced him—for adultery—in 1895. SECOND HUSBAND Alva’s choice for second husband was more conventional: New York financier Oliver H.P. Belmont. CHILDREN Alva’s daughter Consuelo was a pawn in her mother’s ambitions—disastrously married off to the Duke of Marlborough.…

My mother Joan liked to say that nothing stays the same, which I always remember when things in fashion, or the world at large, inevitably change. It’s one of the many reasons I love New York. How boring it would be if everything stayed the same forever. On the first anniversary of her passing, I’m thankful for what she did for me on all my boyhood trips from Long Island to the Emerald City, showing me everything that was new and exciting, from Broadway to Madison Avenue. When I was five she took me to see Ethel Merman in Annie Get Your Gun, which ignited a love for the theater that inspires me still. Like all stylish people, she had a great sense of self, but she was unafraid to…

When I walked on the stages of the world without him,” Patti Smith wrote in Just Kids, “I would close my eyes and picture him taking off his leather jacket, entering with me the infinite land of a thousand dances.” She was referring to Robert Mapplethorpe in her 2010 memoir, which was as much an ode to their relationship as it was a remembrance of 1970s New York, a place whose whole vibe may have found its truest sartorial expression in the late photographer’s signature piece of clothing: his leather jacket. The garment’s association with the cultural zeitgeist has endured. In 1983 Madonna arrived on the pop music scene with her debut album—and a wardrobe of leather jackets. The supermodels caught on in the ’90s, led by Kate Moss, whose…

IN THEORY & PRACTICE TIP 1: LEARN THE LANGUAGE Ancient civilizations prized natural pearls as symbols of divine power. In 1893 Kokichi Mikimoto saved these gems from extinction by creating the first cultured pearl. TIP 2: IDENTIFY YOUR IDOLS Cleopatra once crushed a pearl into her drink to prove how rich she was. We would rather follow the example set later by Elizabeth I. Two words: Armada Portrait. TIP 3: EXERCISE GRAND GESTURES A single strand of pearls is a classic choice, but why stop there? Consider the impact of a multilayered approach—it sends a stronger message. Do the math.…

Every facial with celebrity aesthetician Joanna Czech also includes a focused hand treatment with exfoliation, massage (with Environ vitamin A, C, and E body oil), ultrasound if needed, and 30 minutes under a red LED. One need only glimpse Czech’s own hands (they look three decades younger than her 60 years) to be convinced the treatment works. “Every day I see women without a line on their faces, but their hands are a giveaway,” she says. When Czech’s client Kim Kardashian appeared at the Met Ball this May, it wasn’t just the organ-crushing waistline of her outfit that got the internet talking, it was the fact that her hands appeared to be aging backward. How has a concern once reserved for women of a certain age become a twenty- and…

Sarah Arison remembers clearly the very first time she attended the Party in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art. It was June 2006, and she was 21 and wide-eyed, an undergrad at Emory. The courtyard was full of Tisches, Bloombergs, and Bronfmans. She accompanied her grandmother Lin Arison, an honorary trustee at the museum. She spent time with film curator Raj Roy, with Todd Bishop, then a senior development executive, and, especially, with Agnes Gund, a friend of Lin’s who would become, over the ensuing years, “like a second grandmother.” “I wore a Carolina Herrera black-and-white cocktail dress, and I was not in the art world at all,” Arison tells me. “Never in a million years did I think that 18 years later this would happen.” “This” is…

Let’s start with the before. Imagine a ’70s interior with wall-to-wall shag carpeting, department store Louis furniture, granny vitrines, a library with too few books to merit the name, walls of mottled coppery mirror, faux Venetian accents, and a decorated look the apartment’s current owner, Lisa Fine, charitably characterizes as “something that may have been hip at one time.” By the time she first saw it, in 2020, when New York was in the grip of the pandemic lockdown, the place had acquired a stale hot-tub-time-machine aura. Grim and seemingly lightless, it had an ambient, musty fug and reeked of cigarette smoke. “I didn’t even want to put my coat down,” Fine says. The apartment was also that New York real estate cliché, a fixer-upper at a highly desirable address.…

WHERE ARE WE GOING? Modern dance owes a lot to Alvin Ailey, who revolutionized the art form with his vision, translating the African-American experience into masterpieces (see: Revelations) and, with his Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, opening the door for future generations of Black talent. NYC’s Whitney Museum is celebrating his legacy with the exhibition “Edges of Ailey.” Expect to be moved. SEPTEMBER 25, WHITNEY.ORG WHAT ARE WE WEARING? Harry Winston was a maverick of movement too, except it was diamonds he made dance. He would start with the best stones—his eye for rarity was legendary—and then go all out. Maximalism is still the MO today, as is brilliantly clear in the pendant above, which can be worn as a watch or brooch and is covered in 199 diamonds and…

The life of Pamela Harriman was huge, even for her biographer. “At certain points,” says Sonia Purnell, the author of the new book Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue, “I thought, What have I taken on here?” Harriman blazed a singular path across politics and power. She was born the daughter of an English baron, became an indispensable advisor to Winston Churchill during World War II after marrying his son Randolph, romanced Gianni Agnelli, Edward R. Murrow, Stavros Niarchos, and Elie de Rothschild, married Broadway producer Leland Hayward and statesman Averell Harriman, became a social force in London, New York, Washington, and Paris, and eventually ascended to become the doyenne of the Democratic Party and President Clinton’s ambassador to France. (She died in 1997 after suffering…

Of all the things a couple might disagree about, art doesn’t seem like the most contentious. But to hear the advisors who help people amass and arrange their collections tell it, finding a way to reconcile one partner’s Basquiats with another’s Bacons has become an integral part of the job. “Many of my clients have called me their marriage counselor and tell me I’ve saved their relationships,” says Daniel Schnur, a New York–based specialist who, in addition to placing artworks in homes and offices, designs museum exhibitions. We tend to feel attached to and sensitive about our art, he explains, and these hangups can prevent us from seeing possible compromises. He recalls one husband and wife who had received a piece from the man’s mother, which his wife disliked. “We…

If we want to locate the moment the legend of Jean Schlumberger began, we might start with the Duchess of Kent and her Flying Fish earrings. The jewels were spotted by Elsa Schiaparelli during a dinner, and the Italian designer made it her mission to track down the man who dared to dream such adornments. Before long Schlumberger was collaborating with Schiaparelli on buttons and costume jewelry. She was the avowed Surrealist, but Schlumberger had his own approach to the exquisitely bizarre. “I try to make everything look as if it were growing, uneven, at random, organic, in motion,” he once said. That fantastical aesthetic, which he brought to Tiffany when he joined the maison in 1956, applied to stone-studded creatures of land and sea, motifs from myth, history, and…

Ten-year-old girls taking over Sephora to stock up on Drunk Elephant may be big news these days, but their male counterparts are beginning to quietly rival them in the vanity stakes. Teen boys have been taking to TikTok in droves, mewing and gum-chewing their way to (allegedly) more chiseled jawlines and passionately debating notes in luxury fragrances. A certain segment of them are even taking extreme measures to tackle a skin concern that has plagued teens since time immemorial: acne. That is, if their parents can pay for it. On the 16th floor of CORE: New York, a members-only club on Fifth Avenue, there is a miracle worker who needs only one name, à la Cher: Dangene. For 28 years she has wielded all manner of lasers and facial contraptions…

2002 Holmes shot to stardom on Dawson’s Creek. Her style was on display already at a celebration of the 100th episode. 2008 She went to the Met Gala in red Giorgio Armani with contrasting Christian Louboutin pumps. And, of course, a sharp French bob. 2019 Texture is a Holmes hallmark. She played with it in Marc Jacobs at a premiere, and in a cashmere Khaite bra that went viral. 2019 What’s easy and elegant? A matching set. Holmes wore a royal blue suit while out for a walk on the streets of New York City. 2022 At a Tom Ford fashion show, Holmes took a mysterious, minimalist approach in a black gown that covered her slicked coiffure. 2023 Red accents are timeless, as Holmes showed with a red ribbon and…

Climbing the social ladder is an American specialty, most outrageously on display during the period Mark Twain called the Gilded Age. The two women with the most millions to spend on social status in 1880s New York City entered the competition, from our perspective, similarly armed for combat. Alva Vanderbilt and Arabella Huntington both came to New York from the Reconstruction-era South and married immense railroad wealth, the 19th-century version of today’s tech and Wall Street riches. The Vanderbilt fortune, admittedly, consisted of shipping and railroad money amassed two generations earlier by Cornelius Vanderbilt, whereas Collis Huntington’s fortune was brand new. Both women raised stunningly ornate mansions only five blocks from each other on Fifth Avenue: Alva at 52nd Street, Arabella at 57th. Both hoped that lavish houses, parties, art…

DUE TO AN EDITORIAL ERROR, THE SUMMER 2024 STARS & SIGNS PAGE WAS PRINTED WITH THE TEXT FROM SUMMER 2023. FOR THIS REASON IT CONTAINED ERRONEOUS PLANETARY INFORMATION. CORRECT READINGS CAN BE FOUND AT TOWNANDCOUNTRYMAG.COM. ARIES MARCH 21–APRIL 20 Be ready to be the hero you were born to be this September. Don’t hesitate to shoulder responsibilities. You may not get the responses you hope for, but change is in the wind, and rewards lie a bit further down the road. Mars in Cancer will bring out everyone’s emotions this month, and it’s the right time to clear the air and refresh commitments. MARCO BICEGO ($4,450), US.MARCOBICEGO.COM TAURUS APRIL 21–MAY 21 The planets are a bit moody this month, but aside from feeling pressured to make decisions and accommodate others’…

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