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California style took center stage in the fashion section of Town & Country’s August 1964 issue. To model the wardrobe of tailored suits, slinky skirts, and red carpet–worthy gowns, we enlisted prominent women from the Golden State, including actresses Brooke Hayward (who at the time was Mrs. Dennis Hopper) and Tippi Hedren, pictured here posing with her 1964 Chrysler Imperial convertible outside the Hotel Bel-Air. Alfred Hitchcock had spotted Hedren in a soda commercial, and her 1963 debut in The Birds had catapulted her to Hollywood stardom. By the time of this photo shoot she had already been cast in Hitchcock’s next thriller, Marnie, opposite Sean Connery. Since then she has made countless onscreen appearances, even starring in a 2018 Gucci campaign as a mysterious fortune teller. Today, at 91,…

“I don’t want to eat gingerbread, that’s for sure,” says Michael S. Smith. The interior designer of President Barack Obama’s White House is holding court on the subject of holiday parties. He usually hosts a major bash on New Year’s Eve at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, with his husband James Costos, the former ambassador to Spain. That, of course, stopped with the pandemic. Now he’s wondering, Is it time to resume, and if so, how? “A lot of stuff has come out about entertaining during the plague,” he continues. “Buffets seem a little kooky, so one of the things we started to do is individual hors d’oeuvre plates. People kind of like it. It’s a glamorous version of a boxed lunch.” Welcome to the second holiday season under…

Emily in Paris isn’t Ashley in Paris—at least, not quite. The Netflix series, returning for a second season December 22, follows a young American making her way in the City of Light, but the show’s cast seems to have picked up some Parisian savoir faire more quickly than their onscreen counterparts. “There are things that are so similar about our experiences,” says Ashley Park, who co-stars as the title character’s bombastic friend, Mindy Chen, “and things that aren’t.” To wit, while the characters on Emily are still finding their way, the actors returned to Paris with a bona fide hit on their hands, and the fans to prove it. “Early on, Lily Collins and I stopped for coffee, and this woman behind us told us she loved the show,” Park…

It’s the story of a necklace that began life as a chest of drawers. Which is exactly the kind of magical reality you encounter when viewing the jewelry of Ana Khouri. The New York–based, Brazilian-born Khouri trained as a sculptor, and now she fuses form and art in each of her pieces. She feels what she designs—in the literal sense, naturally, but in ways beyond that, too. So how does an unused, unsigned rosewood chest relegated to a corner of a family farm outside São Paulo become a one-of-a-kind collar set in fair-mined gold and centered with a pear-shaped, ethically produced diamond? “The chest provided the way into it,” says Khouri, whose time in her native country during quarantine ignited a renewed connection to nature. It was the perfect color…

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1 Cédric Grolet Le Meurice, 6 Rue de Castiglione SPECIALTY Grolet is as much a visual master as a star pâtissier—a fact most wonderfully evident when one views and tastes in person his trompe l’oeil creations. (They look exactly like the ingredients with which they are made: lemons, apples, hazelnuts.) WHERE For a grand experience, go to Le Meurice, where Grolet serves as the hotel’s pastry chef and also has a stand-alone boutique called La Pâtisserie du Meurice par Cédric Grolet. CEDRIC-GROLET.COM 2 Pierre Hermé 72 Rue Bonaparte SPECIALTY Too many to list, though his Ispahan macarons are cult classics and his chocolate confections exquisite. For this year’s bûche he turned to artist Safia Ouares for inspiration. “In her evocation of Christmas, between gardens and clouds, she created a dream,…

“What I want for the holidays is time with my ohana, especially my mother, who is one of the greatest piñata makers in the game.”—Evan Mock, Aki on Gossip Girl…

With all the shiny new toys available to give as presents to the masters of the universe, it seems all they want this holiday season is a gift card from Father Time. Lately the Jeff Bezoses of the world are not just plundering their fortunes to turbocharge into space. They’re also investing in research labs that bill themselves as nothing short of modern-day Ponce de Leóns, laser-focused on solving intractable health issues and aiming to crack the code of immortality. Next-generation aging experiments have already led to findings that extend the life span of mice by up to 30 percent, but do we really want to live to be 130? If the last third of life sucks, then what’s the point? Rank-and-file moguls just care about quality time left, and…

“Many things of national importance happened here—many not positive at all. But are the necessary conversations happening? Yes.”—Marcus Amaker, Charleston’s poet laureate, in the Park Circle neighborhood “Until we reckon with history, we’re not going to be free,” Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, has said, comparing historical discourse in America unfavorably to that of countries like Germany, South Africa, and Rwanda, which have had their reckonings. “I think there’s something better waiting for us that we can’t get to until we talk honestly about our past.” In 2018 Charleston, routinely voted the number one city in America, did an uncommon thing: It tried to go there, as it were. (This in a country that has seen a recent push to ban Toni Morrison’s Beloved because its depiction…

WATCH NIGHT Every New Year’s Eve (Freedom’s Eve, as it was known historically among the Gullah Geechee people) churches across the Lowcountry commemorate the coming of January 1, 1863, and the end of slavehry. Watch Night includes songs, music, and testimonials; participants from outside the community are welcome. AFRICANAMERICANCHARLESTON.COM FESTIVAL OF HOUSES & GARDENS In addition to displaying some of America’s most beautiful homes, the festival includes a March 18 luncheon lecture, “Gullah Memories,” by writer Herb Frazier, about the cultural and culinary influences on Charleston of the region’s descendants of enslaved Africans. MARCH 16–APRIL 9, HISTORICCHARLESTON.ORG SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA Delayed for two years by the pandemic, the performing arts extravaganza premieres the opera Omar, based on the life of an Islamic scholar who was born in Senegal, captured, and…

At night the Plaza Hotel glows like a megayacht on the high seas. On the seventh floor, one sparkling row of windows stretches the entire block, overlooking Central Park’s treetops, Fifth Avenue, and the fountain in the center of Grand Army Plaza. For years those in the know could look up through those windows and glimpse works by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, and Jackson Pollock hanging on the walls—a collection of masterpieces resting comfortably in their castle. Bought over five decades by real estate tycoon Harry Macklowe and his wife Linda, this world class art collection used to greet prominent guests at exclusive cocktail parties. It was a setting that once inspired a major museum benefactor to turn to her billionaire husband and exclaim, “And I thought we…

A Thursday evening is a great time to witness the controlled chaos and the familial priorities that define the household of photographer Alexei Hay and his wife, the designer Batsheva Hay. It is not, however, the best time to have a linear conversation about the state of their artistic partnership and the traditions they follow. Chez Hay, family matters more than fashion, even if they’re inextricably intertwined. When the couple arrive at their Upper West Side apartment after their respective workdays, their nanny is finishing dinner and their children, Ruth, 8, and Solomon, 6, are eagerly awaiting their attention. The dialogue ping-pongs from one inquisitive kid to the other to questions about how the Hays have built a small but influential fashion business out of practicing observant Judaism, which the…

WHAT’S #VERYTANDC? The history: India Mahdavi. Daniel Arsham. Armani/Casa. The Future Perfect. Such are the design tours de force behind 14 unique townhouses at the Culture Pass Club, Qatar’s first members-only arts club in Msheireb Downtown Doha, a gleaming $5.5 billion design district currently under development in the country’s capital. Townhouse 4, seen here, is the creation of Mahdavi, who referenced her own background—the Paris-based designer is of Iranian, Egyptian, and Scottish descent—for an exquisite display of eclecticism. Her Charlotte chairs mingle with rattan and ceramic pieces from her collection; the rugs are from a collaboration with La Manufacture Cogolin. On the walls? Custom de Gournay, naturally, inspired by the works of Reza Abbasi, the 16th-century miniaturist. “It gives the space a tailored feel,” Mahdavi says, “and an identity that…

Peter Duchin can tell us a thing or two. About music, about style, about survival with a smile. The legendary bandleader’s first memoir, Ghost of a Chance, delivered memorable storytelling and anthropological information on a lost world, its customs, and its language: “[Marie Harriman] may have coined the expression ‘rat-fuck,’ which is what she called parties that were too big. I don’t know what she had against the City of Brotherly Love, but she called a really big terrible party a ‘Philadelphia rat-fuck.’” Hilarity was the dominant note. Face the Music, out this month and cowritten with Patricia Beard, is Duchin’s moving and deeply personal follow-up. It was begun as a meditation on his need to know more about the mother he lost almost at birth (“Would we recognize each…

“As Auntie Mame said, ‘Life is a banquet,’ and I’m planning on giving food and clothing to those in need during My Favorite Time of the Year.”—Dionne Warwick, music legend…

“What could you get for the couple that has it all, and yet has been such a gift for Page Six and other believers in true love? We can’t stretch to diamonds, but if ‘Love Don’t Cost a Thing,’ we’d happily send them our love with a free subscription to the New York Post.”—Emily Smith, editor, Page Six…

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GO A BIT BRITISH ARISTO ON BARBADOS COBBLERS COVE Colonial vibes in the Caribbean? You might think, “Ho-hum.” Not so at Cobblers Cove. Yes, it has been around since 1968, the year its central Great House on Barbados’s sunset-facing west coast was turned into a hotel with 40 cottages by Alan Godsal (a sometime walker for Princess Margaret). Still family-owned (by Godsal’s son and his designer wife), it has just emerged from a five-year renovation in partnership with the fabric and furniture house Soane Britain. Call it nouveau colonial: The pinks and whites have been jazzed up with blues and greens, hand-printed linens, and whimsical islandmade rattan furniture. The beach here is narrow, but the sea-facing swimming pool, surrounded by chaises longues and jaunty striped umbrellas, is a millennial’s retro…

BULLDOG TOURS John LaVerne’s 20-year-old company offers an African-American History & Heritage Tour that is done on foot—the best way to see Charleston. It’s a detailed and well-told two-hour overview of the history of Charleston’s Black community, both enslaved and free. A must even if you think you know. BULLDOGTOURS.COM CHARLESTON AFRICAN AMERICAN TOURS Co-owner Nate Hutchinson, a descendant of both enslaved Africans and white slave owners, speaks fluent Gullah, which combines English with a multitude of African languages. He’s a voluble and opinionated guide to both Charleston’s history and its current conundrums. CHARLESTONAFRICANAMERICANTOURS.COM SITES AND INSIGHTS TOURS Al Miller‘s 38-mile circuit includes Gullah Geechee communities on James and Johns islands. The houses are on erstwhile plantations—right where the slave quarters that housed the residents’ ancestors were. ”They have no…

SAGITTARIUS NOVEMBER 23–DECEMBER 21 By the time December ends, you’ll be entering a period of possibility, especially in your personal life. Financially, though, it’s time to wait and see rather than jumping on bandwagons. Developments in January are spirit lifters, but you’re wise to survey the landscape carefully before making any moves. By month’s end, elusive dreams will come into focus. EMILY P. WHEELER ($9,800), EMILYPWHEELER.COM GEMINI MAY 22–JUNE 21 Close relationships are in the throes of change in December, and in this case change will be all for the good. You’re on the brink of a more active, satisfying period professionally. In January it’s time to scrutinize various agreements and financial arrangements. Opportunities exist to upgrade your status or to get yourself on a more secure track. JOHN HARDY,…

Though its skyscrapers get all the attention, New York City is a jewel box of hidden treasures. On a quiet stretch of East 69th Street, a tidy double carriage house contains a sanctuary that, perhaps by design, remains a secret to most Upper East Siders even after 40 years. The Urasenke Chanoyu Center looks like an authentic Japanese garden and teahouse that has been airlifted and gently placed within the walls of a 19th-century structure that once housed the horse-drawn carriages of the city’s upper class. The truth isn’t far off. The teahouse complex, which includes four tea rooms built around a center courtyard, is a faithful reproduction, constructed by Japanese workmen exclusively with materials sent from Kyoto. Removed from the expensively manicured bustle of Park Avenue, Urasenke serenely rubs…

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Pavlova—constructed with delicacy and care, yet destined by its nature to a state of sticky mayhem and dissolution—is a dessert for our times. Built upon a brittle, foamy foundation of slowly baked meringues, bound and topped with layers of bright berries and cloudlike cream, it’s a contained riot of textures and contrasts. Fluffy and crunchy, sweet and tart. It is as weightless as a billionaire in space and as loaded up as a clown car. Where did it come from, this lovely layered mess? Most culinary origin stories are partial truths at best. Pavlova, we’re told, takes its name from the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, who toured Australia and New Zealand in 1926. Dazzling audiences, she (somehow) left her mark in the form of this beloved confection, which both…