OCCUPATION: Jewelry Designer MY STYLE: Clean and casual. My favorite designers include Tomas Maier, Bottega Veneta, Jil Sander, and Rick Owens. I LOVE MILAN BECAUSE: The center is small, so it’s easy to move from one place to another. Pasticceria Marchesi One of Milan’s oldest bakeries, Marchesi offers delicious baked goods that have garnered quite …
OCCUPATION: Executive president of Havas Media MY STYLE: Rock chic. I love skinny pants, oversized jackets, lots of black and leather. My favorite designers are Versace, Givenchy, and Stella McCartney. All my bags are from Tod’s. I LOVE MILAN BECAUSE: Of its dimension. Almost everything is walking distance or a short drive away. It’s also …
OCCUPATION: Mother MY STYLE: Sporty, simple, and elegant, but not necessarily in that order. I only wear one important accessory (bag or shoes or jewelry) at a time. When you’re 20, you can exaggerate, but after 40, the less you wear the better and younger you seem, though on important occasions I do like to …
Another number from The Very Best gets us in that end-of-summer mood I know, I know. I am breaking the ultimate mixtape rule: never feature the same artist twice. But I couldn’t help it. This is the perfect summer anthem: “The sky could fall down any day / nothing lasts forever anyway / as long …
When asked about her favorite artists, Sharon Shapiro can’t help but get a wee bit academic—dropping analytical remarks about Frida Kahlo’s ironic symbolism, Lucian Freud’s complex figurations, and—explored herein—Wayne Thiebaud’s exploration of the mundane (think cupcakes, lipstick, cafeteria utensils). As an accomplished painter in her own right, Shapiro may know her share of art methods and theory. …
“There is no balance—only life.” While you might expect these words to have come from a new age sage, they were, in fact, uttered by the glamorous, Hollywood-based novelist, Step Mom co-writer, and mother of two, Gigi Levangie Grazer. Between her upcoming book, The After Wife (which you can pre-order here), her tech company, film adaptations, and raising her down-to-earth boys, …
Back to school signals not just a return to learning, but one to hectic schedules for the whole family. In the midst of making sure the trains—or at least the carpools—run on time, concerns about whether those carrots are organic can be among the first to go by the wayside. That’s where Michelle Obama, First …
OCCUPATION: Chief Creative Officer of Stella & Dot MY STYLE: A mix of boho chic and classic I LOVE NEW YORK BECAUSE: There’s Washington Square Park, Citibabes, and everything is walkable! We also go to Sag Harbor for the Children’s Museum of the East End, and Goat on the Boat puppet shows! It’s a great community, …
Ease them back into the schoolyear with these great stories In our house, the best time is story time. No matter what the day has been like, or where in the world we are, when we get ready to read a book together, our bodies quiet down and our hearts are wiped clean. We are …
The creator of the adored mouse takes a trip “Who likes Maisy?” a staff member of Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore posed to the audience of preschoolers and parents yesterday. “I like Maisy,” one girl announced several times before sitting back and watching, mouth agape, as author and illustrator Lucy Cousins drew a cast of characters very dear to …
