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OCCUPATION: Part-time business owner, part-time Master’s student in environmental management. MY STYLE IS: Modern, vibrant, and lofty colonial best describe my home–nothing cold and minimal. Fashionwise, I mix Zara & H&M with Roger Vivier and Kate Spade, and add splashes of color on to a black or gray canvas most of the time. I LOVE […]

Linda Goldstein Knowlton’s doc examines the dual worlds of Chinese adoptees In the opening scene of Somewhere Between, an American couple waits to see their child for the first time. They are visibly anxious, and hardly less so once the child is placed—wailing—in the mother’s arms. That mother, who turns out to be the film’s director,

Sexy essentials for the modern mom   This month we’ve been embracing sex and motherhood. From the “Birds and the Bees” to how difficult it is to feel sexy in your new post-baby body, to naughty confessions; we’re all about celebrating letting loose and enjoying time in the sheets.

London gallery owner Louisa Guinness on the Renaissance master’s revolutionary skylight Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi may be best known for his studies in linear perspective, but Louisa Guinness loves the more tangible side of his achievements, too. “My children love to understand how things work, and it’s interesting to explain Brunelleschi’s designs to them,” she

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Disney animator Dan Lund turns out an app that’s pure fun Dan Lund has worked on little-known films like Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. When his niece and nephew made him the audience of their constant stream of ‘knock knock’ jokes, he turned to the app world to develop a game that could provide the

As the last of the Camelot clan, Caroline Kennedy has the unhappy task of serving as a symbol of the family members she’s lost. However painful, though, she approaches carrying on the Kennedy legacy with a grace that recalls her famous mother, to which her involvement with the American Ballet Theatre, the Fund for Public Schools, the John

On answering the call to create In a hyperrealist instance of life imitating TV, fashion design programs saw an increase in applications after Project Runway first aired back in 2004. Since then, we’ve seen a number of other depictions of the industry, from The City to How to Make it In America. Chances are you don’t allow your child to

Hearing about Jennifer Hung-Zanarini’s idyllic island life on Formentera makes us want to promptly book a ticket for our upcoming holidays. This chic mother of two adorable boys and co-founder of Nanny, Tata & Co., an international nanny agency, splits her time between Lugano, Bologna, and New York, with summers spent at their home on the

For those of us who remember Care Bears as picture books, lo-tech animations, or huggable critters with velvet stomachs and plastic beads for noses, the brand’s new computer-generated TV series might take a little getting used to. Still, the techy revival—prompted by Care Bears’ 30th anniversary—is only fitting, poised to enchant a new generation of two- to