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team began to fog the windows of our van as it snaked along the bumpy road, and an overwhelming smell— sulf ur — enveloped the entire vehicle. With our crew in tow, we were nearing our f irst shoot location just after sunrise; this was the calm before the proverbial tourist storm that would descend upon the mountain in a matter of hours. It comes a s no su r pr ise t hat tou r ist s f lock to Saint Lucia’s La Souf r ière — a mountain billed as “the world’s only d r ive -i n volc a n o” — b e c a u s e t h e r e’s something magical about the experience. At La Soufrière, our model gracefully navigated the bubbling pools of muddy water and posed against volcanic rock for mations, the photographs of which you’ll see on page 152. But the beauty of the island, we fou nd, wasn’t limited to La Soufrière. At Sugar Beach, A Viceroy Resor t, on Saint Lucia’s west coast, the la nd scape is equ ally st u nning. T he beachf ront hotel is nestled between the island’s UNESCO-protected Piton mountains among 100 acres of lush rainforest, and the t ranquil oasis has amassed a celebrity clientele including
Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon. Each of the property’s 78 private bungalows is equipped with its own butler and plunge pool, plus sweeping views that’ll convince you home is a million miles away, even though it’s less than six hours from New York (JetBlue f lies direct). Sugar Beach served as an exquisite backdrop for our shoot and a luxurious place of respite for our hardworking team. In putting together D u J o u r’ s s p r i n g b o o k , o u r t r avel s e x t e n d e d f a r beyond the island of Saint Lucia. We sent a photogr aphe r to capt u re t he extreme beauty of one of the world’s driest regions, the C h i le a n de s e r t ; ou r aut o w r iter headed to Japan to report on the future of cars at the Tokyo Motor Show; t wo up -and- comi ng actors were photographed on the streets of London. We li ke to thi n k of ever y issue as a jou r ney— at r ight, some of ou r favor ite moment s f rom t h is one. — LINDSAY SILBERMAN
From top: The towering Piton mountains as seen from Sugar Beach resort on Saint Lucia’s west coast; our model brings spring’s best and brightest to the island’s shores; one of Sugar Beach’s private villas. Left: Photographer Martien Mulder shot the Atacama Desert for our story “Southern Rising” (yes, that’s sand, not snow). Below: The Tokyo Motor Show displayed a sleek future of road travel.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: ETTA MEYER. KEITH POLLOCK. COURTESY OF SUGAR BEACH, A VICEORY HOTEL. MARTIEN MULDER. PAUL BIEDRZYCKI.
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Hi ho, polo | 40 Bucking traditional polish for laissez-faire style; from A to Zegna A cut Above | 42 Filigree makes a mark in every style-conscious realm; David Webb’s master class prime Time | 44 Rhonda Riche goes behind the scenes of Jay Z’s collaboration with Hublot My So-Called (‘90s) Life | 46 The decade that turned Courtney Love, TLC and Posh Spice into fashion icons gets some upgrades
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Graphic Design | 50 Striking patterns and kaleidoscopic florals combine for a look that’s audacious and museum-worthy
LIFE Lush in Translation | 58 The runway’s botanical trend interpreted through showstopping 3-D creations Rediscovered | 60 Six interiors experts curate newly upholstered chairs with unexpected fabric pairings
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The Long & Winding Meal | 64 An avowed enemy of tasting menus, food critic Corby Kummer takes another seat at the table
BODY Pink Slip | 68 Embrace pastels for a subtle, shimmery beauty look this spring Above: Tunic, $895, MAIYET, maiyet.com. Maxi dress (worn underneath), $395, DKNY, dkny.com. Celia cuff, $690, CHLOÉ, saks.com. Landmark Mini Fontana Lady bag, $148; Landmark Weston Crossbody bag, $128, LANDS’ END, landsend.com. Sandals, $1,470, SACAI, sacai.jp.
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Up & comer | 84 Meet the curator who’s landed two of the art world’s most coveted gigs Rules of Engagement | 88 A public-speaking expert reveals his secrets D.C. Dispatch | 90 Drinking at embassy bars; CNN’s Dana Bash reveals the ins and outs of Congress Knock On Wood | 92 Discover a new office landscape with more natural elements Nyet-Scape | 94 Who’s who of the U.S.’s dizzying number of wealthy, powerful Russians
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Christo’s Crusade | 97 The public-art pioneer reminisces with Michael Bloomberg about The Gates in Central Park
aspen | 170 A critically acclaimed gin cocktail; four perfect wines for après ski
Unique Page Views | 100 Six standouts from spring’s impressive new fiction
Chicago | 171 Socially responsible blazers; Carolina Herrera’s diffusion lifestyle line; mini empires face off
The Great Confabulator | 102 How did “Clark Rockefeller” fool everyone around him, including famed novelist Walter Kirn? How Does She Do It? | 106 Miss Piggy looks back on her life in the spotlight
FEATURES The Bold Testament of Jennifer Connelly | 110 Who better to stand beside Noah and his ark than the actress, who’s navigated the choppy waters of Hollywood? Connelly reveals her adventurous side. By Adam Rathe; photographed by Ben Hassett Easy Street | 118 For two breakout stars of Divergent, spring outerwear is polished enough to stand out in a London crowd. By Adam Rathe; photographed by Kalle Gustafsson Southern Rising | 124 You’re way off the grid and deep in the desert. Welcome to Chile. By Alyssa Giacobbe; photographed by Martien Mulder Golden Child | 132 In hard-edged leather, model turned mogul Amber Valletta proves she plays by her own ground rules. By Lindsay Silberman; photographed by David Dunan Domestic affairs | 140 At the Fifth Avenue home of two art-world aficionados, objects on display represent more than meets the eye. By Bill Keith; photographed by Simon Watson A Breath of Fresh Heir | 148 George P. Bush is approaching his first election with a famous last name and ideas distinctly his own. By Andrew Marton; photographed by Alex John Beck
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The other side of paradise | 152 In Saint Lucia, spring’s best and brightest take a refreshingly unstructured beat. Photographed by Thomas Whiteside The Second Hand Unwinds | 164 Sleek and evening-ready classic styles boast clean dials and sophisticated straps. Photographed by Marton Perlaki; edited by Sydney Wasserman
Dallas | 173 Tom Ford comes home; Renzo Piano’s latest project Houston | 174 Three men designing clothes women want to wear Las Vegas | 175 Surprising night out options; Givenchy at the Wynn Los Angeles | 179 The duchess of dance; upping the Sunset Strip’s culinary game Miami | 182 What’s new at the Fontainebleau; fashion’s battle of the sexes New York | 186 Revolutionary barbershop brigade; real estate’s most dynamic duo Tri-State | 189 Restoration Hardware’s new Greenwich home; Borgata sharpens its knives Orange County | 192 A life-changing water purifier; activewear from L*Space’s creator palm beach | 193 Five pieces for spring; The Breakers partners with Badgley Mischka San Francisco | 194 A weekend getaway to Paso Robles; Ghurka hits Union Square parties | 196 Binn around Miami and New York; Fashion Gives Back at Crystals; Dwyane Wade and Hublot; Graff’s poker invitational
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talks to novelist Walter Kirn, whose new book, Blood
jobs of the magazine editor is to
Will Out, tells the true story of his strange friendship
look ahead and determine what’s
with con man and convicted murderer Christian Karl
new, what’s next, what people will
Gerhartsreiter, who went by the name Clark Rockefeller.
be talking about—or should be
It was a friendship Kirn could have brushed aside if he
talking about—three months, six
hadn’t been so curious—a Rockefeller!—and so willing
months, a year from now. We deal
KP: Food writer and restaurant critic Corby Kummer, an
again, doesn’t everybody these days?
avowed hater of the restrictions and egos associated
We’ve got gurus of all types who
with the tasting menu, likewise writes about coming
preach living in the moment, and yet
around to the format in “The Long & Winding Meal.”
everything in our lives is so thought
There is some good, he acknowledges, in taking diners
out and meticulous and precise. It’s
beyond their comfort zones. At the same time, we
practically impossible not to know,
recognize the positives of planning—and of persever-
or to at least want to know, what
ance—in our profile of cover subject Jennifer Connelly.
tomorrow will bring.
This is an actress who has been working since she was
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14, and she’s earned the right to be choosy. But, as
ICOLE VECCHIARELLI: Planning ahead is our comfort zone. Maybe that’s why some of the most exciting
new films deal in stories about the
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especially for her role in the new Noah—with a meticulousness of someone just coming up.
NV: We also consider the popularity of extreme travel, in which the length of the journey bestows as many bragging
stars we feature in “Easy Street.”
rights as what you do when you get there, in “Southern
Or why we clamor for the auto
Rising.” How far are you willing to go to get away?
industry to tell us what we’ll want
KP: Of course, if this issue contains one constant, it’s the
to be driving next, as Paul Biedrzycki
enduring legacy and timeless appeal of arguably our
found in Tokyo, where Japanese
most exciting collaborator to date, one of Hollywood’s
carmakers recently got together to present
most major stars: Miss Piggy. In our new “Nostalgia”
their collective vision for the cars of tomorrow
column, the legend looks back at but one moment in her
(hint: sayonara, SUV).
long career (and there are even more memories online
far? There’s an interesting argument to be made that all this knowing carries a danger and a loss. In “Mystery Loves Company,” Alexandra Peers explores the social ramifications of technology that lets us know everything from what our neighbor’s living room looks like to who we’ll be sitting next to on tomorrow’s flight to Miami. There is no such thing anymore as surprise.
NV: Throughout this issue, we make a case
for embracing the unknown and learning to approach uncertainty with openness. In “The Great Confabulator,” writer Lauren Waterman Sara Blomqvist wears a top and shorts by JIL SANDER and sandals by CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN.
Adam Rathe finds out, she still approaches filming—
future, like Divergent, whose young
KP: But can the search for knowledge go too
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Getting to know some of the talent behind this issue—lunch order and all
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Hairstylist, “The Bold Testament of Jennifer Connelly,” p. 110 SOUP DUJOUR: CALDO GALLEGO
“There are a lot of things to consider when deciding a style: the fashion, the photographer’s vision, the location and, of course, the actress,” explains celebrity hairstylist Orlando Pita, who gave Jennifer Connelly a sleek “graphic look” for DuJour’s cover. The first time he worked with Connelly, for A Beautiful Mind, she went on to win an Oscar. Now, 12 years later, he’s still inspired by her. “She’s strong, and she has an opinion. I like that in a woman,” he says.
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SOUP DUJOUR: HOT AND SOUR
“Forget about the tourists. I always thought that the real reason to do it was for the people of New York,” says Mayor Michael Bloomberg (above, with the artist) regarding The Gates, a Central Park art installation by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Bloomberg, who sat down with Christo to discuss the 2005 exhibit, explained why the project was so important to him as mayor: “A city is not just concrete. It’s a living, breathing thing.... You want to go around the world and be able to say ‘I come from a place that’s open to new ideas.’ ”
TINA CHAI Stylist, “Graphic Design,” p. 50 SOUP DUJOUR: PEA
When Tina Chai met model Sara Blomqvist, her vision for the shoot immediately came to life. “I was really into these oversized shapes, where everything feels big and tomboyish,” says Chai, who has styled editorials for Vogue and i-D. “She seemed like she would wear those kind of clothes. There was a slightly androgynous quality about her.” Chai admits that her own aesthetic also informed the look of the shoot. “I’ve definitely been accused of dressing like an Amish boy.”
Martien Mulder felt as if she were traveling back in time during her trip to Chile. “It’s so traditional and devoid of technology,” says the photographer. “That’s what you just don’t find anymore.” Mulder was blown away by the light she found while shooting in the desert. “All I could think of was James Turrell. Even when the sun goes down behind the mountains, the light is magical.” Mulder’s work has appeared in Purple and Vogue Paris and been showcased in exhibitions around the world.
CORBY KUMMER
Writer, “The Long & Winding Meal,” p. 64 SOUP DUJOUR: CONSOMMÉ
Boston Magazine restaurant critic Corby Kummer is not shy about his disdain for tasting menus, but he doesn’t imagine they’ll disappear from restaurants anytime soon. “Chefs are so attracted to the idea that they can have the stage completely cleared—get the diner out of the picture so that their artistry is on full display,” says Kummer, who is also a senior editor at The Atlantic. Numerous chefs have asked to have him fired as a critic, but, says Kummer, “I’m still waiting to go into a restaurant and be asked to leave.”
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anne vyalitsyna WHO: The 27-year-old supermodel is expanding her brand with a new role on Oxygen’s competition series The Face.
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WEARING: Roberto Cavalli Spring 2014
“I have to admit, I was really scared to work with Naomi Campbell,” Vyalitsyna says of the show’s executive producer, “because I’ve looked up to her my whole life.” Luckily, it was a great experience. “She was there for us and empowered us,” she says, “which enabled us to empower the girls. And in the end everyone walked away with a mentor in one way or the other.”
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Blouse, $1,580; Trousers, price upon request, ROBERTO CAVALLI, 212-7557722. Cockta il ring in 18-karat yellow gold with emeralds and diamonds, $121,000, BUCCELLATI, 212-308-2900.
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Lynn Yaeger embraces the “ugly” footwear phenomenon—with just a few caveats ILLUSTRATED BY STEPHEN CHEETHAM
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here she stands, resplendent, a go dde s s i n he r sl i m sh i f t , clutching that newly famous handbag that looks like a grossly d istended envelope, not a sh i ny hair out of place except the strand that is meant to be out of place. But wait, what’s that on her feet? Where should reside the most splendid of pumps, there are instead two furry slides that prove, on closer examination, to be deviant cousins of the lowly Birkenstock—a style formerly embraced by those in need of orthopedic footwear and maybe a few latter-day hippies still clinging to their Indian-bedspread dresses. If her transgressive shoes bear some relat ion sh ip to Meret O p penheim’s famous 1936 Surrealist masterpiece “Object” (a fur-covered teacup), they are not meant to serve as a walking art project. They are in fact by Céline, and were among t he most coveted accessor ies of last summer. These neo-hoofs, these furball friends, with their fancy label and their ambitious price tag, are not the only discordant, strangely charming, char mingly st range pairs in shoe-land at the moment. For spring 2014, we are looking down the tongues of, among other jolie-laide suggestions, Marni’s towering blackand-white f lip-f lops, Prada’s bejeweled yellow Tevas, silvery huaraches courtesy of Proenza Schouler and turquoise suede studded wedge sneakers from Giuseppe Zanotti that have a curious foreshortening effect, so that it looks like the wearer has bound feet. Of course, there is a long tradition of heretofore hideous, or at least, practical styles that have been elevated to st ylish heights. For at least a century, fisherman (and fisherwomen?) wouldn’t have dreamed of wearing espadrilles for a night on the town; in more recent years, could any one have imagined that Uggs, which landed on these shores around 30 years ago, would grace the feet of ever yone from pre-K scholars to bodacious legends like André Leon Talley? And let’s not even discuss Crocs, which some people (OK, me, when I’m in a bad mood)
believe should be banned everywhere but boardwalks and boudoirs. What makes people want to trot around in cerulean tugboats decorated with spikes? Is it just the exhilarating rush of something truly new, the appeal of “so wrong it’s right?” To answer this question, I do what any reporter worth her worn out black Repetto ballet slippers would do—I ask around. My friend K., a sort of jailhouse fashion historian, says it was only a matter of time before stilettos gave way to f lourishes more earthbound. “It’s the job of fashion to reinvent—after those sky-high heels, we had to get rid of everything and start from zero.” Plus, she observes, with a nod to the financial exigencies of the fashion world, a radical shift in perspective will get the butts back in the shoe-department seats: “No one owned these already.” Well of cou rse no one al ready has an u ngainly canary Teva dripping faux emeralds in her closet! Maybe because they are ferociously,
lust-bustingly ugly? A retail exec of my acquaintance, whom I shall call Mr. F., says f latly that despite how prominently these hoofers grace the pages of magazines, “You’ll never get laid in these shoes.” He avers that creations like the metallic gladiator sandal, gargantuan Mary Janes and high, thick-heeled oxfords with a fringy f lap are being purchased “strictly for the purpose of impressing other women.” Could be, Mr. F. But you are also forgetting one other thing—the C word. My deeply soigné buddy, a fashion professional I will call Ms. E., has lately been having a torrid love affair with a pair of Dries Van Noten matte leather loafers distinguished by a thick wedge and rubber sole that she describes as “basically big black erasers on my feet. I know I’m not supposed to care about this, but they were exceptionally”—dare she utter the word?—“comfortable.” E. says she was fully aware that the shoes in question might not be considered the height of elegance, “ but I wa s also buy i ng a heav y, long-sleeved sh i r t d re ss t hat h it slightly above the knee and needed to be grounded by something more substantial than a BB pump.” (Full disclosure, I thought when E. said “BB” she meant Big and Black— or maybe Brigitte Bardot? Betty Boop? But in fact—what do I really know about fashion?— “BB,” it turns out, stands for a type of Manolo, a classic, 50–115mm-heel, pointed-toe pump with a single sole that is a stellar exemplar of quiet elegance. Just so you know.) Still, even as E. glides (OK, clumps) through her fashionable day, hobnobbing with designers, retailers and editors, she and the millions of women who plan to greet the spring with hybrid monstrosities strapped to their pedicured piggies are well aware of her shoes’ limitations. E. admits that she is not above jettisoning her beloved clunkers at a moment’s notice. “If I am asked out on a last-minute date, I have to switch shoes— these make me feel like an elderly librarian.” She sighs, then acknowledges the unfathomable ways of the heart. “But I do love them.”
When Mario Batali learned that Crocs would be discontinuing his favorite color of orange, he went ahead and ordered 200 pairs.
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While classic labels like Manolo Blahnik and Salvatore Ferragamo have made comeback strides throughout the last year, the current footwear favorites are the newest to the market. From Delpozo’s artful, architectural heels to Lucchese’s textured pumps and SJP’s playful sandals, these are the latest and greatest of springtime shoes PHOTOGRAPHED by joanna mcclure
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From top: Cara pump, $2,995, LUCCHESE, lucchese.com. Sandal, $1,170, DELPOZO, modaoperandi. com. Maud sandal, $375, SJP, nordstrom.com.
eave it to other designers to spend decades developing their philosophy—the newly launched Trademark sprung forth as a fully realized brand with shoes, handbags and jewelry, and a forthcoming flagship in Soho, to boot. The instant maturity may be due in part to its lineage—design duo (and sisters) Louisa and Pookie Burch are the daughters of Chris and former stepdaughters of Tory—and in part to the founders’ sophisticated sensibility. “We always wanted the aesthetic and brand experience of Trademark to explore and reference great American minimalist design, like the work of Josef Albers, Donald Judd and Black Mountain College,” Pookie says. “There is something quintessentially American about their warm but spare approach to color, but it’s not something often thought about in the context of modern-day American fashion.” Translation? Impeccably cut shirtdresses, fine Italian leather handbags sans obnoxious hardware and that holy grail of fashion, the perfect trench coat. “The name Trademark refers to the idea of individual dressing,” Louisa says. “The clothes that comprise your wardrobe are your own personal trademarks. In that sense, Trademark is an investment.” But a fairly noncommittal one: Prices in the debut spring collection range from $38 for a cotton T-shirt to $450 for a handbag, so perhaps slipping into the role of sensible adult will prove a very wise move. —TRACEY LOMRANTZ LESTER trade-mark.com
Tory Burch recently teamed up with Bank of America to launch Elizabeth Street Capital, a program focused on mentorship and providing loans to women entrepreneurs.
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a welcome move toward practicality for the Italian heritage brand that manages not to sacrifice Zegna’s signature attention to detail and luxury. And Agnona won’t stop at zero: Future collections will be called 1, 2 and so on, in a numerical system inspired by Group Zero, a 1950s artist collective that believed tradition stifled creativity. Pilati clearly agrees, and thanks to him, refined sportswear is back in business. —BROOKE BOBB
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old ideas often come from starting at square one— or, in the case of designer Stefano Pilati, square zero. After a year of secrecy, he has successfully revived Ermenegildo Zegna’s niche womenswear brand Agnona with the contemporary, seasonless Collection 0. Boxy jackets and tailored trousers, which first debuted at a pop-up shop in Milan, are interchangeable and accessible year-round. It’s
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inally, the pendulum is swinging away from the seemingly deathless minimalism that’s long dominated everything from décor (white boxes) to jewelry design (sterling studs). This spring heralds the dawn of the dainty, a new wave of a more fancifully ornate style that, ironically, has been popular much longer. Much much longer: Filigree—the delicate, lace-like style of jewelry created by twisting and soldering metal threads and beads—has literally been around since the days of antiquity. A current exhibit at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art in Santa Fe, called “Filigree and Finery: The Art of Adornment in New Mexico,” focuses in part on the jewelry worn by Spanish settlers of the U.S. in the 17th and 18th centuries. And far older examples, dating back a staggering 3,000 years and from
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cultures as diverse as those of ancient Greece, medieval Europe and 19th-century India, can be found in the permanent collections of the Louvre, the British Museum and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. (A piece of filigreed jewelry pilfered during the Holocaust even features prominently in Ayelet Waldman’s new novel, Love and Treasure.) Of course, while some jewelers are creating new pieces that faithfully replicate the age-old style (see Kwiat), others are playing fast and loose with their interpretations (including Valentino). And the trend is only getting bigger, impacting interior and fashion design as well. One only needs to look to Los Angeles’s new Ace Hotel or Dolce & Gabbana’s lace-swathed spring collection for proof. —LAUREN WATERMAN
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n the early ‘70s, women were embracing a new aesthetic in jewelry—pieces that were not “so richlooking that somebody is willing to kill them to get it,” master jeweler David Webb said at the time. But Webb’s elaborate designs both bucked this trend and turned his clients into die-hard collectors. The legacy continues and the people now responsible for this detailed craftsmanship fans love— everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to
Jennifer Garner—are approximately 35 master jewelers situated above David Webb’s Madison Avenue boutique. None of the experts are under 30 years old; four even worked alongside Webb, who died in 1975. Benjamin Ray, a polisher from South Carolina, started in 1965. And there’s Nazareth Nazarian, an Iraqi immigrant from a jewelry-making family whose education in the business began at age 12, who’s been here since 1971.
“Everything is made in the David Webb workshop,” says Nazarian. “All of the stones are cut here, we set everything and every piece of jewelry is hand polished at least four times before it leaves the premises.” What he can’t explain is how long it takes to master the craft. Even after four decades in the workshop he’s quick to say, “I learn something new every day. You have to have skill from the beginning in order to sit on the bench.” —KRISTA SORIANO
Famous fans of David Webb included Princess Grace of Monaco, Jackie O. and Diana Vreeland, who favored an enamel zebra bangle.
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1. Vintage Collection Pendant necklace, $40,200, KWIAT, kwiat.com. 2. A look from the Valentino SS14 runway. 3. 18th-Century Bolognese giltwood mirror, $65,000, GIUSTI ANTICHITA, 1stdibs.com. 4. Sandals, $3,445, DOLCE & GABBANA, 212-249-4100. 5. Star Spell bangle, $635, MONTBLANC, 201-223-8888. 6. The United Artists Theatre at the new Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. 7. Arabesque Collection Chandelier earrings in 18-karat rose gold, $16,400, POMELLATO, pomellato.com. 8. Chamonix, $10,720, CHRISTOPHER GUY, 212-684-2197.
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Rhonda Riche goes behind the scenes of Jay Z’s collaboration with Hublot watch watchers were expecting a tricked-out version of Hublot’s Big Bang chronograph. Even Guadalupe says, “I was expecting something bling-bling, but Shawn wanted to st a r t a new t rend. ‘Enoug h d iamonds,’ he told me. ‘I want something elegant.’ ” Car ter chose to work with the Classic Fusion. At 45mm, it’s still a big boy, but marks a shift away from hockey-puck-size sport-chic wat che s , t h a n k s t o t he 2.90 m m H U B13 0 0 m o v e m e n t . “ S h a w n asked us to do things we thought we r e i m p o s s i bl e ,” s a y s Guadalupe. “For example, he wanted the shape of the movement to work with the cutaway logo on the dial.” Carter also pushed for finishes in black ceramic and 18-karat gold. The limited-edition c ol le c t io n (av a i l a ble a t Hublot boutiques) is par t of a multi-year deal, with a n e w e d i t i o n sl a t e d t o a r r i ve n e x t f a l l . A s fo r Carter, he plans to be even more involved in the development of future watches, including a complicated tourbillon piece.
From top: Classic Fusion in 18-karat yellow gold, $33,900; Classic Fusion in black ceramic, $17,900, SHAWN CARTER BY HUBLOT, hublot.com.
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GOING CLEAR Timepiece technology keeps moving forward, and so does style. Skeletonized watches— with cutaway dials—let gearheads admire the beauty and the beat
From top: Giga Gong Cintrée Curvex Tourbillon, price upon request, FRANCK MULLER, franckmuller.com. Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane Grand Voyage, $353,000, ZENITH, zenithwatches.com. Altiplano Skeleton, $60,000, PIAGET, 212-246-5555.
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Jay Z debuted the Shawn Carter on his Magna Carter tour stop in Zurich.
Aluminum Renaissance Bracelets, from $350, DAVID YURMAN, davidyurman.com.
Jay Z’s 83-year-old pal Warren Buffett showed up to the 40/40 Club reopening in 2012 flashing the rapper’s signature diamond hand symbol.
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he launch of the eagerly anticipated Shawn Carter by Hublot collaboration was a big deal in the watch world. Carter (a.k.a. Jay Z) is the biggest tastemaker in horology today: When he first rhymed “New watch alert: Hublots” in his duet with Kanye West, “Otis,” the world started to pay attention. Ca r t e r or ig i nal ly approa ched Hublot seeking a partnership, not a role as a brand ambassador. “He is over 40 now,” says Hublot’s CEO Ricardo Guadalupe. “He wants to create a Shawn Carter brand apart from Jay Z.” D re sse d i n a t ai lore d gray suit, Carter appeared in the dining room of Zurich’s Dolder Grand Hotel looking every inch the businessman. “I’m not interested in making a cookie-cut ter watch,” Car ter told his g uests. “It’s not s ome t h i ng you ju s t put your name on.” He spent the next two hours enjoyi ng A r ma nd de Br ig nac champagne and listening to guests share their timepiece passions. When word of the partnership f irst su rfaced,
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Sneaker brands that thrived in the ‘90s are going through a creative renaissance thanks to some new kids on the block. Adidas nabs Kanye West after he leaves Nike.
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NOW: Paulette Shortall, $108, GUESS, guess.com.
THEN: DREW BARRYMORE NOW: Cassiopee choker necklace, $1,685, LANVIN, 646-439-0381. Necklace, $5,495, SAINT LAURENT BY HEDI SLIMANE, ysl.com.
Nike hires Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy to design a high-fashion line
“HONEY, ALL YOU HAVE TO BE BY THE TIME YOU’RE 23 IS YOURSELF.” —ETHAN HAWKE’S TROY DYER IN REALITY BITES
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Thanks to Homeland and Dallas Buyers Club, the My So-Called Life alums are having a moment again.
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Left: Coat, $4,200; Blouse, $985; Skirt, $1,400; Booties, $1,750, MARC JACOBS, 212-343-1490. Below: Vest, $1,165; Pants, $1,415, DRIES VAN NOTEN, Bergdorf Goodman, 212-753-7300. Shirt, $410, DRIES VAN NOTEN, A’Maree’s, 949-642-4423. Sandals, $845, MARC JACOBS, 212-343-1490.
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Above: Shirt, $3,180, MISSONI, missoni.com. Pants, $109, BEBE, bebe.com. Expo sandals, $298, STUART WEITZMAN, 212-750-2555. Right: Dress, $4,190, THE ROW, net-a-porter.com. Costa Nada flats, $1,195, CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, christian louboutin.com. Hair: Fernando Torrent using Oribe Hair Care at L’Atelier NYC. Makeup: Justine Purdue using Diorskin at Tim Howard Management. Model: Sara Blomqvist at DNA. Casting director: Ros Okusanya. Manicure: Chanel Celebrity Manicurist Gina Viviano using Chanel Le Vernis. Stylist Assistant: Claudia Torres.
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This season’s garden of bloom-worthy prints is anything but basic. Floral designer Marisa Competello interprets the runway’s botanical trend through showstopping 3-D creations PHOTOGRAPHED by ina jang
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“You don’t normally find black flowers, so it’s fun to make them up yourself. I painted a bird of paradise to be a blackbird, then to have color I used a beautiful orchid.”
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A pincushion flower + frond the statement : “I love the boldness of this season’s floral trend and how graphic it is. It’s not subtle.”
The discovery of a new flower in the Australian outback came with a surprise—the gender-bending Solanum cowiei disguises female flowers with fake male parts.
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Portuguese Perpetual Calendar. Ref. 5023: One thing at IWC always remains the same: the desire to get even better. Here is one of the finest examples, with the largest automatic movement manufactured by IWC, Pellaton winding and a seven-day power reser ve. The perpetual calendar shows the date and moon phase, and the
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Traditional aesthetics take a backseat to the contemporary with these newly upholstered chairs, each displaying unexpected fabric pairings. Here, cultivating and curating the trend, six interiors experts weigh in PHOTOGRAPHED by Marc Anthony produced by lisa cohen
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The “Binary Chair 01,” made of computer parts, which Lady Gaga used to promote her Artpop album, will head out on the road with the pop star for her U.S. tour.
THE EXPERTS ELABORATE 1. CHUCK CHEWNING, creative director of Donghia OLIVIER DINING CHAIR WITH DONGHIA CRAZY LOVE FABRIC AND ELITIS MAHJONG FABRIC Impact through design is always important for Chewning, especially when it comes to recovering and updating old chairs. As he explains of his latest creation, “I wanted to use a graphic pattern that would be balanced by the smoothness of the velvet on the seat side, creating intrigue as you move around the chair.” Donghia, www.donghia.com
2. LISA COHEN, DuJour home editor ANTIQUE GILT-TRIMMED CHAIR WITH STARK “CAMELOS” LEATHER As a collector, Cohen has an eye for decorative, statement-making pieces. Favoring a Newel Gallery antique gilt-trimmed chair updated with a striking look, Cohen elaborates on her passion for reupholstery: “I love the juxtaposition of a traditional chair with a combination of modern fabrics,” she says. “Now the piece speaks to me!” Stark, www.starkcarpet.com
3. BRADY WILCOX, chief creative officer of The New Traditionalists ORIELLE WING CHAIR WITH HOLLAND & SHERRY DAVINCI SUEDE AND ALTO MARINO ROJO FABRIC
As with fashion, sometimes it’s all about the layering. “Upholstering pieces with different fabrics works the same way a man layers clothes,” says Wilcox. “Mixing patterns and textures, like plaids and flannels, adds a touch of creativity to each finished piece.” He adds, “It’s all about getting creative.” Holland & Sherry, www.hollandandsherry.com
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On the hunt for a more utilitarian feel, Maggard favors new upholstery that can handle some action. She believes that practicality can exist in these artful pieces. She points out, “This chair is perfect for a bachelor pad or library. The mix of leather and plaid on a midcentury chair creates a contemporary yet classic look.” Holland & Sherry, www.hollandandsherry.com
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Speaking of practicality in design, Hunt points out that this Oreille wing chair “can work as an ‘art piece’ and still have a durability advantage with different fabrics, like toned textiles and leathers.” She explains, “Because cushions are easily recovered, using strong fabrics on the body and textiles on the cushions offers depth, contrast and easy change.” Holly Hunt, www.hollyhunt.com
6. GUILLAUME GENTET, designer ARTISTIC FRAME OVAL DINING CHAIR WITH CUSTOM PRINT FABRIC
Playfulness is apparent in Gentet’s choice. He says, “I love the red paired with black and the oval frame that highlights the portrait.” He adds, “It reminds me of the Campbell’s soup cans Andy Warhol created.” Pushing the boundaries, the designer notes that “it might also be a nice touch to have a personal photo printed + more @ on the fabric and framed in the oval as well.” Artistic Frame, www.artisticframe.com —EDITED BY FRANCES BAILEY
Fashion designer Raf Simons has designed a collection of home fabrics for Danish textile company Kvadrat, available this spring.
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Horseback rides are no longer just on the beach—they’re going under water. Darrell Hartman takes the reins
Strike the perfect balance between self-indulgence and philanthropy at the Four Seasons hotels in Landaa Giraavaru and Kuda Hurra. Ten marine biologists assist guests in rescuing and releasing injured sea turtles, and Marine Discovery Centres educate on conservation. marinesavers.com
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has this romantic idea of horses on the beach at sunset,” she says. “I thought: Anyone can walk along a beach! Let’s try swimming.” The animals really are swimming, DeLisser stresses—not just walking in the shallows. It’s not an indigenous practice, per se, but it makes perfect sense in the temperate waters of Jamaica. The country’s numerous racetracks produce a steady supply of retirement-ready veterans.
Rescue hor ses ma ke up about 60 p e rce nt of t he rost e r at Hal f Moon, a nd ma ny t horoug hbred s a r r i ve h a v i n g a l r e a d y l e a r n e d how t o sw i m i n t he r a c et r a ck s’ injur y-rehab pools. “Like people or dogs, they’re not natural-bor n swim mers,” DeLisser says. “But because of the power of their legs, they’re act u ally ver y good once they’re taught.” Half Moon’s scheduled swims are in the morning, when the water is less choppy, and for the ride back t o shore, r ide r s ca n sl ip of f t he horse’s back, grab its tail and be towed in. The animals, possessed of a laid-ba ck isla nd me nt al it y, don’t seem to mind.
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Luxury liner Crystal Cruises brings travelers ashore for a once-in-a-lifetime experience—cuddling baby pandas—at Chengdu’s Giant Panda Research Base. The nonprofit facility is world-renowned. c rystalc ruises.com
for a video of half moon’s swimming horses, produced for dujour by travel filmmakers jungles in paris, visit dujour.com.
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Hard-shell luggage might typically be reserved for the practical, overprotective traveler, but the covered cases in the latest collection from Tumi—by the brand’s new creative director, George Esquivel—will appeal to the style-conscious voyager as well. The Tegra-Lite luggage, available in two desirable new colors, blends style with sensibility and makes the case that a suitcase actually can be as attractive as the cargo it protects. Tegra-Lite Packing Cases, from $595, TUMI, tumi.com.
Travelers with a yen for patience and high tolerance for cold can head to Manitoba, Canada, where three identical polar-bear cubs were spotted in the wild.
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ou can lead a horse to water, the saying goes—but can you make it jump in and start swimming? You can at Half Moon, a pedigreed, 60-year-old Jamaican hotel that has stocked its 28-stable equestrian center with horses trained to do just that. And whether you find it transcendent or merely amusing, riding a thoroughbred bareback into the surf qualifies as one of the world’s most distinctive aquatic ventures. In fact, it’s one that’s been enjoyed by some seriously discer ning travelers—from the Kennedys to British royals—for nearly three decades. The program was started by Trina DeLisser, director of the resor t’s equestrian center, whose in-laws, a long-established Jamaica n fa m ily, ow ned Half Moon’s original plot of land. “Everybody
Don’t be alarmed by the seemingly violent sound of “darting” a rhino. It’s actually a common (and safe) technique used by researchers to monitor and track the endangered species. At AndBeyond Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa, adrenaline junkies are invited to participate with veterinarians and conservationists.
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year ago, after writing a fairly long article about tasting menus in restaurants, I was dismissed as an intolerant, anhedonic, artquashing killjoy. It’s true I wasn’t shy. I implied that chefs who offer tasting menus as the only option are overcome by monstrous egos, intent on showing off their artistic genius at the expense of the diner’s comfort, enjoyment, appetite, good will and financial solvency. This tyranny, I argued, must stop. Chefs were, unsurprisingly, dismayed. Aside from the wound to their artistic pride, they pointed out that customers have only themselves to blame if they don’t like what they get. My favorite reply came from José Andrés, the extremely successful Spanish-born chef and owner of Minibar, a 12-seat tasting-only restaurant in Washington, D.C. (who’s also a good friend). “We don’t put a gun in your brain and say come,” he told restaurant news site Eater. True, but I’d had too many merciless meals whose parade of courses refused to end—whatever the expressions on our faces—brought by humorless servers who made diners feel lucky they’d been admitted and grateful they could enjoy 17, 22, or 33 courses with colossally expensive wine pairings. Then, as part of my obligations as Boston Magazine’s restaurant critic, I was assigned a tasting-only restaurant, only after my editor asked if I could really be objective. But there was a surprise: The restaurant—quirky down to its name, Asta—was my favorite of last year. Asta had features notably different from the big-name places I’d found so oppressive. It didn’t take itself too seriously. Portions were scaled so that whether you chose the three-, five-, or eight-course menu, you left feeling light on your feet. You could actually keep track of what you were eating. The pace was sufficiently rapid-fire that you felt you could linger after dinner. Maybe I had to rethink my ideas. So I talked to Alex Crabb, the chef-owner of Asta, and Daniel Patterson, a chef’s chef whose Coi,
in San Francisco, is both startlingly expensive and startlingly hard to get a table at, to ask about the philosophies behind their tasting menus. I wanted to know how they made them not just bearable but even fun, as my meals at Asta were, or thrilling, as people I respect report about Coi. Patterson is a superb if prickly writer whose Coi: Stories and Recipes, published last year, is a new must on chefs’ shelves. When I called him, he came out with chef’s knives blazing. “The chefs who have most inf luenced food over the past 20 years have all cooked tasting menus without choices,” he began, knowing he’d get me with a reference to Chez Panisse, which for more than 40 years has offered a four-course set menu in its downstairs dining room. “There’s something about the form that draws in the people who are the best in their profession.” Fair enough. Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse has had a profound and essential influence on how two generations of Americans have eaten. Thomas Keller, at the French Laundry in the Napa Valley; his protégé Grant Achatz, at Alinea in Chicago; and Wylie Dufresne, of wd~50, have progressively moved haute cuisine in experimental and fruitful directions. They perhaps could not have done that with à la carte menus that let diners stay in their rutty comfort zones. But four courses turns into 40, and meals become excruciating. The problem, in Patterson’s mind, is less attitude than skill: “You can’t dabble in it,” he said. “You have to think of portion size and make sure there isn’t a sameness. You need energy and forward movement. Balance is huge.” So is judging the attention level of guests. Recently, Patterson trimmed his meal from between three and three and a half hours to two and a half, responding to the desires of his customers—and the shortened attention spans, a San Francisco observer told me of the young, always-wired Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who can afford his meals, which start at $195 a person with a $115 optional wine pairing. (continued on page 66)
The 18-course “Innovations and Inspirations” tasting menu at Paris’ Guy Savoy is one of the world’s priciest, running almost $670 per person before tax, tip or alcohol.
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An avowed enemy of tasting menus, food critic Corby Kummer takes another seat at the table
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Crabb told me that he makes sure his staff reads the signals from diners—but, in a piece of insight I thought every chef should learn, he compared the glum experience he’d had eating at several of New York’s busiest tasting
restaurants with what he aims to create at Asta. At two of the three, he sat at the bar, a format that seems to be the New York way: Momofuku Ko, the tasting-menu outpost of David Chang’s empire; Little Elm, a branch of the celebrated Paul Liebrandt’s new Brooklyn restaurant, the Elm; Atera, opened by Matthew Lightner, a prominent Noma protégé from Portland; and the three-Michelin-star Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare—all of them are exclusively bar seating or prominently feature it. Eating at bars can and should offer the best of many worlds: a chance to watch a kitchen at work; an intimate, face-to-face interchange with waiters; the delight of chance meetings with other companionable diners. That’s what Crabb built into Asta, where 10 of the 45 seats are at a horseshoe-shaped bar. Crabb told me no one at the bars where he ate in New York looked to the left or the right, so intent was every customer at wringing every last drop of culinary wizardry out of the hard-fought reservation and high-priced meal. And the staff encouraged that solemnity, sullenly and silently performing their chores as if in a Dickensian workhouse. He tried to make
conversation with servers and neighboring customers. It didn’t work. At his Asta, as at Noma, cooks “run” food to the tables, so diners feel in on the preparation; at Coi, Patterson says the staff is told to engage with diners as much or as little as the diners like. That obser vation cr ystallized much of what I so strongly dislike about bigdeal tasting-menu restaur a nt s: t he big deals t hey so clearly thin k they are. He a r i ng Pat t e r son’s i m passioned defense of how “ t ra nscendent ” a t ast i ng menu can be and Crabb’s contrast between what he h i m s el f fel t a t b ig- d e a l places and the atmosphere h e s u c c e s sf u l l y c r e a t e s at Asta made me thin k of ways to make the experience bea r able f rom bot h sides of the plate. I’m prepared to be convinced that the true avant-garde can be glimpsed in a tasting menu that takes you places you didn’t and couldn’t know you wanted to go. But I’d also like to suggest a few rules for diners and chefs to follow. Diners: Make preferences and aversions clear when you book a reservation. Tell servers any time or budget restrictions at the start of the meal. Don’t bring crying babies because your babysitter bailed and you didn’t want to lose a table you waited months for (a notorious recent incident at Alinea; the lesson is to call the restaurant, explain, and they’ll find you another time). Chefs: Think about portion sizes and pacing. Eat one of your own multi-course meals and see how you feel at the end of it. Relax! Or, if you’re like every other driven chef, try to keep tension in the kitchen and ask the staff to lighten up, whatever’s going on in the back of the house. If someone — cook, ser ver, bartender—can look like she or he is having fun, the diner is a lot likelier to as well. Even serious art—a description given to very, very few of t h e c h e f s w h o w a n t t o s e r ve t a s t i n g menus—goes down a lot easier if you don’t take it too seriously when you serve it.
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here is dessert wine, and there is the after-dinner cognac, and never the twain shall meet. That is, of course, unless your sommelier is familiar with Pineau des Charentes, a little known French quaff that’s half cognac and half grape juice, aged between 12 months and 10 years in oak barrels to honeyed, nutty perfection. Lightly sweet, with flavors of vanilla, figs, hardwoods and cinnamon, it’s long been popular in France and Belgium but has begun appearing at top American restaurants and bars such as Alinea in Chicago, the Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans and Bouley, Per Se and
PDT in New York, served neat or as part of a cocktail. Pineau is also the unsung hero in the signature cocktail at the World Bar in Manhattan’s Trump World Tower, which contains Remy XO and Veuve Clicquot and is topped with 23-karat liquid gold. Noted cocktail aficionado and political commentator Rachel Maddow is even a fan, once suggesting that, if asked to make a cocktail for President Barack Obama, she’d use it in place of vermouth to make him a decidedly more European version of the gin martini. —Jacqueline Detwiler
Are single-ingredient menus next? Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten recently showed off four pounds of Provence black truffles for his truffle tasting menu.
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Is it a throwback, thoroughly modern, or a little of both? Regardless,
An undiscovered scent makes for a fresh perfume. Megan Deem traces the notes
dapper men are declaring that the use of hair gel is no longer taboo. In fact, the slicked-back look has come full circle, at once reminiscent of Fifties crooners like Elvis and the coolly styled David Beckham. Whether parted to the side or combed straight back, the updated hairstyle is as handsome as ever, provided its wearer remembers that less is always more.—BROOKE BOBB
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erfumers can be a jaded bunch, believing that they have sniffed all the scents t here a re to be sn if fed. So when t hey do f ind something genuinely new, it produces ent hu sia sm roug h ly on a pa r w it h “putting a man on the moon,” in the words of f r ag r a nce expe r t Su m it Bha si n. Such was the case th ree years ago, when a research team working in South Africa came across the white amaryllis, which had never before be e n u se d i n p e r f u me. “ We we re overjoyed,” Bhasin says. “It generated a lot of excitement.” The big question was where to debut this new note. It so happened that Bhasin had been tasked by designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana with creating their next perfume. The duo wanted something “ w it h cont r a st— i n noce nt , yet se n su al,”
Bhasin says. “And we thought, What a fitting place to take the amaryllis f lower.” Now everyone else can see what the fuss was about with this spring’s arrival of Dolce, the latest women’s scent from Dolce & Gabba na. T he desig ners a re deeply connected to their Sicilian roots, and this sundrenched f loral eau de parf um feels right at home among the orange groves and lush greenery of the Mediterranean island. In the bottle, white amaryllis is joined by neroli leaf, white daffodil, white water lily a nd sa nd alwood to create a f resh, f loral bouquet without the fr uity notes that have become common in recent perfumes. Sicily inspired more than the perfume itself—each bottle is topped with a f lower that’s a replica of the handcraf ted marzipan blooms sold in sweet shops across the island.
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The most important meal of the day may be the one you skip. In pursuit of the mind and body benefits of fasting, Alyssa Giacobbe goes without
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A new food substitute called Soylent is aiming to do away with eating meals altogether: The brown powder is said to supply all of the human body’s nutritional needs.
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IV LEAGUE out food was not manageable. On my third attempt, I finally made it 24 hours, if you don’t count the most delicious chewable vitamin I allowed myself at hour 18. I was really bored, and boring, too—a pretty worthless dinner companion. Still, it took only three 24-hour fasts over the course of a week to see a real difference: My stomach was f latter, my skin less dry, and when I wasn’t thinking about food, I really was thinking more clearly about work. Opponents of fasting argue that depriving yourself can lead to binging and to increased levels of the “stress hormone” cortisol, which in some people can cause the body to hold tighter to calor ies. A bet ter approach for those contemplating fasting, says Manhattan internist Richard Ash, MD, is to opt for a once-a-week liquid diet instead. “You won’t get the drop in blood sugar, but you’ll still
“I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.” —DAVID BLAINE mation,” says John Ratey, MD, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of the forthcoming book Go Wild, about the physical and cognitive benefits of maintaining a primal lifestyle. “It’s a good stressor—similar in that way to exercise—and is helpful for focus and mood,” he says. Not to mention that last bit of muffin top. The holiday season had turned my “last five” into something closer to the last ten. Just as troubling, I needed at least two cups of coffee before I could form a sentence, spoken or otherwise. While posh centers like the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California, and Austria’s Viva Mayr Clinic charge thousands a week for supervised fasts, I figured I could fast on my own for free. It’s pretty basic, after all: There’s no counting calories. Just hours. Though many people practice an alternateday approach—eat one day, skip the next—I found that going an entire calendar day with-
get the beneficial detoxification,” he says, and indeed one study found that intermittent fasting could lower glucose tolerance, a possible metabolism-crasher, in women. And, of course, it’s important to remember that there’s plenty of research supporting the physical and mental benefits of a healthy, balanced diet of actual food. But facts are facts, and after a month, I’m down five pounds, thanks to what amounts to essentially a three-day-a-week diet. Hard to beat that. Meanwhile, I’ve lost the coffee but not the focus. I’ve given up the late-night snack shift, too, because fasting has taught me to eat when I’m hungry (and what being hungry really feels like) and not because it’s what you do while watching Downton Abbey. I’ve decided on a moderate approach going forward: a full day, or at least a few meals, a week, and an overall mindfulness the rest of the time. “You will feel more clarity,” Ratey had told me, and he wasn’t wrong.
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Last year Beyoncé and Jay Z embarked on a “spiritual and physical cleanse” by challenging themselves to stick to a strict vegan diet for 22 days.
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want from me? To stop eating entirely? Maybe. For years, nutritionists have been warning clients about the dangers of going too long without food, arguing that starving yourself in this way leads to a drop in blood-sugar levels, which leads to slower metabolism, which leads to stalled weight loss. And yet strategic fasting—from forgoing breakfast on the regular to subsisting on water for a week—is now being touted as the secret to looking better as well as thinking quicker and living longer. Numerous studies, including a 2005 paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, have examined the benefits of occasional fasting, which can include weight loss, lower cholesterol, a decreased risk of cancer and better brain function. “Going without food for longer than you’re used to builds up the body’s immune response and targets inflam-
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The iPhone-mounted Dot, from New York start-up Kogeto, is the world’s smallest panoramic lens for shooting video.
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Sony’s Cyber-Shot QX10 lens-style camera snaps directly onto your phone, delivering 18.9 megapixels and 10x optical zoom.
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FACETUNE Instantly airbrushes skin, whitens teeth and removes wrinkles, bringing users one step closer to the perfect selfie.
AfterlighT A robust image-editing app that comes equipped with 56 filters, 66 film textures and 75 frames.
FLIPAGRAM Create short, flipbook-style videos using photos from Instagram, Facebook and your phone’s library. instasize The app enables users to post fullsize images on Instagram, eliminating the chance of awkward, unwanted photo crops.
Impossible Instant Lab, is resurrecting the Polaroid. The portable printer turns digital iPhone photos into physical prints. Just download the companion app and select a photo, and the device spits out a Polaroid-style picture that feels like a modern relic. the-impossible-project.com
When photography pioneer Robert Cornelius turned the camera on himself in 1839, he unknowingly produced the world’s first “selfie.”
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torcycle, dancing through density. According to Jim Pisz, corporate manager of North American business strategy at Toyota, tomorrow may not be that far off, even stateside. The i-Road, Toyota’s threewheeled update on the micro car that debuted at last year’s Geneva auto show, is r ipe for pilot pro grams in “campus” communities, such as Florida retirement developments or gated neighborhoods, where golf-cart culture has already taken hold. And with the success of alternative transportation solutions like New York City’s Citi Bike program, Pisz is optimistic that the i-Road and its more aggressively designed successor, the FV2, will begin to be integrated in A mer ican cit ies withi n the next decade. I h a d a ch a n c e t o d r ive Toyota’s i-Road at the comp a n y ’s s e c r e t p r o v i n g grounds. Though I was fully expecting an anesthetic experience that paled in comparison to driving a full-size auto, this tiny car — can we even still call it that?—was zippy, pairing the secureness of a closed-cabin vehicle with t he ma neuver abilit y, especially when lea n i ng i nto a cu r ve, of a m o t o r c y c l e o r s c o o t e r. W h i c h means though our roads are changi ng, the f u n of d r ivi ng will not. The i-Road and similar vehicles currently in development, such as Honda’s MC-beta and BMW’s i3, are meant to reduce pollution and congestion, but not at the expense of an enjoyable trip. It’s unlikely that your SUV will go the way of t h e wo ol l y m a m m o t h a n y t i m e soon , but t he d ays of d r iv i ng it downtown may numbered.
A car and driver could soon be a thing of the past—rumor has it Google is developing a self-driving car with $150,000 worth of equipment.
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Not anymore. An escalating array of cyber-tools now at our disposal—along with our natural curiosity— is taking a lot of the mystery and spontaneity out of life. More and more, we’re technologically arming ourselves against surprises, just in case they might be unpleasant ones. It’s gone way beyond Googling a restaurant menu and checking out pictures and reviews of the foie-gras terrine before you order. A host of more invasive sites go deeper, and go inside. Realtor.com lets you find out that the house down the street has mirrored bedroom ceilings, while Porch.com will tell you which contractors your neighbors used for their new Brazilian walnut sundeck—with photos. And DiedInHouse.com will tell you whether a body has ever been carried out of it. Cue the outrage about violated privacy. But, come on, admit it: You’ve Googled your dates, co-workers and friends so often you don’t remember what they’ve told you and what you’ve learned about them from LinkedIn and their New
York Times wedding announcement(s)—which can make for some “whoops!” dinner conversation. The Internet is making it easier than ever to move along the keyboard continuum from researcher to control freak to secret stalker. Sometimes, you don’t even want the information you get. TV spoilers, from whodunit to who died (Eddard Stark! Matthew Crawley!), are common. Amazon.com even had a discussion board, “Christmas surprises ruined,” with people complaining their gifts had been revealed by Amazon’s recommendations of add-ons. There are pitfalls to so much infor mation. Restaurant-wise, if you go where the lemmings go, it’s sometimes off a culinary cliff, right into offal and foam. And you don’t have the thrill, the pride, of discovering something for yourself. But the bottom line, the real issue, isn’t so much that the mystery has gone out of life. Chaos has a way of happening regardless; you ultimately can’t eliminate surprises. Thank God. The real shame of having all this information available is that we come to believe that leaving things to chance is somehow irresponsible. That chaos befalls those who haven’t already, conscientiously,
done their homework on the computer. If you’re not enjoying your vacation, perhaps you should have checked your weather app ahead of time. Googled images of the hotel room. Chosen your airline seat on SeatGur u.com—and your seatmate through a service called Planely. Selected bedding before check-in with the pillow concierge. Researched the city’s best gumbo/sangria/linzer tart. Maybe even spied on the nanny. Not the perfect vacation? It’s all your fault. Of course, if you had done all that, not only would you have lost your job for inattention, not to mention your nanny for just the opposite, but the hotel room you got would probably still reek of cigar smoke and have a bed sized for a 9 year old. Scouring the Inter net ultimately doesn’t guarantee the protection and control we seek. And the ability to do so much research brings with it the burden of actually carrying it out. I won’t convince you to turn off the computer, trust to chance and embrace surprise with this argument. We both know that’s not going to happen. But you should at least be using your powers, and your WiFi, for good. Go off and find the world’s best gumbo. And e-mail me.
Egosurfing refers to -the practice of searching for one’s own name on the Internet. No term yet for the instant regret you feel afterward.
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Has our unrelenting curiosity (and addiction to Internet research) ruined the element of surprise? Alexandra Peers ponders the risk of leaving things to chance
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hen Stuar t Comer left London last year for New York, he didn’t relocate for a new job—he relocated for two. The former film curator at the Tate Modern signed on to be the Museum of Modern Art’s chief curator of media and performance art as well as part of the team curating the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2014 Biennial. Neither of these could be considered a small job. “I’ve been trying to find a new term for multitasking,” Comer says over a much-needed coffee at the Modern’s cafe, “because what I’m doing goes far beyond that.” At the Whitney Biennial, which runs from March through May, Comer’s been tasked (along with cocurators Anthony Elms and Michelle Grabner) with taking the pulse of the contemporary art scene— though he can’t say just yet what he’s discovered. “The best shows come out of the work, so it doesn’t make sense to predetermine too many things,” he says when he’s asked about what the closely watched exhibition might contain. “But there’s a theme coming out of it I hadn’t expected: man and nature in a moment of crisis. An ecological gothic, if you will.” His new curatorial position at MoMA, meanwhile, allows the Connecticut native to utilize an alternate set of skills. “They’re very different roles,” he says. “A biennial is not about assessing history in the same way as it’s about taking the temperature of the moment. My role at MoMA will involve building the collection and asking questions about what it means to collect performance. The Biennial is a flash point, but the job at MoMA is an evolving process.” Needless to say, holding two such prestigious and demanding positions has made Comer a highly visible part of the art establishment—albeit one with little time for pursuits outside of work. And how’s he holding up so far? “I try to sleep,” he says, “but it’s not working too well.”
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Don’t apologize, don’t be dull and, please, don’t picture the audience naked. A public-speaking expert reveals his secrets
Gowan worked as a TV correspondent for 25 years before going behind the scenes; his clients include Eli Manning and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. In his new book, Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time, McGowan delivers advice for anyone wanting to up their persuasion game: “It can mean the difference between winning the client or not, closing the deal or not, getting the promotion or being left behind.” —NANCY BILYEAU
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should take about 45 minutes, so just bear with me.” SPLAT. Self- de precat i ng, u n i nv it i ng, overlong. This speaker just fell back a whole lot of rungs on the career ladder, according to Bill McGowan, CEO of Clarity Media Group, who coaches clients to prepare them for speeches, TV interviews, and other cr itical public appearances. Mc-
have a natural talent for public speaking, so they don’t need to work at it? B I L L M C G O W A N : I suspect you could count them on one hand. Like any professional who makes their enormous skill look easy—an athlete or musician—there are hours and hours of hard work that’ve gone into developing that talent. Steve Jobs made his product-launch presentations look casual and simple, but he rehearsed those dozens of times. D J : So because so many people are bad at it, do you think being a great speechmaker can catapult you further than ever before? B M : Yes, it’s an opportunity because there are so many who aren’t achieving their full potential. The rules have changed. You have just 18 minutes—there have been studies showing that that is the time limit after which there’s a precipitous drop in
engagement. It’s the 18-minute itch. People start to wonder, “How long is this going to go on?” D J : In your book you blame shorter attention spans and distracting devices like smartphones. B M : It’s harder than ever to hook people so they will want to hear the full extent of what you say. It’s harder to be motivational. It’s harder to be influential. As a result, more and more speakers fall short of the bar. So if you can clear it, it puts you into an elite group: You will stand out, be noticed, be relevant. D J : In Pitch Perfect you call out bad speechmaking tips, like “Imagine the audience in their underwear,” “Channel your inner dumb blonde”
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or the advice to buy time by saying “That’s a great question.’ ” B M : There is a lot of outdated advice swirling around out there. A really unfortunate one is “You don’t have to answer the question.” So in a Q&A, a speaker won’t, even if it’s the most benign question possible, and it makes them sound stilted, canned, inauthentic. Why not make it a real conversation?
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Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James THE AIDE : Idan Ravin, basketball trainer THE BOOK : Hoops Whisperer THE LESSON : “This is why Kobe is the best teammate as well as the worst: Kobe is completely selfish. And if you aren’t as selfish as him, he’ll be like: You don’t need to be here.”
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John F. Kennedy Jr. Matt Berman, former creative director of George magazine THE BOOK: JKF Jr., George & Me THE LESSON: “John’s rule was: If you want an answer right now, the answer is no. If you wait, we’ll see.” THE AIDE:
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Oscar speeches have ranged in length from two words (Alfred Hitchcock’s efficient “Thank you”) to five minutes (Greer Garson, in the era before play-off music).
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THE FINNISH EMBASSY The Finns don’t just loosen their collars over cocktails, they lose them entirely. Each month, a group of in-the-know Washingtonians gathers at the bar in the basement of the Finnish Embassy for the Diplomatic Sauna Society, which features food (gravlax and potatoes), drink (Finlandia vodka) and, of course, a schvitz.
THE CUBAN INTERESTS SECTION Located on the second floor of a mansion just over a mile from the White House is the twoyear-old Hemingway Lounge and Bar. Because embassies aren’t bound by laws of their host country, guests here can freely enjoy authentic Cohiba cigars and Havana Club rum in drinks like the Papa Doble, a Hemingway favorite.
THE GERMAN EMBASSY The Berlin Bar was originally designed to be a room for entertaining in the German ambassador’s residence, but was overhauled in 2001 in homage to Berlin’s famous Paris Bar. A staircase leading down to the bar glows red from a neon sign heralding the rathskeller, and it opens into a modern black, white and red room festooned with images of the Berlin wall, Checkpoint Charlie and other historic sites.
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wenty years is a long time in the evolution of a cable news network—and a career. “When I first started, it was Ted Turner’s CNN, meaning it was a very different kind of vibe,” CNN’s chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash tells DuJour. “He used to say, ‘The news was the star.’ I never heard the term ‘ratings’ uttered ever, because we were the only show in town.” Of course, that’s changed with Fox News and MSNBC and CNN boss Jeff Zucker’s aim to “broaden the definition of news,” but the New Jersey–born Bash, who began her career there in 1993, claims the network’s mission has remained the same. In the past year, she broke the news of conservative senator Rob Portman reversing his position on gay marriage, worked straight through the government shutdown and reported from the “Alpha House,” where senators live like frat boys—all while juggling three digital devices. Despite her behind-the-scenes access, it’s not exactly the gasp-inducing stuff Scandal and House of Cards are made of. “Maybe I’m Pollyanna, but I don’t know anybody who sleeps with a congressman in order to get information,” says Bash, who is one of the most followed journalists by Twitter-scrolling members of Congress. “But there is a lot of believability [on TV] in how some backroom deals get done.” She’s developed her own cunning to cover the politicians popular with only about 5 percent of the population. “I think it matters that I’m comfortable with the legislative process and the ‘dorky’ side of Congress,” she says. “I get what makes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tick. I’ve been to his hometown and profiled him. To understand the people you cover is half the battle.” The other half, it seems, is adapting alongside them.
Before bars in embassies even existed, British writer Walter Bagehot once quipped, “An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
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Haivoron, Ukraine Moscow; a reported $23.85 million Southampton mansion; a $48 million apartment at the Plaza ASSETS : A reported $13 billion RISE TO POWER : Krutoy is known as a composer, but is also the head of ARS, a Russian record label and management company. He is famous at home for producing Star Factory, the Russian version of American Idol. HOME BASE :
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Saratov London; Moscow; a Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan; the Eclipse—an estimated $400 million, 500-plus-foot yacht with two swimming pools, helicopter landing pads, a cinema and its own missile defense system ASSETS : $10.2 billion RISE TO POWER : Putin pal Abramovich is the majority owner of the investment company Millhouse LLC and the owner of the English soccer team Chelsea Football Club. Abramovich divorced his second wife in 2007 for a reported $300 million settlement and settled down with his former mistress, the art-world fi xture Dasha Zhukova. HOME BASE:
Saint Petersburg A $16 million home in Star Island, Miami Beach; a Zaha Hadid–designed home near Moscow referred to as “the Spaceship” ASSETS : A reported $1 billion RISE TO POWER : The Donald Trump of Russia, Doronin made his money running the Moscow real estate company the Capital Group, but is most famous for dating Naomi Campbell— and then dumping her for her Chinese protégée on The Face, Luo Zilin. HOME BASES :
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Moscow Moscow; a $37.5 million, 8,300-square-foot penthouse in New York’s Time Warner Center ASSETS : In the billions HOME BASE :
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Moscow A $35,000-per-night penthouse at Manhattan’s Four Seasons; a $35 million island in the Seychelles; Moscow; a chalet in Courchevel, France ASSETS : $13 billion RISE TO POWER : The Brooklyn Nets owner built his fortune in precious metals, running the world’s largest producer of nickel, Norilsk Nickel, before becoming the chairman of Russia’s biggest gold producer, Polyus Gold. Prokhorov is also the former president of investment firm ONEXIM Group—a position he resigned before running (unsuccessfully) against Putin in the 2012 Russian presidential election. HOME BASE :
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Kabardino-Balkaria A four-bedroom, $8 million condo in the Liberty Lofts near Lincoln Center ASSETS : Unknown RISE TO POWER : This émigré princess loves the high life. Her signature cocktail is made from $5,000-a-bottle Louis XIII Rémy Martin cognac and HOME BASE :
apple juice, and she regularly drops $8,000 on evenings out with pals like Olivia Wilde and Patricia Field.
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Belgrade, Serbia A $300 million Philippe Starck–designed bombproof yacht; the $39 million Harewood Estate in Ascot, Berkshire; a Manhattan penthouse ASSETS : $14.4 billion RISE TO POWER : Former model and Serbian pop star Aleksandra married billionaire Andrey Melnichenko in 2005 on the Cote D’Azur; Whitney Houston and Christina Aguilera performed at the ceremony. Jennifer Lopez was reportedly paid $1.2 million to play at Melnichenko’s 30th birthday party. HOME BASE :
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CHRISTO’S CRUSADE
The public-art pioneer—hard at work on two new projects—reminisces with Michael Bloomberg about The Gates, the installation that transformed Central Park in 2005. Michael Martin reports PHOTOGRAPHED BY WOLFGANG VOLZ
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t’s late December, and in seven days Michael Bloomberg will end his term as mayor of New York City. As one of his last daily appointments, DuJour has brought him together with Christo, the architect of what might well be the artistic high point of his time in office, The Gates, the draping of Manhattan’s Central Park with thousands of bright orange panels. “I thought this guy next to me was just a genius,” says Bloomberg, a longtime art enthusiast. “It was a wonderful trip together. We made a great couple.” “This is something that is involved with chemistry,” agrees Christo. “If you’re missing that, you cannot decide to have public art. Otherwise, it’s propaganda.” As a cadre of BlackBerrying staff members looks on, the mayor and the artist chat like old friends on
a mezzanine above the City Hall bull pen. The two men’s connection is more than conversational: At this moment, they’re both preparing for the third acts in their lives and careers. One of Bloomberg’s plans is to help cities around the world develop their cultural institutions with the help of his nonprofit consultancy firm. As it happens, Christo could benefit from a bit of advocacy himself. The artist is wrapped in red tape. A few weeks later, Christo is in his studio. The pioneer of public art, best known for swaddling coastlines, bridges and landmarks in great swathes of fabric, plunks two giant three-ring binders marked with U.S. government logos on a coffee table in front of a visitor. The binders contain a three-volume environmental impact statement. (continued on page 98)
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Christo in his New York City studio
Bloomberg doesn’t love all public art. He made his dislike for graffiti artist Banksy’s work in New York clear, calling it “a sign of decay.”
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“I will not do anything to limit my freedom.”
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“These are 4,000 pages,” he says, “written for the work of art that does not exist yet! No other artist in the world has so much written about his work that does not yet exist.” Christo is 78 now and focused on two of his most ambitious works, which he acknowledges will be his last. They may not be built in his lifetime. Over the River— the reason for the 4,000-page environmental-impact study—would cover nearly six miles of the Arkansas River in Colorado with translucent silver waves of fabric. The Mastaba would stack 410,000 55-gallon oil barrels into a giant pyramid in Abu Dhabi, rising 492 feet, and would be the only permanent large-scale exhibition of Christo’s work. It would be his legacy. Today Christo is in his home base, a five-floor building in New York’s SoHo. This was a pioneer settlement when he and his flame-haired wife and artistic partner, JeanneClaude, bought the space in 1973—but today it’s more like living inside the Mall of America, near the roller coaster. A security guard sits in a garage on the first floor; the second has the vibe of a MoMA private exhibition room, with tan carpet, high white walls displaying sketches of The
Mastaba and glass cases with Christo’s first sculptures. The scent of sandalwood wafts through the air. “They’re two distinct periods,” says Christo of the approval process and the actual installation. “One is the software period, when the work only exists in my preparatory drawings and studies and the minds of people who try to help us and the minds of people who try to stop us. The hardware period is when we physically move to the space.” Right now, Christo’s team is done with software. They’re waiting for the board of directors—the U.S. and U.A.E. governments—to get its act together. The artist wears a blue-and-white striped shirt, jeans and sneakers and has a wiry shock of white hair left to its own devices. He has more than a little of a madprofessor affect, with a tendency to monologue (his response to a visitor’s first question verges on 20 unbroken minutes). “In the last 50 years, we realized 22 projects and failed to get permission for 37,” he says. He has been actively working on Over the River since the early 1990s. The Mastaba was conceived in the 1970s. Christo’s works are admired, but they are not always beloved—their effect on the landscape has often been
India is in the process of building the tallest landmark sculpture in the world. “The Statue of Unity” will be nearly 600 feet tall, twice the size of the Statue of Liberty.
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It is suggested that a project less complex than Over the River and The Mastaba might reach a speedier realization. “Complex? No,” he scoffs. “Sculpture is also complex! Because it is public space, the project develops its own identity. Visually, aesthetically, we cannot make a decision until we are there. That is the most exciting part.” Does he have more projects in him? “No, I don’t have any more,” he says vehemently. “For the moment, don’t ask me! I’m totally focused on these two projects.” Toward the end of the conversation, Christo recalls the project that broke ground and made the artists’ name, Wrapped Coast in Australia. He and Jeanne-Claude revisited the site two years before she died. + more @ “Jeanne-Claude and I were probably totally duJour.com nuts to try and wrap that coastline in 1969, but we were very young and we did it. Basically, the project there was part of our life. Something never again repeated—unforgettable—and so enjoyable because it cannot be bought, cannot be owned, cannot be sold tickets, no kind of anything.” He sums up his career as a compulsion toward freedom. Born in Bulgaria, he moved to America in 1964 with Jean ne- Claude. “Because I lived u nt il age 21 in a Communist country, this idea of art with messages... For me, any art that has messages is propaganda.” The Mastaba and Over the River, he concludes, are “absolutely unnecessary. Nobody needs this project,” he says. Then, after a pause, “JeanneClaude and I need it.”
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controversial, and their transience allows the debate to freeze in time. Many of his works have met with controversy and outright, repeated refusals. The wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin resulted in three refusals by the government, hearings in Parliament and a press frenzy during which a German newspaper published a death threat sent in by a reader. Over the River has been opposed by citizen groups and led to the protracted environmental-impact study. Christo says he has paid $260,000 in rent to the government after getting approval for the project. But there have been populist successes. Christo’s most notable recent public work is The Gates, 7,503 vinyl rectangular frames hung with orange fabric that drew millions of visitors to Central Park when it was on view for 16 days in February 2005. Michael Bloomberg, an undisputed fan, pushed the project through. “This brought an enormous number of people, many times more than anybody thought it would,” says the former mayor. “It got us on the cover of every newspaper, magazine, TV program around the world. It built tourism. But I always thought that the real reason to do it was for the people of New York. People live here because they love a multicultural, exciting, intellectual environment. They like new things. They like the avant-garde. This project is the kind of thing that makes a city a city.” The Gates was originally proposed in 1981 and rejected by Mayor Ed Koch’s administration three times, under pressure from community boards. “I have absolutely no idea why,” says Bloomberg. “Although I do think that it is difficult to imagine certain things. People who don’t like things, they’re the ones that really get up to yell and scream. People who like things tend to work quietly and get it done.” Christo’s stealth weapon was his beloved wife, JeanneClaude, with whom he worked as two halves of a whole; she died in 2009. Jeanne-Claude would visit one space while he was working on another; she would handle the books while Christo worked with sketches, models, planning and a staff that spanned continents. (Their projects are entirely self-financed via a conglomeration of lines of credit from banks around the world, necessitating a project manager for each.) How has her death has changed his process? “It hasn’t changed it,” he says, quieter, “other than that we miss her very much.” He has two assistants, his nephews, who have taken over his business dealings. “I inherited them,” he says. “I don’t know anything—how to pay bills, how to pay taxes.”
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Above: Christo in his New York City studio working on a large drawing of the The Mastaba. Below: Christo and Jeanne-Claude with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a press conference in Central Park, January 2003. Opposite: Christo with a model of The Mastaba in Abu Dhabi
“When I get mugged by a guy hiding behind a giant curtained arch, which city agency should I sue?”—David Letterman on The Gates
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UNIQUE PAGE VIEWS Six standouts from spring’s impressive array of new fiction PHOTOGRAPHED by nicholas duers Written by adam rathe
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LOVE & TREASURE Ayelet Waldman
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Michael Cunningham The latest from Cunningham, who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Hours, follows two down-on-theirluck brothers, somewhat lost and on the verge of middle age, whose lives are touched by tragedy and what might be magic.
BAD TEETH Dustin Long
A group of young writers, scattered from Brooklyn to Berkeley, are all on the hunt for a enigmatic scribe, known as “the Tibetan David Foster Wallace,” in this comic take on today’s literary scene from the author of the best-selling Icelander.
Jack Wiseman was an American soldier who seized a Nazi train filled with priceless art and heirlooms. Seventy years later, the treasure he found and the people he met continue to haunt him— and the granddaughter entrusted with his secrets.
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Emma Donoghue A burlesque dancer, a cross-dresser and a murderer converge in 1876 San Francisco—during a heat wave, no less—to set the scene for this offbeat, high-minded whodunit from the award-winning author of Room.
BOY, SNOW, BIRD Helen Oyeyemi
The much-lauded British writer Oyeyemi turns the classic tale of Snow White on its head with her newest novel, which moves the story to mid-century Massachusetts, home of Snow Whitman and her kin, and intertwines it with issues of race, beauty and power.
TO RISE AGAIN AT A DECENT HOUR Joshua Ferris
It’s one thing to have your identity stolen, but another to envy the imposter. That’s just what happens to mild-mannered dentist Paul O’Rourke, who finds himself playing second fiddle to an Internet fraud and questioning the value of his own existence.
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Talk about a sizzling payday: Novelist Sylvia Day recently signed an eight-figure deal for the remaining titles in her erotica series “Blacklist.”
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“Clark Rockefeller” wasn’t heir to an American fortune. He wasn’t even American. But he was, as it turns out, a murderer. So how did he fool everyone around him, including famed novelist Walter Kirn? As Lauren Waterman learns, the truth is hard to imagine
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he story of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter—a German-born immigrant who lived for years as one Clark Rockefeller, purported heir to the Standard Oil fortune, before kidnapping his own young daughter, being exposed as an impostor and then, last August, getting convicted of a 1985 murder—is precisely the sort of tale that prompts people to utter the phrase “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Stranger still, though, is the fact that as Clark, the 53-year-old con artist befriended Walter Kirn, a celebrated journalist and novelist who has now written a book on their odd association. Kirn spoke to DuJour about this month’s gripping Blood Will Out the same way he often spoke to his friend turned subject: over the phone and, given that it was nighttime, in the dark.
Playwright David Bar Katz is set to adapt journalist Mark Seal’s The Man in the Rockefeller Suit for the big screen.
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D u j o u r : You met Clark in 1998, when you agreed to drive a very sick Gordon setter that he was adopting from Montana, where you live, to New York. That’s a crazy length to go to for a stranger. How did he get you to do it? Wa lt e r K i r n : He had me at “Rockefeller.” I thought that he might give a donation to our local animal shelter, but I was also intrigued, and when I realized during our first conversation that we had a rapport, my vanity was engaged. Also, as a writer I recognized that I was being asked to do something that might make a great story. In that way, I was preparing to take a bit of advantage of our relationship, almost from the very beginning. D J : Yet you decided not to write about him, at least not right away. W k : Once I’d delivered the dog and gotten to know him some, I thought, “Walter, you can’t exploit a friend, especially a friend who deserves and values his privacy.” But when I discovered that he was actually a criminal of the most gruesome sort, I had two reactions. Number one, shock, and number two, ka-ching! I’m being sarcastic, but I also mean it. I realized that I finally had permission to put this crazy relationship on the page.
whole time I’d been with him, some reserve of distrust and anxiety and fear that I’d felt in his presence, suddenly leapt to consciousness. I immediately believed him to be guilty. On the night that I finished the book, I had a dream about him and woke up literally in a sweat; I realized that I’d been in danger in his company and that I’d known it on some level but repressed that knowledge. I was terrified. It was like looking back on a bridge you’ve crossed and seeing that it’s on the verge of collapse. D j : You allude to that danger, particularly when you write about e-mails he sent to your former neighbors around the time you refused his request to stay with you. Do you think he was seriously considering harming you? W k : He wrote to my neighbors about wanting to translate Crime and Punishment in a guesthouse on a ranch, and I thought that if I’d let that happen, I might not be here. He isn’t an ordinary murderer; I don’t think he did it for ordinary motives. I think he’s like Leopold and Loeb, or one of those killers in a Hitchcock movie who wants to commit the perfect crime and sort of taunt the world with it, dropping all of these clues that people don’t know are clues. So, yes, when he says he wants to translate a book about murdering
“It was like looking back on a bridge you’ve crossed and seeing that it’s on the verge of collapse.” —walter Kirn
D j : The odds against an established writer finding himself in the middle of a true crime story have to be pretty high. W k : You know how at most coffee shops, if you buy 10 coffees, you get one free? Well, I guess if you write seven or eight books, as I have, you get one free. If ever a book was created by serendipity, coincidence and fate, it was this one. D j : The tr uth about Clark emerged in 2008. How did you feel when you lear ned that, as Christopher Chichester, he’d long been wa nted for quest ion i ng i n t wo cold cases? [Joh n a nd Linda Sohus, the son and daughter-in-law of Clark’s for mer landlady, both disappeared in 1985, but because Linda’s body was never recovered, he was charged with only John’s death.] W k : I probably sided with Clark longer than anyone. Kidnapping his daughter seemed, to me, like an extreme but human thing to do. And when the news came that he wasn’t a Rockefeller, I thought the family was lying, that they were throwing him under the bus. But when I heard that he was a suspect in this horrible old murder, I said, “Oh my God, there’s no bottom to this thing.” Something animal in me that had been in the back of my mind almost the
someone at the house of a person who sounds very much like me, I take that seriously. D j : He used the Internet—it’s how he located the dog that brought him to you—but he must have been alarmed to see it becoming a larger part of everyday life, because it meant he was that much closer to being found out. W K : I think that, for Clark, the rise of Internet search must have been like the approach of dawn for a vampire. He started blacking out the windows. I did try to Google him a few times before all of this and nothing came up, but he’d kind of forewarned me about that, saying he’d obscured his identity in public because he feared being kidnapped. D j : Why do you think you were inclined to believe him? W k : In a way, this book is like the inspection of a magic trick, going back and seeing how it worked. Clark was masterful in his use of props. You know that saying, “Seeing is believing”? Well, the first time I went to his apartment, I saw what looked like hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of abstract paintings, and if they seemed real, then he had to be real too. He also understood the nature of the social contract: Conversation isn’t cross-examination. You’re allowing someone to be who he says he is so that you can be who you say you are. The underlying agreement, never stated and not even conscious, is: Let’s both be our perfect selves. D j : Has this experience made you a less trusting person? W K : Absolutely. This experience unraveled me. A lot of memoirs are about trauma; they’re about a descent into addiction or being abused at the hands of an awful man. But this is a memoir about the trauma of discovering that you don’t know what to believe
After the faux Rockefeller’s claim that Old Hollywood actress Ann Carter was his mother, she denied it, saying, “I just feel sorry for his real mother.”
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D j : How do you describe the relationship? You write about visiting him in New York and then again in New Hampshire, but it seems as though your friendship mostly occurred over the phone. W k : We weren’t hanging out and doing things, and in retrospect, I realize why: He was hiding from the world. He didn’t even have a driver’s license, and he was probably looking over his shoulder every time he went out in public. But the phone would ring, and it would be him. So, as regular friendships go, it was minor, but as friendships between a normal person and a fugitive from “Murderville” go, it was kind of exceptional.
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about other people. There was a period after Clark was unmasked when, for example, if a plumber asked me to leave my key under my doormat so that he could fix my sink while I was out, I would be terrified that he was going to go through my desk, or that he wasn’t even really a plumber. I became hypervigilant, hyperaware of my own gullibility, and I’m still not completely healed. D J : I n your previous memoir, Lost in the Meritocracy, you referred to yourself as a fraud. It wasn’t remotely the same kind of fraud, of course, but still… W K : There’s something called impostor syndrome, which is a feeling that a lot of normal people have, and it often occurs if you’ve moved between social classes. You might find yourself at Princeton, as I did, and think, “Can anyone see that I’m just a kid from the Midwest who went to a bad high school?” At various times in my life, I’ve felt like a bit of a fake myself, and I’m sure that was very readable to Clark. I’ve come to the conclusion that I suffered on a neurotic level from a problem that he suffered from at a psychopathic level. D J : That idea of class fakery is referred to very overtly in this book’s title. W K : Most people think that the title refers to the notion that bloody deeds will be discovered, but what it really means is that your class, your heritage, your makeup will show itself. The truth will emerge, even if in a kind of surreal and distorted way. The Great Gatsby, finally, could only be a kid from North Dakota. And who else would want to be Clark Rockefeller, freelance central banker, but a shy kid from a backwater town in Bavaria who watched Gilligan’s Island and thought, “American millionaires, how fabulous!”
D J : That phrase also seems to imply that a true aristocrat will always be able to spot a pretender, which could be considered chillingly undemocratic. W K : One of the most interesting things that I learned at Clark’s murder trial was that he tried to get into the film industry in his early twenties and that Hollywood, which is supposedly all about fakery, brushed him right off. Wall Street, on the other hand, accepted him wholeheartedly! He walked in off the street and got a job selling bonds at Kidder, Peabody, and then he got a different job at another investment bank based on an introduction from a yacht club. The people who Clark was best at fooling were the people he was pretending to be. Why? Because they’re posing too. The entire act of aristocracy in America is a rip-off, based on European upper-class behavior. These people who were pretending to be sober, upright financiers fell for Clark like tenpins because they were engaged in the same masquerade. It wasn’t lost on me that Clark’s charade was exposed just as the 2008 financial crisis showed us how much of that system was based on smoke and mirrors. Clark’s little house of cards came down at the same time the big one did. This book isn’t just about a personal relationship; it’s about the way that all of us cede power to impressive facades. D J : At least for a little while, until the moment when those facades begin to crumble… W K : Somebody said to me, “Isn’t it miraculous that an excavat ion i n the ya rd of this house where he lived in 1985 yielded the body of his v ic t i m 10 ye a r s a f t e r he murdered him? Doesn’t that tell you that you can’t get away with anything?” To the contrary, it tells me that in other yards in that impeccable Los Angeles suburb, there are other bodies, still buried, that we may never Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter know about.
The impostor saga received the Lifetime-movie treatment in 2010 with Eric McCormack donning Clark’s glasses—and false identity.
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Left: One side of the supposed Mr. Rockefeller, in 2001. Right: Author Walter Kirn, well-known for writing Up in the Air, wasn’t immune to the impostor’s tricks. Below: Getting the tabloid treatment with a splashy 2008 New York Daily News story.
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She’s beautiful, stylish and even appreciates art. Ahead of her starring role in Muppets Most Wanted, Miss Piggy looks back at her life in the spotlight
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t didn’t take long for the spotlight to find Matt Hitt. The 26-yearold moved from his native Wales to New York to start a band, but before that could happen fate intervened. “Someone scouted me for modeling,” he recalls, “on my first night in New York.” Hitt went on to appear in several major ad campaigns and runway shows, including Hedi Slimane’s spring 2014 collection for Saint Laurent, but in his spare time he continued making music with a group of guys—guitarist Jack Ridley III, bassist Erik Lee Snyder and drummer Lakis Pavlou—who called themselves Drowners. Thanks to a slew of catchy songs and propulsive live gigs, the band developed a fervent following, especially among Manhattan’s well-dressed night owls. In January, Drowners’ self-titled debut album was released to positive reviews, and now they’re on a worldwide tour, enjoying the spoils of life as one of rock’s buzziest new groups. Still, Hitt chafes—justifiably—at being labeled a model-turned-singer. “I never made that much money off it,” he says, “but my prefix is ‘model,’ which is annoying because it was only ever a sideline. I hope the reason the band is doing well is because it’s actually good, and not because people want to come and have a gawk.” —Tyler Thoreson
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which I say: I wear anything that adds to the je ne sais quoi that is moi. If my own hair is not up to the job, then we bring in a wig. I have no compunctions about that…or about wear ing false eyelashes…or having work done. Whatever it takes. Beauty is all about personal sacrif ice, and nobody sacrif ices more for my fans than moi. Besides, I be-
“I’M ON THE RICH FOOD DIET: IF SOMEONE RICH IS PAYING, EAT THE FOOD.” –Miss Piggy props. Whenever I go anywhere, I travel with a stylist who helps dress the set. Looking spontaneous and natural takes a lot of work. The meal is real, though. I don’t avoid bread or other foods, and neither does Foo-Foo. In fact, I’m on the rich food diet: If someone rich is paying, eat the food. People often ask me: Do I wear wigs? To
lieve that when I look in the mirror, I should be sur prised. New hair?! New eyelashes? New ma keup! New moi! I also love hats, t h o u g h n o t b e c a u s e I wo r r y + more @ about getting bur nt. There are duJour.com usually so many paparazzi around that the sun doesn’t stand a chance of getting through.
Miss Piggy will have some competition for laughs in her latest film: Tina Fey, Ty Burrell and Ricky Gervais also star.
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“Looking back, it’s one of the dodgiest things I’ve ever participated in,” recalls the actress, now safely ensconced in the lounge of a Tribeca hotel. She says that she and her brood, outf it ted in hard hats and issued f lashlights, were lowered into the volcano on a rickety scaffold and told to roam free. But there was something slightly off about the people operating the tour, the people Connelly assumed knew something—anything—about volcanoes. “I thought they were geologists, these people escorting us into a cavern full of holes and encouraging us to run around,” she says, “but it turned out they were out-of-work actors. I was like, really?” Jennifer Connelly isn’t known for bailing on challenging situations.
She’s been i n the public eye for most of her life, while managing to hold on to her privacy; when she left Yale, it was to attend Stanford; and she’s been married to a fellow actor for 11 years, a Hollywood eternity. It should come as no surprise that the 43-year-old actress jumped into a volcano to have a bit of fun, or that a sweeping project like Noah caught her eye. The movie, Con nelly’s second w it h he r Re q u i e m fo r a D r e a m director, Dar ren A ronofsk y, is a big-budget retelling of the rainsoaked Bible tale in which she plays Naameh, wife of Russell Crowe’s titular reluctant mariner. It’s a role that took the Oscar-winning mother of th ree around the world and subjected her to enough simulated disaster that a trip into Vesuvius’
Icelandic cousin with a troupe of thespians was definitely gratuitous. Noah was not an easy movie to m a ke. I n t he beg i n n i ng, Hu r r icane Sandy decimated parts of the East Coast and halted Aronofsky’s $100 -million plus production by rendering inaccessible a three-story, 450-foot-long ark built along the Long Island Sound. “I take it that the irony of a massive storm holding up the production of Noah is not lost,” Connelly’s co-star Emma Watson tweeted when the storm hit. Weather wasn’t the only obstacle the film faced, however. “To be honest, Jennifer’s role was a bit underwritten when she took it on,” Aronofsky, a co-writer of the film, admits. Connelly’s take is a bit more diplomatic. “You could see there was an interesting opportunity
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in the part,” she says, “but the story is Noah. I don’t think the focus for Darren was on developing Naameh.” S o s h e e m b a r ke d o n f i n d i n g depth to the character. “I did n’t want to just have her be a sidekick we didn’t get to learn about,” says Connelly, who re-read the Book of Genesis to prepare for her role. “I wanted people to understand who she was. I thought a lot about what a woman at that time might be doing, what her contributions might have been. We built on that in the script.” T hat collaborat ion i mpressed Aronofsky, who welcomed her input. “I worked with Jennifer on Requiem 14 years ago,” he says, “and to not work with someone for that long and see what a master she had become was a tremendous experience. This was like working with a completely different actor.” Considering Connelly f irst appeared on screen at 14, she’s seemed in some ways like an entirely new person in each of her roles, developing f rom the young heroine of Labyrinth into an ingénue in The Rocketeer and a commanding force in A Beautiful Mind. And while she brushes off the notion that there’s a calculated arc to her career, Connelly does admit to being choosy when it comes to projects she’ll take on. “There’s a wish list of elements: a great director, a great part I can do something with and interesting people to work with,” she says. “It’s not a perfect world, so sometimes you get a great director but not a great part, or a great part with someone you don’t know. You compromise.” She smiles slyly and adds, “Not every film I do ticks every box.”
Lately, though, Connelly’s been giving more projects the opportunity to do so. After an almost twoyear break around the birth of her daughter Ag nes, she’s got a f ull slate of forthcoming films, including Noah, Winter’s Tale (also starring Russell Crowe), director Claudia Llosa’s Aloft and Shelter, the first directorial effort from one Paul Bettany, the actor who just happens to be married to—you guessed it— Jennifer Connelly. “It was kind of strange, going to work in the morning with the director,” she says of her involvement with the film, which finds her playing a homeless woman. “But it really seemed to come quite naturally to him—phew—and it was an amazing experience to have had together.” Not that Connelly received any special treatment. “ We’ve b e e n m a r r i e d fo r 11 years, we have kids together, so I feel confident in our ability to navigate sit uations,” she says. “I had this fantasy that we’d talk about scenes all day. In reality, if the man sat down, there was a line of people wanting to talk to him. Since we moved so quickly, I think he felt his wife was the least of his worries.” W h i le t a l k i ng a b out S h e lte r, Connelly’s noticeably excited. It’s something that happens any time we discuss Bettany or any of their three kids—Kai, 16; Stellan, 10; and Agnes, who’s 2. Havi ng movie -st a r pa rents doesn’t register with them. “I think they’re interested in the same way all kids are interested in what their parents do, but it doesn’t come up,” she says. “It affords them some fun
experiences. They’ve seen hardly any of my movies, but they’ve been on almost every set.” Given the opportunity, though, Connelly—who’s been the face of Balenciaga, Revlon and Shiseido— would rather nudge her family further off the beaten path. “This past summer, while Paul was working, I took the kids on a road t rip around the States,” she says. “We did mountain biking in the Mojave and we went hiking in Zion National Park and in Aspen. It all went well, considering I’m the only one who can drive.” Apparently, there are few adventures Connelly wouldn’t embrace. During our talk she mentions plans to ski the Alps and, of course, that fateful trip to the volcano. The one thing the star of Noah doesn’t seem too keen to do is climb aboard a boat. So how does she think she’d fare on an ark? “ I wou ld not wa nt t o b e on a cr uise ship,” Connelly says carefully. “Some ferry crossings I’m not too thrilled about. But this is a very different circumstance. If it’s ‘get on the vessel or perish with the rest of humanity,’ I’d be happy to be invited aboard.” The same logic applied to filming Noah. Connelly was thrilled to be involved, but could have done with a slightly drier experience: “I had a lot of scenes that were harrowing in their subject matter. Creatively I enjoyed them, but they were the most taxing. Then there were the scenes beneath huge water towers, which were never fun. But you can’t complain. That’s what you sign up for with a movie called Noah.”
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Blouse, $695, BURBERRY LONDON, burberry.com. Cami, $48, DKNY, dkny.com. Trousers, $1,150, NARCISO RODRIGUEZ, saks.com. D’Orsay pumps, $625, CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, saks.com. Hair: Orlando Pita for Orlo Salon using Phyto. Makeup: Brigitte Reiss-Andersen at The Wall Group. Manicure: Alicia Torello at The Wall Group using Chanel. Stylist Assistant: Jesper Gudbergson.
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On Lloyd-Hughes: Jacket, MARGARET HOWELL, margarethowell.co.uk. Shirt, $375, DOLCE & GABBANA, dolcegabbana.com. Trousers, $80, UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON, benetton. com. Sunglasses, $500, CUTLER AND GROSS, cutlerandgross.com. Watch, price upon request, INVICTA, invictawatch.com. Derby shoes, $845, LOUIS VUITTON, louisvuitton.com.
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“Growing up, you find yourself in your most vulnerable moments.” —Christian Madsen
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efore he took up acting, Ben Lloyd-Hughes wanted to be a barrister. “I like standing up for the little man,” the 25-year-old British actor says, “and trying to fight for the truth.” It was only after he discovered practicing law wasn’t what he expected—“maybe what I was attracted to was the showmanship of it”—that he turned to drama. It’s lucky for Lloyd-Hughes that his world isn’t quite like Divergent’s. The dystopian tale, based on Veronica Roth’s young-adult novels, takes place in a future in which teenagers are tested to see where they belong in society and assigned lifelong roles. Of course, not everyone finds a fit. Shailene Woodley plays the story’s protagonist, Beatrice “Tris” Prior, who defies categorization and joins a dangerous underground resistance. Lloyd-Hughes, who plays Tris’s pal Will, says the totalitarian society makes the story compelling. “What struck me most was that you had to choose then and there at age 16 what you were going to do for the rest of your life,” he says. Christian Madsen, his American co-star, agrees, saying, “We’re into the cool, futuristic stuff, but underneath it all, it’s about soul-searching.” Not that it was all quiet contemplation. “We had so much fun on and off set: We went to concerts, we went to a Bulls game,” Madsen says. “But it was when we shot a scene in Chicago where we were jumping off a moving train that I remember asking, ‘Wait, is this going to be a big movie?’ ” Filming that sequence, which called for sprinting toward a train with 200 extras, made an impact on Lloyd-Hughes, too. “I certainly felt like + more @ I was in a proper big American film,” he duJour.com says, with no discernible trace of missing out on life as a lawyer. “There’s something about running through the streets with a camera following you that makes you feel like a real action hero.”
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SOUTHERN RISING YOU’RE WAY OFF THE GRID AND DEEP IN THE DESERT. WELCOME TO CHILE.
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This page, top: The arid Atacama Desert is the driest and one of the hottest deserts in the world. It has not seen rain, in some parts, ever. Below: The desert’s thermal springs are a lesson in contradiction. Opposite page: Steam rising from the Atacama’s El Tatio geysers.
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’ve had two real vacations in my adult life. The first was my honeymoon, when people didn’t want to bother me. The second was a trip to the wilds of Chile, when I didn’t let them. It wasn’t just a lack of connectivity that afforded me the space. After all, if unplugging—emotionally, physically—were really as easy as being somewhere you can’t get cell service, we’d all relish the time in the depths of the gym locker room rather than racing outside to see what we’ve missed. Rather, it was the inescapable feeling of being so far away that enabled me to disconnect from that life, at least for a while. And that felt transformative—intoxicatingly so. This is precisely the reason people travel to remote places, and why there are more of us doing it than ever before: riding camels in the Moroccan Sahara, hiking through the Ugandan mountains, communing with
monks in Southeast Asia. It’s adventure we’re seeking, but also serenity. Silence. There was something about the vast nothingness I found in Chile, all the sounds I heard—but even more, the ones I didn’t— that made getting online, much less digging into a work-related e-mail or posting something to Facebook, almost obscene. Even
when sneaking in an Instagram photo of the spectacularly empty stretches of sand or perfectly clear skies was possible, it felt like an unthinkable affront. There was a permission, an expectation, to go rogue. Of course, going remote needn’t mean roughing it. Modern pursuit of far-flung adventure does not come at the cost of sleeping
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outdoors—or even sleeping on mediocre sheets—nor of forgoing your favorite Riesling, chilled to perfection. In most cases, you can get WiFi, if you insist. It also no longer means enduring a dogged, multipart journey. For years, Chile has gone largely overlooked by those in search of a truly transformative experience—can any place on the same side of the world be far enough away? But for a small country—it’s more than 2,500 miles long but never more than 225 miles wide, with a total land mass about twice the size of the state of Montana—Chile offers a uniquely vast range of ways to put yourself blissfully off the grid.
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This page: The red rock cliffs of the Atacama. Opposite: A roadside shrine.
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This page, above: Atacama vegetation includes woody scrub, short-lived perennials and cacti. Below: A biker maneuvers through the Atacama’s red rock valleys. Opposite: The sun-dappled hallway of the Alto Atacama.
here to marvel at. What you won’t find: tour buses, crowds, much to do—beyond enjoying the beauty of the landscape during long hikes across parched rock, sandboarding down hilly dunes or simply sitting around admiring the view. In recent years, the desert has welcomed a handful of luxury resorts to make all this easier and more comfortable. Though rustic in design, the Alto Atacama leaves no extravagance overlooked: There are Turkish baths, fire pits and perfectlymixed pisco sours to enjoy while gazing at unobstructed views of sloping red rock mountains, salt flats, distant volcanoes. You will drink water from Chilean springs and eat desert-herb-infused ice cream and feel like the first people on earth ever to do so. Surrounding Inca and Atacameño ruins and petroglyphs date back thousands of years—thanks to the desert’s lack of moisture, which prevents rot, the area is
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a living archaeological museum—while high altitude, sparse rainfall and, well, nothing else for miles mean you really do seem to see more stars here than anywhere else. On the other end of the spectrum and the other end of Chile—1,354 miles to the south of Atacama—Chiloé Island is lush, dense and evergreen, but similarly pristine. It’s a place where penguins gather and time has stood still. For many years, the island, off the coast of northern Patagonia, was shut off to all but the most committed explorers, who were willing to make a 17-hour bus or car ride from Santiago, followed by a ferry. In 2012, however, Chiloé finally welcomed a local airport. Not long afterward, it was followed by the stylish Refugia lodge, run by quite possibly the friendliest group of people in the Southern Hemisphere. This page, top: Chiloé’s Refugia lodge was designed to provide excellent views of the surrounding hills and distant Andes from almost any vantage point in the hotel. Above: Refugia’s in-house spa offers a range of indulgent treatments to soothe the post-hike fatigue.
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hiloé Island is a place heavily shaped by myths, folklore and religion—it is known for its Jesuit churches, 16 of which are UNESCO World Heritage sites. It’s also been shaped by weather that, while often harsh, leads to an impossible greenness. The 12-room, light-filled hotel was built using local Chilote wood craftsmanship, with an eye towards always taking in + more @ some sort of breathtaking view: of DuJour. uJour com uJour. the Andes, of the sea. The owners called on local artisans to create the wood furniture, artwork and blankets throughout the hotel; naturally, those cozy wool slippers in your room come courtesy of a local sheep. You’ll dine on fresh seafood and local meat, drink Chilean wines, explore the archipelago and its miles of unspoiled coastline in the hotel’s private boat and wonder why it took so long for this place to be discovered. Then you’ll wonder how you can keep it to yourself for as long as possible.
Top and above: The Jesuit churches of Chiloé are made entirely of native timber and exemplify native Chilote architecture—16 are designated UNESCO World Heritage sites. Left: Chiloé’s humid and rainy climate produces a lush landscape.
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AMBER VALLETTA GOES BACK TO NATURE—BUT SHE HASN’T GONE SOFT. In hard-edged leather, ripped denim and ropes of jewels, the model turned mogul shows her tough side and proves that she plays by her own ground rules
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Jacket, $7,460, ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, 212-2291546. (On eyes) Brow shaper in soft brown, $16, CLINIQUE, clinique.com.
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Lily Victorian jacket, $3,900, MARC JACOBS, 212-343-1490. Boy tee, $80, ORGANIC BY JOHN PATRICK, yoox.com. Skirt, $188, CITIZENS OF HUMANITY, citizensofhumanity.com. Rose pendant, $22,000, PIAGET, 877-874-2438. Medallion necklace, $110, LEAH BALL, leah-ball.com. Caged Zeolite necklace, $150, MELISSA JOY MANNING, melissajoymanning.com. Distressed Constellation fringe necklace, $310, K/LLER COLLECTION, kllercollection.com. Circlet necklace, $150,000, TIFFANY & CO., 800-843-3269.
Jacket, $2,325, VERSACE, 888-721-7219. Tank top, $15, LANDS’ END, landsend.com. Jeans, TEXTILE ELIZABETH AND JAMES, textileelizabethandjames.us. Chardonus necklace, price upon request, DIOR FINE JEWELRY, 800-929-3467. Double Luck necklace, $170, GEORGE FROST, lulufrost.com. Skull necklace, $2,995, PROENZA SCHOULER, 212585-3200. (Right hand) Druzy ring, $450, MELISSA JOY MANNING, melissajoymanning. com. Two Point ring, $110, REBEL & QUILL, rebelandquillnyc.com. (Left hand) Stacking ring, $315 for three; Druzy ring, $1,190, MELISSA JOY MANNING. Triarch ring, $313, UNEARTHEN, seeunearthen.com. Chloe boots, $325, MODERN VICE, modernvice.com.
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Double Foxy shirt, $220, MOTHER, yoox.com. Denim jeans, price upon request, LOUIS VUITTON, louisvuitton.com. Pea Pod choker, $475, ANNDRA NEEN, openingceremony.us. Diamond feather necklace, price upon request, GRAFF, graffdiamonds.com. Quill V fringe necklace, $337, K/LLER COLLECTION, barneys.com. Freeform necklace, $1,710, MELISSA JOY MANNING, melissajoymanning.com. (On skin) Diorskin Nude Tan Matte powder, $52, DIOR, dior.com.
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Tail coat, $3,900, MARC JACOBS, 212-3431490. Tank, $255, SVILU, yoox.com. Jeans 26, $215, BLK DNM, blkdnm.com. Diva necklace, price upon request, BULGARI, bulgari.com. Double Claw Lariat necklace, $265, K/LLER COLLECTION, kllercollection.com. Crescent Moon Ladder necklace, $220, REBEL & QUILL, rebelandquillnyc.com. Caged Zeolite necklace, $150; (left hand) Double Bar ring, $225; Druzy ring, $1,190; (right hand) Druzy ring, $450, MELISSA JOY MANNING, melissajoymanning.com. Two Point ring, $110, REBEL & QUILL, rebelandquillnyc.com.
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mber Valletta’s blueprint for supermodel supremacy goes something like this: Get discovered at age 15 by a local model scout; move from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Milan and start booking jobs; land the cover of Vogue four years later. The career that followed encompassed campaigns for high-fashion brands, editorials shot by industry legends like Peter Lindbergh and roles on television and film. Much has changed since then. Valletta has just celebrated her 40th birthday, is raising a teenage son (“I can’t even imagine sending him off to Europe at 15 to model”) and has embarked on a new career as an entrepreneur. In September, she teamed up with fashion e-tailer Yoox.com to launch Master & Muse, an online store that features sustainable and environmentally responsible brands. If that sounds a little crunchy for a high-fashion habitué, Valletta makes it clear that she isn’t hawking hemp bags. “I don’t consider myself an ‘eco’ brand— I consider myself a sustainable brand. I love trees and birds and animals, but that’s not what I’m selling,” says Valletta. “I’m selling high fashion that’s made the right way.” For example, one designer featured on the site, Brooklyn-based accessories label The Sway, creates chic bags and jackets using leather upcycled from a motorcycleaccessories factory in Pakistan. Another company, Guava, designs cutting-edge pumps and booties that are handmade by Portuguese artisans. Valletta’s social consciousness goes back to her childhood. “Growing up, my mom was a bit of an activist. She protested to stop a nuclear power plant from being built, so I saw people trying to change things and the power of that.” The message Valletta hopes to send with Master & Muse isn’t just focused on sustainable fashion—it’s about living a balanced, sustainable life. She has scaled back her modeling and acting commitments in order to spend more time at her son’s sporting events. “We’re in an age where we’re able to fill our lives in a way that’s more meaningful,” she says. “You don’t have to define yourself any more by one career.”
Jacket, $8,150; Boyfriend jeans, $1,180, LOUIS VUITTON, louisvuitton.com. Crop tee, $78, ORGANIC BY JOHN PATRICK, yoox. com. Necklace, $375, KNOTTY GAL, yoox. com. Graduated Fan collar, $125, GILES & BROTHER, gilesandbrother.com. Arrowhead pendant, $650, PAMELA LOVE, barneys.com. Stars pendant, $14,600, H. STERN, hstern. net. Hair: Tony Chavez for Leonor Greyl at Tracey Mattingly. Makeup: Kathy Jeung at the Magnet Agency. Set design: Juliet Jernigan at CLM. Production coordinator: Collette Johnson. Manicure: Elisa Wishan for Deborah Lippmann. Stylist Assistants: Mary Ossovskaya and Keesean Moore.
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Written by Bill Keith
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AT the Fifth Avenue home of two art-world aficionados, the objects on display represent even more than meets the eye (which is, as it happens, quite a lot)
Two Andy Warhol “Reigning Queen” silk screens (1985) flank the living room. On the mantelpiece, left to right: terra-cotta bust of Antinous (second century a.d.), a pair of Canosan white terra-cotta oenochoes (third–fourth century b.c.), Egyptian painted plaster mask (first century a.d.). A pair of early-19th-century Swiss/Austrian chairs; Roman marble torso of Apollo (against right wall), second century a.d.; Francis Picabia’s Le Mirage (above fireplace), 1929.
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Angela Westwater and David Meitus in front of Julian Schnabel’s Untitled (Girl with No Eyes), 2001
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ean Ar p, Cy Twombly, Sol LeWitt, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel and Vik Muniz. It’s an impressive array of contemporary art for a midsize museum to boast, let alone a residence. But as Angela Westwater is quick to say of her collection, “It’s not as rational in its initial conception as it might appear.” Or, as her husband, David Meitus, puts it more simply, “It’s less thought-out than you think!” Improbably enough though, neither is guilty of false modesty—there’s just a finer point to make. What brings these seemingly disparate pieces together so cohesively has everything to do with identifying what speaks to
On walls: Vik Muniz’s The Reader, After Fragonard (Pictures of Chocolate), 2002, surrounded by a pair of Andy Warhol’s “The Mark of the Beast” silk screens (1985–86). On floor: Gio Ponti small round glass table. Below right: T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings wood coffee table.
them deeply on a personal level first and figuring out why later. When the two met in 1987, Meitus had recently moved into an award-winning glass-and-steel Chicago home; Westwater was an art dealer on the rise, with a talent roster including Br uce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg and William Wegman. “I was looking to buy, and a friend told me I absolutely had to meet Angela,” Meitus recalls. The two married in 1992 and moved into their current home, an apartment in one of Fifth Avenue’s most sought-after prewar buildings, in 1996. West water now co-owns (with Gian Enzo Sperone) Sperone Westwater, a soaring eight-story Norman Foster–designed gallery on the Lower East Side; Meitus owns Studium Inc., a multi-line showroom featuring furniture, f looring and mosaics. With the help of designer Jed Johnson
and later architect Alan Wanzenberg, the couple has created a space that’s both intimate and elegant, grand and inviting. A nd, more than any show her galler y might mount, it is an open-armed expression of whom and what the couple love. “You’d expect a dealer’s home to have a
“angela is more of a minimalist, and I’m more acquisitive.” —david meitus
hierarchy of favoring her own artists over others, but there’s a democracy to how their art is hung,” says longtime friend
Malcolm Morley’s Car Crash, (2003); an Italian 1950s chandelier; a pair of Studium Inc. upholstered armchairs; a Jacques Quinet–inspired Studium Inc. marble-topped table; Roman marble bust (second century a.d.)
and for mer Christie’s chair of postwar and contemporary art development Amy Cappellazzo. “It’s really about which
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a r t i s t s g o t o g e t h e r, a n d i t ’s p r e t t y dam ned smar t the way they do it throughout so many historical periods. Angela’s artists are represented, but it doesn’t look like a showroom. It’s seamless, actually.” Though their bedroom is devoted ent i rely to work s by Nauman and the dining room is adorned solely with works by Guillermo Kuitca (Westwater represents both), ju st one wall alone i n t he living room displays two of Warhol’s “Reigning Queens” (Marg rethe II of Den mark and Elizabeth II of England), a 1929 Francis Picabia oil painting, a pair of 1950s Jean A r p pla st e r f ig u re s a nd a terra-cotta bust of Antinous and a marble torso of Apollo from the second century a.d. “I thin k that there’s something about how people look at certain things, and there’s some strange thread that connects people’s aesthetic in some way,” says Meitus. Westwater is reluctant to use the word conversation to describe the interplay of ar t i n her home, but when she acquiesces to the characterization, she takes it a step further, explaining that placing newer pieces she acquires next to older purchases helps her understand why she likes something: “First you have a visceral, intuitive reaction whe n you se e somet h i ng. The intellectual connection doesn’t always cross you r mind at first, but when you go back and research a piece,
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Biedermeier bench; Bruce Nauman’s Violins Violence Silence (left wall), 1982; Richard Long’s Untitled (center), 2004; Guillermo Kuitca’s Thorns (right wall), 1995; Not Vital’s murano glass 1.2.3.4.5 Snowballs (on ground), 2000. Sculptures on pedestals, left to right: marble figures of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, from a Roman Relief (first-second century a.d.).
as any serious collector would do, hopefully that information helps explain why you like something, the same way placing it alongside your other pieces does, too.” The couple staunchly refuses to let something like spatial constraints get in the way of what they want. When Meitus fell hard for an eight feet by seven feet Schnabel portrait from his “Big Girl” series, he persuaded the artist to remove an elaborate handmade frame. (“I still have the
frame; I just don’t know where it is exactly.”) And when Westwater had to have Kuitca’s six feet by ten feet Corona de Espinas for the entry hall, she didn’t hesitate to have it hoisted by a crane through her living-room window some 11 stories overlooking Central Park. “We don’t tend to think of where we’ll put things first,” she says. A s for t he compat ibilit y of t hei r st yles? “Angela is more of a minimalist, and I’m more acquisitive,” Meitus offers before Westwater
corrects him. “I think reductive is a better word for me. I grew up with a lot of clutter. I’m not saying that because it was bad stuff, it just was too many things for me. And I don’t think we have that here.” As Cappellazzo explains it, “There’s a kind of cleanness of thinking, which must be Angela’s good influence, and in the case of David, there’s a serious warmth and generosity to the space.” Consistently cited for its warmth is the green
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velvet-walled sit t i ng room , where Vik Muniz’s rendering in chocolate of The Reader, After Fragonard presides. “T he entire apar tment is beyond beautif ully curated with f ur nit ure, objects and antiquities that ref lect Angela’s and David’s lives, interests and taste,” says Tony Award–winning scenic designer Scott Pask. “But the study is an especially awesome enclave for a bunch of people to kick back and pile onto the deep sofa settee, cheek by jowl, for great postdinner conversation and laughs.” Knowing how well they’re able to mix things up aesthetically, it should come as no surprise that Westwater and Meit us’s friends speak enthusiastically about the effor tless entertaining the couple has become famous for. “They’re very thoughtful about who they include. Many times they have a lot of old friends,
Above: Guillermo Kuitca’s The Flying Dutchman (2004). Below: Andy Warhol’s Jackie (on wall, left), 1964; Lucio Fontana’s Concetto Spaziale (on wall, right), 1961. On floor: Bruce Nauman’s Partial Truth (1997); an 18th-century French marble-top table.
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Swedish paintedand-gilt chairs (early 19th century); custom mahogany dining table designed by Johnson & Wanzenberg; Venetian chandelier and sconce; Guillermo Kuitca’s Untitled (1993).
Clockwise from center: Emil Lukas’ Full Color Hum, (2013–14); narwhal tusk; French Rosewood and gilt side table (1930s). Below: Giorgio de Chirico’s Palafreniere con due cavalla (on wall, left), 1937; Malcolm Morley’s Fire Boat (on wall, center), 1999; André Arbus marble-topped table (early 1940s).
—Francisco costa b u t t h e r e i s a lw ay s s o m e one new, too,” says for mer White House social secretary Desirée Rogers. “If you don’t k now mu ch a b out a r t , you could be intimidated—the collection is astounding, the apartment is fabulous—but they’re so warm and personable that they let that all be the backdrop for lively discussions and debates. Every time I go there I feel like I can be exactly who I am, whether I am at a big dinner party or watching television with Angela in my pajamas.” But perhaps it’s Calvin Klein women’s creative director Francisco Costa who says it best: “A n gel a a n d D av id , b e sid e s b e i n g g r e a t friends, have such incredible grace and taste and ease. Bringing intelligence and beauty together makes something captivating, and they have that quality in their home. It’s always exciting to be there.”
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George P. Bush is approaching his first election with a famous last name and ideas distinctly his own. DuJour drives across Texas with the next generation of an American political dynasty
George P. Bush’s campaign bus, where the candidate spends a significant amount of his time, making its way toward a January event in Corpus Christi.
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tailor-made for him. “Given what the land commissioner’s office is responsible for, I knew my skill set could help me make a difference on day one,” Bush says. “For me, it isn’t about holding a title or some kind of high office. It’s about answering a call to service that entered my heart and got me to evaluate the ways I could serve Texas.” He goes on: “I feel that Texans want to elect someone who has a business background, who has been an owner and an entrepreneur and is a risk taker, all to create opportunity instead of leaving it up to the bureaucrats in Washington.” It’s a tough balance to strike, because haven’t those previous Bush politicians been, well, bureaucrats?
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t’s 8:30 a.m. on a crisp January day, and inside the lobby of a Travelodge in San Antonio, just a few strip malls away from the airport, George P. Bush is sipping the f irst of the day’s many cups of coffee. Tod ay’s the second d ay of a six-week, 41- cit y bu s t ou r Bu sh h a s e mba rke d on in order to do what so many in his family already have: win public off ice. While he’s been a soldier, teacher, lawyer and entrepreneur, the 37-yearold Bush (as in grandpa George Herbert Walker, uncle George W. and dad, Jeb) is making his first foray into politics with a campaign to become Texas’ next land commissioner. So far, the family’s favorite pastime is sitting well with the wiry, handsome candidate. “I love the campaigning,” he says to me, his charismatic political presence turned all the way up to 11. “For me, politics is an art, and like in a business deal, there are clear winners and losers. I like that.” Of course, most people aren’t entirely clear on what it is the Texas land commissioner actually does. The statewide position—for which Bush is seen as a shooin—is mostly concerned with regulating the use of public lands, collecting royalties from oil and gas companies that drill on state-owned land, funneling royalty revenues into granting military veterans favorable home loans and helping to finance education and other initiatives. James Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, puts a finer point on it. “Land commissioner is the political equivalent of a starter marriage,” he says. “I honestly don’t expect that [Bush’s] ultimate ambition in his life is to be land commissioner, but because it’s a down ballot, it gives him experience and exposure in running a statewide campaign.” The post’s obscurity doesn’t hide the fact that Bush hasn’t won over all of his potential constituents. “Sure, he has a business background, but he’s got no experience in elected off ice nor in gover nment,” Jason Stanford, an Austin-based political operative, says. “I honestly don’t know if he’s qualified to manage a large state agency. Honestly, we don’t know very much about him other than he’s got a nice smile.” But if you ask Bush about his bona fides for being elected land commissioner, he’ll tell you the position is
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George P. Bush delivers a campaign speech to a lunchtime crowd at McBee’s Bar-B-Que in Jourdanton, Texas.
a caravan of cars, or I’ll hop in my field rep’s truck and drive 300 miles for a rally. We’ll often share rooms in motels while on the road, and we’ll rent a midsize instead of a full-size car. It’s all about keeping the campaign
It’s not something Bush is above playing for a laugh. “To be perfectly clear, I’m r unning for this off ice because Barbara Bush told me to,” he quips to the lu nchtime crowd at McBee’s Bar-B-Que, a stop in the small town of Jourdanton. “But I’m also doing it because I’m worried about what f ut u re awaits my 8-month- old son, Prescott.” You ng P rescot t does get plent y of his father’s consideration, and his time. The only personal rule governing Bush’s bus tour is that the candidate will not spend more than three consecutive nights on the road before heading home + more @ duJour.com to Fort Worth to be with his wife, Amanda, a lawyer, and the infant who bears a favored family name. “Easily the most rigorous part of my schedule is missing my son,” Bush says. “Not being there when he gets his first two teeth, not hearing his cries and sobs. A nd as for my wonderf ul wife, all I’ll say is that like most Bush men, I married up. I couldn’t do this without her.” On the subject of other Bush men, it’s worth noting that George P. is the only one of his generation to have entered the family business. “George is the oldest of his generation, [so] there may be others that
“When I was in Florida, I was mostly known as Jeb’s son. Moving to Texas allowed me to be known as George P. Bush.” lean and mean, and I think donors and supporters really appreciate that.” Observers of Bush’s campaign, which pits him against East Texas businessman David Watts, give Watts—who, at press time, had raised about $7,000 in contributions—almost no chance of beating the much betterknown, and financially f lush, George P. But whoever the opponent, it’s apparent that George P. is positioning himself as a new breed of Bush. Sure, he’s a conservative with a soft spot for Second Amendment rights and has a penchant for blue blazers and khakis, but he’s also a biracial Gen Xer who’s f luent in Spanish—handy for campaigning among the Hispanic 38 percent of the state’s population and 17 percent of the voting electorate. And while it’s been almost 15 years since a Bush held statewide office in Texas—the last time, George W. was governor—and a lot has changed since then, there’s still something to be said for the family’s connections. “George’s name is a blessing,” Jeb Bush says of his son, “since he has role models who can help him in serving the state of Texas.”
emerge going forward,” his father notes. “But to be honest, not all Bushes feel compelled to run for office—just a few of us.”
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eorge P. Bush’s relationship to Texas is a complicated one. While his clan has a long association with the state, Bush was bor n in Texas but raised in Florida by his father, Jeb, and his mother, the Mexican-born philanthropist Columba. He attended the tony Gulliver Preparatory School before decamping for Houston to earn a degree in history—he minored in political science—at Rice University. “I would visit my grandparents in Houston, but it was really through go ing hunting in South Texas while at college that I rediscovered my love of Texas’ open spaces,” Bush says. “There are just so many vistas and views that, to me, symbolize the openness of [Texas] culture as a whole.” Despite his family’s roots in the Lone Star State, Bush says leaving Florida for Texas allowed him to find his own path.
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s we head south on Interstate 37 toward Corpus Christi for the final leg of our trip, the highway seems an endlessly flat ribbon bordered by cotton fields and oil derricks piercing the horizon. After we arrive in town and check into another drab hotel, Bush is off to the American Bank Center to address a group called A Latino Experience in South Texas. Arriving at the crowded ballroom, Bush throws himself immediately into his routine. He bypasses the tamales and empanadas prepared for the occasion and makes his way immediately to the locals looking to chat and pose for a photo. It reminds me of one campaign consultant’s observation that, “Women can’t shut up about how good-looking he is.”
On the stage, a local committeewoman excites the crowd with a shout of “George P. Bush is in the house!” and eventually Bush takes the podium to thunderous cheers. It’s hard to remember that it’s his first time out, considering the way Bush speaks to the crowd. “South Texas means so much to me and to my family and to my campaign,” he says, kicking off what will be an 18-minute speech. “I can’t win this race without South Texas.” His talk touches on all the proper entreaties to the Hispanic population
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“I really feel that coming to Texas…let me firmly establish my own identity,” Bush says. “When I was in Florida, I was mostly known as Jeb’s son, so moving to Texas allowed me to be known as George P. Bush.” The character Bush has developed is indeed different from those who have come before him. “While the Bushes are known as conservatives,” Texas political consultant Corbin Casteel says, “George P. is even more conservative than other members of his family.” Take, for instance, Bush’s support of firebrand Texas senator Ted Cruz, and how eagerly the state’s branch of the Tea Party has embraced him as a candidate. When asked to identify where he falls on the spectrum of conserva tism, Bush says, “I refuse to be labeled by one title alone, [but] in my statements and endorsements, I am definitely a Reagan conservative.” It’s that kind of line that has GOP insiders like Mary Matalin crowing about Bush’s political skills and bright future. “George P. is a fervent federalist, compassionate and practical…and [he] thinks for himself,” Matalin says. “The Bush dynasty fatigue is a creation of the media. He is his own man. Texas and the country would be blessed if he decides to stay in politics.” For now anyway, Bush brushes off any f lattering talk of an eventual national profile. “I tell all my friends in D.C. and at the Republican National Committee that I am only focusing on this primary race,” he says. “Given what the land commissioner’s office is responsible for, I know my skill can help me make a difference on day one.” Bush isn’t blind to the lessons that can be learned from his forebears, however. “What I always noticed about my uncle was that he knew an awful lot about many different areas, but he was great at delegating and assigning responsibility to his own staff to make decisions,” Bush says. Likewise, he aims to match his father’s methodical nature. “He just has this very analytical mind,” Bush says, “which I try to incorporate into all aspects of my own campaign style.” For his part, Jeb Bush says he’s proud that “George is his own man.” Still, the former governor of Florida suggests his son “get outside [his] comfort zone.” “Reach out to people and listen, learn and persuade,” he advises. “If Republicans want to win elections, we need to deliver a hopeful, positive, substantive message that has broad appeal.”
of this part of the state, calling for inclusion and not just outreach. Eventually, his speech builds to its natural crescendo, making strong use of the lines the candidate has been dropping throughout the stops on his tour. “It will be a privilege for me to serve you,” Bush says. “As Texans, we deserve a brighter tomorrow, and we deserve a future that springs from the wells of freedom dug deep by the founders of our great republic. This election is about choosing freedom—nothing more, nothing less—and I will need each and every one of you. God bless you, and God bless the great state of Texas.”
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Belted jacket, $7,800, CÉLINE, A’Maree’s, 949-642-4423. Skirt, $2,350, DIOR, 800-9293467. Celia cuff, $690, CHLOÉ, saks.com. Leaf pendant necklace (worn as bracelet), price upon request, ANGELA CUMMINGS FOR ASSAEL, Mitchells, 203-227-5165.
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Embellished dress, $6,845, MIU MIU, miumiu. com. Tank (worn underneath), $895, CHLOÉ, 212-717-8220. Open Petal pendant necklace, price upon request, ANGELA CUMMINGS FOR ASSAEL, Mitchells, 203-227-5165. (On eyes) Infallible 24 HR eye shadow in Amber Rush, $8, L’ORÉAL PARIS, lorealparisusa.com.
Model $2,495; on left: Paisley ANNE Gown, Palazzoprint pant,dress, $750, $159, VERA WANG KLEIN, anneklein.com. Culte sunglasses, COLLECTION, 212-382-2184. Layered Wrap $390,(worn MIU MIU, Ilori, 212-226-8276. MiniCHAI Lily dress underneath), $524, RICHARD bag with tassels, $670, MULBERRY, interLOVE, Pas De Deux, 212-475-0075. Bangle in mixonline.com. 18-karat yellow gold cuff, 18-karat rose gold, $37,775, HELIORO BY KIM, $11,000,212-397-9000. JENNIFER FISHER, jenniferfisherjewWempe, elry.com. Belt stylist’s own. Model on right: Silk blouse, $295, stretch twill wide-leg pant, $99, ANNE KLEIN, anneklein.com. DBS sunglasses, $380, OLIVER PEOPLES,
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Gown, $7,000, RALPH LAUREN, ralphlauren. com. Celia cuff, $690, CHLOÉ, saks.com. Leaf pendant necklace (worn as bracelet), price upon request, ANGELA CUMMINGS FOR ASSAEL, Mitchells, 203-227-5165.
Criss-cross shirt, $1,475; Pleated skirt, $2,525, HERMĂˆS, hermes.com. Open Petal pendant necklace, price upon request, ANGELA CUMMINGS FOR ASSAEL, Mitchells, 203-227-5165. (On hair) Moroccanoil Treatment, $43 for 3.4 fl oz, MOROCCANOIL, moroccanoil.com.
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Above: Fringed dress, $2,750, BOTTEGA VENETA, bottegaveneta.com. Open Petal pendant necklace, price upon request, ANGELA CUMMINGS FOR ASSAEL, Mitchells, 203-2275165. Choker in 18-karat rose gold, $21,895; Ring in 18-karat yellow gold, $1,865, HELIORO BY KIM, Wempe, 212-397-9000. Opposite: Dress, $2,800; Bra, $595, GUCCI, 212-8262600. Celia cuff, $690, CHLOÉ, saks.com. Leaf pendant necklace (worn as bracelet), price upon request, ANGELA CUMMINGS FOR ASSAEL, Mitchells, 203-227-5165.
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Fringed dress, $2,750, BOTTEGA VENETA, bottegaveneta.com. Open Petal pendant necklace, price upon request, ANGELA CUMMINGS FOR ASSAEL, Mitchells, 203-227-5165. Choker in 18-karat rose gold, $21,895, HELIORO BY KIM, Wempe, 212-397-9000. (On face) Double Wear All Day Glow BB Moisture makeup, $38, ESTﾃ右 LAUDER, macys.com.
Model on left: Paisley print dress, $159, ANNE KLEIN, anneklein.com. Culte sunglasses, $390, MIU MIU, Ilori, 212-226-8276. Mini Lily bag with tassels, $670, MULBERRY, intermixonline.com. 18-karat yellow gold cuff, $11,000, JENNIFER FISHER, jenniferfisherjewelry.com. Belt stylist’s own. Model on right: Silk blouse, $295, stretch twill wide-leg pant, $99, ANNE KLEIN, anneklein.com. DBS sunglasses, $380, OLIVER PEOPLES,
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Ethnic lace top, $1,484; Aspect sandal, $685, MARQUES’ ALMEIDA, Opening Ceremony, 212219-2688. Obi skirt, $2,995, ALTUZARRA, saks. com. Pretzel Knot earrings, price upon request, ANGELA CUMMINGS FOR ASSAEL, Mitchells, 203227-5165. Ring in 18-karat rose gold, $1,865, HELIORO BY KIM, Wempe, 212-397-9000.
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Jacket, $3,840; Skirt, $2,700, LANVIN, Saks Fifth Avenue, 212-753-4000. Gown (worn as shirt), $1,795, VERA WANG COLLECTION, 212-3822184. Bangle in 18-karat rose gold, $37,775, HELIORO BY KIM, Wempe, 212-397-9000. Scroll bangle in 18-karat yellow gold with pearl, price upon request, ANGELA CUMMINGS FOR ASSAEL, Mitchells, 203-227-5165. Belt, price upon request, FENDI, 212-759-4646. Aspect sandals, $639, MARQUES’ ALMEIDA, Opening Ceremony, 212-219-2688.
Pencil Cami Angel dress, price upon request, CHRISTOPHER KANE, 44-207-241-7695. Open Petal pendant necklace (worn in hair), price upon request; Pretzel Knot earrings, price upon request, ANGELA CUMMINGS FOR ASSAEL, Mitchells, 203-227-5165. (In hair) Pendant necklace in 18-karat rose gold, $6,275, HELIORO BY KIM, Wempe, 212-3979000. Hair: Ward for Living Proof. Makeup: Akiko Sakamoto using Chanel at See Management. Model: Josephine Skriver at The Society Management. Casting: Ros Okusanya. Fashion Assistant: Tas Tobey. Special thanks to Molly McDaniel at Sugar Beach, A Viceroy Resort.
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Opposite: Slim Classique watch, $16,400, RALPH LAUREN FINE JEWELRY, ralphlaurenwatches.com. Boy jacket, $575, A.P.C., apc.fr. Johny shirt, $99, TOMMY HILFIGER, 212-223-1824. Above: Senator Perpetual Calendar watch, $36,500, GLASHÜTTE ORIGINAL, tourbillon.com. Ludlow jacket, $425, J.CREW, jcrew.com. Johny shirt, $99, TOMMY HILFIGER, 212-2231824. Left: Jules Audemars Extra-Thin watch, $26,000, AUDEMARS PIGUET, 646-375-0807.
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Opposite: Transocean Day & Date watch, $17,075, BREITLING, breitling.com. Ludlow jacket, $425, J.CREW, jcrew.com. Shannon shirt, $129, TOMMY HILFIGER, 212-223-1824. Right: Radiomir 1940 watch, $7,800, PANERAI, panerai.com. Shannon shirt, $99, TOMMY HILFIGER. Below: Portuguese Chronograph watch, $7,900, IWC, iwc.com. Shirt, $450, ISAIA, Saks Fifth Avenue, 212-753-4000. Sittings Editor: Paul Frederick. Hand model: Johnny Tyronne at Carmen Hand Model Management.
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BEVERLY HILLS MARKS ITS 100 TH anniversary this year, so in true local fashion, the city will celebrate with a series of themed makeovers in collaboration with top hotels. Five properties will fete the anniversary with specially designed suites honoring different time periods in Beverly Hills’ distinguished history. Room packages start at $1,914—corresponding to the city’s birth year—and the celebration will run through the end of 2014. In an ode to 1940s film noir, the Montage Hotel offers a Nina Petronzio–designed suite, with art deco furniture accented by Lalique crystal, a vintage phonograph and period art. The Beverly Hills Hotel & Bungalows pays homage to one of its most famous guests— Marilyn Monroe—and the Golden Age of film with tropical prints and, of course, shag carpet. Moving forward in time, the Beverly Hilton’s “Stylish, Sophisticated Sixties: A Reimagined Revolution” suite gets a modern-meets-vintage throwback look. L’Ermitage Beverly Hills’ suite evokes the era of Studio 54, where “fashion and art collide.” Designed by Ken Fulk, the suite recalls the disco scene with an Andy Warhol–inspired iPad photo booth and a powder room papered in Interview covers. The Peninsula Beverly Hills, meanwhile, opts for timeless sophistication: Its “Birth of Modern Luxury” suite boasts a living room decorated with images of classic . / 100 Hollywood moments. LOVEBEVERLYHILLS COM SUITE
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Chefs Club by Food & Wine, a fine-dining experience showcasing the talents of the magazine’s Best New Chefs, continues to thrive at the St. Regis Aspen resort. Executive beverage director Anthony Bohlinger is in charge of matching exquisite cuisine with flavorful, balanced cocktails. Recently, his Bombay Sapphire gin cocktail, Delilah in Red, has won critical acclaim and a loyal following of spirits enthusiasts. 315 EAST DEAN STREET; CHEFSCLUB.COM
Last December, Wagner Park played host to Piaget’s World Snow Polo Championship. Competitors included star player Nacho Figueras.
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DELILAH IN RED 1 ½ oz Bombay Sapphire gin ¾ oz lemon juice ¾ oz lavender syrup Half the white of one egg 2 slices muddled English cucumber 1 oz muddled or puréed watermelon
Combine all ingredients in a shaker and shake (without ice) for 10 seconds to emulsify. Then add ice to chill, and shake for another 10 seconds. Strain into a coupe glass and garnish with a fresh lavender sprig.
Perhaps the only welcome avalanche in Aspen recently has been one of new restaurants. SPRING CAFÉ, Aspen’s first allorganic eatery, offers innovative vegetarian dishes in a partially open-air space. 632 EAST HOPKINS AVENUE.
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vino just waiting to be enjoyed. Nobody wants them savored more than wine director and master sommelier Carlton McCoy, so he created a tasting room inside the cellar to offer access to some of the best bottles in Aspen. Here, McCoy pulls four perfect wines for après ski:
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BILLECART-SALMON LE CLOS SAINT-HILAIRE BLANC DE NOIRS, 1996
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HERMAN DÖNNHOFF NIEDERHAUSER HERMANNSHÖHLE GG, 2012
“This is a single-vineyard wine, 100 percent pinot noir, and only the second vintage ever made. A truly great champagne.”
“A very rare bottle, Grand Cru, from a vineyard that is by far the best producer to ever make chablis.”
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DOMAINE GEORGES ROUMIER BONNES MARES, 1985 “This is one of my favorite vintages of the century: Perfect structure with a lush fruit character. One of the best bottles ever produced.”
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At the new home for Carolina Herrera’s diffusion lifestyle line, the dramatic red and black storefront matches the statement-making pieces inside. “It’s a complete collection for men, women and children,” Herrera says. “It’s not just about clothes. You can go into a CH store and get a book, something for the weekend or something for the children.” 70 EAST OAK STREET; CAROLINAHERRERA.COM
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BE JEWELED Dana Gordon started her jewelry line, Dana Rebecca Designs, seven years ago from a desk at her father’s office in the Loop. Since then, her 14-karat-gold and gemstone creations have attracted fans like Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lawrence—and a loyal local following. Her latest designs reflect an art deco sensibility, but they aren’t too delicate to enjoy: “I design pieces that can be worn and loved each day, not kept in a box for a special occasion,” Gordon says. 14-karat gold and diamond ring, $1,870, DANA REBECCA DESIGNS, danarebeccadesigns.com
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PASSION FOR FASHION “Fashion has always been a hobby. In graduate school I sketched jackets or dresses in the margins of my notes. My girlfriends were like, ‘OMG, can you make me that?’ ”
Marie Whitney managed to combine her love of design, her business background and her master’s degree from Harvard’s School of Public Health to create Two Penny Blue, a line of socially responsible women’s blazers. The company is based on a one-for-one model, so for every blazer bought, a school uniform is donated to a girl in Africa. Just after launching the line in 2012, Whitney and her husband, Theo Epstein, moved to Chicago for his new role as president of operations for the Cubs.
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Mini empires make up an impressive part of Chicago’s fast-growing foodscape. First came Rich Melman with Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, and an army of others have followed since, including one-man show Brendan Sodikoff (Bavette’s, Au Cheval), New York import Mercadito Hospitality (Tavernita, Little Market Brasserie) and the newest, B. Hospitality, helmed in part by chef Chris Pandel. Two of the city’s most beloved are Boka Restaurant Group and One Off Hospitality Group—here, we see how their current and future ventures stack up.
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Through May 11 at the Nasher Sculpture Center, the paintings and sculptures of one of Dallas’ best known artists, David Bates, will be on display, presented in conjunction with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. NASHERSCULPTURECENTER.ORG Slipper, $6,520; clutch, $3,480, TOM FORD, 214-854-3970
Tom Ford has stores around the world, but none is more meaningful to the designer than his latest, in Highland Park Village. The sleek space, which features white marble floors, mirrored walls, a Calder mobile and Makassar ebony fixtures, is an ode to his home state. 50 HIGHLAND PARK VILLAGE; TOMFORD.COM
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ARMANI/PRIVÉ It’s no secret that Giorgio Armani draws inspiration from the Middle East, having designed a hotel in Dubai and created a line of couture scents for Queen Rania of Jordan. Now, with the launch of his Privé line fragrance, Myrrhe Impériale, the designer has incorporated notes of the Orient, like myrrh and saffron, to create a spicy scent. GIORGIOARMANIBEAUTYUSA.COM
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CLÉ DE PEAU For fans of Clé de Peau’s cult-favorite concealer, there’s now more to look forward to—the Japanese brand has upped the skincare ante. The Synactif line (and corresponding Intensive facial) boasts a range of benefits that result from improving lymphatic drainage.
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PIANO PAVILION In late 2013, this addition to Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum was unveiled, proving the architect—who’s worked on Paris’ Centre Pompidou and Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—has a knack for institutions. The $135 million project complements the Kimbell’s Louis Kahn-designed headquarters, and hosts galleries of nonWestern art and Old Masters. The art might be inside Piano’s modern glass-and-wood pavilion, but by itself it is a thing of beauty. KIMBELLART.ORG
CY TWOMBLY GALLERY Piano’s Houston gallery, devoted to American artist Cy Twombly, opened in 1995. Piano has described it as “a butterfly alighting on a firm surface.” THE MENIL COLLECTION Home to the collection of Houston’s de Menil family, this 1987 building houses contemporary and ancient art on a 30-acre campus. NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER Piano’s building, which features indoor galleries as well as a sculpture garden, opened in downtown Dallas in 2003.
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HOUSTON FASHION IS ON FIRE, AND THREE UP-AND-COMERS ARE YOUNG MEN DESIGNING CLOTHES WOMEN WANT TO WEAR. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS INDUSTRIOUS TRIO
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AGE: 18 BACKSTORY: He grew up surrounded by fashion at A. Taghi, his grandfather’s clothing store for men. “I would always go to the store and feel all the luxurious fabrics and watch the seamstresses,” he remembers. He presented his first line at 15 and spent last summer working at Oscar de la Renta. DESIGN STYLE: “For my spring/ summer collection I was inspired by the 1950s— straight skirts and cinched waists—as well as the Japanese Samurai.” WHO HE’S DRESSING: Art collector Mary Cullen, philanthropist Debra Grierson and journalist Hasti Taghi. WHERE TO WEAR HIS CLOTHES: “At a gala as well as a casual outing.” HIS PHILOSOPHY: “Houston women are some of the best dressed in the world. Every day I am inspired by the way they look.” AMIRTAGHI.COM
AGE: 23 BACKSTORY: He began sketching women’s clothing at 14, and attended the Art Institute of Houston before leaving the program and launching his own line at age 21. DESIGN STYLE: “Timelessly elegant” dresses, sleek pantsuits and feminine separates made of natural fabrics and all produced locally. WHO HE’S DRESSING: Actress Tammy Barr, philanthropist Jo Furr, Miss Texas USA 2012 Brittany Booker and shipping heiress Eloise Frischkorn. WHERE TO WEAR HIS CLOTHES: Cocktail parties, fundraising luncheons, charity galas and business meetings. HIS PHILOSOPHY: “This has been a long journey—starting in high school— but it’s only the beginning!” JONATHANBLAKE.NET
AGE: 34 BACKSTORY: He has a degree in classical cello, studied fashion design at Ecole Parsons à Paris and worked at Paco Rabanne. DESIGN STYLE: “Classic—with a twist,” says the designer, who does ready-to-wear and bridal gowns. WHO HE’S DRESSING: Becca Cason Thrash and Taylor Swift. WHERE TO WEAR HIS CLOTHES: “Everywhere, every day!” (Or on your wedding day.) WHAT’S NEXT: “We look forward to the evolution and growth of our made-to-measure and custom bridal services at our Kirby Drive boutique.” HIS PHILOSOPHY: “Being in Houston offers an outside perspective on the fashion industry,” Peck says. “Because we’re not so connected to how things have always been done, we can evaluate if what we’re doing is really working.” DAVIDPECKUSA.COM
Eight years after AstroWorld closed, the $205-million, 610-acre Grand Texas Entertainment District will open in 2015. Attractions include a 150-acre theme park, water park and baseball stadium. GRANDTX.COM
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BRITNEY SPEARS The latest star to hit the Strip, Spears has a twoyear gig performing her revue “Piece Of Me” at Planet Hollywood, where she’s pulling in a rumored $310,000 per show. CÉLINE DION A two-time resident on the Vegas stage, the Canadian crooner is contracted to perform her eponymous show, for which she reportedly earns more than $30 million each year, through 2019.
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Casinos aren’t the only sparkly warhorses whose time-tested presence makes Sin City spectacular. For years, the Las Vegas landscape has seemed incomplete without a resident diva, belting out crowd-pleasing classics, dancing to show-stopping numbers and commanding high-roller prices. On the occasion of Britney Spears’ inaugural residency, we shout out the greatest of them all.
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The Chinese-produced extravaganza will take audiences on a journey to the Far East from the comfort of their seats at the Palazzo. The new show, featuring high-flying acrobatics and kung fu performers, is perfect for kids but sure to impress adults as well.
Taking a cue from vaudeville, Beacher’s Madhouse in the MGM Grand is a nightclub-theater hybrid unlike anything else on the Vegas stage. Says creator Jeff Beacher, “It pushes the boundaries of sexuality, entertainment and fantasy.”
Getting hitched has gone high end thanks to Aria’s wedding chapel. The space features a bridal dressing room, a game room for grooms and seats for up to 60 guests. The best part? They’ll broadcast nuptials online for absent loved ones.
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The Wynn Esplanade’s Givenchy store, expected to open this spring, will be the beloved French fashion house’s first U.S. boutique. The Esplanade is also home to an expanded Rolex location, which offers the largest collection of Rolex watches in the country. “This positions us as the epicenter of luxury timepieces,” says Hedy Woodrow, VP of retail for Wynn Las Vegas.
Nars Cosmetics is moving into The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace. The beauty brand’s latest store will be opening just in time to showcase spring offerings like the new Matte Multiple stick. NARSCOSMETICS.COM
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GREEK OUT AT MILOS! Estiatorio Milos owner Costas Spiliadis and his son George are on a mission to familiarize wine drinkers with the vino varietals that come from Greece. George is the founder of Cava Spiliadis, an importer and distributor of fine estate-bottled Greek wines. “When we launched in 2007, our mission was to do with Greek wines what my dad did with Greek food at Milos,” George says. “I want to show our clients that there is more to these wines.” Below, George offers his suggestions for Greek alternatives to familiar domestic and international varietals. 3708 LAS VEGAS BOULEVARD SOUTH; MILOS.CA
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LOS ANGELES’ DUCHESS OF DANCE L.A. MIGHT BE KNOWN AS A MOVIE TOWN, BUT IF PHILANTHROPIST GLORYA KAUFMAN HAS A SAY, IT COULD ALSO BE AMERICA’S NEXT GREAT CITY FOR DANCE. BRIAN SCHAEFER TAKES IN THE SHOW
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Film has dominated Los Angeles since the 1920s, fueling the city’s creativity and, in some ways, suffocating it. As a result, arts such as classical music, opera, the visual arts and dance have struggled to put down roots in the shadow of Hollywood. If Glorya Kaufman has her way, that’s about to change. In the spring of 2014, the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at the University of Southern California will break ground, with a plan to open its doors to the first class of 16 to 18 undergraduate students in the fall of 2015. This follows a $20 million gift to The Music Center in 2009, to create the “Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance” series (1), and $18 million a decade earlier to the University of California, Los Angeles, to renovate its historic dance building and rename it after its new patroness. Although Kaufman has been a longtime supporter of the New
York–based Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (2) and the Juilliard School, which now hosts a sleek 2,300-square-foot dance studio in her name (3), she has mainly chosen to invest in dance where she can most conveniently enjoy it. At her home overlooking Beverly Hills, Kaufman leans over a rendering of the design for USC’s new dance building, her hair a bolder shade of red than the crisscrossing bricks. Two colorful dancing figures from her necklace dangle over tall gothic arches on the page. “Isn’t it gorgeous?” she says. Kaufman is not a Southern California native. She grew up in Detroit, in a home filled with movement: “We didn’t have lessons, we just danced,” she says. There she met and married Donald Kaufman, a struggling homebuilder who would go on to establish, with Eli Broad, the company now known as K.B. Home, which is still one of
the country’s largest homebuilding corporations. Donald was killed in a plane crash in 1983, along with his son-in-law, and Glorya turned to philanthropy soon after. Whether Kaufman’s high-profile, targeted efforts will trickle down to sustain a healthy ecosystem of dance won’t be seen for several more years. But her beneficiaries insist that they will. “When I came 10 years ago, I thought there was a bit of a void,” says Jodie Gates, a celebrated former dancer and the new vice dean and director of the USC dance school. She credits Kaufman’s initiatives with spurring a renaissance in the city, fueled by an increasing flow of dance artists escaping the prohibitive costs of New York for the promise of L.A. that has long attracted many a would-be movie star. Hollywood, after all, is forever in search of the next big thing— and if Glorya Kaufman succeeds, that thing will be dance.
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An out-of-town toque ups the Sunset Strip’s culinary game this spring with a new restaurant at The Mondrian hotel. Along with partner James Brennan, San Diego’s Brian Malarkey—who cut his teeth at the now-shuttered Citrus— returns to L.A. with Herringbone, a Thomas Schoos-designed seafood eatery in the former Asia de Cuba space. Malarkey will also lend his talents to the hotel’s poolside dining and room service options. With dishes like clam and bone marrow pizza and whole fish ceviche, consider us caught—hook, line ; . and sinker.
Star chef Wolfgang Puck celebrates his 20th year of creating the menu for the Oscars. Some of his greatest hits have included veggie spring rolls, chestnut tortellini and smoked salmon pizza cones. WOLFGANGPUCK.COM
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Opportunities to build large-scale properties in Santa Monica are as rare as Kobe Bryant missing a three-pointer, so when the chance presented itself for Related Companies to develop a large mixed-used complex on Ocean Avenue, the developers of The Century jumped at it. The result is a stunning combination of boutiques, restaurants and high-rise living, complete with ocean views. “The location offers the only place on the West Coast where you have an urban environment in a beach town with access to great amenities,” Related Companies’ Gino Canori explains. Two condominium projects offer 158 luxury residences, along with 20,000 square feet of retail and dining space, including a yoga studio and a pet spa. OCEANAVENUESOUTH.COM
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Miami’s art and food scenes are exploding, so why not combine them? Two young local collectors, Tara SokolowBenmeleh (below right) and Marcella Novela (below left), have launched Art Conductor Dinner Club—nicknamed “the other ACDC”—a roving series of intimate dining experiences that culls guests from all across the cultural community. Venues rotate from artists’ studios to boutiques to hotels like Soho Beach House, and sponsors include Chopard and Benetton, but the goal is always to foster meaningful interaction with artists. “The entire concept and execution is organic,” says Sokolow-Benmeleh, who wanted to connect artists with a wider audience. “We’ve already received requests to host dinners in New York and London, so we’re very excited.”
At Art Basel Miami Beach last year, BMW unveiled its 17th Art Car, the M3 GT2 race car, with a vibrantly painted design created by contemporary artist Jeff Koons. BMW.COM
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There is no shortage of happenings this spring at the Fontainebleau. The hotel’s Lapis Spa is debuting the Bleau Suite, built for two, offering customized couples’ services, starting with a mineral bath drawn by a personal butler. “Our guests prefer customizable treatments to guarantee relaxation and enhance well-being,” says spa director Josie Feria. The bi-level spa has also introduced organic facials using vegan products, body scrubs with Patagonian algae and sea-salt scrubs, and pain-relief massages promise to alleviate musclerelated chronic pain, decreased range of motion and nerve entrapment. Another enticing development at
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At BLACKBRICK, chef-owner Richard Hales takes diners on a culinary tour of China. What he doesn’t do is shy away from Hunan chiles and Szechuan peppercorns in dishes like cold roast chicken with chili sauce and jellyfish. “Even if we serve Westernized dishes, they’re made with our unique spin,” says Hales, whose General Tso’s comes with more than just traditional chicken. “Ours features exotic local meat like alligator tail.” 3451 NE 1ST AVENUE; MIDTOWNCHINESE.COM
Visitors to the new Pérez Art Museum Miami will be torn between admiring world-class art or stunning bay views. Savor the latter at VERDE, Stephen Starr’s latest hotspot. His menu emphasizes regional bounty such as passionfruit caipirinhas, tuna tartare and heirloom tomato gazpacho. Naturally, there’s Cuban coffee for dipping cane-sugar-glazed donuts. 1103 BISCAYNE BOULEVARD; PAMM.ORG
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THE WEBSTER Proprietor Laure Heriard Dubreuil has taken The Webster uptown to Bal Harbour Shops. The new outpost carries exclusively women’s clothing and accessories, from brands such as Valentino and Céline. She loves her exclusives, too, including a capsule collection with Calvin Klein’s Francisco Costa and Olympia Le-Tan clutches embroidered to resemble Webster’s Dictionary. 9700 COLLINS AVENUE; THEWEBSTERMIAMI.COM
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Akris opened its fourth U.S. store at Bal Harbour Shops in December. Design details include a signature curvilinear maple wall, and one-off furniture pieces designed by Christoph Sattler and Norman Cherner. “Miami is alive with culture and has a vibrant connection to art and design,” says U.S. CEO Melissa Beste. 9700 COLLINS AVENUE; AKRIS.CH
LIGHT VERSUS DARK COTTAGE MIAMI Following a stint in New York, lawyer turned retailer Ariel Burman opened Cottage Miami back home to satisfy his passion for menswear. The novice has studied the market well and is stocking a tight roster of designers including Michael Bastian, Billy Reid and Folk. Like-minded dandies can pick up everything from board shorts to pocket squares in his converted warehouse in Sunset Harbour. 1784 WEST AVENUE; COTTAGE-MIAMI.COM
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South Beach sundries mecca BABALU pops up at The Raleigh hotel through the end of May. Its curated mix of beachy staples includes Linda Rodin skincare and Tom Ford sunglasses. RALEIGHHOTEL.COM Miami goes goth with a RICK OWENS flagship featuring men’s and women’s ready to wear, as well as Hun furs and Owens’ DRKSHDW and Lilies collections. The industrial-chic space showcases a wax and eelskin sculpture of the designer. RICKOWENS.EU
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WHAT HAVE YOU CHOSEN TO WEAR? I always look for a short dress, but with a little something extra to make it pop. This year, I’m looking at dresses from Tom Ford, CD Greene and Azzaro.
WHAT MAKES THIS GALA UNIQUE? It’s never black tie, it’s always cocktail. This year, the gala will be at Hammerstein Ballroom and director Sam Mendes is being honored. Just afterward, in April, we have our big opening for Cabaret, starring Michelle Williams and Alan Cumming. WHERE DO YOU GO TO SHOP BEFORE EVENTS LIKE THIS? Net-APorter, Chanel and Dolce & Gabbana.
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WHAT DO YOU DO TO GET READY FOR THE BIG DAY? Spinning at SoulCycle and pilates at Erika Bloom, both uptown. I have my hair and makeup done by Sebastian Scolarici at Serge Normant at John Frieda and I’ll do nail art—probably the new Roundabout logo on my nails.
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ACCESSORIES? I just purchased a silver Edie Parker clutch that designer Brett Heyman created with my name on it, and I’ll opt for a pair of sparkly Christian Louboutins. WHAT WILL YOU BE DRINKING? A martini.
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A spate of new NYC chop shops offers both old-world charm and new-world amenities that any man of style can appreciate—from high-octane motorcycleinspired chairs to curated grooming products and, if you’re lucky, a cold beer.
KIEHL’S The brand’s months-old Hell’s Kitchen satellite provides a two-seat space and features design flourishes like reclaimedwood floors, black-and-white subway tiles and two striking bronze chandeliers. In addition, this outpost houses a massive selling space for the brand’s exhaustive inventory of lotions, cleansers and, of course, shaving cream. 678 NINTH AVENUE; KIEHLS.COM
FELLOW BARBER Last July, F.S.C. Barber founder Sam Buffa opened Fellow Barber, an 800-square-foot men’s grooming destination in SoHo. This cool-guy hangout seats eight and sells skin care and fragrances from Odin, Malin + Goetz and Ursa Major. A 600-square-foot patio is the perfect springtime waiting area. 33 CROSBY STREET; FELLOWBARBER.COM
PAUL LABRECQUE SALON & SPA The hair guru’s newest location opened inside Chelsea Piers last spring and includes his fourth barbershop—a one-chair operation manned by Ryan Looney and Tom Moschetto, both of whom trained under Labrecque himself. PIER 60, 20TH STREET & HUDSON RIVER PARK; PAULLABRECQUE.COM
HARRY’S CORNER SHOP The brainchild of Warby Parker cofounder Jeff Raider and his friend Andy Katz-Mayfield, Harry’s Corner Shop—a sleek two-seat barbershop in SoHo—stocks an in-house brand of shaving products. It also offers an array of themed gadgets like small leather items from Makr, toolboxes and motorcycle helmets. 64 MACDOUGAL STREET; HARRYS.COM
PERSONS OF INTEREST Steve Marks opened a second location of his Brooklyn barbershop in Williamsburg in 2012. It boasts an easygoing vibe and offers gratis Brooklyn Lager. A year ago, the Carroll Gardens original expanded to include an apothecary carrying rare-to-the-area brands Juniper Ridge and Portland General. 82-84 HAVEMEYER STREET; PERSONSOFINTERESTBKLYN.COM
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AS VICE CHAIR OF THE ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY’S ANNUAL GALA, STEPHANIE KRAMER HAS SPENT MONTHS PLANNING THIS YEAR’S MARCH 10 EVENT, TIED TO THE NEW PRODUCTION OF CABARET, STARRING MICHELLE WILLIAMS. HERE’S HOW SHE PREPARES FOR THE BIG NIGHT.
HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH THE ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY? I’ve always had an interest in the theater. My husband Ron and I are avid theatergoers. I’ve also invested in productions here and there and I decided that I wanted to be more involved. About four years ago, my friend Mary Solomon brought me onto the board of the Roundabout (roundabouttheatre.org). Since then I’ve chaired the gala—this year I’m the vice chair— and I’m co-chair of the nominating and
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It’s been 16 years since real estate titans Dottie Herman and Howard Lorber joined forces and forged Douglas Elliman. Today their residential real estate company, which started on Long Island, is one of the country’s most formidable, with over $12 billion in annual sales and offices from Montauk to Miami—not to mention an expansion to Southern California debuting this spring. Here, Herman and Lorber weigh in on the mercurial real estate business and how their partnership has stayed successful in New York’s turbulent climate.
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It’s not a stretch to say that Jon Singer was born to work in fashion. The CEO of Singer22, the destination fashion website that spawned a pair of retail stores, had a father who worked in sales for Ellen Tracy, Elie Tahari and Gloria Vanderbilt and a mother who helmed her own eponymous collection. “My family has a long history in fashion,” he says. “So I kind of grew up with shopping as a pastime.” In the early aughts, when his parents retired, Singer founded Singer22, a fashion website featuring work by established designers and rising stars alike. It was a risk investing in the still-evolving Internet at the time, but one Singer thought was worthwhile. “I was always a firm believer in online commerce; I just knew it was going to be the next big thing,” he says. “The second I launched the site, I saw I was right. I remember being out to dinner one night and getting an order over e-mail and it suddenly hit me: I was a store, open 24 hours a day.” Thanks to Singer’s eye and the popularity of brands like Alice + Olivia, J Brand and Current/Elliott, the site found success with a fashion-forward crowd of shoppers looking to replenish their closets without leaving the house. As the Web in general has grown,
though, so has Singer22. “It’s been a rollercoaster ride,” Singer says with a laugh. “We’ve seen other sites come onto the scene and make a big splash, but within a year they were out. The key for us is trying to find what’s new and jump before everybody else has it.” So far, he’s done just that. The site has been successful enough to spawn two brick-and-mortar shops on Long Island—and that’s only the beginning. Singer says the website is continuing to grow in markets including Canada, Australia and Japan and that he’s considering opening new shops in New York, L.A. and Miami. This expansion is even more notable considering the competition he faces. “When we started, there were very few players in the online space,” he says. “Now everyone is in on the game. The landscape is always changing and you have to be able to adapt.” So, what is it that sets Singer22 apart from the competition? “It’s a better product mix and it’s how we display and market it,” Singer says, adding that he follows his gut when choosing inventory. “We’re constantly reworking things. Every day we’re making changes and getting better.”
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California-based furniture company Restoration Hardware (now known as RH) has taken over the historic former Greenwich Avenue post office and transformed it into a perfect example of a modernized restoration. The 17,000-square-foot neoclassical building—erected in 1917—has undergone reworking by James Gillam of design architecture firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, in consultation with historicpreservation experts. The building, which faces the town’s World War Petite Kensington sofa, from $2,330
I monument, a 50-foot obelisk, boasts a classical loggia supported by six Corinthian columns. RH’s collection of modern and stylish leather sofas, striking light fixtures and luxe bedding will be on display.
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Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa staged the sixth edition of its popular Savor Borgata event the first week in November. The three-day foodie fest brought the property’s roster of renowned chefs to the seaside resort: Bobby Flay staged a masterful cooking demonstration in the Music Box, while Stephen Kalt and Michael Schulson held lessons in their respective restaurants—perfecting raviolis in Fornelletto and making sushi at Izakaya. At Street Eats, the event’s headlining dinner, host Sissy Biggers welcomed over 1,000 guests to the Events Center, which was transformed into a carnival complete with fortune-tellers, caricature artists, jugglers and more. The chefs manned their own food-truck-style stations, from which they served all sorts of eat-with-yourhands fare, like Kalt’s porchetta Genovese with salsa verde, Flay’s chicken skewers and executive pastry chef Thaddeus Dubois’ smorgasbord of mini desserts on sticks, including chocolate-covered
s’mores. But the voted crowd favorite was a flavorful Kobe beef cheesesteak, courtesy of the team at Old Homestead Steak House. The Street Eats theme was a departure for Savor Borgata’s usually high-end, sit-down celebration. But with food trucks gaining so much momentum all over the country, it seemed only fitting to dedicate the evening to the varieties of mobile deliciousness. Bobby Flay added, “Americans are always ready—when it comes to food—to give something new a chance.” The weekend also featured a guest chef—James Beard winner Michael Symon—who served one of the most popular dishes of the evening: a pulled-pork slider topped with Sha Sha sauce. “There was no master plan,” says Symon, who has worked with many of Borgata’s chefs, of how he got involved with the event. “I can’t pass up the chance to hang with my buddies.” ONE BORGATA WAY, ATLANTIC CITY; THEBORGATA.COM
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LA-based makeup studio Blushington has opened a onestop beauty shop at Fashion Island in Newport Beach. BLUSHINGTON.COM
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Designer Monica Wise has summer on her mind: paddleboarding, surfing, cliff jumping and of course, what to wear while doing it. The woman behind surfer-chic swimwear line L*Space has launched her first activewear collection, to the joy of outdoorsy types. “Over the years, we’ve received requests for pieces specifically designed for an active, outdoor lifestyle,” she tells DuJour. Maximizing functionality and fashion appeal, the new line offers Wise’s athletic fan base new sporty silhouettes (starting at $73) to mix and match perfectly with L*Space swimwear. “Our aesthetic is still there, just with some extra support and pieces that are really . designed to stay put,” Wise says. INSTYLESWIMWEAR COM
When the Aliso Viejo-based company SimpliPure introduced LifeCan to the world, they weren’t toasting with champagne. At the demonstration in New York, CEO Jeff Sharpe showcased the new handheld water filtration system in Central Park by serving—yes—a glass of pond water. The self-powered LifeCan, which removes 99.99 percent of bacteria, viruses and pathogens from any non-saltwater source, has supplied drinkable water from the Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas, the Chicago River, Louisiana swamps, even the Amazon and the Nile. It’s the perfect portable water purifier for outdoor enthusiasts, and more importantly, a water solution for disaster response. LifeCan units have been sent to Haiti, refugee camps in the Middle East and the Philippines following the recent typhoon. At the heart of LifeCan’s mission is its one-forone campaign: buy one LifeCan, and the company will donate another where water filtration is needed. “We’ve always wanted to build a company model not just on environmental sustainability, but on social sustainability as well,” Sharpe says. “And because the product has such application in emergency response situations, it seems really important to us that we keep that motto alive.” THELIFECAN.COM
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Locals head to Seal Beach’s Beachwood BBQ for a rib fix, but there’s also a beer to satisfy all tastes. The down-home cooking hotspot, co-owned since 2006 by husbandand-wife team Gabriel Gordon and Lena Perelman, is also a brewpub serving up world-class craft beer and a tough-to-beat IPA selection. Now, the Long Beach brewery debuts two new bottles: the citrusy Melrose IPA and the toasty Udder Love Milk Stout. BEACHWOODBBQ.COM
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The Breakers has partnered with Mark Badgley and James Mischka to create the 1,700-square-foot Imperial Designer Suite, which boasts incredible views and now, chic decor. The designers drew inspiration from the hotel’s history and their runway collections. “The Breakers embodies classic elegance, which is what we try to do with our brand,” ; . says Badgley.
Flagler Steakhouse has gotten a makeover after 15 years. The restaurant, at The Breakers’ Ocean Clubhouse, will offer an expanded menu of classic steakhouse fare in a smartly updated red, white and blue dining room. THEBREAKERS.COM
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JADA VINEYARD & WINERY The Bordeaux- and Rhône-style wines from this familyowned and operated producer consistently rate highly with wineindustry insiders. We love the 2010 Jersey Girl Estate Syrah ($46). 5620 VINEYARD DRIVE JADAVINEYARD.COM
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JUSTIN VINEYARDS & WINERY This estate vineyard emphasizes Bordeauxstyle blends and single varietals. Highly recommended are the 2011 Isosceles ($70) and 2011 Justification ($48). Both complex red blends are ready to drink now or will age nicely. You can also dine and stay overnight—there is a restaurant, inn and private villa onsite. 11680 CHIMNEY ROCK ROAD JUSTINWINE.COM
SUMMERWOOD WINERY & INN This small-lot producer is a one-stop shopping experience for the visiting wine connoisseur, enhanced by majestic views. Book one of Summerwood’s nine guest rooms, dine onsite and enjoy sampling their current releases, which include a lively 2012 Grenache Blanc ($25) and a 2010 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon ($55). 2175 ARBOR ROAD
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LA COSECHA BAR & RESTAURANT AND IL CORTILE RISTORANTE Husband-and-wife team Santos and Carole MacDonal fled L.A. for Paso Robles, bringing with them a passion for food and wine. At La Cosecha, Spanish for “the harvest,” fresh, local ingredients highlight this passion—as do the artisanal cocktails, if you want a break from all that wine. Il Cortile, their latest venture, offers house-made pastas and sauces and is the pinnacle of rustic Italian fine dining. LA COSECHA, 835 12TH STREET LACOSECHABR.COM IL CORTILE, 608 12TH STREET ILCORTILERISTORANTE.COM
HOPE FAMILY WINES This major producer has been growing grapes since 1978. Its lineup consists of
Nekter’s coldpressed juices, smoothies, salads, acai bowls—and its newest offering, cocktail mixers—are making their way to Napa, Palo Alto and Mountain View this spring. NEKTERJUICEBAR.COM
five brands, including Liberty School, Austin Hope and Troublemaker, and scores big on price as well as taste. The 2011 Austin Hope Syrah ($42) has earthy blackberry aromas and a long, smoky finish. 1585 LIVE OAK ROAD
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WILD HORSE WINERY & VINEYARDS Giddy up! This vineyard, named for the wild mustangs that roamed the hills above its vines, has been producing rare and heirloom varietals— including Verdelho, Blaufränkisch and Viognier—for more than 30 years. It is a leading producer of Central Coast Pinot Noir, including a 2010 Cheval Sauvage ($65). 1437 WILD HORSE WINERY
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trict gives us plenty to drool over. ALIMENT Partners Eric Rud and Matt Sullivan present comfort food with Offerings include seared diver scallops with crispy red quinoa, Thai green curry and pickled shallots, or main dishes of wild mushroom cappellini, braised short rib with turnip gratin and horseradish gremolata, or a daily market fish option. 786 BUST SWEET WOODRUFF
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The casual eatery from chef-owner Teague Moriarty (Sons & Daughters) offers counter service for 20 and ever-changing dinner specials. Try the Southwestern quesadilla at brunch or the grilled cheese (with havarti and muenster) for lunch, with a Coke float. For dinner, opt for the house-made cavatelli. 798 SUTTER STREET; FARM:TABLE This
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loaf sandwich on focaccia with spicy ketchup to a broccoli-and-chevre frittata. 754 POST STREET; FARMTABLESF.COM JONES Serving up stellar “San Frantastic” cocktails on its rooftop patio since 2011, this well designed contemporary hotspot is always full. Signature drinks include Mi Cielito, a tequila tipple finished with Angostura bitters, and the Drunken Pear, Plymouth gin over muddled pear
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“Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George,” organized by the Hyde Collection and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, will spotlight 55 works created by the artist at Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains. The time she spent at this rural retreat, from 1918 until the early 1930s, proved transformative for her art. 50 HAGIWARA TEA GARDEN DRIVE; DEYOUNG.FAMSF.ORG
and cucumber: perfect accompaniments to the sensational pizzas and pastas. 620 JONES STREET; 620-JONES.COM REDFORD A rustic American tavern from Hugo Gamboa, Adam Snyder and Justin Roja (the Brixton), Redford is a place where friends converge for no-fuss drinking and eating. A juicy make-your-own pastrami-sandwich board pairs nicely with the Redford Manhattan or the monthly Whiskey Plank tasting flight. 673 GEARY STREET; REDFORDSF.COM
MAC Attack
Opening this spring, MAC Cosmetics’ West Coast flagship will showcase the brand’s makeup and skin-care collections, application services, a complete lineup of PRO products, a lash bar and a private makeup room. Something else to look forward to? The brand’s limited-edition collaboration with Proenza Schouler, out April 3. Look out for cool ombré packaging on its collection of liners, blush, lipsticks and nail polishes (we’re loving Thimbleweed). 45 POWELL STREET; MACCOSMETICS.COM
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Ghurka, the New York–based purveyor of leather goods, is celebrating its first opening outside NYC in nearly a decade with a new Union Square boutique— and it’s going to be wild. “We couldn’t think of a better partner for the launch than the San Francisco Zoo,” John Reuter, the brand’s CEO, says. “Ghurka is, above all, about travel, adventure and experiencing the world. The zoo brings this experience of exploration and learning to so many people in the Bay Area each year.” The 1,000-square-foot West Coast flagship’s design includes a vintage Art Nouveau bakery display case, sourced by Reuter, as well as a large-scale, hand-painted military map mural along the back wall. “Our namesakes—the Ghurka regiments of the British Army—rose to prominence in the early 1900s,” he explains, “so these pieces were an ideal fit.”
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George Kotsiopoulos of E!’s Fashion Police hosted Fashion Gives Back, a lively evening of philanthropic shopping at The Shops at Crystals in Las Vegas. “Crystals is not just luxury, it’s high-end luxury,” Kotsiopoulos gushed. “Super fabulous, super glamorous, all the covetable brands.” Fendi, Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton and other houses donated a portion of their proceeds to local and national charities. The event boasted partnerships between Valentino and the Nevada Ballet Theatre, Dior and the Nathan Adelson Hospice and Lanvin and Keep Memory Alive. “It’s all about guilt-free spending, and is a great way for the more privileged to help out,” Kotsiopoulos added. The evening was highlighted by a runway show featuring looks by Roberto Cavalli, Lanvin and Donna Karan and an indie pop soundtrack set by DJ Harley Viera Newton.
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Dwyane Wade recently extended by three years his ambassadorship with Swiss watchmaker Hublot. To celebrate, Hublot invited guests to hit the hardwood with Miami Heat legends Alonzo Mourning, Juwan Howard, Shane Battier and Ray Allen. Wade and Hublot CEO Ricardo Guadalupe hosted a dinner afterward at steakhouse Prime 112. Table talk ranged from guilty pleasures (Wade loves the ABC drama series Scandal) to good deeds. A portion of proceeds from sales of timepieces like the King Power Dwyane Wade benefits the Miami Heat Charitable Fund. “Basketball is more than a game,” the all-star player told DuJour. “The people supported us, and we want to support them.”
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New York’s finest turned out for a high-stakes Hold ’Em tournament—the second poker invitational hosted by Graff—at the jewelry house’s transformed Madison Avenue salon. Right before the cards flew, the brand’s president and CEO Henri Barguirdjian gave us some tips for the game: “Mix a little bit of luck with a little know-how and just the right timing.”
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RICARDO GUADALUPE, GABRIELLE UNION AND DWYANE WADE
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS
Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is a warrior in the ring. We asked a handwriting expert if his fighting words match his personality.
“Angle writers” are consumed with an interest in strength. The angle, in its solidity, is associated with stubbornness. Imagine the triangle with those two legs planted on the ground, immovable.
He is good at making angles, but here with the letter v he uses rounded strokes where there should be angles. He’s prone to extremes.
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Another example of his tendency toward extremes: His i’s are dotted carefully, and yet in other places—like the t that has no crossing—he completely loses the details.
Tall capital letters–like the H in hit and M in mouth–are an expression of pride. They show an interest in representing oneself in a way that is highstatus and in casting the right first impression.
The needle-sharp points in his signature take a lot of exertion—it’s easier to write a rounded, loopy letter. In choosing the angular letter, this writer shows he’s a fundamentally hard worker who likes a challenge.
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ince I was young, I’ve had people applauding me and telling me that I’m good at everything. It’s all I’ve ever known. And for some bizarre reason I’ve become addicted to that,” explains world-champion boxer Mike Tyson. “It’s almost like a narcotic. I’ve used drugs and liquor before, but they don’t bring the same satisfaction as the applause and the praise.” On the evidence of his handwriting, Tyson’s admission isn’t all that surprising. In fact, people with large writing—like Tyson’s above—tend to enjoy being the center of attention, according to Toronto-based graphologist Annette Poizner.
“It’s the sign of a person who likes to be noticed and have an impact.” Poizner also points out that the angular shape of Tyson’s letters is revealing. “It takes a lot of exertion to do all the stopping and starting that angles require. He’s not afraid of hard work,” she says. “Angle writers are people who like a challenge—who love conf lict and love to exert. They like their steak chewy so they can smash it with their teeth again and again. They’re very persistent and keep plowing away at the job until the breakthrough into success.” Perhaps that explains the quote Tyson chose
as his favorite. But the mantra—which he coined as a teenager—has nothing to do with actual f ighting. “It has to do with life,” says Tyson, who is cur rently on an inter national tour for his one-man show, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth. “Everyone has a plan until they get hit. And then what happens? Do you just lay down and die? Or do you revert to plan B? We’re all going to get hit by the brick wall of life eventually. And that adversity is going to make the strong stronger and the weak weaker. That’s just what happens. That’s what life revolves around.” —LINDSAY SILBERMAN
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