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Clothing as gesture politics

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Stylin’ ballplayers

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Couture consignment

Styling a new act

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Proactive (wear)

Get in line

A rose is a rose ...

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The man with the golden (musical) touch

China shoots for the moon

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Fragrance is its ‘Creed’

Gem of a guy Think pink

The subject is roses

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Jewelry’s power

‘Angel’ diamonds

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‘Fall’-ing for autumn's trends An amphitheater resurrected

Leader of the (wedding) band

Creativity’s in the bag

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WARES Design trends

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WARES Tricks of the trade from a design pro

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Warming — and catching — up with AprilMarin

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Fall classic

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WANDERS Glam on the go’s new comfort zone

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WANDERS Cleveland rocks

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WANDERS Getting there (before everyone else does)

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WONDERFUL DINING Puttin' on The Ritz

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WINE & DINE Wine at the ‘center of the universe’

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WELL Compassionate to the bone

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WELL Hair today, gone tomorrow

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WELL When less is indeed more

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PET OF THE MONTH Sweet Sophie

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PET PORTRAITS Vintage dreams

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PET PORTRAITS Fido fashionistas

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WHEN & WHERE Upcoming events

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WATCH We’re out and about

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WIT Should clothes say something about you?

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“CLOTHES MAKE THE WOMAN” this fall as our “Fashionable Inspirations” issue considers the relationship between dress and the female of the species.

Dressing for success has long been important to men, of course — an idea underscored by James Sherwood’s delicious book, “Jewelry for Gentlemen,” out this month from Thames & Hudson. Jewelry — and, by extension, clothing — has always been a means of conveying male power. But once men absented the role of the more beautiful of the two sexes to women around the mid-19th century — something that their male counterparts in the animal kingdom could never do — and women began to derive their own power from being objects of beauty — fashion became a female province.

Ever since, women have used their looks and clothes not only as forms of expression but as a kind of protection and armor even. Often, they let fashion do the pointed talking for them — as in our opening essay on women’s clothes as a form of gesture politics. Or consider the way in which women have co-opted that superbly subversive color — pink (another of our essays and another scrumptious Thames & Hudson book.)

Breast cancer awareness, the Pussyhat movement: Pink’s not just for Hello Kitty anymore, (not that we don’t love Hello Kitty. How could we not love a girl who has a fab wardrobe and lifestyle and seems to do no work and whose boyfriend, Dear Daniel, makes no demands on her? It’s the ultimate fantasy.)

Still, despite the symbiosis between women and clothes, it remains no small irony that the fashion industry remains dominated by men. That is changing, though, thanks to women like the multitalented, endlessly creative Cassandra Saulter, the Putnam County-based artist who repurposes fur into new fashions; and the ladies behind La Ligne — a fresh, young company out of Manhattan that brings new meaning to the phrase “of a different stripe” and that we were first introduced to at the Bruce Museum’s spring “Art of Design” panel at Greenwich Country Club.

In this issue, you’ll also meet designer, and cover subject, Patricia Bonaldi, whose embroidered creations — which can be found at Mary Jane Denzer in

White Plains — are empowering the women she trains and employs in her native Brazil. She is, in a sense, one with Elizabeth Keckley — the seamstress/ confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, who, as Phil tells us, used her skill with a needle and flair for design to fashion a future not only for herself and her family but for freed slaves, black Union soldiers and her students at Wilberforce University.

Design, however, is all of a piece so that fashion design often influences home design, as Jane points out in her consideration of fall home trends and as Jenny notes in her appraisal of René Lalique. Today, we know his company best for its exquisite glass objets d’art.

But he began his career as a designer of Art Nouveau jewelry, a piece of which turns up in the “Jewelry for Gentlemen” book. (Isn’t synchronicity grand?)

In that spirit, we turn our inspired designs theme loose on a rediscovered Greek-style amphitheater from Cos Cob that’s been recalled to life at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers (Jena’s story); McClaren’s million-dollar sportscars; The Ritz-Carlton New York, Westchester’s redesigned fall menu (Gina’s piece); the true meaning of “made in China” (Audrey’s article); “travel fashion” (Jeremy’s take); designing a fall/winter wedding; and the debut of Cami Weinstein’s Wares column.

Cami, owner of Cami Weinstein Designs LLC in Greenwich, offers up her tricks of the trade for homeowners looking for a refresh. And that brings us back to Jane, who considers upcoming trends in interior design in what, we are sad to report, will be her last column for us.

Jane is moving on to other projects this fall — a loss not only for homebodies who have valued her insights into feathering your nest but for lovers of the written word. Jane always presented her thoughts in these pages with the panache with which she decorates. She has flair. She has attitude.

Most of all, in editing her, I always heard her voice in my head. That’s when you know writing works. For us, writing is in the end a conversation among our estimable staff, our wonderful readers and our inspiring subjects.

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BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

“IN TIME YOU’LL DROP DEAD AND I’LL COME TO YOUR FUNERAL IN A RED DRESS.” — LORETTA CASTORINI TO HER (FORMER) FIANCÉ, JOHNNY CAMMARERI, IN “MOONSTRUCK” (1987) We know the feeling, Loretta. We were once humiliated by a garden gnome of a celebrity gatekeeper — think Truman Capote with a particularly bad comb over — whom we knew we were fated to encounter at a banquet. So what could we do but take ourselves off to The Westchester to purchase a form-fitting red lace cocktail dress for the occasion, one with a low neck and back. And we kept that back to him — or was it our cold shoulder? — for an entire evening as we sat a table away, looking fabulous.

We called it our — well, never mind what we called it. It’s not printable. Let’s just say it was our “drop-dead” dress.

Perhaps the most famous “drop-dead” dress in recent history was the asymmetrical off-the-shoulder Christina Stambolian LBD (little black dress) that Diana, Princess of Wales, wore to Vanity Fair’s summer party in 1994.

She had actually had the dress in her wardrobe for three years, considering it too daring to wear. But out of the closet it came for the party, which took place the same night an interview aired with estranged hubby Prince Charles, in which he admitted his adultery with Camilla Parker Bowles (now his wife and Duchess of Cornwall).

What would we have given to see Diana at the May wedding of her younger son, Prince Harry, to the former Meghan Markle, not just because she loved him so but to see what she would’ve worn — something no doubt elegant that nonetheless would not have upstaged the bride.

That wedding was chockablock with fashion statements, which everyone from fashionistas to pundits pored over as if they were biblical texts. There were, to name a few, •The I’m here-to-support-the-bride-on-a-lovely-spring-day look (Serena Williams in pink Versace; Priyanka Chopra in lavender); • The I’m-here-not-to-upstage-the-bride-eventhough-I’m-the-future-queen-of-England statement (Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge in a lemon yellow bordering on cream Alexander McQueen coat that she had worn twice before, including to daughter Princess Charlotte’s christening); • The-I-can’t-help-but-upstage-the-bride-because-Ilook-so-hot statement (Lady Kitty Spencer, Prince Harry’s cousin, in head-turning forest green Dolce & Gabbana with a floral border); • The I’m-here-to-be-noticed-along-with-my-self-satisfiedhusband-even-though-we-have-no-familial-ties-to-the-royals look (Amal Clooney in goldenrod Stella McCartney with a matching flying saucer on her head); • The I’ve-made-mistakes-in-the-past-but-today-I’m-thepicture-of-propriety statement (Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, in a smart navy dress with pink piping by Windsor-based Emma Louise Design); and • The I-didn’t-get-the-pastel-memo-and-anyway-I’m-awinter look (Countess Karen Spencer, Prince Harry’s aunt, in shapely but off-season purple).

And then there was the bride herself, a goddess in demure but glamorous Givenchy (and later a sexy white Stella McCartney halter gown), the deus ex machina in the fairy tale that ends “Harrily” ever after.

With the exception of Harry and Prince William in the frockcoat uniforms of the Blues and Royals, does anyone remember what the men wore to the wedding? Mostly morning coats. It’s not that men haven’t been fashionable or made fashion statements since the dawn of discernible fashion (around the 14th century in the West). It’s that they have for the most part ceded that role to women — along with beauty and sex appeal — in exchange for power. Indeed, when we think of male fashion statements, we think of the early 1950s rebels in their uniform of white Ts and blue jeans — with Montgomery Clift, adding a bomber jacket; Marlon Brando, a motorcycle one; and James Dean, a red windbreaker.

For the most part, though, fashion has been female and occasionally fraught, particularly for the small group of women who become first ladies. From Nancy Reagan’s “donated” red Adolfo suits and gowns to Barbara Bush’s granny pearls to Hillary Clinton’s ever-evolving hairstyles

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“For the most part, though, fashion has been female and occasionally fraught, particularly for the small group of women who become first ladies.” and headbands, the first lady’s looks and actions are endlessly parsed, as if there were special meaning in the cut of a blouse or the color of a pantsuit. Because there is.

Melania Trump watchers certainly seem to think so as they divine each outfit. Was the pussy bow blouse she wore to one presidential debate a sign of solidarity with the Pussyhat movement, a comment on her husband’s infamous “Access Hollywood” tape or both? Did the white pantsuit she wore to the president’s State of the Union address earlier this year hold a message for the women’s movement, whose suffragist ancestors took white as their color? Who actually was the intended audience for the olive “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” Zara jacket Trump wore on the plane to the southern border but not to her actual meeting there?

In a recent piece in The New York Times, Vanessa Friedman — the paper’s fashion director and chief fashion critic — noted that Trump seems to have reversed the first lady’s fashion role, which is to be unassuming in a crisis at home and vibrant in overseas diplomacy. Unlike the “I REALLY DON’T CARE” jacket, Trump’s choices for the president’s explosive recent trip to Europe were elegant but safe, Friedman wrote. A possible exception was the pale yellow J. Mendel goddess gown with the attached cape she wore to the state dinner at England’s Blenheim Palace, which some in the Twitterati likened to Belle’s ball gown in Walt Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.”

After the brouhaha over jacket-gate, the first lady’s communications director, Stephanie Grisham, took a page out of Sigmund Freud, who reportedly once remarked about dream symbolism: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”

“It’s just a jacket,” Grisham told reporters.

Except that when it comes to women, clothes and gesture politics, it rarely is.

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STYLING A NEW ACT

BY MARY SHUSTACK

CASSANDRA SAULTER OFFERS A WARM WELCOME TO HER STUDIO, EXPLAINING WITHIN MOMENTS THAT IT HOUSES TWO DISTINCT ASPECTS OF HER WORK. It’s “not that far-fetched,” she says, that the seemingly diverse pursuits of clothing design and fine art exist side by side in this space tucked into a side street in Nelsonville.

“People separate clothing and art as far as what it is that you do, but I can’t,” she adds on a recent morning.

And that aptly seems to sum up the creative life of Saulter, a Westchester-raised artist now living in Cold Spring: All is part of the artistic whole.

That whole includes painting, sculpture and some 40 years behind the scenes in film and television, including Emmy Award-nominated makeup work.

Saulter proudly points to a family history of creativity.

“My grandmother was an amazing tailor,” she says, noting she “made all our clothes.”

Her grandfather, she adds, designed and built his own house, while her parents were both involved in art and design.

“That was my education before I even started my art education.”

Born in Queens, Saulter would spend summers there with her grandparents and the rest of the year in Westchester. To this day, she credits the strong art and music programming at Lakeland High School in Shrub Oak with giving her an edge.

She would go on to study at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri, then the Art Institute of Chicago, soon focusing on costume work.

“I took cutting, draping and patternmaking from a woman who worked with Dior,” she says. She would return to New York to pursue her own course of study, which included classes at The Art Students League of New York.

“Then I had the good fortune of working with Ann Roth, who was nominated for not one, not two but three Tonys this year,” for work on “The Iceman Cometh,” “Three Tall Women” and “Carousel.”

“She gave me a shot and taught me so much.”

Though living in New York City for decades, save for a five-year stint in Italy, Saulter always maintained ties to the region. She speaks of the famed Croton-on-Hudson yarn destination, The Niddy Noddy; of Cold Spring designers Meg Staley and Jerry Gretzinger; and even her own 1970s attempt at founding a school of dance, music and art in Cold Spring, a venture she says was ahead of its time.

In the entertainment industry, Saulter’s costume work gave way to set design and eventually, makeup, which she says was “full circle,” coming “back to the actor and character.”

Over the years, she worked on movies such as “Dolores Claiborne,” “Black Swan” and “Inside Llewyn Davis,” among many others.

“All of my career, the very favorite jobs were the musicals,” she says, mentioning “The Wiz” and working with Bob Fosse on “All That Jazz.”

Throughout, it was always about being part of a team, “creating a world of magic.”

Fine art was a constant, with her own work eventually transitioning into projects featuring repurposed materials, from sculptures to lighting.

“I just decided to experiment with plastic and I never went back.”

Hudson Valley glass artist Barbara Galazzo, who founded and curated shows at her Gallery 66 NY in Cold Spring, has long worked with Saulter.

“I exhibited her repurposed plastic art (and plastic family — mom, daughter and dog) at Gallery 66,” Galazzo says. She continues to work with her.

“Cassandra is a creativity machine, from scenery for the film industry, costume design, makeup, her personal paintings, repurposing plastics and repurposing clothing and fur. She can do anything.”

FLIPPING OUT Flipping Fur is Saulter’s latest creative effort, a relatively new business in which she turns rarely worn and often neglected furs into stunning new fashions.

“I feel very excited about being able to work for myself,” after having spent years “making other divas look fabulous.”

Flipping Fur was sparked by her own rabbit coat that she refashioned, turning it inside out for starters.

“I didn’t go anywhere without people saying, ‘Where did you get that coat?’”

In time, people began asking her to transform their own furs.

Saulter says she works with furs that are often, “either out of date or people feel it’s inappropriate to wear.”

They do, though, often have sentimental value, a grandmother’s legacy or a mother’s favorite.

“That’s why I love doing the fur. There’s a sentimentality to it.”

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evidenced on Flipping Fur’s Instagram page — “Repurposing & redesigning fur is a way of honoring an animal spirit for its ultimate sacrifice. I do not advocate killing animals for their fur.”

And it’s reiterated in person, “If you throw the fur away or (are) hiding it until it gets moldy, then you’re killing it twice.”

Her approach most often turns the fur inside out, creating a shearling look, which she likens to the Inuit style.

“My grandmother taught me how to work with fur,” she says. “It’s all by hand, so it’s couture.”

There are jackets and coats, hats and home goods, such as throws.

“My fashion is all one-of-a-kind, just like my art.

That’s how I treat my fashions because I’m not going into production.”

There’s the client, for example, who had a fulllength mink coat, given to her by the husband she was now divorcing.

“She didn’t want it to be a coat anymore, so I made it into this fabulous blanket,” that integrated embroidered silk.

“She was so happy. It was transformed — and it was sort of a metaphor for her life.”

Saulter looks over a rack of furs ready for their turn, work to be “put together like a puzzle.”

She says she “made a coat for The Penguin,” at the request of costume designer John Glaser for

the series “Gotham,” and points to a 1970s long sweater of her mother’s that has also been refashioned into a contemporary jacket, along with a selection of other designs.

“I’m going to start designing things just to go with these sweaters.”

FASHIONS TODAY Saulter has purposely cut back on her work in the entertainment field.

Now, “I can just relax and make art.”

She is supposed to be retired, though is sometimes tempted back as she was for the 2017 Hugh Jackman vehicle “The Greatest Showman” to more recently, an invitation to join Jim Jarmusch’s summertime filming in Kingston.

Her creative circle is wide and her new projects feature collaborators who include international fashion photographer Donna DeMari (Italian Vogue, British Elle), Hudson Valley photographer Ryon Odneal and horse trainer Cari Swanson.

“Here I am retired, finally able to do my work full-time, and that’s what I’ve discovered,” she says.

“Because I’ve had 40 years in show business — costumes, scenery and makeup — I’m used to collaborating.”

Another new project is the Carnival of Art and Fashion, which Saulter hopes to preview later this month with an avant-garde repurposed fash-

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ion-on-horseback show at this year’s edition of Collaborative Concepts, the outdoor multidisciplinary project held each year at Saunders Farm in Garrison.

The Carnival project will officially launch next year.

She’s also working on a tarot-themed project and expanding her clothing designs.

“I’ve never been happier… I’ve never been happier with the application of my vision to 3-D work.”

Between work on the furs, which has been seasonal, Saulter has been working on her fine art and started to frame “decades of work” with an eye on exhibitions.

She glances again around the studio.

“This side I’m making art — and this side I’m making heirlooms. It’s a wonderful world.”

For Saulter, though, she’s not doing any of her art for praise — but like anyone, she’s not opposed to some attention.

It’s like her sculpture a few years ago at Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm, where the artwork is placed throughout acres where cows freely roam.

As she recalls, everyone was creating these big “natural” pieces, while Saulter’s design was a nest made out of vinyl — one that in the sunset became almost illuminated.

“All these cows surrounded it and started mooing to it — and I said, ‘That’s probably the best art review I ever received.”

For more, visit Flipping Fur on Instagram, @ flipping_fur, or call Saulter at 646-207-4188.

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BACK IN APRIL, WE ATTENDED THE BRUCE MUSEUM’S ANNUAL “ART OF DESIGN” PANEL AT GREENWICH COUNTRY CLUB. Among the talented panelists were three women — former Vogue editors Meredith Melling and Valerie Macaulay, and Molly Howard, former head of business development at the edgy clothing brand rag & bone.

However, it wasn’t their glamorous pasts that they came to discuss but their present and future. After a combined 25 years working for Vogue, Melling and Macaulay left the company in 2013 to set off on their own venture. Realizing that with each passing trend, stripes seem to hold their ground as a staple pattern for men and women of all styles, shapes and sizes, the duo founded La Ligne, calling on Howard to join them as their CEO. La Ligne, French for “the line,” is a direct-to-consumer womenswear brand with one common theme — stripes. Launched in 2016, the brand weaves the stripe motif through just about every piece in its collection, whether in the form of delicate pinstripes, a classic breton or bold colorblocking.

The combination of timeless stripes and comfortable clothing has been a recipe for La Ligne’s success. (Perhaps the blessing of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour was a sign.) The founders say their clothing is “so comfortable that you could eat, sleep, drink and dance in it.” La Ligne’s designs can take their wearer from errands to the boardroom and onto the red carpet. And, that’s just what they do. The collection features everything from workday essentials such as classic striped T's and sweaters to flowing sundresses and chic wide-leg trousers, with pieces worn by numerous celebrities, including Victoria’s Secret models Karlie Kloss and Martha Hunt, comedian Tina Fey and “Glee” star Dianna Agron, just to name a few.

It’s no surprise so many celebrities support La Ligne, as one of the brand’s most unique aspects is its creation of “La Bande,” La Ligne’s band of women. Each week, the site features two women in their “in line” series with a handwritten questionnaire and photograph. The women selected are actresses, producers, entrepreneurs, veterans and athletes who inspire readers through their candid answers to prompts such as their life mottos, words to live by and happiest moments. In the midst of the “#Me Too” movement, we think it’s quite special how they allow women from different backgrounds to form a sisterhood and support “girl power.”

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KECKLEY

COUTURE CONFIDANTE

BY PHIL HALL

THE STORY OF ELIZABETH KECKLEY — DRESSMAKER AND CONFIDANTE OF MARY TODD LINCOLN AND LATER AN AUTHOR AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST — IS ONE OF THE MOST ASTONISHING IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FASHION. Her success involved the dismantling of racial and gender barriers, leading her to fame and fortune during the nation’s most turbulent period.

Born Elizabeth Hobbs in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, around 1818, Keckley was the child of Agnes Hobbs, a house slave, and the man who enslaved Hobbs, Armistead Burwell, a colonel in the War of 1812. Keckley would later recall that he “never liked to see one of his slaves wear a sorrowful face and those who offended in this particular way were always punished.”

At the age of 14, Keckley was sent to North Carolina as a slave to Burwell’s son, Robert, a minister. She endured beatings at the instigation of Robert’s mentally unstable wife, Margaret, and was forced into a sexual relationship with a prominent member of Robert’s congregation. In 1839, that violent union resulted in the birth of her son, George.

Keckley returned to the Burwell farm in Virginia shortly after giving birth and was transferred to the colonel’s daughter, Ann Burwell Garland, and her lawyer-husband, Hugh Garland. In 1847, the Garlands and their slaves relocated to St. Louis. Hugh Garland was financially irresponsible and relied heavily on Keckley’s talent as a seamstress and dressmaker to bring in much-needed funds.

“I was fortunate in obtaining work and, in a short time, I had acquired something of a reputation as a seamstress and dressmaker,” she later wrote. “The best ladies in St. Louis were my patrons and, when my reputation was once established, I never lacked for orders. With my needle, I kept bread in the mouths of 17 persons for two years and five months.”

Garland was among the staunchest proslavery leaders of his time and would later serve as the original lead attorney for John Sanford, the slave owner in the 1857 Dred Scott case that extended slavery to federal territories. When

Keckley sought freedom for herself and her son, he demanded $1,200 — approximately $38,000 in today’s money. Keckley managed to raise that amount through savings, gifts and loans collected over a two-year period.

She also married James Keckley, an African-American who identified as a free person of color but later turned out to be both a slave and an abusive alcoholic. Leaving her husband, she and her son relocated East and settled in Washington, D.C., in 1860.

Initially working for $2.50 a day as a seamstress for an established dressmaker, Keckley quickly began making connections among the wives of Washington’s most influential leaders and soon started her own dressmaking business.

Her patrons included the spouses of two future Confederate leaders — Mary Anna Curtis Lee, wife of General Robert E. Lee, and Varina Davis, wife of President Jefferson Davis. Mrs. Davis even invited Elizabeth to relocate to the South when the Civil War began. (She politely declined the offer.)

Keckley’s most influential patron was, of course, Mary Todd Lincoln, whom she first met on the day of Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration. Mrs. Lincoln was heavily criticized by the press and many powerful political figures for reckless personal spending during the financially tight years of the Civil War — a habit her husband indulged, purchasing a seed pearl necklace and matching bracelets set from Tiffany & Co. for her to wear to the 1861 inaugural ball.

Nevertheless, her Keckley-designed wardrobe received praise for its elegance and style. Keckley’s business blossomed to the point that she had 20 assistants helping on custom-made orders, which often carried a then-extraordinary $100 price tag.

Elizabeth Way, assistant curator of The Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), noted that these dresses were far more imaginative than the often-oppressive designs of that rigid era. “Her style was very pared down and sophisticated, which a lot of people don’t imagine when they think of the Victorian era,” Way said in an interview with Smithsonian magazine. “Her designs tended to be very streamlined. Not a lot of lace or ribbon. A very clean design.”

Only a few of the original Keckley-designed garments have survived intact. The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History has a purple velvet dress worn by Mrs. Lincoln for her husband’s second inauguration, while a buffalo plaid green and white day dress with a cape from Mrs. Lincoln’s wardrobe is on display at the Chicago History Museum. The Keckley dresses were featured in the photographic portraits taken of Mrs. Lincoln during the early 1860s — and while these photographs are in black and white, Keckley’s charming style still offers a sense of feminine gaiety that transcends the monochromatic limits of the pictures.

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herself becoming Mrs. Lincoln’s confidante. Over time, the women began to rely heavily on each other for emotional support. When George Keckley was killed in battle while serving in the Union Army in 1861, Mrs. Lincoln helped cut through the red tape to get a pension approved for Keckley as a widow whose only son was killed in the Civil War. George passed for white, while his mother identified as black, which created confusion in processing the pension request. In 1862, Mrs. Lincoln supported Keckley’s creation of the Contraband Relief Association to assist freed slaves and black Union soldiers with food, clothing and shelter. Keckley comforted Mrs. Lincoln over the death of her 11-year-old son Willie in 1862, and relocated with Mrs. Lincoln from Washington in the aftermath of the president’s assassination three years later.

Although Keckley later returned to Washington to resume her business, Mrs. Lincoln repeatedly called on her for assistance in the emotionally and financially stressful period following her husband’s death. An effort by Mrs. Lincoln to raise funds by selling many of the dresses Keckley made for her along with other possessions created a national scandal that humiliated the president’s widow. Keckley hoped to change public opinion by writing a book that sympathetically detailed life within the Lincoln White House. Her 1868 book, “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House,” combined autobiographical

Mary Todd Lincoln in an Elizabeth Keckley dress.

chapters of her years in enslavement with an uncommon in-depth consideration of the Lincolns’ private life in Washington. The book also included private letters from Mrs. Lincoln to Keckley.

While publisher Carleton & Co. trumpeted the book as a “great sensational disclosure,” most of the reaction to its release was negative, even by those

who professed a liking for Mrs. Lincoln. Keckley was accused of betraying the trust of the former first family, and her race was used as a launching point of vituperative attacks by many critics who questioned her sincerity and intelligence. Today, the book is cited as an invaluable insider’s view into the Lincoln family, and it has been endlessly sourced in multiple biographies on President and Mrs. Lincoln.

Mrs. Lincoln refused to speak with Keckley after the book’s publication, dismissing her as a “colored historian” and ignoring Keckley’s sincere letters seeking reconciliation. The fallout from the book effectively ended Keckley’s career as a dressmaker. She struggled to make ends meet for years before regaining a late-life career boost in 1892 when she was invited by Wilberforce University in Ohio to become head of its Department of Sewing and Domestic Science Arts. The following year, she was in the public spotlight again when she organized a dress exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair.

By the end of the century, however, she returned to Washington in ill health and took up residence in the National Home for Destitute Colored Women and Children. She died of a stroke in 1907.

For many years, Keckley was viewed as a footnote in the wider story of the Civil War era. Today, she is acknowledged as an important historical figure who lived a remarkable life through extraordinary times and who made her mark through creativity and perseverance.

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CHINA SHOOTS FOR THE MOON

BY AUDREY RONNING TOPPING

SHOPPING FOR MY ADOPTED CHINESE SON, PETER, HIS WIFE, GABRIELLE, AND THEIR 1-YEAR -OLD SON CHESTER, VISITING FROM CHONGQING, CHINA, WAS FRUSTRATING. I WANTED TO GIVE THEM SOMETHING TYPICALLY AMERICAN, BUT EVERYTHING — ALL THE LATEST FASHIONS, EVEN TORN JEANS AND BOMBER JACKETS, TOYS, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS AND HI-TECH DEVICES — WERE ALL STAMPED “MADE IN CHINA.” Since my grandparents served as missionaries in imperial China, the country has advanced from transporting “Made in China” silk along the Old Silk Road in camel caravans to acting as a major player in space explorations with mounting ambitions. Today, American venture capitalists and multinational corporations lead in technology, but President Xi Jinping’s “China Dream,” incorporating the “soft power” of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) that is hailed as the New Silk Road, is pushing a series of complex plans to gain dominance.

One major program, titled “Made in China 2025,” offers a blueprint for China to gain leadership in many roles, including supremacy in artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing of aircraft and machine tools. China is also racing ahead in technology fundamental to the global economy. By 2020, China is expected to account for some 30 percent of worldwide spending on robotics.

My grandparents worked in China during a dark period of Chinese history known as “one hundred years of humiliation” (1849-1949), which still evokes shame and fury in the minds of the Chinese. China was occupied by eight arrogant foreign powers that had forcibly established foreign concessions in the major port cities. My grandparents were forced to escape during the Boxer Uprising, when 250 missionaries and thousands of Chinese Christians were killed, but my grandparents returned in 1901 for another eight years, built a church and established schools that are still operating.

As missionaries, teachers, students, diplomats, businessmen and journalists, members of my family have personally witnessed the fall of the imperial dynasty (Qing 1644-1911), the failure of the first republic, the warlord period, the Japanese occupation, the Civil War, revolutions, the rise of communism and the remarkable reform and innovation that has transformed China into a global technological force in an incredibly short time.

Today, China is preparing for the future and forging ahead into emerging technology. Only 40 years ago, we saw China as a technical backwater striving to modernize. Now there are more millionaires in China than in the United States. Hundreds of millions own fancy cars and use smartphones to shop online, invest their money and pay for almost anything while whizzing around in highspeed trains and electric cars. The rapid changes have catapulted China to center stage, but China still has millions living under the poverty line. Can China bring its people to a middle-class living standard and fulfill the Chinese Dream?

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Model of the Chinese Tiangong Shenzhou space station combination. Launched in 2011 and deliberately crashed this past April, Tiangong was the prototype for China’s eventual space station in the next decade. It’s another example of where “Made in China” is trending.

as a primary reason for imposing tariffs on Chinese goods. China, in retaliation to Trump’s threats, is imposing tariffs on a majority of U.S. imports.

This intensification of trade tensions could result in a disastrous trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

Trump’s support for fossil energy and passé projects is a win for China. Although the U.S. invented the internet and was first in the solar energy industry, China leads the world and is installing vast fields of wind-power towers.

Millions of solar panels are flowing like rivers across the landscape. Hot dry rock geothermal energy found in China, is equivalent to 856 trillion tons of coal, which can generate 2.1 billion kilowatts of electricity.

This past March, China, through secret negotiations with Argentina, opened a $50 million satellite and space station built by the Chinese military. The centerpiece is a 450-ton antenna with its dish, shaped like a giant, upside-down Buddhist stupa, rising 16 stories above 494 acres of windswept fields in Patagonia, enabling scientists to detect radio signals and mysterious paraphernalia in outer space. China aims to complete the satellite-tracking hub on the other side of their globe before it launches a daring expedition to the far side of the moon, which never faces planet Earth.

The mission could be — in the words of Neil Armstrong, who first stepped on the moon on July 20, 1969: “One giant leap for mankind.” In space exploration, it could potentially pave the way for the extraction of helium 3, which some scientists believe could provide a revolutionary clean source of energy and put China ahead. In the meantime, the U.S. is funding the past by propping up fossil industries politically important to Trump. The United States is reacting to technological change rather than anticipating and planning for it. His withdrawal from the Paris Accord and imposing rising tariffs could toss out the rulebooks of aging American-dominated institutions.

Weeks after China’s satellite station began operating in Patagonia, Trump made a surprise announcement that the Pentagon was funding a $1.3 million emergency response center in Argentina’s Neuquén Province, which happens to be in the same province as China’s station. The site, far from population centers and flanked by mountains, is an ideal vantage point for Beijing to monitor satellites and space missions. American officials claim their project is not related to China’s.

As of this writing, the big question looms: Who shall control the high technology industry destined to rule tomorrow? The key players are now a handful of giant American corporations controlling artificial intelligence, quantum computing and energy technologies, competing with a similar handful of government controlled Chinese conglomerates, many in cahoots with American companies.

My hope is that the two largest economies in the world can work together to avoid space and trade wars and instead create a new world order.

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GEM OF A GUY

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

WE THINK OF JEWELRY AS A WOMAN’S PREROGATIVE, BUT HISTORY KNOWS BETTER.

“In ancient times, and for centuries thereafter, beautiful stones and gems were considered an auspicious adornment for men,” Qatari sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani — a London arts collector and socialite — writes in the foreword to James Sherwood’s delicious “Jewelry for Gentlemen” (Sept. 11, Thames & Hudson, $45, 256 pages, 275 illustrations). “The wearing of jewelry on the head, around the neck or on the fingers was not only a symbol of power and wealth: It also possessed … a cosmic meaning. Men wore specific gems and stones to balance their horoscopes, bring good health and bring protection to them and their families.”

For Al Thani, there have been three creative peaks in jewelry: · Persia’s Achaemenid Empire, its conquest by Alexander the Great and the post-Alexandrian Hellenistic age (6th through 4th centuries B.C.); · Islam’s Mughal Empire in India (the 16th through 18th centuries); · And the fusion of Indian and Western styles and techniques, culminating in the sleekly elegant Art Deco style of the 1920s.

But could men’s jewelry be having another moment? Sherwood, fashion history editor of The Rake, writes that while gem-set dress studs, cufflinks, stickpins and cigarette cases had gone out of style, “men’s desire to wear jewelry hasn’t been so strong since the 1970s.”

Credit trendsetting actors, athletes and pop musicians such as WAG March cover guy David Beckham, Lewis Hamilton, Aldis Hodge, Jared Leto, Cristiano Ronaldo, Alexander Skarsgård, Will Smith and Pharrell Williams, to name a few, as well as the gay rights’ movement and the advent of gay marriage. The recent

influence of “Mad Men,” which brought back the tie slide, and good economic times have also helped.

Unlike female celebrities, who borrow jewels for redcarpet branding, Sherwood writes, their male counterparts tend to buy period and designer jewelry as an investment, one that has outperformed the housing market in England.

(The rarest and most coveted pieces of vintage jewelry have risen in value more than 80 percent in the last 10 years, while average house prices have risen 47 percent.)

Suddenly, jeweled tie clips, stickpins worn on lapels and cufflinks are studding the red carpet while wedding bands, signet rings and bracelets are gracing every space from the corner office to the cocktail party. Helping the gents make their selections are such familiar names as Boucheron, Cartier, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels and David Yurman as well as not-so-familiar names — Solange Azagury-Partridge, Theo Fennell, Shaun Leane, Lucas Rarities, Ara Vartanian and Stephen Webster — all of whom are among those featured in these pages, enhanced by Andy Barnham’s special photography.

But for our money, the real selling points of the book are the images and discussion of the gentlemen who vie in beauty with the jewelry that adorns them. There’s a black-tied Fred Astaire posing to promote the Cole Porter musical “Gay Divorce” in London’s West End in 1933, his pinky ring, links and studs echoing his sartorial idol, the dapper Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor). The duke’s flourishes included Cartier’s stacked Trinity pinky ring in 18-karat rose, white and yellow gold.

There’s Clark Gable sporting a pinstripe suit and a yellow-gold anchor-link bracelet inscribed with his initials on the plate and “I LOVE YOU, CL” on the reverse. It was a gift from the actress whom many said was the great love of his life, third wife Carole Lombard, who died in a plane crash in 1942 returning to Los Angeles from a war bond rally in her native Indiana. (The bracelet sold at Christie’s New York in 2006 for $7,800.)

Bracelets, particularly ID bracelets like those sported by the U.S. military in World War II, were part of the armor of the T-shirted, blue-jeaned screen rebels of the 1950s and ’60s.

Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and James Dean all wore them, while Elvis Presley “seemed to give gold ID bracelets to fans, groupies and security guards the way tennis players throw sweatbands,” Sherwood writes. Paul Newman wore a yellow-gold ID bracelet — along with a watch, a wedding band and an unidentified vaguely Mexican pendant offset by his unbuttoned shirt — in the 1962 film “Sweet Bird of Youth.”

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Meanwhile, some stars looked to a higher power for their pendants. The book includes a 1963 photo of Steve McQueen exercising at a punching bag at Hollywood’s Paramount Studios, a 14-karat gold St. Christopher’s medal, given him by first wife Neile Adams, flying up from his neck.

(Though he was known as a motorcycle-riding, racecar-driving rebel, McQueen also has a conservative side that manifested itself in his flag-waving patriotism and penchant for ladylike brunettes, as reflected in his three wives, who also included Ali MacGraw and Barbara Minty.)

Sadly, many of these stars are unknown to today’s audience. But the younger generation is well-represented in these pages. The edgy Tom Hardy rocks a Gucci suit and an antique yellow-gold saber-shaped tie slide set with rubies and diamonds at the London premiere of “Dunkirk” last year. Complementing a black sequined ensemble, the model Lucky Blue Smith layers on rings, chains and bracelets from Eli Halil’s fine jewelry collection for Paris Fashion Week 2016.

Perhaps best of all, Jared Leto affixes a 1957 sapphire-and-diamond Cartier brooch to his Gucci shirt collar for the 2016 Met Gala in Manhattan.

The blue of the emerald-cut stone matches the color of his eyes.

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THINK PINK

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

IT IS AT ONCE COOL AND WARM, DEMURE AND EROTIC, LIGHTHEARTED AND DEADLY SERIOUS — THE STUFF OF BIRTHDAY CAKES, BALLERINAS AND BARBIE DOLLS AS WELL AS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS, THE PROTEST PUNK BAND PUSSY RIOT AND THE POLITICAL PUSSYHAT PROJECT. No wonder, thecut.com, a culture/style website, pronounced pink “the most divisive of colors.”

“Please, sisters, back away from the pink,” Petula Dvorak exhorted would-be protesters who planned to don pink pussy hats for the Women’s March last year, fearing that the hats and the bright color would trivialize the challenges women face in the new political climate.

But march they did in hats that ranged in color from pale to shocking pink, creating from a distance a spring canvas in the dead of winter. Unintentionally, they were channeling the optimistic, defiant attitude of the woman who once told 19th-century color theorist Charles Blanc: “It is still possible to dream in a sky-blue bonnet, but it is absolutely forbidden

to weep in a pink one.”

Cheery, resilient even, underrated and subversively persuasive, pink entices and endures by defying category — which makes it the perfect subject for one of those provocative exhibits at The Museum at FIT as well as a delicious companion book from Thames & Hudson.

“Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color,” at the museum Sept. 7 through Jan. 5, includes some 80 ensembles from the 18th century to the present, featuring the likes of Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Alessandro Michele of Gucci, Jeremy Scott of Moschino and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons. They are displayed in two sections — one a survey of about 35 examples of traditionally feminine pink clothes from the mid-19th through 20th centuries; the other a thematic approach exploring pink’s role in non-Western cultures, eroticism, gender identity, pop music and social and political protest.

These galleries speak to the dual, multifaceted, ambiguous nature of pink that has made it a subject of fascination as well as ambivalence, controversy and even repulsion.

“Although humans in every culture are biologically equipped to see pink things (such as flowers), many languages, including Latin and ancient Greek, do not have a word for ‘pink,’” museum director and exhibit curator Valerie Steele writes in the companion book, which she also edited. “Indeed, linguists say pink is among the least common color terms.”

In the Far East, however, pink has long been a welcome presence — particularly in Japan, the land of Hello Kitty, and India, the latter prompting onetime Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland to observe famously that “pink is the navy blue of India.”

It was the East that would provide the natural products for Italian artisans to create new dyes, ushering in an increased use of pink in aristocratic Western clothing in the late Middle Ages. That use reached a zenith at the royal court in 18th-century France with Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, championing all things pink, including the gowns she wore for her portraits by François Boucher and the “Rose Pompadour” color created by the Sèvres porcelain factory.

Pink was so popular that it was worn at court by men and women alike. But in the next century, pink and other vibrant colors would become increasingly associated with the female sex and femininity as men’s attire turned to somber hues — “a significant historical development,” Steele writes, related to the rise of industrialization and the bourgeoisie and their emphasis on gender differences, particularly where the division of labor was concerned.

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Rules cannot be hard and fast, however, where a seductive little creature like pink is concerned.

In the early 20th century, retailers began touting pink, which they considered a stronger, masculine color, for boy babies and blue for girls. (It wasn’t until around the 1940s that the opposite custom was established.) Soldiers returning from the horrors of World War I were encouraged to brighten up with pink shirts. Soon, though, pink would take on qualities not everyone approved of. Mass production would lead to garish pinks and an association of with cheapness and superficiality. Artists and designers would begin exploring pink’s relationship to the color of nipples and genitalia. Pink would become erotic and even louche.

By the mid-20th century, pink had developed a duality that would explode into cultural complexity. On-screen and in the White House — where first lady Mamie Eisenhower presided over “the Pink Palace,” as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. became known — pink was traditional and ladylike. Elsewhere, it was becoming revolutionary. In the second half of the century, pink would be associated with everyone from pop stars to minorities seeking to have their individual voices heard, from breast cancer awareness advocates to protesters.

Sometimes, the color has been turned on others.

“Pinko” was coined in 1925 as a derisive term for a communist sympathizer. During World War II, the Nazis interred suspected homosexuals, forcing them to wear pink triangles — which the gay community would later co-opt as a symbol of its empowerment.

During his tenure (1998-2016), Joe Arpaio, the former

sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, made prisoners parade in pink boxer shorts, which he later accessorized with pink socks, linens and handcuffs.

Shamed, one prisoner committed suicide.

For many, however, pink’s rich history has led to healing. Next month, the color will be emblazoned on ribbons and sports uniforms in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month — a campaign launched in 1991 by Self magazine and the Estée Lauder cosmetics company. Though some worry about the pink commodification of breast cancer, its pink ribbon is a reminder that, “It is society that ‘makes’ color, defines it, gives it meaning,” in the words of color historian Michel Pastoureau.

And that society has given many meanings to pink, most of them inspiring.

“Why would anyone pick blue over pink?” rapper Kanye West is quoted as saying in the “Pink” companion book. “Pink is obviously the better color.”

“Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color” is on view Sept. 7 through Jan. 5 at the Museum at FIT in Manhattan. The book of the same name ($50, 208 pages, 120 color illustrations) will be published by Thames & Hudson Sept. 4. There will be a free symposium on the subject Oct. 19. For more, visit fitnyc.edu and thamesandhudsonusa.com.

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Broad collar of Senebtisi, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, late-early 13 (ca. 18501775 B.C.). From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, Tomb of Senwosret (758), Pit 763, burial of Senebtisi, MMA excavations, 1906-07. Faience, gold, carnelian, turquoise. Falcon heads and leaf pendants originally gilded plaster, restored in gilded silver. Eyes originally gilded beads restored in gilded plaster. Outside diam. 25 cm (9 13/16 in); max w. 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1908 (08.200.30).

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JEWELRY'S POWER

BY MARY SHUSTACK

THERE’S MUCH MORE TO JEWELRY THAN JUST PICKING OUT A PAIR OF EARRINGS TO MATCH AN OUTFIT, AS A MUCH-ANTICIPATED AUTUMN EXHIBITION IS DESIGNED TO SHOW. Exploring centuries of adornment as both a personal and universal form of art, “Jewelry: The Body Transformed” will open Nov. 12 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

The expansive show, which will feature some 230 objects and nearly all from The Met’s own collection, will delve into what jewelry is, why we wear it and what meaning it conveys.

Visitors will be able to explore everything from headdresses and ear ornaments to brooches, belts, necklaces and rings, a diverse collection that will represent some five centuries of ornamentation along with sculptures, paintings, prints and photographs all gathered to add historical context.

As the advance press materials note, “If the body is a stage, jewelry is one of its most dazzling performers.”

IN THE GALLERIES The exhibition is scheduled to open with a dramatic installation that will be created to focus on the universality of jewelry across time and various cultures, spotlighting how objects have long been created from precious elements to adorn the body. Here, viewers will see what’s been described as “great jewelry from around the world” offered in “a radiant display” themed around what part of the body, hair or neck, for example, it was designed to spotlight.

Then, the show will continue in a series of themed galleries, starting with “The Divine Body,” which will explore jewelry’s link to immortality.

Here, for example, will be a rare head-to-toe ensemble from ancient Egypt that was designed to adorn its privileged wearer into the afterlife.

How jewelry conveys rank and status will be the focus of “The Regal Body,” the next thematic area, where sapphires and pearls from Byzantium will be displayed along with ivory and bronze from the Royal Courts of Benin.

“The Transcendent Body” will then celebrate the spiritual elements of jewelry, with examples from cultures in which the designs have been used for purposes that include a way to conjure spirits or to appease the gods.

Among the highlights are expected to be sculpted images and intricate Indian jewelry that showcases the role of gold ornamentation in Hindu worship.

In “The Alluring Body,” the focus will be on desire — as

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explored through a look at the way hair ornaments would convey a courtesan’s availability in Edo Japan to the eroticism of pearls in the Victorian era and beyond. Here, more contemporary jewelry designed by Elsa Schiaparelli, Art Smith, Elsa Peretti and Shaun Leane will be integrated to demonstrate the way in which artists can, advance materials tell us, “push the limits of glamour, courting danger and even pain.”

Finally, “The Resplendent Body” will look at the ways in which materials and technique have been combined for sheer ostentation. The examples will range from the opulent creations of the 16th-century Mughals through the elegantly detailed designs of legendary jewelry houses such as Tiffany and Lalique. In this section, work by contemporary designers including Peter Chang, Joyce J. Scott and Daniel Brush will also be included as examples of those who question the notions of luxury.

COMING TOGETHER The expansive exhibition marks a collaborative effort of six curators, including lead curator Melanie Holcomb, curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters; consulting curator Beth Carver Wees, the Ruth Bigelow Wriston curator of American Decorative Arts, The American Wing; Kim Benzel, curator in charge, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art; Diana Craig Patch, the Lila Acheson Wallace curator in charge, Department of Egyptian

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Pendant (Marangga), 19th- early 20th century, Indonesia, Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Gold, L. 12 5/8 in. (32.1cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Muriel Kallis Newman Gift, in Memory of Kathleen H. Newton, and Rogers Fund, 1988 (1988.166).

Art; Soyoung Lee, curator, Department of Asian Art; and Joanne Pillsbury, the Andrall E. Pearson curator, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. They have been assisted by Hannah Korn, collections management coordinator, Medieval Art and The Cloisters, with Moira Gallagher, research

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Related programming will be announced, with a lavishly illustrated hardcover exhibition catalog ($50) published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press.

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‘FALL’ING FOR AUTUMN’S TRENDS

BY JENA BUTTERFIELD

THE WEATHER MAY STILL BE WARM, BUT BRISK DAYS ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER. BEFORE THE CRAVINGS FOR PUMPKIN SPICE-FLAVORED EVERYTHING START TO KICK IN, IT’S TIME TO RETIRE OUR RESORT WEAR AND REFRESH OUR WARDROBES FOR THE ALWAYS-ANTICIPATED JACKET AND BOOT SEASON.

A few key pieces may be all it takes to bring us into fall 2018 on trend. So, we’ve compiled a list of this season’s essentials and turned to our friends at Neiman Marcus Westchester for their take on what’s hot off the runway.

Cue the music. (Maybe ’90’s rock band Weezer’s cover of “Africa” by Toto.)

“It’s kind of like a resurgence of the ’80s and ’90s,” says Hannie Sio-Stellakis, public relations manager for Neiman Marcus Westchester. Especially that punk rock look for women.

LEATHER AND TIGERS AND SEQUINS, OH MY! “We feel strongly about a biker jacket on top of everything,” Sio-Stellakis says.

Indeed, why not go leather all over, patent to matte, body to boot. An all-over look may be the biggest trend of the season. And not just with leather.

Leopard, zebra, tiger. Do animal prints head-to-toe. Layer them, mix them, match them. Pile it on. More is more.

That includes the use of sequins. Disco divas can rock an all-over shimmering look from headbands to booties. And those who want to channel their inner diva can invest in a piece or two. “It’s not necessarily for night,” Sio-Stellakis says. “It’s daytime and it’s fabulous.”

And, if you want to double down on a trend, how about sequined animal prints?

COLOR OK, we’re New Yorkers so we have to start with black.

“The layering of textured black is still very relevant,” Sio-Stellakis says. A resounding “Phew!” can be heard around the Big Apple. The key here is layers and texture.

Again, do it all over. But if you’re venturing out of your black comfort zone, maybe add a pop of peacock.

Teal and peacock hues are Neiman Marcus’s choice for the color of the season. The deep and dark, rich-hued bluegreens that fall under this seasons Pantone pick of Quetzal green are suggestive of stunning plumage.

“Magenta and mauve were seen quite a bit (on the runway),” Sio-Stellakis. “From our point of view (those colors) were important, but we leaned toward peacock. And the merchandise reflects that in our stores.”

ACCESSORIES While oversize hobo bags, structured jewel box silhouettes, furry purses, top-handle buckets and miniature necklace bags dominate the season, Neiman Marcus has also honed in on a recurring fashion.

“The shoulder bag is back,” Sio-Stellakis says. “And topflapped handbags are big.”

For a backdrop or to accentuate your look “hosiery is big,” she adds. Vibrantly colored tights are like a canvas for your minis. And “you’ll see a lot of patterned hosiery,” Sio-Stellakis adds.

In terms of fall footwear, march through those dried-leaf piles in chunky, lace-up boots circa the era of Ross and Rachel. Or channel your inner cowgirl in a more tailored Western style boot with embellishments that range all the way from sequins to that other fall trend, crystals.

Crystal jewelry and belts in clear, color or jet black are ways to add shine to your look.

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SIZE MATTERS Oversize parkas or blazers are essential to perfect the art of layering this season. Belt them in order to drape your frame however it looks flattering.

On the other end, power tailoring for a structured garment will enhance definition for both casual moments as well as for work. Eat your heart out, Melanie Griffith.

Plaid is also big. And when it rains, you can still show off your look from under a see-through raincoat.

HIM For men, fabrics that push the boundaries of blending performance and function with tailoring have been influenced by the ever-growing popularity of activewear.

Weighty sneakers with exaggerated soles that form a chunky silhouette dominate this season’s footgear. “From Gucci to Balenciaga, all the designers are doing them,” Sio-Stellakis says.

Color accents in camouflage and olive are married with utilitarian details like cargo pockets, while a touch of tartan is scattered throughout, especially in busy patchworks of fabric.

THE TAKE AWAY For a while, designers have been revisiting the era that made those of us who lived through it burn our photographs.

But there was a sense of rebellion in our fashion choices then, with a touch of the futuristic — sentiments that are strongly of the now. This season, designers are solidly there — taking what we came to think of as questionable choices, making us realize why we made them in the first place and giving us a chance to do it right this time around.

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AN AMPHITHEATER RESURRECTED

BY JENA BUTTERFIELD

or more than 80 years, something special gleamed through the trees in the backyard of the late architect and sculptor Horton O’Neil.

At first glance, it might have been surprising. But to the changing cast of dancers, poets and neighborhood children that frequented the O’Neil property over the years, the sunken 400-seat, Greek-style amphitheater of hand-hewn white marble blocks — complete with a stage and six 10,000-pound monoliths — seemed uniquely suited for the Celtic-named enclave of Lia Fail in Cos Cob. O’Neil built the grand structure by hand for his father over the course of three years with the help of only four others (including two Italian master stonecutters) from marble he received in barter for designing a house during the Great Depression.

Over the coming decades, his amphitheater drew friends, artists and institutions like the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Greenwich Academy and even student and future actress Jane Fonda to the stage.

O’Neil’s amphitheater had become the heart of Lia Fail when in 1993, it was listed on the Connecticut State Register of Historic Places. But that designation wouldn’t prevent eventual demolition by future property owners. So, with Horton and wife Madelyn now deceased, a new steward would be needed to preserve the magnificent structure and pay homage to the lifelong investment of a family driven to support their artistic passions.

Enter artist and filmmaker Josie Merck. She and her husband, the late New Yorker cartoonist Jim Stevenson, became neighbors of the O’Neils when they moved to what Merck calls, “the creative, lunatic fringe of Greenwich.”

Through the years they bore witness to the theater as a hub of creative expression and listened to stories of its heady past. “It was remarkable,” Merck says.

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A rendering of the reclaimed amphitheater at Sarah Lawrence College by KSS Architects. Inset, the amphitheater on the O’Neil property in the enclave of Lia Fail, Cos Cob. Photograph by Stephen Schafer.

Then what she and others feared might happen did. “The new owners were not interested,” Merck says. The amphitheater was going to be dismantled.

Merck had an idea. She approached her alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers.

Coincidentally, she had seen an early proposal for the $35 million Barbara Walters Campus Center designed by KSS Architects, which WAG covered in its March issue. Kismet seemed at hand.

“Josie’s an alum,” says Stephen Schafer, vice president of finance and operations at Sarah Lawrence.

“So, we’re in touch with Josie and she’s in touch with us. A couple of these precedent images had seating built into a hill. It was the timing of it all.”

“Three generations of O’Neils also went to Sarah

Lawrence,” Merck adds. “It was meant to be.” She decided to donate $3 million to the college to finance the reclamation project, which will move the amphitheater from Cos Cob to Yonkers.

“I think we were all enamored of it as a relic,” says Pamela Rew, a partner at KSS. “It was amazing to know that if Sarah Lawrence took this on, they would be providing a continuum.”

Sarah Lawrence College President Cristle Collins Judd agrees the amphitheater needed a second act.

“That’s what adaptive reuse ought to be about,” she says. “Preserving the past in a way that moves it forward into the future.”

“We’re using about 70 percent of the marble for this project,” Schafer says, noting there will be

seating for 200. (The new owners of the property decided to keep roughly 20 percent of the marble and “there were 5 monoliths,” Merck adds. “They are going next door to the Montgomery Pinetum.”)

The amphitheater is composed of marble that reportedly came from four different quarries in

New York and Vermont. So, A. Ottavino Corp., a stoneworks company based in Queens was brought on board. Its restoration projects include the Statue of Liberty, the Whitney Museum of American Art and on the Temple of Dendur at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“Ottavino did a thorough documentation of every piece of stone,” Rew says. The company disassembled the marble and numbered each. “It’s cleaned and it’s ready to go,” Schaffer adds.

Merck wants to be part of that process. “I documented every step of the (marble) extraction,” she says. “It was important for me to see and meet the people. To see what they have done is just amazing….

They are extraordinary artisans.”

KSS Architects worked with Sarah Lawrence to resituate this amphitheater on campus.

“We found the ideal location,” Schafer says — next to the Performing Arts Center on what is currently Sampson Field, used mostly as a cut through to other areas of campus. The amphitheater will allow for a greater connection to the center. “Even if it’s just bringing props out.”

The location reminds the team of an amphitheater in Camden, Maine, that, Rew says, “had this great weaving of earth and stone and natural features that became as much a community space as well as a performance space.” The team decided to spread out the tiers so they were woven into the slope.

“You have grass interspersed,” Judd says. “So, it makes for lovely, small gathering places.”

Adds Rew: “It weaves the amphitheater into the landscape in a way that starts to tell the future of it and its story at Sarah Lawrence.”

The college will have first use of the amphitheater this fall and full programing in spring. “We know that will be a very quick and active focal point for pop-up readings and poetry fests,” Judd says, “or musical performance and also just as a gathering place.

“It means for us it will be yet another space for public gathering and public conversations. And that thing we do so well at Sarah Lawrence, engagement with the arts.”

As a musician, Judd is excited about reviving the history of twilight performances at the college.

“We are not building in sound systems or lighting systems. It is a natural acoustic space.

“Think of it,” she adds. “This westward facing space on a lovely early autumn evening with a sunset behind the stage as you’re entranced in a performance.”

For more, visit sarahlawrence.edu.

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Babe Ruth's uniform, from the exhibit “Babe Ruth: His Life and Legend,” worn in the film “The Pride of the Yankees” and also on Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium, June 13, 1948. Photographs courtesy National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

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STYLIN’ BALLPLAYERS

BY GINA GOUVEIA

AS WE HEAD INTO SEPTEMBER SIGNALING THE NEAR-END OF THE REGULAR BASEBALL SEASON AND THE RACE FOR DIVISIONAL, LEAGUE AND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLES, IT SEEMS FITTING TO INCLUDE THE UNIFORMS OF THIS LEGENDARY GAME IN THE CONTEXT OF FASHION. Fashion, you say? Well, baseball uniforms, in particular, have long been associated with trends in men’s fashion from the introduction of pinstripes into men’s suits to bomber jackets and a variety of athletic wear and, of course, the signature baseball cap.

For sure, athletes from all sports bring a certain cachet and individual style of their own to the playing fields, courts, stadiums and pitches — as in soccer, not baseball — on a global stage. But baseball, one could argue, is ingrained in our collective consciousness, as Americans and as fans of our national pastime. Players of a certain accomplishment are considered icons of the sport, hence baseball uniforms are, in turn, iconic.

With a history dating from the mid-19th century, the sport has a long and storied fabric and it’s played mostly in summer in archetypal venues drawing millions of spectators. When uniforms were formally introduced in 1849 it was by the New York Knickerbockers, who wore blue wool pants, a white flannel shirt and straw hats. Many iterations have evolved over the years, with numbers generally appearing on shirts in 1916 and names in 1960, a tradition adopted by every ma-

jor league club except for the New York Yankees, holdouts who never added players’ names to their home or away uniforms. Since the turn of the 20th century, the unseasonable materials of years ago have long been replaced with cotton and synthetic jerseys that are still the norm of the day.

And, unlike other sports, particularly those played individually rather than by a team (have you seen a NASCAR driver lately?), baseball uniforms have remained blissfully unadorned. Only subtle variations appear from player to player — heavy chains or beads worn around the neck come to mind. Some players wear their socks in the traditional high form, others low. Dave Robertson, one of the Yankees’ current relief pitchers, has always favored the high knee sock-look. And fun fact, David and his wife, Erin, named their charitable foundation, which provides relief to victims of natural disasters and veterans, High Socks for Hope.

Some players wear their pants ultra-fitted, others baggy but, for the most part, members of a team all look alike, staying true to the definition of a uniform garment — “dress of a distinctive design or fashion worn by members of a particular group and serving as a means of identification” — according to Merriam-Webster. When the members of our teams take the field, at home or away, we identify and relate to them based on their appearance.

The only significant twist on the traditional jersey, pants and cap are the uniform adornments that made their major league debut in 1996 on Father’s Day to create awareness for prostate cancer, in the form of light blue-colored wristbands and ribbons. Major League Baseball donates the royalties from the sale of its specialized, licensed uniform products worn on special days to relevant charities associated with the day, a practice that has been adopted by other sport franchises.

Uniform embellishments are featured five times throughout the regular season. The other four are Jackie Robinson Day, benefitting his namesake foundation, and occurring annually on April 15 when all players wear his number in place of their own to honor “number 42,” who broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947. There is a tribute in pink to Moms on Mother’s Day benefitting Susan G. Komen for the Cure, stars and stripes for Independence

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Day — for MLB charities, which benefit service men and women and veterans — and camouflage on Memorial Day weekend, also for MLB charities.

As a lifelong fan of the game — yes, Yankees — and for further immersion into the topic, I ventured to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (NBHOFM) in Cooperstown, New York, where tribute is paid to the game’s legends and their varied accessories. There are more than 40,000 three-dimensional such artifacts, uniforms among them, in the museum’s impressive halls, in addition to the marble and oak-vaulted literal Hall of Fame, where plaques honor the chosen 1 percent in baseball who played the game with remarkable achievement. Mostly, the uniforms that make it into their galleries are those worn by a particular player on the day or evening during which he achieved a specific milestone or set an historic record.

If baseball conjures images of an organized sport played at a leisurely pace for the past 169 years, the NBHOFM has been true to its mission to “preserve history, honor excellence and connect generations.” Genteel, dignified and unhurried, this three-story brick shrine to the sport lives up to its rich history. Fans of all ages gravitate to exhibits that hold a particular meaning for them, as families and Little League teams in town for summer camps move in packs around the cleverly ar-

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The Hank Aaron exhibit, uniform and artifacts from the day he broke Babe Ruth's home run record, April 8, 1974.

ranged floors. Craig Muder, the museum’s director of communications, urges me not to miss the Hall of Fame’s newly renovated theater, which projects a concise 15-minute, artfully produced film throughout the day featuring legends of the game.

The ramp on which you enter the theater was

installed to evoke the feeling of walking up a ramp and entering a stadium, with the baseball diamond just coming into view as you reach the crest. It’s magic in the making as you can almost hear the familiar chords introducing the National Anthem.

Now, let’s go Yankees!

For more, visit baseballhall.org.

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comment on the store’s Instagram page perfectly encapsulates our thoughts. A curious follower asks, “It’s a consignment store?”

After walking through the doors of Roundabout Resale Couture on a recent trip to Greenwich, we could hardly believe it was a consignment shop ourselves.

The expansive, 5,000-square-foot shop looks more like a department store than a local boutique. Framed prints of glittering Chanel perfume bottles and flower bouquets adorn the walls accompanied by a display of boxes from luxury brands Hermès, Chanel and Louis Vuitton. The store needs little decoration, however, as its collection of clothing, shoes and accessories in rich jewel tones and sumptuous textures is a design in itself.

Roundabout’s owner Laurie Perren isn’t new to the business. As a young woman, she consigned her designer goods in order to free up space in her closet (and put some more cash in her wallet) for the latest piece on her wish list. In 1989, after a brief stint working in the corporate world, Perren opened Roundabout’s first location in Westport. Roundabout has since expanded to three other locations — one in Greenwich and one each on Manhattan’s Madison Avenue and Upper East Side.

We spoke with Perren as she darted around her store, putting the finishing touches on displays and meticulously checking pieces for flaws in preparation for the fall offerings. Perren’s secret to success? Her keen eye for detail. You won’t find a pilled sweater or loose thread in her store. Indeed, most items show little to no signs of wear.

“We’re so picky about the condition of things. We definitely have a higher level of quality,” she says.

“People don’t want to wear clothes that look used. But if it looks brand new, it doesn’t matter if it’s been worn before.”

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Clockwise from opposite, fall collection clothing on display as Roundabout Resale Couture; Saint Laurent Belle de Jour clutch in black calfskin leather; and to capture a younger market, Roundabout sells classics alongside the trendiest of brands. Golden Goose sneakers, pictured above, have grown in popularity among fashion girls this year and even come pre-scuffed for that worn-in look.

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than $5,000, but this one is almost 50 percent off.

Perren explains that Roundabout often goes a step further than the typical consignment shop and sends bags back to the retailer for refurbishing.

Their strategy clearly works, as the handbag appears brand new to the untrained eye.

Shopping consignment seems to be having a bit of a renaissance at the moment. As Vivienne Westwood once said, “Buy less. Choose well. Make it last.

Quality, not quantity.” Many consumers are moving to just that — quality over quantity. Shoppers are realizing how detrimental to the environment fast fashion can be, and in turn choose to splurge on higher-quality pieces. While the items come with a higher price tag, they last longer and can be resold, sometimes for almost as much as the initial cost, at consignment stores like Roundabout.

“The beauty of buying secondhand is that you have a lower risk investment,” says Margie Cooper, the face behind Instagram account @thriftandtell, which has grown its following of fashion resale lovers to more than 2,000 in a few months. “Should you change your mind, you can always resell the piece. You will always break even and you may even get lucky and turn a profit. You certainly cannot say that with a pair of J.Crew or H&M shoes.

Rather than endlessly buying a bunch of $30 to $100 ‘things,’ start saving towards one or two timeless items that you will love forever.”

Despite the industry’s online community, Perren argues that online consignment, although popular, doesn’t pose as much of a threat to brick and mortar stores as previously thought.

“You can obtain a higher price when you can actually feel an item,” Perren says of shopping and selling in person at consignment shops like her own. And who wouldn’t want to sell the pieces they spent good money on for a higher price?

Online services can also pose a risk for shoppers.

What makes something “very good” versus “excellent” quality, and how do we know for sure if that Gucci belt we’ve been lusting after will be the right fit? At Roundabout, shoppers can judge quality and fit for themselves before taking the plunge. And, after going back the following morning to pick up a brand new designer bag for 25 percent off (for the story, of course), we can vouch for the fact that getting a great deal on a (slightly used) item adds to the thrill of treating yourself to something “new.”

Roundabout Resale Couture locations include 48W. Putnam Ave. in Greenwich. For more, visit roundaboutcouture.com.

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BY JENA BUTTERFIELD

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e’re fashionable. We really are.

Perhaps we’ve Googled designer cheat sheets from our favorite retailers and kept abreast of the latest runway designs. We’ve followed the trends and coveted them — bought them even. Our wardrobes are crowded and we can’t open our drawers because they’re full. Maybe we have jeans from fashion house Balmain.

Or bags from Louis Vuitton and those cute little Alaia shoes we found on sale.

Darn it, we even continued to watch “Project Runway” after it left Bravo TV. We know fashion.

Still, every morning (and we mean every morning) most of us open our closets and head straight for the one thing in our wardrobe that trumps all else — the illustrious yoga pants and the various activewear that accompanies them.

There’s the sports bra that lifts and supports yet sits comfortably against our skin. The light fabric of the performance T-shirts that skim gracefully over our mid-sections, that cute little jacket that wicks away moisture and the joggers that are stylish enough to go from workout to streetwear.

“It’s everyone’s daily wardrobe,” says Hannie Sio-Stellakis, public relations manager of Neiman Marcus Westchester. “From moms to working out to just being comfortable.”

Says Pat Norcross of Greenwich of the garments she’s collected from her frequent trips to the Athleta stores there and in Eastchester: “They’re comfortable but they’re stylish. (Designers) know that women want to look good when they work out and they know how to accomplish that.”

But It’s more than just comfort. There’s been a major shift in our consumer lifestyle. It has, in general, become more fitness-related. We value health and mindfulness as a collective. From work to restaurants, there’s a more relaxed dress standard.

And then there’s the techy fabric.

Fashion brand technology provides options we’ve never had before and makes athletic wear feel cutting-edge. Who doesn’t want clothing that’s stylish and waterproof and with odor protection?

Lululemon, a yoga-inspired athletic apparel company that created a cult-like following among people who strive for a lifestyle of fitness and

Stella McCartney for Adidas Jacket, Alo Yoga black leggings and Nike gray T-shirt. Courtesy Neiman Marcus Westchester.

well-being, compete with brands like Athleta, Nike and Under Armour for our loyalty. These brands’ multifaceted marketing strategies include fitness tracking, in-store yoga classes and membership in a like-minded community.

And high-end department stores have gotten into the game.

“We have launched an activewear department within Neiman Marcus,” Sio-Stellakis says of the dedicated area that debuted last fall.

A search through the store’s racks will turn up brands like Spiritual Gangster, Terez, Alo Yoga, Beyond Yoga and Blanc Noir — what Sio-Stellakis calls “some great brands.”

The activewear component has bled through every other department, too, expanding to the athleisure trend.

“Within each brand you can find pieces that use fabrics and fabrications as part of the collection for the season,” Sio-Stellakis says. “Last season, it was the statement sweatshirt under the men’s department.”

Worldwide, sports and fitness apparel is predicted to reach $231.7 billion by 2024, according to Global Industry Analysts Inc. So, the very real public demand for these garments can no longer be marginalized. And, frankly, sue us for trying to fit in a workout whenever we can.

Here’s the point: We need to stop feeling guilty — inadequate even — when we march past the blouses and heels in our closets and come out ready for action instead. But the judgment is there and the struggle is real. Our style has been called that of yoga moms, ladies who lunch and been the joke of shows about what not to wear. Or worse.

Two years ago, hundreds of proud yoga pants-wearing activists paraded past a man’s house in Barrington, Rhode Island, to protest his letter-to-the-editor criticizing those of us over 20 for wearing them in public. (That’s right, we’ll never forget.)

This should prove that when you try to take away our activewear, you’re going to hear more than “Namaste.”

Let’s just embrace this once and for all. We are fashionistas and we rock a good yoga pant. It’s fashion and it’s more than that.

Adds Sio-Stellakis, “It’s here to stay.”

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Caroline Rose.

Photograph by CJ Harvey.

A ROSE IS A ROSE

BY GREGG SHAPIRO

ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SINGER-SONGWRITER CAROLINE ROSE CAN BE HEARD ON “MORE OF THE SAME,” THE EXTRAORDINARY OPENING TRACK ON “LONER” (NEW WEST), ROSE’S NEW ALBUM. THERE IS HUMOR, SENSITIVITY, INSIGHT AND AN OP-1 KEYBOARD SYNTHESIZER. The combo is intoxicating. It’s an honest indication of what follows on songs that incorporate updated retro New Wave sensibilities (“Cry!”); outrageous funk (“Jeannie Becomes A Mom,” “Talk”); 21st-century ’60s revival (“Bikini,” “Money,” “Soul No. 5,” “Animal”); and perfect pop (“Getting To Me”). Without a doubt, Rose’s “Loner “ is one of the best albums of 2018 thus far. During September and October, Rose is touring as the opening act for Rainbow Kitten Surprise on a multicity concert tour that includes a date at Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre Sept. 28. WAG had the pleasure of speaking with Rose about her music and the new album in late July: Caroline, your new album is titled “Loner.” Is that a fair description of the way you see yourself or is it a character you created?

“I think it’s a little bit of both. I don’t think it would be the first adjective I’d use to describe myself now. But at the time I was writing and recording the album, I was pretty much all-consumed by it and didn’t have much of a life outside of music and I desperately wanted to. It’s a tonguein-cheek way of approaching my coming of age and into adulthood (laughs) in modern society, I guess.”

One of the most appealing things about the songs on “Loner” is your sense of humor, which is on display throughout the album — from the album cover and artwork to songs such as “Soul No. 5,” “More Of The Same” and “Jeannie Becomes A Mom.” How important is it for you, as a songwriter, to include humor in your work?

“That’s such a good question, because I approached this album wanting it to reflect me as a person, a personality. Humor is such a big part of my life. I remember when my first album came out, I had a very serious stage persona. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was borderline obsessed with being taken seriously as a songwriter and a musician. I would meet people, like new friends, or even when I met my management in person, and they would be like, ‘Wow! You’re so different from your stage persona.’

“That really got to me for a while. I really needed to find a way to bridge the gap between my personal life and the way people see me onstage. It’s become a personal goal for the last handful of years to be more like myself in my personal life onstage. I make a point of injecting weirdness

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into songs and making sure the weirdness of my personality and the humor really come out. At the same time, I know that if it’s too jokey and too goofy then you stop taking yourself seriously. There’s a line to be drawn, but I’m happy with the balance of the seriousness and the humor.”

Do you also think humor is an effective way of making commentaries on the present-day culture?

“Absolutely. I use satire a lot in some of the songs. I think it’s an effective tool to talk about stuff that makes people kind of cringe or uncomfortable. It takes the edge off. Artists have been using satire for a really long time. The first time I read (Voltaire’s) ‘Candide,’ my mind was blown.

It’s a powerful tool to take something serious and difficult to talk about and what may bring someone pain and flip it on its head. To make a joke about it and laugh at something that would normally bring you pain is a powerful weapon to use.”

Another notable aspect of the album is the use of the synthesizer that sounds like a Farfisa organ on songs such as “Talk,” “Bikini,” “Jeannie Becomes A Mom” and “More Of The Same.” Can you please say something about the use of these particular keyboards?

“I just love the sound of a Farfisa. Originally, there wasn’t as much on the album. I was trying to

find a way to make everything sound a little more cohesive to brand the sonic element. I think the Farfisa is really good at bringing out the whimsy in songs. I think the association (is) with The Doors and (that) retro ‘60s, surf-rock kind of feel with electric piano…When I was creating the palette for the album, I wanted to inject something that brought out a bit of goofiness. In approaching the next record, I’m going to do something similar in terms of bringing out the humorous elements.

I definitely will find other instruments now. (The Farfisa synthesizer) is a very difficult instrument to blend into a mix.”

cal because it’s a political time.”

On the lyric sheet photo, I noticed that you have ink on left inner forearm. What does the tattoo say?

“In French, it says, ‘Be drunk all the time.’”

What are you most looking forward to about your autumn tour with Rainbow Kitten Surprise?

“That’s going to be a great tour. I’m looking forward to having a bigger touring group. We have a new bass player that’s coming on. That’s really exciting. We’re going to have a new front of house and a new crew. I’m excited to have a bigger team.

Everything’s going to be bigger. We’ll be fleshing out some new songs. The audiences will be bigger and Rainbow Kitten Surprise is an amazing band.

I’m looking forward to playing for new audiences.

It’s interesting playing opening sets because you never know who’s going to turn out and if people will like you or not.”

It sounds effortless.

“Good! That’s great. That makes me happy.”

Would it be fair to say that you are employing a subversive, but empowering, feminist approach on songs such as “Cry!” and “Bikini”?

“Yes, totally. A lot of people bring that up, whether I would consider my music to be subversive or political. My most honest answer is that because I’m a female and I identify as female, it just happens to be part of my life. I sing about parts of my life that make me frustrated or (are) comical to me, (and) they will come out as feminist songs. I’m a female and I’m a feminist. And I don’t know how to shut my mouth. I think all those things combined end up becoming politi-

I always make a point of being in my seat to hear the opening act.

“That’s very nice of you.” *Singer/songwriter Caroline Rose performs at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester on Sept.

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BY GREGG SHAPIRO

hen you hear the name Clive Davis, you probably think of a legendary and highly regarded figure who has had an indelible effect on the entertainment industry for more than 50 years — beginning with his tenure at Columbia Records from the mid-1960s and into the early 1970s, where he was instrumental in the signing of Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin, Billy Joel, Laura Nyro, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Santana and others, to the founding of his own Arista Records label. Arista was home to a diverse array of talents as well, including Barry Manilow, Patti Smith, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Alicia Keys, Carly Simon and, of course, Whitney Houston.

Through his ongoing involvement in various projects, as well as the 2017 documentary “The Soundtrack of Our Lives” and his similarly titled 2013 memoir, “The Soundtrack of My Life,” Davis’ influence continues to be felt today on a global scale. However, his local influence is equally as important. Emerging as “one integrated brand,” Davis’ new partnership with the Bedford Playhouse has resulted in the Bedford Playhouse Clive Davis Arts Center, officially launched over Memorial Day weekend. I spoke with Davis about the new venture and his affection for the region.

I’d like to begin by congratulating you on your recently announced partnership with the Bedford Playhouse and the launching of the Bedford Playhouse Clive Davis Arts Center.

“I appreciate that. Thank you.”

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Clive Davis. Photographs by Fadile Berisha.

What was your relationship with the Bedford Playhouse before the naming of the Bedford Playhouse Clive Davis Arts Center?

“I would go to the venue. I live in Bedford/Pound Ridge. I would certainly go to the theater to see movies of my choice throughout the year.”

As someone for whom entertainment has been a central focus in your life, what does it mean to you have your name attached to a performing arts space such as the Bedford Playhouse Clive Davis Arts Center?

“I learned, with great dismay, that the theater was going to be closed. I live in Manhattan and I spend every weekend there in Bedford/Pound Ridge. I was not on the board (at the Bedford Playhouse). I had no role there. When the length

of time kept growing that our community did not have a movie theater in it, it was tremendously disappointing. I had learned of the efforts to reopen the theater. When I was first in discussion with Deborah and Bill Zabel, two residents there, I was asked if I had any ideas. I said, ‘There are so many residents of this area, both full-time and weekend residents, that have a strong interest in the arts and film and have been so admiring of the efforts of the Jacob Burns (Film Center) in Westchester to encourage filmmakers that there are communities out there that are interested in films of merit, documentaries and serious work. It would seem like a very good opportunity to attempt to do just that in this Bedford/Pound Ridge area.’ That’s how my discussions began — to not just open the theater, but to expand its role artistically, creatively. In this day

and age, when commercial interests are encouraging large spectacle films that are doing so well out of comic books and what have you, hopefully communities can grow across the country that would provide opportunities for those of us to encourage Hollywood filmmakers so that the role of the arts continues to grow throughout our country. That’s when those discussions began more formally with John Farr (founding board president) and Sarah Long (board chairman).”

What can you tell the readers about what your specific ongoing role and involvement will be with the Bedford Playhouse Clive Davis Arts Center?

“I think those meetings are just beginning to take place. I don’t think there’s any formal, official role, but I certainly welcome the sentiment and the thought process with the people I have met with — John Farr and Sarah Long and Deborah and Bill Zabel — that we definitely will, in this expanded situation, include the kinds of films that are thought-provoking and have filled the film industry from its inception, as well as

musical events, lectures, Q&As from people of interest. A broad role in the arts so that the Bedford Playhouse Clive Davis Arts Center can really play an expanded role for the arts in our community.”

Would you mind saying a few words about your connection to the town of Bedford?

“I’ve always liked Bedford. Before I ever looked here, I knew certain of my friends lived there. It was accessible enough to Manhattan that I would come out to this area. Before I ever lived here, I would go to Banksville and go to restaurants such as La Crémaillère. There were a few artists and painters that I knew that lived there. I liked that the area was attracting some of the residents that I knew as friends, as well as the accessibility to New York.

“When my children were growing up, we spent summers in the Hamptons. It was great. It still is great, but I really wanted a weekend home that was accessible to me all year round. Back in 1991, I was a subscriber to a magazine called Unique Homes. I saw a home in Pound Ridge that seemed to be ide-

al for me. In spotting a home that Vuko Tashkovich, the well-known architect for the Westchester/ Connecticut area (designed), I drove out to check it out and fell in love with the house. It was a brand new home, just the kind of contemporary architecture that I love. I said, “This will provide me an all-year-round opportunity to spend weekends in ‘the country’ (laughs). I did! I bought that home and have loved the area ever since.

“Restaurants keep opening. My good friend Jean-Georges (Vongerichten) and Phil Suarez have the Inn at Pound Ridge. Bruculino is in South Norwalk, just 20 minutes away. Just the number and the variety: I’m a foodie, I like good restaurants and it definitely has attracted me. I could have dinner on Friday night in the city, if I have to, go to the theater, be out at 10:30 and I’ll be in Bedford/Pound Ridge less than an hour later. I can spend the entire weekend there.”

The newly renovated Bedford Playhouse Clive Davis Arts Center, at 633 Old Post Road, will host an official grand opening this fall. For more, visit bedfordplayhouse.org.

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he name “McLaren” is no stranger to racing and auto enthusiasts. The British-based McLaren Group is well known as a triple threat. McLaren Racing — which introduced the strong but lightweight carbon fiber chassis to Formula 1 competition in 1981 — holds 20 world championships and 182 Grand Prix victories. McLaren Applied Technologies seeks innovative solutions to challenges in health, public transportation and automotive design. (The company has not built a car without a carbon fiber chassis since it created the McLaren F1 road car in 1993.)

But it is McLaren Automotive that is undoubtedly the best known. The 8-year-old company, the largest part of the McLaren Group, has three product lines — the Sports Series, Super Series and Ultimate Series — which are distributed to more than 80 retailers in 30 markets worldwide.

Two of its cars have been in the news of late.

In June, McLaren donated a bespoke 570S Spider, part of the Sports Series, to the Elton John AIDS Foundation for its Argento Ball. As it was the fundraiser’s silver anniversary, the special Spider was hand sprayed in metallic “Blade Silver.” The

A 570S Spider in “Blade Silver,” opposite, was auctioned off to support the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The winning bid was $951,112; and, inset, “Mattress King” and auto collector Michael Fux ordered this McLaren bespoke Senna in emerald green to match a pair of shoes. The cost? A cool $1.3 million. 2018 © McLaren Automotive.

anonymous winner bid 725,000 British pounds (or about $951,112 U.S. on the day of the auction), gaining not only the sleek, sporty ride but an opportunity to tour the McLaren Technology Centre — the company’s headquarters in Woking, Surrey, England — with Amanda McLaren. She’s the only child of New Zealand-born Bruce McLaren, a competitive racer whose legacy lay in the McLaren Racing Team and aerodynamic design. (He died at age 32 in 1970 when the experimental car he was testing crashed at Goodwood Circuit in England.)

As brand ambassador, Amanda McLaren was

scheduled to drive the winning bidder around the company’s lake in the silver Spider.

Just as much fanfare greeted “Mattress King” Michael Fux when he became the first to receive one of only 500 sold-out Sennas, part of the Ultimate Series. CNBC’s “Nightly Business Report” was on hand when he was presented with his custom emerald beauty — painted to match a pair of shoes — at a cost of $1.3 million. Fux — a top collector with more than 140 cars — is also the possessor of a classic American Dream story. At age 15, he emigrated from Cuba to the United States, where he began appropriately enough by selling tires in Newark, New Jersey. Ultimately, he would launch and sell more than a half-dozen companies. (He was nicknamed the “Mattress King” for creating Sleep Innovation and Comfort Revolution.)

Fux is a lover of color. “I love to create my own combination,” he told “Nightly Business Report,” “and I get great satisfaction when I see the end result.”

The super-car market remains strong even while manufacturers play a waiting game regarding Trumpian tariffs. Consumers like Fux will no doubt keep McLaren in comfort while the company keeps auto collectors in style.

For more, visit McLaren.com.

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A BLOCKBUSTER PROPERTY FOR THE SERIOUS EQUESTRIAN PRESENTED BY SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

TO SAY DOUBLE H FARM IS IDEAL FOR THE EQUESTRIAN IS QUITE THE UNDERSTATEMENT. This world-class equine facility on 87 acres in Ridgefield, on Old Stagecoach Road and Neds Lane, offers luxurious amenities for no less than 43 horses.

The property also features a main house, staff apartments, two barns and outbuildings.

The Olympic-caliber barns have soft stall matting and rubber-tiled floors with radiant-heated aisles.

The farm also houses offices and staff apartments reflecting its role in supporting the international breeding and training of horses owned by the E. Hunter Harrison family.

For the nuts and bolts, The Upper Barn has 14 12-by12-foot stalls, including two foaling stalls, two grooming stalls, two wash stalls, a laundry room, tack and feed rooms, UV therapy lights and a covered hot walker.

The grounds are equally designed for equestrian use, laced with specially constructed golf cart paths, with rider-friendly footing, that lead to 17 groomed paddocks, a 3.5-acre Grand Prix Field with natural jumps and viewing stand, a 140-by-260-foot outdoor ring with drained and tiled all-weather footing, plus an 80-by-180 foot indoor ring complete with IGK footing.

Sited along the western-property line with gated access is the main or lower barn, a 20-stall facility with commercial lease-income potential, a trophy lounge, two office suites, four grooming and wash stalls, a laundry room plus tack and feed rooms. A shed row for vet/medical needs, farrier shed, a covered hot walker and treadmill complete these high-end amenities, while a large garage provides concealed storage for farm and transportation equipment.

The main house, built in 2009, has not been neglected. There is a first-floor master suite, a chef’s kitchen, finished basement, fitness room, home theater, library, wine cellar/grotto, home office and more.

It also captures breathtaking sunset views from all windows with terraces and balconies surrounded by the beautiful gardens with koi pond, pool and heated spa.

Additional highlights of this geothermal living space include an indoor golf room and a seven-car garage for the car enthusiast.

The lower property boasts a four-bedroom guest house and a farmhouse, in addition to a “party barn,” a saltwater pool and a resurfaced tennis and ball court.

It’s a stylish, sporting extravaganza, all for $33 million.

For more, contact Krissy Blake at 203-536-2743 or Ingrid Hess at 203-722-2111. Both can also be reached through the Greenwich brokerage at 203869-4343.

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Patrica Bonaldi Photographs courtesy PatBO.

BOLD AND BRAZILIAN

BY LAURA JOSEPH MOGIL

A detail image from Patricia Bonaldi’s School of Embroidery in Brazil.

BRAZILIAN DESIGNER PATRICIA BONALDI IS MAKING QUITE A SPLASH WORLDWIDE WITH HER LINE OF PATBO DESIGNER CLOTHING, KNOWN FOR ITS DETAILED EMBROIDERY COMBINED WITH BOLD TEXTURES, COLORS AND MATERIALS. SHE’S ALSO LANDED RIGHT HERE IN WAG COUNTRY, WITH A BEAUTIFUL AND ECLECTIC ARRAY OF EVENINGWEAR BEING SOLD AT MARY JANE DENZER IN WHITE PLAINS.

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“I think the dresses are very feminine and sophisticated,” says Anastasia Cucinella, co-owner of Mary Jane Denzer. “They’re also quite intricate in their combination of lace and appliqué, including sparkling sequins and crystal beads. It’s very interesting how Patricia assembles her materials together and that’s what makes her collection so unique.”

According to Cucinella, “The dresses are perfect for someone who is 35 years old as well as someone who’s in their 60s. They really show off a woman’s figure in a very complimentary manner.”

Bonaldi sees it the same way: “Our customer is more about attitude than age. She is fearless and confident in who she is. I see her as someone who maintains her essence and is not afraid to experiment with trends. In truth, she is feminine and strong, graceful and bold.”

Bonaldi was born in a bucolic town of Uberlândia, famed for its thriving textile industry.

Growing up, she recalls loving to shop for fabrics and designing her own clothes. While studying law at a local university, Bonaldi opened up a namesake, multibrand store in her hometown in 2002. She quickly began to receive requests for custom-made gowns, which developed into a sought-after eveningwear line.

A few years later she graduated with a degree in fashion design and launched her PatBO brand in 2012. (In addition to the eveningwear, PatBO also produces more casual clothing and swimwear collections.) While she has six stores throughout Brazil, Bonaldi decided to introduce the brand to the United States in 2017.

“It has always been a dream of mine to bring the brand to the U.S.,” she says. “We have seen strong growth in Brazil, with the momentum building over the last few years. It just felt right to go bigger last year.”

Rather than outsourcing the production process, Bonaldi began to teach her technique to local residents in her hometown. She established a School of Embroidery in Uberlândia and employs graduates at her factory. Because of the skills the women learn, they are able to support their families.

“The artisans imbue each piece with their dedication and passion, understanding that even the tiniest details matter,” Bonaldi says. The richly decorated dresses channel a South American spirit and take 60 to 100 days to complete.

“I built the business on a single thread, with the art of craftsmanship and meticulous hand embroidery at the center of the brand’s DNA,” she adds.

“The artisans imbue each piece with their dedication and passion, understanding that even the tiniest details matter” — Patricia Bonaldi

This PatBO Patricia Bonaldi hand-embellished cocktail dress is available at Mary Jane Denzer.

“The type of embroidery I became synonymous with is not easily found in Brazil, so it was important for me to preserve this craft, while also empowering local artisans.”

Bonaldi divides her time between Uberlândia, where her factory and school are located, and São Paulo, where she lives and has an atelier. She is intimately involved in all stages of the design process.

“I fit every sample, approve all embroidery tests and oversee the stamping process to make sure every piece is perfect,” she says.

This is the first year that Mary Jane Denzer has carried Bonaldi’s line of designer dresses, but Cucinella says Bonaldi has been on her radar for several years: “I first saw Patricia’s collection three years ago in Paris and have been following how she continues to grow.”

The Mary Jane Denzer store has five pieces from the designer’s Fall 2018 collection, with price points ranging from $2,200 to $4,000. “Each one of them is size specific, because we are in a very small community and we don’t want anyone to be wearing the same dress to an event,” Cucinella adds.

The current collection was inspired by Bonaldi’s recent travels to Havana, Cuba, and Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera, while her native country continues to be a source of ideas for everything she does. Representing a whimsical spirit, the dresses are bold and beautiful, full of intricate lace and appliqué patterns, textured with paisleys and flowers.

As far as color is concerned, Cucinella says that the dresses she has chosen feature mostly lilacs and other shades of purple. “That is a very big trend for this fall,” she notes.

“What I love about Patricia is that she runs a very small business out of Brazil and she really cares about the workmanship and the fabrics,” Cucinella adds. “It’s a very important collection for us, because I like to represent up-and-coming designers, and she’s one of the best.”

For more, visit patbo.com and mjdenzer.com.

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FRAGRANCE IS ITS ‘CREED’

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

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ometimes it takes many men to please a woman — in this case, seven of them. That’s how many men have headed The House of Creed, a perfumer that stretches back to the early 18th century. Soon it was known as the perfumer of kings until the house realized it was just as important to be the perfumer of queens.

Today, Creed offers a variety of fragrances and bath products for women as well as men, including its new Floralie for the ladies. This floral tribute features hints of Bulgarian rose, lilac, lily of the valley and amber in a light scent to make spring eternal.

For Creed fans, the note of Bulgarian rose might be a case of “déjà vu all over again,” as Yogi Berra might’ve said, as Bulgarian rose sounds the middle note of Fleurs de Bulgarie, created for Queen Victoria, who wore it throughout her reign.

As the company’s first Millesime, Fleurs de Bulgarie is still available today.

It was the queen’s grandfather, George III, who first provided royal inspiration for House of Creed founder James Creed. Establishing the company in 1760, Creed set out to provide the English court with custom-tailored clothing, scented leather gloves and commissioned fragrances. In 1781, he created the first Creed scent, Royal English Leather, so that George could lean his chin on his gloved hand and inhale the fragrance.

The house moved to Paris in 1854. A half-century later, James Henry Creed, the company’s fifth-generation head, began an outreach to celebrities and political figures. Winston Churchill would inspire Tabarome Millesime, which added notes of tobacco to the original 1875 fragrance at the cigar smoker’s request. King Edward VIII — who would abdicate in 1936 to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Warfield Simpson, becoming the Duke of Windsor — commissioned Windsor, filled with the woodsy scents of his empire. (Both fragrances are available today, the latter known as Royal Mayfair.)

Soon, Creed was making conquests on this side of the Pond. President John F. Kennedy was partial to Vetiver, a scent as fresh as the grass from which it is made. The fruity floral Spring Flower, contained in a pink bottle with a pink and green bow, was Creed’s tribute to Hollywood’s golden age (the 1950s).

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Floralie, Creed’s new fragrance for women. Courtesy Neiman Marcus Westchester.

Establishing the company in 1760, Creed set out to provide the English court with custom-tailored clothing, scented leather gloves and commissioned fragrances. In 1781, he created the first Creed scent, Royal English Leather, so that George could lean his chin on his gloved hand and inhale the fragrance.

In anticipation of the company’s 250th anniversary, Creed — which began selling to the public in 1970 — opened a boutique in New York City in 2009.

A second North American boutique bowed in the Forum Shops of Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace in 2016.

But few places have had an association with Creed quite like Dallas-based Neiman Marcus. To celebrate the store’s 1907 founding, Creed created 1,907 numbered bottles of Floralie, which were distributed to Neiman Marcus stores around the country, including Neiman Marcus Westchester, during a recent pre-sell period. At that time, 5 percent of proceeds went to the Heart of Neiman Marcus Foundation to benefit youth arts programs throughout the nation.

Though the limited-edition bottles are no longer available, you can still purchase this or any other fragrance or bath product by Creed, a company for which a sense of the past is as important as scent itself.

For more, visit creedboutique.com and neimanmarcus.com.

AUTUMNAL WEDDINGS It used to be that everyone wanted June nuptials. Now, bandleader Jay Prince says, September and October are giving their spring sisters May and June a run for their money.

With that in mind, we offer a bouquet of stories to help you plan your big day – whenever it may be.

Saaya Roses offers hat-style boxes filled with real Ecuadorian roses that are designed to last one year. Courtesy Saaya Roses.

THE SUBJECT IS ROSES

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA e have a confession to make: We love roses but we don’t always feel that they love us back. Indoors and out, growing on trellises or displayed in vases, they seem to be high-maintenance flowers — drooping and drying up with the least little provocation.

We’ll leave the cultivation of roses to the gardening enthusiasts out there. But we have some suggestions if you want to give roses to a beloved or use them as centerpieces at your bridal shower or wedding.

First — Saaya Roses. This company offers hatstyle boxes filled with real Ecuadorian roses that are designed to last one year. How can that be?

The company website says it selects only the best blooms amid roses that are cut in their prime, then preserves and rehydrates them, using what the website calls “a secret, natural, eco-friendly”

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mixture. The roses, which are natural in appearance, texture (though you’re not supposed to touch them) and scent, are designed to last one to three years with proper care. Place them out of direct sunlight in a room of about 60 to 70 degrees. Don’t water them or remove them from their box. And if they should get a little dusty, go over them lightly with a feather duster.

The roses come in 26 colors in arrangements of one, four, nine, 16, 25 and 49. We’ve had an arrangement of blush pink beauties (actually more like a purplish pink) in a white box on our coffee table for six weeks and so far, so good. Your guests will be fighting over taking them home. For more, visit saayarose.com.

Not everyone wants something that lasts seemingly forever. If you like the Ecuadorian-roses-in-a-hat box approach but want something with a definite shelf life, you might consider Landeau.

Founder Trevor Patterson, who did postgraduate studies in entrepreneurship and innovation at London College of Fashion, wanted his company

to reflect his European sensibility, so he gave it a French name and style of hat box and a pristine Scandinavian aesthetic. Each bouquet comes with a set of care instructions that will help it last about two weeks. The only shortcoming here is that at present, Landeau, which has no retail stores, is available for pickup and delivery only in New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Paris. For more, visit givelandeau.com.

Roses Only also sources its long-stem (at least two feet) beauties from Ecuador but adds Colombia and Kenya to the mix as well in a business that spans New York City and Los Angeles (twin homes of its American headquarters), Singapore, Hong Kong and London. The company was born in Australia in 1995 but had its roots in the childhood of founder James Stevens, who would accompany his father to buy blooms for the family floristry business in Sydney’s Town Hall Station. In the early 1990s, Stevens had a vision of an ecommerce business that would deliver what he calls “the Tiffany of flowers.”

Ours arrived in the signature, long-stem box with a thick green ribbon. Inside a dozen yellow roses were each anchored in a vial of water. The lovelies graced our home office for two weeks.

Nothing says, “I love you” like a dozen longstem roses, the Roses Only website (rosesonly. com) proclaims as the blossoms deliver “Flower to the people.”

Photographs by Sebastián Flores.

‘ANGEL’ DIAMONDS

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

diamond ring is still the quintessence of an engagement. But if you really want to seal the deal, you might consider a halo-set diamond — a center stone offset by micro pavé diamonds, said Robert S. Woodrow, the “R” in R & M Woodrow Jewelers in Rye. (Brother Michael is the “M.”) Why is this trending? “It really

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is because it enhances the stone,” Rob Woodrow said. “When you put micro pavé diamonds around the center stone, it makes it look bigger. A one-carat diamond looks like three carats.” (Think of the tiny diamonds as eyeliner for your rock.)

Woodrow Jewelers works with Christina Designs New York, a private Fifth Avenue atelier that has been crafting fine jewelry since 1983.

The center stone is set first, then the diamonds that will outline it.

“We only use platinum for the setting,” Woodrow added. “It’s a really resilient metal.”

On a humid day when the Sound Shore city bustled with traffic for the annual sidewalk sale, Woodrow showed us a tray of halo-set dazzlers, including a 2.27-carat oval diamond surrounded by .86 carats of micro pavé stones, pictured above. This oval diamond is rated D in color, which Woodrow says is the best — “you don’t want

to go over a J, which suggests a yellow cast to the diamond” — and VVS for “very, very slight” inclusions, or naturally occurring flaws. We saw another diamond, a 1.70-carat round one in a square halo of .67 micro pavé stones that is also rated D in color but with an SI for slight inclusions.

Then Woodrow introduced us to an eternity wedding band, inset above, a circle of 4.61-carat Asscher-cut diamonds. (An Asscher cut — created in 1902 by the Asscher Brothers of Holland’s Asscher Diamond Co., now the Royal Asscher Diamond Co. — is similar to an emerald cut but square instead of rectangular.)

We put on the eternity band and the oval cut diamond on top of it and thought, “It might almost be worth getting married to own such sparklers.”

Almost.

For more, visit woodrowjewelers.com and christinadesigns.nyc.

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LEADER OF THE (WEDDING) BAND

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH

f you’ve been to enough weddings in the metro area, odds are you have rocked out with Jay Prince.

As co-owner of Hal Prince Music and Entertainment, and leader of the Jay Prince Band, Prince has been jamming at weddings in the Hudson Valley, New York City and reception halls beyond for more than 30 years.

Prince, along with his sister Jill Prince, is the second generation to lead the entertainment company, which has been operating in the region since 1964. Today, the company works with professional musicians to offer eight bands, six DJs and four emcees. The company also provides the happy couple with lighting, video screens, props, photo booths — whatever keeps the party going.

“Everyone is different, so we try to work with the couple’s vision and create something memorable,” Prince says.

Aside from his work in weddings, Prince has been a runner-up vocalist on “Star Search” — a precursor to “American Idol” — and toured with Donna Summer. This fall, he will play a series of shows with New York Yankees legend and classically trained guitarist Bernie Williams.

From the company’s Westchester office — a Victorian home across the street from the Mount Kisco Diner (there’s a second office in Manhattan) — WAG caught up with the musician to talk about his background and how to keep a wedding moving.

How did you get into music and playing weddings?

“It was in the early ‘60s that Hal, my Dad, and Anabelle, my mom, started the company. My mom was a singer. She’s 88, still singing. My father passed away seven years ago. He was a trumpet player and a bandleader. They started Hal Prince Orchestras as it was called in the ’60s, based in Westchester. We’ve been here for over 50 years.

“Even at 5 years old, I would come on gigs and get to sing a few songs but, when I was 16, I led my first gig.”

How many weddings do you play a year?

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Jay Prince. Photograph courtesy Hal Prince Music and Entertainment.

“Sometimes we’re doing two or three a weekend.

It’s a seasonal business, so the winters can be slow.

But it’s very rare to be off on Saturday night. The four big months are May, June, September and October.

“Beyond that, we also do holiday parties in December. Year-round there’s corporate gigs, charities, the occasional bar gig, for fun, as Jay Prince & Friends, where I can invite friends down and we get to play the blues and classic rock.”

What do you enjoy most about playing weddings?

“It’s one of the biggest days of a bride’s and groom’s life, and it’s very exciting to be a part of something like that.”

“We’re also constantly learning new music because every wedding is a little bit different. We take pride in learning the couple’s first dance and parent dances.”

What type of music do people typically request?

“What I’ve noticed that’s interesting is that a lot of the brides and grooms seem to like the music of their parents. We get Earth, Wind & Fire, the classics. Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra. It’s timeless.

“For the big songs of today, people ask for Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, songs from (the band called) Portugal. The Man, Dua Lipa.”

What are some of the things you can do as a band to keep a wedding moving?

“It’s important. We play continuously, so there

is always live music going through the entire four hours. There’s never a lull. When you’re eating, it’s background music. When it’s dance music, we keep on going. The continuity of the music will keep the party going, keep the party flowing. “ Are there certain songs that, when you hit a lull, you know will keep the party going?

“They’re the party anthems, classics such as ‘Brown Eyed Girl,’ ‘Sweet Caroline,’ ‘Dancing Queen,’ ‘December, 1963.’ ‘Shout’ is still a big one, people love the ‘you know you make me wanna…’

‘New York, New York,’ too.”

How has the wedding industry changed in your time? What trends do you see?

“Combos are big now, where they are having a band and DJ. We go out with an eight- to 10-piece band, and a DJ for an after party or to play alongside the band for certain segments of the party.

“We also have a hybrid, where a DJ from our company plays with live musicians. I don’t know if it’s a trend, since it’s been going on for a while. People want the DJ but they also want that element of a live musician as well.

“I’m also seeing more destination weddings now — brides and grooms that live in the city, but don’t want to get married in the city. They come to Westchester, Connecticut, even further. We’re also playing a lot more in different types of venues, such as vineyards or horse farms.”

For more, visit halprince.com.

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13th Annual Honoring Joy and Avi Avidan Thursday, September 13, 2018 Boutiques open at 10:30 a.m. | Lunch Program begins at 12:30 p.m.

Tappan Hill Mansion, Tarrytown, NY Featuring Meredith Vieira Come shop at our luxury boutiques and purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win some amazing prizes!

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One of the handbags auctioned off at the “Go Red For Women” Luncheon, held at the Hilton Westchester in Rye Brook. Courtesy the Westchester-Fairfield American Heart Association.

CREATIVITY’S IN THE BAG

BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

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ere’s a clever idea, courtesy of the American Heart Association, that is sure to make any bridal shower a hit as it’s filled with, yes, Purse-onality.

Take a lovely handbag and fill it with all the things that reflect the bride to be. Or maybe the bride gets a bunch of clutches and fills them with different goodies for her bridesmaids.

We saw the fruits of such creativity for ourselves when we attended the Westchester-Fairfield American Heart Association’s "Go Red For Women" Luncheon this past June at the Hilton Westchester in Rye Brook. There were purses for everyone from spa lovers to sports lovers,

reflecting the personalities of the 29 Westchester businesswomen and community leaders who volunteered their time and money to purchase and outfit the handbags. Kudos to Elizabeth Bracken-Thompson of the Briarcliff Manor-based public relations firm Thompson & Bender and Rori Sagal, assistant vice president and Westchester relationship manager for Greater Hudson Bank, for spearheading the idea locally. (It’s also been part of the Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Luncheons from Dallas to Kennebunkport, Maine.)

Locally, the luncheon and purse auction raised more than $210,000 to raise awareness, promote education and encourage lifestyle changes among women facing heart disease.

Talk about a winning Purse-onality.

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I FEEL SO POWERLESS. WE HAVE TO WATCH HER EVERY MINUTE. FAMILY AND FRIENDS STOPPED COMING AROUND. HE KEEPS SAYING: “THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH ME.” IT’S DESTROYING OUR FAMILY. I FEEL SO GUILTY WE HAVE TO MOVE HER INTO A HOME. IT’S SO HARD TO CARE FOR SOMEONE WHO’S MEAN TO YOU. HE HIDES THINGS ALL THE TIME. I’M GRIEVING THE LOSS OF SOMEONE WHO’S STILL ALIVE. WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START.

LIVING WITH FTD IS HARD. LIVING WITHOUT HELP IS HARDER. THERE’S COMFORT IN FINDING OTHERS WHO UNDERSTAND. WE FINALLY FOUND A DOCTOR WHO GETS IT. I GOT SO MUCH ADVICE FROM OTHER CAREGIVERS. UNDERSTANDING MORE HELPS ME DEAL WITH HER SYMPTOMS. SEEING THAT OTHERS MADE IT THROUGH, I KNEW I COULD TOO. WE HONOR HIM BY ADVOCATING FOR A CURE. NOW I’M BETTER AT ASKING FOR HELP. NO MATTER HOW BAD IT GETS, WE KNOW WE’RE NOT ALONE. It can feel so isolating and confusing from the start: Just getting a diagnosis of FTD takes 3.6 years on average. But no family facing FTD should ever have to face it alone, and with your help, we’re working to make sure that no one does.

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DESIGN TRENDS

BY JANE MORGAN

all fashion is an exciting predictor of the next year’s trends for home décor that is eagerly anticipated by the style-conscious among us. What’s hot and what’s not for 2019? Pantone Color Institute, the color forecasting group, says that two main palettes are emerging, the first drawing inspiration from the plate. “Seductive allusions to foods deepen the irresistible message of the palette, including spicy reds, sweet flamingo orange and rich purples. The neutrals of tasty butterum and cappuccino serve up a delectable warming presence, while grassy green promises a cooling respite from the heat of the surrounding shades.”

The second palette draws inspiration from an elegant sense of warmth and classicism. “Fundamental, basic and everlasting, this is the palette where a graceful swan white and camel-colored tan coexist effortlessly with deep teal, chic gray flannel, burgundy red and caviar black with finishing elements of rich gold and apricot brandy.”

I think we can say that in these politically and socially turbulent times, an appeal to emotional security is at hand.

WHAT’S IN? Interior design is moving in a lusher and sexier direction with an emphasis on maximalism, theatrical opulence, patterns and curved forms.

WHAT’S OUT? Farmhouse style in general. Shiplap and barn doors are fading out of popularity and mid-century modern is the next style to go. Industrial chic, salvaged oddities and reclaimed wood are on their deathbed.

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Luscious red lipsticks – eternal icons – inspire this contemporary kitchen, with crimson giving a modern pop to sedate stainless steel.

KITCHENS While white kitchens are beautiful, timeless, and classic, they have reached the peak of popularity. Look out for darker, moodier, dramatic kitchens that will wow you with their sultry and saturated colors such as black, dark gray and navy.

Natural woods are coming back strong — not those honey oaks or dark mahoganies of the dated past, but fresh, medium stains. There have been a lot of painted cabinet kitchens featured in magazines in 2018 and that trend will continue.

FURNITURE The new look is all about a 1970s’ influence. The tide is slowly starting to turn from sharp rectangular lines to softer edges. Curvy shapes, swiveling chairs, round cushions and sloped mirrors are everywhere.

Arches, in general, are also appearing in both décor as well as architecture as in an opening to a room or an arched wall niche, echoing Moorish themes.

OLD IS NEW Granny chic: Chintz, and florals are showing up on everything. The 1970s’ feeling of velvet and suede is being translated in colors ranging from bold, saturated hues to pastels. The detailed embroidery that used to decorate bell-bottom pants is now living on your throw pillows.

MATERIALS Brushed brass and rose gold are out and copper and black finishes are in. Marble and glass are on the rise. Chalky, smooth, matte finishes that are visually soft are in. Rattan is making a comeback.

We still have a few more months before the official Pantone color of 2018, ultraviolet, gets retired, so go make yourself an amethyst martini and kick back on your lavender area rug before someone calls it “so last year.”

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THE VERSATILE APPEAL OF LALIQUE

BY JENNIFER PITMAN

alique is one of the most familiar names in glass and I’m almost sure to find an example or two on a client visit. But René Lalique’s glass was the focus of the second of his two highly successful careers. He was first known for his outstanding Art Nouveau jewelry designs.

Lalique (1860-1945) was born in the Marne region of France and learned the goldsmithing trade from the jeweler Louis Aucoc, supplementing this education with studies in decorative arts, graphic design and sculpture.

He worked as a freelance jewelry designer, then opened his own workshop in 1886. Lalique’s jewelry drew inspiration from nature and often incorporated inexpensive materials such as horn, ivory, semiprecious stones, enamel and glass. His work was highly sought after. Lalique counted French actress Sarah Bernhardt and industrialist and art collector Calouste Gulbenkian among his most ardent patrons, and his display at the 1900 Paris International Exposition drew accolades.

Lalique’s experiments with glass in his jewelry work led him to his second career in glassmaking.

One of his earliest associations was with the perfumer François Coty, for whom he began designing perfume labels and bottles in 1908. (Previously, perfume had been sold in plain flasks.) Lalique went on to manufacture hundreds of bottle designs for Coty, Worth, Roger et Gallet, among others, while also producing perfume bottles under his own name.

On a much grander scale were Lalique’s glass architectural commissions, which included his 40foot high illuminated glass fountain, “Les Sources de France,” shown at the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs and lighting and glass panels for the first-class dining room of the famed Normandie

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René Lalique was as acclaimed for his accessories as for his home designs, as this horn and diamond hair comb (circa 1900) attests. It sold for $33,750 at Rago.

ocean liner (1935). In New York City, Lalique’s architectural work can still be seen in the floral windows of the Henri Bendel store at 714 Fifth Ave., formerly the Coty Building.

Lalique’s one-of-a-kind art glass, produced by the cire perdue method, is the most highly coveted of his glasswork. In the cire perdue (lost wax) method, a design is carved into a block of wax, which is then encased within a mold, resulting in an imprinted design. The mold is heated to melt the wax, which is then drained, leaving a cavity into which a glassblower can blow molten glass.

Once cooled, the mold is broken open (and therefore destroyed) to reveal the design — in Lalique’s case, one that was defined by its matte and pitted surface with a deep definition.

In contrast to the limited production of his cire perdue work, Lalique employed industrialized production to create the quality glass that he marketed to a much wider audience. Lalique produced a multitude of items for the home, including pieces for the vanity table, desk, library and dining table.

Vases are among the most collectible Lalique forms, because they were rendered in such a great variety of designs, colors and finishes. The combination of these factors can yield great variation in value at auction. There are more than 450 designs in floral Art Nouveau, sleek Art Deco and geometric styles.

Clear, colored, opalescent or cased glass (applying one layer of colored glass over another) was further

enhanced with contrasting clear or frosted glass.

Also, certain areas were patinated to further highlight recessed areas of the design.

Sought-after colored glass vases include “Serpent,” whose snake coils form the walls of the vessel, “Escargot” (Snail) — and “Tourbillons” (Whirlwinds), a masterpiece of Lalique’s geometric style. In clear glass, “Palestre” and “Bacchantes” (depicting Classical athletes and Bacchic maidens, respectively), “Cluny” (Classical theater masks) and “Picardie” (an abstracted floral design) are among the most highly collectible designs.

Car mascots or hood ornaments, were among Lalique’s most unusual works. They are also highly collectible, not just by Lalique collectors, but by vintage car enthusiasts. In all, 30 models were created and many of these designs doubled as paperweights or bookends. Among the most desired are “Cinq Chevaux” (Five Horses), first made for the Citroën car, “Victoire” or “Spirit of the Wind” (a figurehead with strong Art Deco lines) and “Longchamp” (a horse head in profile).

With Lalique’s extraordinarily diverse output, encompassing 1,500 models, collectors can acquire works at a wide range of price points — from modest to stratospheric. As ever, though, it is the rarity of design, coupled with outstanding condition that are the driving factors for exceptional prices at auction.

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BY CAMI WEINSTEIN

s an interior designer I am always asked what can be done to make your home more stylish, beautiful, hip and current — often by complete strangers.

Over the years, you learn some tricks of the trade that can be applied to your home, putting it on the path toward a welcoming personal environment. Working with clients, I set my goal at listening and understanding their lifestyles and how their homes need to work for them. Here are some tips to get you started: Paint — I know this has been said before, but there is nothing that can achieve so much for so little. Color can enhance a mood — even a focal wall can change the feeling of a room — so don’t be afraid to experiment with color. Many spaces have awkward ceiling angles. My suggestion: Paint walls and ceilings the same color. It softens the angles and helps them blend in.

Painting the trim the same color as the walls is also a nice idea to make the rooms feel larger, calmer and more modern.

Dark colors can make the walls recede, making a small room feel larger or alternatively warm and cozy.

Artwork — Many people are so afraid of buying art. Buy what you love. Frame children’s paintings and your own photographs, grouping artwork together in the same frames to create a gallery wall. If you are looking to collect art seriously, then hire an art adviser. For many of us, though, buying what we love can begin to make our rooms personal.

If you are still afraid to commit to artwork, then wallpaper. It gives rooms lots of visual interest with no commitment to artwork. If you become tired of the wallpaper, you can change it and instantly create a whole new room.

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“In this Laguna, California, beach bungalow, I used wallpaper to give this small room visual interest,” writes Cami Weinstein.

Photographs on the wall and photograph of the room by Marc Weinstein.

One of my favorite wallpapers is a grasscloth. It instantly gives timeless style to both traditional or modern rooms.

Lighting — I love lamps. Three-way lamps offer levels of mood lighting that can create an instant sense of warmth in a room. Plus, they come in so many varieties. To highlight your room, add a lamp in an accent color. Changing your lamps often can instantly update a tired room. Even changing to modern drum shades will instantly modernize your room.

It’s all in the mix — Combine both old and new pieces to make a home feel collected and timeless.

This is usually best left to an expert in the field, because he or she will have a better understanding of what combinations work well together. A professional can also be impartial and will be unsentimental enough to get rid of pieces that just don’t work in your new rooms.

Scale — Scale is a huge component to successful decorating. Measure, measure and measure again.

Many people purchase the wrong size appointments — sofas that are too deep, rugs that are too small for a room and furniture that doesn’t fit the space properly.

Unless a room is very large, I try to keep my area rugs with the sofa and chairs half on and half off the rugs. It makes a room feel more comfortable and less static. I also like to combine both skirted, upholstered pieces and ones with legs in the same room. It tends to make the room more animated.

Paint or lacquer your furniture — Give old “brown” furniture a fresh update in a painted finish or a high-gloss lacquer in a gorgeous color.

Update kitchen hardware — Not ready to completely redo your kitchen? Replace old hardware with new hardware. Try an unlacquered brass for a current update.

Do one or two rooms at a time — Build on your design aesthetic. If you purchase a couple of pieces scattered about in different rooms, your home will never come together. If your space is small, try to purchase furniture pieces that all contain storage.

Organize your closets and keep small spaces neat.

This will make your space feel larger.

Indoor/outdoor fabrics — Collections of these fabrics have really come a long way and are a stylish addition to rooms with kids and pets. Many fabrics can be very fragile for an active household. Indoor/outdoor fabrics resist wear and tear and are easy to launder. Many are both fade- and stain-resistant.

“Buy quality and only cry once” — There has never been a truer statement. Purchase classic quality items whether they are modern or traditional and they will stand the test of time. I love beautiful craftsmanship and furnishings. And quality pieces can be mixed easily with other quality pieces whether they are traditional or modern.

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

WARMING – AND CATCHING – UP WITH APRILMARIN

BY MARY SHUSTACK

AG profiled AprilMarin back in September 2013’s fashion issue, and we went on to spotlight the Armonk-based contemporary knitwear company over the years with quick updates on its styles and events.

News of AprilMarin’s latest effort, though, sparked our interest to hear more than just a snippet, so we checked back in with April Bukofser and Marin Milio, the designing duo who met as students at Pace University and would go on to form the fashion company that marked its 10th anniversary last year.

The charitable effort is the teaming up with Lifting Up Westchester. The White Plains-based organization has the following mission: “We aim to restore hope to Westchester County’s men, women and children in need by providing them with food, shelter and support — and lifting them to greater self-sufficiency with dignity and respect.”

AprilMarin comes into the picture with the launch of a one-for-one collaboration with the organization.

AprilMarin’s designs include a variety of wraps, shawls and more, and in this “Shawls for Shelter” program, for every shawl purchased through its website, AprilMarin will donate a shawl to Lifting Up Westchester to be given to a person in need.

“We are thrilled to partner with Lifting Up Westchester,” said Milio, AprilMarin owner, in announcing the collaboration. “It is such an incredible organization and we love that we can make a difference in our home community. Their work of restoring hope by providing food, shelter and support to people in need is amazing, and we are honored to be able to help.”

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The Armonk-based fashion company AprilMarin has launched a charitable effort, Shawls for Shelter. Courtesy AprilMarin.

have been so fortunate in our lives and our business and we are excited to help those who are less fortunate. We believe in the values and mission of Lifting Up Westchester and look forward to not only donating a shawl for every shawl purchased but to also be helping at their community dinners and events.”

The fashion designers and entrepreneurs have also made a major change in their business since WAG’s original story — transitioning from custom-made to one-size clothing.

As Bukofser told us, “When we started AprilMarin in 2007 our focus was custom and making custom clothing for young professionals. At the time we were in our 20s and had professional jobs out of college and wanted nice tailored pieces to wear to work.”

Then, she added, “Fast forward a few years, we each have three girls and our lives are much more on the go. We changed the designs of our pieces to suit our lifestyles and in doing that we found a cult following.”

And the following continues to grow.

“Our ‘cult’ includes all of those busy women on the go, especially moms, who have little time for themselves but they still want to look good. Our customers love that all of our pieces are easy to

wear, can be dressed up or down and are always comfortable and stylish.”

Added Milio, “One size just made sense to me as AprilMarin embodies everything casual chic.”

It’s tied to the company’s philosophy, as well.

“Life is not taken too seriously,” Milio continued.

“Laughing is always encouraged and nothing is ever too tight. I love what we are doing now, as it just feels right. We have been busy selling to over 350 retail boutiques around the country, including Anthropologie.”

In addition to the collaboration with Lifting Up Westchester, Milio noted that the company is excited about its “amazing” one-size-fits-all holiday items, including new colors of its signature City Ruffle Shawl, along with a selection of attractively priced sweaters and scarves.

We’re sure the next time we check in, AprilMarin will have even more news.

As Milio said, “We are excited about everything we have going on and are looking forward to what’s next.”

The entire AprilMarin collection can be found online through the company site and at the AprilMarin shop, at 495 Main St., No. 208, in Armonk. The shop is open by appointment, with regular hours to be introduced this month.

For more, visit aprilmarin.com.

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BY GEORGETTE GOUVEIA

he American Gold Cup returns to Old Salem Farm in North Salem this month but with new, later dates and a new VIP club sponsor.

The event will take place Sept. 26 through 30, culminating with the $204,000 Longines FEI World Cup Jumping New York CSI4*-W on Sept. 30, in which riders, fresh from the FEI World Equestrian Games at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina, will compete for the Gold Cup. The 2018 iteration will also include the Hermès Sellier Cup and the Fidelity Investments Classic CSI4* on Saturday, Sept. 29.

The Gold Cup — which is one of seven events that make up the East Coast division of the Longines FEI World Cup Jumping North American League — returns to its regular mid-September schedule in 2019.

This year’s Gold Cup will also mark the debut of the Taylor Harris Club in the double-decker VIP hospitality tent. The club, which bowed at the National Horse Show in Lexington, Kentucky, has been a fixture on the equestrian hospitality scene since its founding in 2011. It’s presented by Taylor Harris Insurance Services (THIS), a longtime provider of equine insurance and supporter of the Gold Cup. Says THIS President and Director Michael Taylor: “I love this show-jumping event. It is in a prime location, is extremely well-run by the team at Morrissey Management Group and continues to hold a standard for prestige in the sport horse industry.”

The club won’t be all eats and bevies. On Sept.

28, there will be a special display by Hattie Banks, whose fine jewelry includes a small white- and black-diamond horseshoe-shaped pendant necklace. The company will also be sponsoring the Leading Lady Rider, with the winner receiving a piece of jewelry. Hermès returns with its vendor space in the bottom half of the double-decker tent.

And Michell-Innes & Nash — a contemporary art gallery with two locations in Manhattan —will feature artwork in the Taylor Harris Club as well.

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A winning horse, ready for a victory gallop. Courtesy The Book LLC.

"I love this show jumping event. It is in a prime location, is extremely well-run by the team at Morrissey Management Group and continues to hold a standard for prestige in the sport horse industry."

— Michael Taylor

strolling Boutique Row include Heritage AKKA Legacy, an equestrian store for women; Exceptional Equestrian, offering more women’s fashion; Fab Finds by Sarah; Hunt Ltd., founded by longtime fashion industry insider and amateur rider Gretchen Hunt, who grew up in Fairfield County; Lascaux Equestrian; and Wild Horses, a clothing and accessories boutique.

Local vendors include Daigle & Travers Insurance and Vincent & Whittemore Real Estate, which handles many equestrian properties.

As always there will be family fun with face painting, pony rides and a Kids’ Corner by publisher Macaroni Kid. Among the nonequestrian sponsors are Longines, the Swiss watch manufacturer, which has a long history of equestrian timekeeping; Audi Danbury; Danbury Porsche; NetJets, a private business jets company; and Douglas Elliman, the national real estate firm.

For more, visit theamericangoldcup.com.

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hat man or woman doesn't want to look great — and feel comfortable — when traveling?

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Tested in Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth, Hardvark’s Everyday Shirt for men is made of an ultra-breathable, lightweight, Merino wool fabric that regulates a man's body temperature. It shields him from the heat in summer and in any warm-weather climate.

"It keeps you cool even when it's hot," says J.J. Symons, founder and creative director of Hardvark.

The name is inspired by the African mammal — the aardvark — which thrives in every climate.

"They have a thick skin that protects them from the elements....It's clothing that's as versatile as you are.

It transitions from work to play, week to weekend and indoor to outdoor.”

More than 18 months in development, the Everyday Shirt ($165) is also crease-resistant and antibacterial. It can be worn in extreme conditions, for days on end, and stays crisp, clean and odor-free.

Customers include James Bond — or at least two of his incarnations, Daniel Craig and Pierce Brosnan.

"It has technical benefits but does not look technical,” he adds. The company's bestseller is its flagship product — the Voyager shirt ($175). Its heavier weight makes it "a warmer product to wear most of the year.”

Prototype plans for women’s shirts are in the works for 2019. Stay tuned.

For more, visit hardvark.com.

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When the heat’s on, Hardvark’s Everyday Shirt helps you keep your cool. Courtesy Hardvark.

TRUE GAULT REIGNS IN SPAIN Wouldn't you love to run through an airport in high heels, or at the very least, wear sexy, comfortable shoes as you survive the torment of the TSA? Sandra Gault knows all about it. She's a self-proclaimed "geek in high heels," and she just knew that there had to be a better way for women to purchase footwear. In her experience, she typically found the right color but the wrong style, or discovered the perfect heel height but a bad hue.

So she set out to create custom-made women's shoes — True Gault — which are perfectly fitted to every woman's foot. She claims to make them better than anyone else, and in Spain, no less. At the moment two- and four-inch heels are available, but flats will debut soon.

"We guarantee fit, deliver in under three weeks, and we don't do shoe sizes. You get your own fit and ID number. And if it doesn't fit, we will remake it for you until you're happy," she says.

"We scanned 2,000 women — and none of them have the same size feet. There's no such thing as a perfect size 7. Personally, my right foot is shorter and wider than my left foot."

True Gault features a proprietary 3-D technology and scanning system that enables the customer to scan each of her feet from the comfort of her home, using an app. She generates a 3-D model by taking three simple photos. She then shops the True Gault

app for the style and leather of her choice.

True Gault was chosen as one of eight startup brands inducted into Google’s Accelerated Growth program (which launched Casper, the mattress company, and Warby Parker, an eyeglass company). Supermodels like Niki Taylor have been seen rocking its shoes, and True Gault just announced funding from famed venture capitalist Tim Draper.

"We are known as the Warby Parker of high heels, as we change the way women select, buy and wear shoes," Gault adds.

For travelers, the $250 BethAnne peep toe lets you run in high heels. Then there's the $350 Robin boot in crocodile and snake patterns, in 20 styles and 40 leathers. The Nasrin bootie with a peep toe is great for shorts, dresses and jeans.

“These are excellent for travel. They let you run through the airport and your foot won't be constrained and subsequently swell. They are also super easy to get on and off in TSA,” Gault says, adding with a laugh, “I can't get back into my Jimmy Choos. They're too uncomfortable.

"I travel wearing skinny jeans, a crisp white shirt with French cuffs, a long necklace plus my Robin boots,” she adds. “I feel comfortable — yet sexy — and I can't tell you how many people compliment me on my shoes.”

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BY BARBARA BARTON SLOANE ecently, I revisited Cleveland, an astonishing city that gobsmacked me once more. Shortly after I arrived, I boarded the Nautica Queen, a dining cruise on Lake Erie and enjoyed a very good dinner and scintillating city views by the light of a silvery moon.

Cleveland. Yes, I know. Comedians have ragged on this city since time immemorial. “In Cleveland, Velveeta cheese can be found in the gourmet section of the supermarket.” “Definition of a plush Cleveland cocktail lounge: A bottle of Seagram’s with a brown bag around it.” And of course, that old saw: “I spent a week in Cleveland one afternoon.”

But enough. It’s time to stop all that, because Cleveland today is nothing short of remarkable and very much of-the-moment. It’s a city with myriad surprises — and all of them good. This is, after all, where rock was born, where people know a thing or two about passion, freedom and doing it your own way. A visit to this town means world-class experiences without the world-class ego. That’s why Cleveland has been designated one of the 25 best U.S. cities and one of the five most affordable, underrated travel destinations in the country. Visitors to Cleveland are often surprised by the city’s history of risk-taking, artistry and entrepreneurship passed on through the generations. Today, Cleveland is committed to keeping two feet in the past, many hands in the present and all eyes on the future.

Now a somewhat obscure but fascinating fact.

Cleveland, each May, hosts its very own Fashion Week. This annual event was begun in 2002 and just happens to be the third largest fashion show of its kind in the U.S., behind only New York and Los Angeles. I had made it a point to be in Cleveland the first week in May so as not to miss the shows and was thrilled to see all of the usual designer suspects represented. As a veteran of Fashion Week NY, I can only say, Cleveland, you did yourself proud. Fashion Week in Cleveland? Surprised? Not a whit.

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“Long Live Rock and Roll” at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Photograph courtesy This is Cleveland.

ambled through the neighborhood’s historic institutions, including the Cleveland Museum of Art. The art museum was founded in 1913 and is a neoclassical, white marble, Beaux Arts building encompassing a 75-acre green space. The recent $350 million renovation project added two new wings, making it the largest cultural project in Ohio’s history. The new wings, as well as the enclosing of the atrium courtyard under a soaring glass canopy, have brought the museum’s total floor space to 592,000 square feet, (an increase of approximately 65 percent).

The museum divides its collections into 16 departments, including Chinese art, Modern, African, Islamic and Greek/Roman. Among the artists represented are Botticelli, Caravaggio and El Greco.

Corot’s “La Cervara,” a serene scene of the Italian countryside, was swoon-worthy, as was the furious, bruising light of Turner’s “Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons.” I look forward to returning to this exceptional museum, if for no other reason than to experience once again its masterful atrium, conceived by architect Rafael Viñoly as the centerpiece of his design. This grand open piazza completely transforms the visitor’s experience — a place to congregate, a source of airy light and a reference point to simplify navigation throughout the galleries. It is simply grand.

On a perfect, sun-splashed day I visited the Cleveland Botanical Garden, founded in 1930. The garden launched an ambitious campaign in 1994 that supports an enhanced program agenda and a renovated garden building designed by Graham Gund Architects. Opened to the public in 2003, the Glass House is the centerpiece of the $50 million expansion, an 18,000-square-foot home to plant and animal life from two separate biomes, the desert of Madagascar and the cloud forest of Costa Rica. They feature more than 350 species of plants and 50 species of animals, including hundreds of butterflies.

I enjoyed the dry, spiny desert of the Madagascar area and lost myself in the clouds of Costa Rica. The desert section sprouted alien-looking Baobab trees,

succulents and Sam — the free-roaming chameleon with his Lobster Boy hands and googly eyes. The rainforest is filled with lush greenery, including a colossal strangler fig, avocado, coffee and papaya trees.

As instructed, I stood very still and soon a luminous blue butterfly landed square on top of my head. This place is enchantment personified.

Outside, there are 10 acres of gardens, including Japanese, herb, rose and topiary, among several others. Kids helped design the outdoor Hershey Children’s Garden, perhaps explaining its booming popularity. There’s a treehouse, hidden paths winding through tall grasses and a spurting fountain that blows mist. Many of the plants in the area attract native caterpillars, butterflies and birds, so there’s a good chance for close encounters.

When you’re the city credited with coining the phrase “rock ’n’ roll,” it’s a given that you know cool music. Appropriately, Cleveland is home to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a one-of-a-kind museum that showcases the largest collection of rock artifacts in the world. Located on the shores of Lake Erie, the museum archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and other notable figures who have had a major influence on the development of rock ’n’ roll. The Hall of Fame Foundation was established in 1983 by Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun and has now expanded on its original concept to include artifacts from artists’ lives, performances and songwriting; also handwritten drafts of hit songs, instruments used in concert and, strangely enough, more than one rocker’s personalized pinball machine. The exhibition “Legends of Rock” runs the gamut of rock ’n’ roll history from Diana Ross and The Supremes to The Allman Brothers to Blondie. It covers the era’s idols in depth.

For example, it boasts the largest artifact-based Beatles collection in the world, spanning John Lennon’s elementary school report cards to the drum kit Ringo Starr played at their last official concert.

But then, as the song says, “Cleveland Rocks.”

For more, visit thisiscleveland.com.

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GETTING THERE (BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE DOES)

BY JEREMY WAYNE

’m a travel writer by trade and a fashion writer by extension, since travel and fashion are inextricably linked.

How so? Fashion, in terms of travel, is as much about where to go as what to wear, and the travel writer’s trick is to identify what place is about to be fashionable and then write about it before every other travel writer does. Austin, Texas, Costa Rica and Tuscany may be fashionable places to travel to right now, but no self-respecting travel writer wants to write about them. It’s way too late, you see.

Fashion in travel moves on quickly and is unforgiving. Does anyone still go to once-fashionable Phi Phi in Thailand, to Siem Reap in Cambodia or to Goa, India? I’ll answer that question for you. Of course they do, but not because those places are fashionable. Only because they are ancient, or beautiful or simply take your breath away. Or perhaps a combination of all three.

Some destinations defy fashion. Paris, New York City and San Francisco will always be fashionable, in the sense that fashionable things are always going on in those cities, but we don’t feel we have to visit them immediately to see them at their zenith, before they fall from grace — before everyone moves on to the next big thing. In other words, they are not going to go out of fashion any time soon. Like heaven, great cities can wait.

The secret, as I said, is to get in early. Here are some of the world’s most fashionable travel destinations over the past few decades and the year in which you would have had to discover them to be truly fashionable yourself — Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (1945); Marbella, Spain (1950); Mustique, St. Vincent and The Grenadines (1960); Marrakesh, Morocco (1964); Tulum, Mexico (1988). All of them earlier than one might have thought, no? Fashion in travel gets on with the job, doesn’t wait around. The French Riviera came into fashion in the 1830s, made smart

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by the very smart Lord Brougham, who built a villa in Cannes. When the Scott Fitzgeralds arrived in the south of France in the 1920s, though the Riviera was still fashionable, they were hardly pioneers.

So what’s moving into fashion? Croatia got a fillip from the World Cup — and its Dalmatian coast is breathtakingly lovely. Go now, while there’s still room to spread a beach towel. And Ljubljana, the capital of neighboring Slovenia, is having a moment. So is Ischia, Capri’s not so little sister island in the Mediterranean. In Asia, Bhutan is still hot and getting hotter, but its tourism is carefully controlled by a visitors’ tax, which puts off all but the wealthiest or most dedicated travel fashionista. I’ll bet my bottom rupee it will be a fashionable place to go for some time to come.

Also please note, the moon will be coming into its own around 2020. Contact Elon Musk for details.

Where is it stylish to travel to is of course another question. A well-thumbed coffee table book, “Travel in Vogue,” published 20 years ago, still has pride of place on my bookshelf (since I don’t have a coffee table). It’s a compilation of travel articles and stories by well-known writers or celebrities, gathered from the pages of Vogue over the previous century. I never tire of reading Cecil Beaton’s musings on Baghdad, Truman Capote’s tittle-tattling about Tangier or (onetime “Men’s Vogue” editor) Geoffrey Aquilina Ross’s insider’s take on St. Tropez. Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s 2011 book “The Eye Has to Travel,” a biography of her husband’s grandmother, the great Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor Diana Vreeland, goes a step further, showing how travel is the inspiration for style, and how traveling helps us sharpen and refine our own particular aesthetic sense.

Fashion in travel is also linked to, but can remain independent of bragging rights, which are acquired through travel to places which are not only fashionable to some degree, but also carry a certain element of exclusivity, often associated with inaccessibility or even danger. The incomparably exquisite

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Isfahan in Iran, or exotic and mysterious Zanzibar in Tanzania both carry top-tier bragging rights, as does a trip to Western Samoa (although sad to say Aggie Grey’s, that legendary hostelry of the South Seas, is now a Sheraton.) Something I forgot to mention earlier, by the way — if you’re thinking of signing up for a moon trip, do it quickly, because my prediction is that by the middle of the next decade, the moon is going to feel terribly, terribly last year.

Bragging rights work historically, too. Throwaway lines like “We always flew Concorde” or “I was in Berlin the night the wall came down” are always good for engaging the most taciturn guest at a cocktail party. An audience with the pope is also super-braggable, as is hosting a dinner party in the crater of Mount Vesuvius. A visit to the Galápagos Islands is less braggable than it used to be but is still up there, especially if conducted by private yacht (and better still with the Clooneys on board).

Bucket lists are quite another matter: I have places on mine that are neither fashionable nor remotely stylish, but they’re still spots I’d like to see before shuffling off this mortal coil. One is Kashmir, in northern India, and another is Palermo, in Sicily, which I’m told is one of Italy’s most atmospheric, most vibrant cities. The Falkland Islands, those barren, windswept microdots in the middle of the South Atlantic, which Argentina went to war with Britain over in 1982, also beckon, for no good reason other I’d like to say I’ve been. Ironically, war and travel make good bedfel-

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Above photo: Palermo Cathedral, Sicily. Courtesy Nuovosud. Below photo: Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Courtesy Amazing Wallpapers.

lows. I’d like to see the First World War battlefields of the Somme some day too. Hardly fashionable, hardly stylish — but surely salutary.

Still having difficulty sorting the wheat from the chaff, the stylish from the merely fashionable?

Here are some pointers. Cape Verde (300 miles off the coast of Senegal) is entirely unfashionable but strikes me as a very stylish place, on account of its Creole-Portuguese-African culture and traditional morna-music. In Spain’s Balearic islands, Ibiza is still fashionable but no longer very stylish, while its

neighbor, tiny Formentera, is downright stylish but not (yet) very fashionable.

St. Barth’s in the Caribbean is both fashionable and stylish. But just to throw a spanner in the works, for every well-off haut-bourgeois Parisien who air kisses and calls it paradise, there are thousands of grounded, wealthy Americans who would rather vacation in Atlantic City than be subjected to le snobisme of the French or the hauteur of the St. Barth’s shopkeepers.

Make up your own mind — and just be sure to take some well-loaded plastic.

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PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS

BY GINA GOUVEIA

he luxury Ritz-Carlton brand has long been associated with high style, so when The Ritz-Carlton New York, Westchester opened its doors back in 2007, it was a welcome addition to the city of White Plains, located just across from the fountain, off Main Street in Renaissance Square.

The city had not enjoyed a luxury hotel presence since the late 1980s when La Reserve Hotel, an allsuite plush property with a chic restaurant, Corniche,

Mini lobster rolls with waffle fries and lemon brûlée.

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and its celebrity clientele enjoyed its heyday.

Tall, handsome and modern, the Westchester location is a formidable presence in the skyline of downtown with its two gleaming towers — one housing luxury residences, the other elegant guest rooms and suites — upscale dining choices, meeting and banquet spaces, a destination spa and an indoor swimming pool.

The Ritz, then, is a popular destination not only for accommodations, but for quality dining experiences. BLT Steak does a bustling business off the lobby, while the rooftop space with its views to Manhattan has been rebranded as Konapi, catering to private events only. Both of these operations are outside the realm of The Ritz-Carlton's food and beverage operations, allowing management to focus all its attention on the elegant Lobby Lounge, banquets — mostly occurring on the second-floor event space — and in-room dining.

What makes The Lobby Lounge so appealing and popular with hotel guests, the neighboring residences and Westchester locals is the flexibility it affords with its all-day dining concept, serving from early morning until 11 p.m. Its cozy and comfortable dining area features soft seating, low and traditional tables and the warm glow of a glass-walled fireplace, its centerpiece installation. Equally comfortable for dining alone throughout the day or gathering with colleagues at the newly installed bar, it’s easily accessible right off the lobby and its graceful service staff, true to its brand, is made up of kind, attentive and polished professionals.

Future plans could bring further enhancements to the dining space but for now, everything runs just

as it should under the leadership of executive chef James Dangler, sous chef Lia Buffa and food and beverage manager Manu Manikandan. A leisurely Sunday evening dining experience was full-stop wonderful and showcased the quality of ingredients and high degree of execution by this talented team.

The meal began, as it should, with a specialty seasonal cocktail, an updated take on the classic melon ball with fresh juices and just the right amount of sweetness. There was also a Pimm’s Cup classic — the interior of the glass wrapped with thinly sliced cucumber and elegantly garnished. A fine beverage program pays attention to these details, serving up not only visually appealing but tasteful cocktails in addition to fine choices for wines, craft beers and a full line of spirits and cordials.

Because of its easy format and flexible hours, The Lobby Lounge affords its clientele many options, from nibbles and smaller plates to more substantial dishes. As for our “tasting menu,” the kitchen did not disappoint with its artfully crafted and well-executed takes on lobster rolls, glazed chicken wings, roasted lamb and a vegetarian dish of cauliflower steak with roasted summer vegetables and capers — my personal favorite. For dessert and throughout the meal, great care was taken by the kitchen to accommodate specialty dietary requests of our twosome — OK, me -- so I was able to enjoy a delightful, chocolate olive oil cake with dairy-free, vanilla bean ice cream.

I spoke recently with chef Dangler, who was part of the opening team for the hotel 10 years ago and has been back on-property for about a year now, rebuilding his team and breathing new life into the menus, vibe and experience at this downtown hub.

He refers to the “scenography” that is part of every Ritz-Carlton, playing off of regional cuisines and influences. As the staff prepares to transition to a fall/ winter menu just after this year’s autumnal equinox on Sept. 22, diners can expect to see modern and innovative takes on fall classics with some international influences. In fact, Dangler has just returned from a Barcelona opening, I learn, so we can only hope for some influences to appear on the menu from that food-happy region.

“We take the approach every day that people may have been here once or twice,” Dangler tells me, “and we have repositioned not only the menus but the timeliness of service, which is so key in that area. As a result, we’re seeing positive scores for food and beverage at the property, so guests are acknowledging it.”

Clearly, The Ritz is upping its game and adding to the vibrancy that always existed in the space, but just needed a bit of reinvention.

Fall will also showcase the return of live music in the form of local musicians who bring their jazzy sounds to the space every Thursday evening. As the leaves start to change in the Westchester hills, reflecting off these chic towers, now permanent fixtures on the scene, we have ample reason to revisit this local gem and enjoy its fine food and drinks and that lively lobby scene.

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ISO JAPANESE IS READY FOR ITS CLOSE-UP STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEESIA FORNI

here’s a change happening in Yonkers, a change that’s been ongoing for more than a decade now.

New developments have been shooting up along the Hudson River, transforming the waterfront landscape from its industrial past to a series of luxury apartment towers. Where once sat a weed-covered vacant lot is today the home of a series of elevated walkways that give viewers a glimpse of the newly uncovered Saw Mill River, which previously ran underneath the

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bustling city. Recent years have seen the unveiling of green space at Van der Donck Park in the city’s downtown and new restaurants or breweries popping up across the city.

Yonkers’ transformation is also apparent in another section of town, where developers have turned a long-neglected property at 1086 N. Broadway in the northwest section of the city into a bustling mixed-use development.

The Boyce Thompson Center, an 85,000-squarefoot former nonprofit horticultural research center, sat vacant for 40 years before Simone Development Cos. gave the property an extreme facelift. A

fountain-adorned front plaza gives visitors a view of the revamped center’s new tenants, ranging from Westmed to Starbucks. Trendy eateries like The Taco Project and Fortina have opened their doors in recent months.

The 7-acre complex is also home to ISO Japanese Cuisine, a sleek, understated restaurant that opened in June and takes up residence in a corner of the brick building.

As part of the renovations, much of the interior of the nearly 90-year-old building was gutted, though the existing brick remains, paying tribute to the long history of the structure. Exposed pipes and indus-

Clockwise from top left: Kobe meatballs on a bed of spinach; a sushi and sashimi platter; blue crab fajitas; and a California roll and a chicken tempura roll.

trial fixtures can be found on the ceiling, though the undoubted focal point of the restaurant is the floor-to-ceiling, black-and-white photograph of two elegant geishas, their lips a deeper shade, their hair pinned up with intricate accessories.

It’s early on a weekend day, but there are a number of patrons sitting outdoors, seeking shade while enjoying cocktails or beers at patio tables. We head inside and grab a seat at one of the dark wooden booths situated near the large windows.

Because of the scorching heat, we quickly order drinks and are soon presented with a trio of cocktails. A passion fruit concoction is perfect for the summer months, while those less inclined to enjoy sweeter drinks will likely find their match in the lychee martini. Wine and beer are also available.

Service is prompt and polite, and it doesn’t take long for our table to be presented with our first dish.

Blue crab fajitas are a hit with our crowd, bringing together an onion cream and cheese in a bite-sized

slice. In another appetizer, thin slices of sea bass are drizzled with a breathtaking truffle vinaigrette.

Other starter highlights include a plate of fresh oysters, an order of rock shrimp tempura served with a side salad and Kobe meatballs with balsamic glaze.

Slightly more adventurous eaters might enjoy the fried shrimp head. Though I pass on sampling what our server tells us is a delicacy, the diner who did sample the shrimp head — my fiancé — will later say it was his favorite part of the meal.

For me, the real standout is the toro tartare, both beautiful and flavorful, served with crispy balls of fried rice that are crunchy on the outside, slightly sticky on the inside.

Sushi options are plentiful and we select a varied array, all of which are not only delicious but artfully presented.

A classic California roll is plated next to an eye-catching chicken tempura. A Yonkers roll brings

together tuna and avocado topped with crunchy salmon and miso sauce, while a spicy tuna roll lives up to its name, packing a pleasant punch.

A sushi and sashimi platter for one features nine pieces of sashimi, five pieces of sushi and a tuna avocado roll, served alongside a choice of miso soup or small green salad. Like all other dishes we’re served during our meal, plating and presentation are simply stunning, worthy of any avid Instagrammer’s attention.

For dessert, you can’t go wrong with the chocolate lava cake, a petite serving of warm cake with a liquid center, paired with creamy vanilla ice cream.

When our meal has finished, we head outside and can’t help ourselves but snap a selfie in front of the beautiful fountain, the brick-walled building as our backdrop.

It seems that the refashioned Boyce Thompson Center and its tasty tenants are ready their close-up.

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WINE AT THE ‘CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE’ STORY AND PHOTOGRAPH

BY DOUG PAULDING

traveled recently to the center of the universe, so to speak, on a cosmic wine media trip and came back more than a little changed. Salvador Dalí was born, lived and died in France near the Roussillon capital city of Perpignan and declared the city of Perpignan, actually Perpignan’s train station, to be the “center of the universe.’ Roussillon is the largest sweet wine producing area in France. When you think of sweet wines of France, Sauternes, a sub-appellation of Bordeaux, immediately comes to mind. But Roussillon,

in the South of France — nestled amid the Pyrennees mountains, the Mediterranean Sea and the Spanish border — could well be the center of the universe of sweet wine production in France.

Languedoc-Roussillon is the largest wine production area by hectares and production volume. They are usually lumped together at tastings and in stores and on wine lists. But they are two distinctly different areas. The Languedoc region has its own culture and history and language while the Roussillon wine producers are much more affiliated with Spain’s Catalan culture. Several years ago at a winery in Roussillon, the owner was telling stories about culture and language. I asked if he considered himself more French or more Catalan. He looked at me in disbelief and said, emphatically, “Catalan, bien sur.” Of course.

The region of Roussillon was passed around between French protectorates and Spanish kingdoms for generations. When all the noble marriages for acquisition of terrain and influence settled out and all the battles for dominance ended, a treaty drew the line between France and Spain. But the Catalan culture and language, although banned for centuries, persists on both sides of the border. Geographically, then, Roussillon is a narrow region defined by physical boundaries — the mountains, the sea and the border. Despite being more southerly, Roussillon is considerably higher in altitude than the Languedoc region, which makes it ideal for wine production. There are three west-to-east flowing rivers from the mountains to the sea — l’Agly, la Têt

An all-stone vineyard of the Banyuls wine region in Roussillon in southern France, near the Spanish border, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

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and le Tech — that have carved out valleys and rifts and ideal vineyard sites.

Banyuls and Coullioure are two steeply ascendant adjacent wine districts in Roussillon overlooking the Mediterranean, with the Maury region more to the north. We drove through these wine regions and took long walks up in the hills overlooking the sea.

There the vineyards are unique. Most vineyards of the world have to figure out a solution to the weeds between the rows. Excepting the foliage on the vines, these vineyards are devoid of plant life. The ground and the surface is all rock of various types, ranging from schist to granite to iron-laden ores. They contribute flavor and a certain minerality to that overall quality known as terroir. If you pick up a small stone from a rolling river and put it in your mouth, there is an austere, stony flavor you can taste. The same thing happens with grapes. The growing medium has a distinct contribution to the ultimate flavor of the wine.

The Roussillon region makes flavorful reds and lovely whites, both with structure, texture and elegance. Despite its winemakers being known for generations as bulk-wine producers, they have learned that attention to detail matters if they want to up their game. More appropriate vine selection for the site, reducing grape yields per acre, better organic or sustainable farming practices and better winemaking skills has elevated Roussillon wines to a respectable place.

But for me the sweet wines of Roussillon, got my attention, along with the process are known as vin doux naturels or sweet natural wines. These wines are not subjected to botrytis, the fungus called the noble rot for which Sauternes is known. Nor is sugar added to contribute to the sweetness. The grapes are picked, pressed and fermented and, at a point in the process, the fermentation is arrested by adding a grape-derived distilled spirit. This keeps some of the sugars in the juice and the added spirit bumps up the alcohol levels to 15.5 percent alcohol by volume. This is considerably less alcohol than the Ports and Madeiras of Portugal and the sherries of Jerez, Spain. The regional rules require certain percentages of grapes and minimum oak aging times to get the better titles such as Grand Vin. The vin doux naturels and the Rivesaltes wines made from Grenache Blanc, Noir or Gris, and then brought to a wonderful level through judicious oak aging are worth looking for. You will likely have to special order them as I haven’t yet found them in the U.S., but they can be ordered. A few noteworthy producers I found are Domaine Cazes, Domaine Singla, Domaine Villeneuve, Gerard Bertrand, Domaine Dom Brial and Château Les Pins. Some of these wines are intentionally oxidized to give a hint of sherry-type flavors. This trip to the Roussillon showed me these impressive wines can now stand alone.

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WELL

BY PHIL HALL

hen Alex Levchenko comes into an examining room, he is usually wearing a white jacket bearing his name and the acronym “DO.” He admits that he is frequently asked what “DO” is doing on his jacket — it stands for doctor of osteopathic medicine, which often leads to another question: What is the difference between DO and MD? “There are two branches of medicine,” he explains. “There is the allopathic branch (MD) and the osteopathic branch (DO). Oddly enough, the DO branch was started by an MD in the 1800s.

He was getting frustrated that the options he had for treating patients were very limited, and he felt treating the whole patient was better than treating one particular symptom. DO is a more holistic approach. Now, they are pretty much the same. Fullfledged physicians view the patient as a total rather than just isolated symptoms, although a doctor with a DO gets extra training on musculoskeletal issues.”

Levchenko is a board-certified, fellowship-trained physician based at Orthopaedic & Neurosurgery Specialists (ONS), a medical center with offices in Stamford, Greenwich and Harrison. His specialty is the nonoperative treatment of spine, joint and muscle pain, but his approach to this work is framed within a sincerity that cannot be skimmed from a textbook. For example, when asked if he has heard complaints from elderly patients about doctors who treat older patients with unsympathetic attitudes or worse, he glumly acknowledges, “Unfortunately, I have” — and he immediately adds that such behavior is not welcomed at ONS. “Our practice prides itself on being compassionate,” he says. “We run on time, so patients don’t come and wait for hours. We think compassionate care is the key. We look at you as a human being and not just a part of the body.”

Levchenko’s interest in all things medical took root during his childhood in Soviet Russia. “My parents were teachers,” he recalls. “My mom was teaching high school biology and my dad was teaching music. We had a huge library at home.

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older I got, I knew that is what I wanted to be.”

In 1994, the 19-year-old Levchenko had the opportunity to pursue medical studies in the U.S. He was grateful to pursue studies away from the political upheaval that followed the collapse of the Soviet system and Boris Yeltsin’s raucous presidency.

“It was an interesting time — a turbulent time in Russia,” he says. “I was lucky to be presented with an opportunity to come here.”

Levchenko attended college at New York University and medical school at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury. His residency

“My parents were teachers. My mom was teaching high school biology and my dad was teaching music.

We had a huge library at home. From the time I was a kid I was always interested in that. By the age of 12, I covered the whole high school curriculum. We were given an assignment at school to write about who we want to be.

I decided medicine would be the best route for me. The older I got, I knew that is what I wanted to be” — Alex Levchenko

took place in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department at New York University Langone Medical Center and his fellowship in the Orthopaedic Sports and Spine Rehabilitation Department of Mount Sinai Hospital. At ONS, he averages 100 patients per week, shuttling between the center’s three locations. “My schedule is very interesting and it is never stale,” he says.

One trend that Levchenko is seeing with greater frequency involves injuries affecting middle and high school athletes, which he blames on approaching sports with too much gusto and not enough planning. “A lot of the kids nowadays — and also the parents, everyone so competitive — really push too hard,” he explains. “And by concentrating on one sport, it is easy to get injured early.”

At the other end of the spectrum are patients who are anything but athletic: The desk jockeys who rarely rise above their office workspaces and look away from their computers. When asked if he agreed with the popular comment that “sitting is the new cancer,” Levchenko responds without pause, “100 percent. Our body was not designed for sitting.” He adds that he always provides counsel on how to avoid health issues arising from too much chair time.

“Besides the musculoskeletal problems that sitting can cause, I always tell my patients — lumbar support,” he says. “Lumbar, lumbar, lumbar, support. When you are sitting in a chair, make sure you get one with lumbar support. If it doesn’t have it, put a little pillow in the small of your back. When you are seated, there is pressure on your discs — and if you do it day in and day out, you wind up with some degenerative changes in your back. And one other thing: We are not moving a lot or exercising, so people end up with metabolic diseases like diabetes. All of that comes from inactivity. Not only does it give you back pain and neck pain but all sorts of other problems.”

Off hours, Levchenko still finds himself on call: His 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter enjoys playing patient to her father’s happy diagnoses. However, he wonders whether he would be actively encouraging her to follow in his footsteps.

“Would I want her to go into medicine?” he asks.

“You have to like it. If you don’t like it, you’re going to be miserable. The days are long and, after you see the patients, you have to deal with paperwork and phone calls. If you’re unhappy in any field, you get bitter — and bitter and medicine don’t mix.”

For more, visit onsmd.com.

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HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW

BY KELLY DUNNING

f I prayed as much as I plucked,” talk show veteran Kathie Lee Gifford wrote in her memoir, “I’d be the Dalai Lama.” Fortunately, today’s laser treatments open up much more time for nonplucking pursuits. The advances in laser hair removal that have occurred over the last 20 years allow us to put aside the tweezers — for good.

Since the early lasers of the 1990s, the technology has been refined so that there is a range of options, suitable for all skin tones and hair types — and with increasing power to reduce hair permanently from those places we don’t want it.

Lasers work by damaging the hair follicle, which is completely different from the superficial and temporary removal achieved by plucking, waxing or shaving.

The range of today’s laser hair removal options makes it more important than ever that patients are fully informed. Laser technology available at Advanced Dermatology PC, includes the Ellman Cheveux II Diode, the Apogee, the GentleLASE, the Gemini, the Lyra and the Soprano — each with varied characteristics best suited to different clients’ needs.

To understand the latest laser hair removal options, I’ve provided answers to common questions: Why choose lasers and not electrolysis?

Studies on laser hair removal underscore the overwhelming levels of satisfaction, with rates of almost 100 percent for people who choose lasers for hair removal. That’s nearly 30 percentage points higher than electrolysis. Lasers can treat a much more extensive area, much more quickly, and can also achieve long-lasting results.

Which laser is right for me? At this point, there are many different laser options. These options allow for a personalized approach, depend-

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ing on a client’s skin tone and hair type, as well as the area to be treated. The growing range of options makes it especially important to work with an experienced technician who can explain the choices and recommend the most effective laser hair treatment for you.

Why do I need more than one treatment?

Lasers work by damaging growing hair follicles. Because our hair follicles’ growth cycles vary, multiple treatments are needed so that all of the follicles in a given area are treated during their early growing period. At this point, advances in laser technology allow us to achieve results with fewer treatments — typically in five to nine sessions. The number of sessions varies depending on individual characteristics, including hair type and treatment area. It’s important for clients to talk with their technician to gain a clear understanding of how many sessions may be needed for optimal results.

How much does it hurt and how long does it take? Part of the attraction of laser hair removal is everything it’s not. It’s not invasive, it’s not painful and it’s not time-consuming. The time required for the procedure is quite short. A small

area, such as above the lip, takes minutes, while a larger area like the back takes longer. The ability to treat multiple hair follicles quickly is part of the advantage of laser hair removal.

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att Osborne has been a colleague and friend of mine for many years. He is a 12-year veteran of the health and fitness industry and currently runs Three Lions Health and Fitness, a private personal training practice in New Canaan. He holds bachelor and master’s degrees in exercise science and is also nationally certified as an athletic trainer, strength and conditioning specialist and personal trainer.

He is a former Division 1 soccer player with George Washington University, where he was recently inducted into its Athletic Hall of Fame, and a former professional player in the USL Pro-Select League.

Matt's son, Spencer, is an academy soccer player with Beachside of Connecticut and has also represented Next Gen USA at the Iber Cup in Denmark.

As a high-level athlete, full-time fitness coach and father of three, I could think of no one better to tackle the subject of youth sports today.

What advice would you give to parents who want their children to excel athletically?

“I think the more important question to answer here is what does excelling athletically actually mean to you? If excelling athletically means being the next LeBron James or the next Cristiano Ronaldo, I think a lot of parents will ultimately be destined for disappointment. Realistically, the likelihood of your child being an athlete of this caliber is probably similar to winning the lottery.

“As a parent, I think it's more important to create an environment for your children where athletic excellence revolves more around having a healthy relationship with sport and exercise, where your kids participate, develop and have fun in a pressure- and judgment-free atmosphere. In my experience, elite athletes are born not made and, in this type of environment, they'll naturally gravitate, based on their own successes and failures, toward the sport that's the best expression of their ability.”

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Fitness coach Matt Osborne, left, and his son, Spencer Osborne, right, who stars at youth soccer. Matt watches his son at play, always stressing that moderation is a key to success. Photographs courtesy Matt Osborne.

What are some of the biggest mistakes you think are being made in youth sports today?

“Not just in youth sports, but in a lot of life's endeavors, I think people fall prey to a ‘more-is-more’ mentality, where they believe the more they do, the better they'll become. In my opinion, this belief has trickled down to youth sports, manifesting as more practices, more games and more strength and conditioning sessions, all of which lead to more overall volume. Volume is the product of frequency, intensity and duration and, if it's not managed appropriately, it can ultimately lead to over-training and injury.

“The rise in adolescent sports-related injury is extremely concerning and in my opinion goes hand in hand with the ‘more-is-more’ mentality with children being exposed to training frequencies, intensities and duration that they're not physically and/or mentally prepared for. In my opinion, club teams and school teams should be adopting a ‘quality-over-quantity’ approach to their training methods in order to decrease over-training and reduce injury prevalence.”

What is your take on sports specialization and year-round sport training?

“At a young age, sports specialization and yearround sport training play into the aforementioned ‘more-is-more’ mentality. My son, Spencer, is an advanced soccer player and could easily play four to five times per week throughout the year, but I ensure he takes several months off from the sport in the summer, as well as plenty of smaller breaks throughout the year in order to minimize burnout and prevent injury. In the summer he attends a sleep-away camp that offers a broad range of sports and activities to develop the facets of his athletic ability that soccer otherwise neglects.

“At young ages, it is highly beneficial for a child's

all-round physical and kinesiological development to participate in a variety of sports. Different sports develop different skills and movement competencies, which in the long term will create a more well-rounded athlete.

“Obviously there comes a point in a child's sports career where if they have the ability to pursue a sport at the collegiate or professional level, specialization is the next logical step. However, it is my opinion that exposing children to a wide variety of athletic stimuli at younger ages builds a stronger foundation for an older specialized athlete.”

How have you as a parent been able to manage your own health while helping raise three children and working a job?

“I must admit, the logistics of having three children and a job could potentially make it very easy to neglect my own personal health and wellness, and I've found that the key to everything is scheduling and preparation. In terms of scheduling, this is extremely important when it comes to making time for my own workouts. At the beginning of the week, I look ahead at my upcoming schedule to see where my windows of opportunity are for exercise.

Once I've scheduled my workout sessions, I will not take on additional responsibilities that could hinder my chances of following through.

“From a nutritional standpoint, preparation is the key to success, with the main focus being to make sure my fridges and freezers are stocked with all the necessary items to facilitate quick and healthy meal preparation. Finally, getting an adequate amount of sleep is a key component of my health routine. Ensuring I get seven to nine hours of sleep per night is a critical component of my recovery and rejuvenation strategy.”

Reach Giovanni on Twitter @GiovanniRoselli and at his website, GiovanniRoselli.com.

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ARCHBISHOP STEPINAC HIGH SCHOOL

950 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, N.Y. 10605 914-946-4800 // stepinac.org Top administrator: Thomas Collins, president Open house dates: Sunday, Oct. 28, 1-4 p.m.

• The College Board's Advanced Placement AP Capstone™ Diploma Program, making Stepinac among a small number of high schools that will participate in this innovative program that helps prepares students to sharpen their critical learning skills needed for post-secondary success.

• Live streaming of home games of championship Crusaders varsity sports teams and other special events via LocalLive, the Stamford-based innovative digital video company • The groundbreaking Honors Academy will begin its third year with top students pursuing focused studies ins engineering, health science, finance and law.

• And to make commuting to Stepinac more convenient, three new private bus transportation pick-up points have been added at the Tarrytown, Stamford and Greenwich Metro North stations

BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY OF CONNECTICUT

2186 High Ridge Road, Stamford, Conn. 06903 203-329-2186 // bcds.org Top administrator: Jacqueline Herman Open house dates: Sunday, Nov. 4; Early childhood 10 a.m. – noon, high school 1:30 p.m.

Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy (BCHA) is the product of a recent merger between Bi-Cultural Day School, a U.S. Department of Education 2017 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, and the highly acclaimed Jewish High School of Connecticut. BCHA is dedicated to nurturing a love of learning through a child-centered program with individualized support and differentiated instruction to meet each child’s individual needs and interests.

A dynamic dual curriculum challenges and inspires every student and is rooted in Torah values, a love of Israel, a legacy of community service, and a commitment to imparting the beauty of our Jewish heritage. BCHA welcomes families from across the Jewish spectrum while guided by Modern Orthodoxy.

BRUNSWICK SCHOOL

100 Maher Ave., Greenwich, Conn. 06830 203-625-5800 // brunswickschool.org Top administrator: Thomas Philip Open house dates: Please call school for details.

Brunswick School has been defined and distinguished for nearly 120 years by its commitment to “Courage, Honor, Truth.” The school offers rigorous academics, including an advanced science-research and computer science program, more than 30 advanced-placement courses and a permanent off-campus wilderness education and applied-classroom-learning program in Randolph, Vermont.

It also offers comprehensive arts, drama and music — and a language program that includes instruction in Arabic, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Italian, Latin and Greek.

THE CHAPEL SCHOOL

172 White Plains Road, Bronxville, N.Y. 10708 914-337-3202 // thechapelschool.org Top administrator: Michael Schultz, principal Open house dates: Tuesday, Oct. 2, 7-8:30 p.m for preschool; Sunday, Oct. 14, 1-2:30 p.m. for lower school (grades k-5); Sunday, Oct. 28, 1-2:30 p.m. for middle school (grades 6-8) CONTINUE ON PAGE 118

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In its 72nd year, The Chapel School continues to offer academic excellence and expanding extracurricular programs, including service learning, music with Concordia Conservatory faculty; National Junior Honor Society, select choir, band, dramas and musicals, golf, basketball, cross country and track.

FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL OF NEW YORK

Pre-school 85 Palmer Ave., Scarsdale, N.Y. 10583 914-250-0521 Elementary School 111 Larchmont Ave., Larchmont, N.Y. 10538 914-250-0469 Middle and High School 145 New St., Mamaroneck, N.Y. 10543 914-250-0451 fasny.org Top administrator: Joël Peinado Open house dates: Please call school for details.

A Westchester County independent, coed nursery through grade 12 day school, FASNY’s unique bilingual curriculum, open to non-French speakers from nursery to kindergarten and from ninth to 12th grades, ensures students acquire academic fluency, mental flexibility and open mindedness, key in tomorrow’s world. Double language immersion in preschool brings children to bilingualism, a ninth through 10th grade all-English International Program culminates in an 11th grade IB track, tailored to rising bilingual FASNY students, local nonFrench speakers and qualified international students.

FUSION ACADEMY FAIRFIELD 2150 Post Road, Suite 304, Fairfield, Conn. 06824 475-888-9256 // fusionfairfield.com Top administrator: Amanda Sylvester Open house dates: Tuesday, Oct. 30, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

FUSION ACADEMY GREENWICH 66 Gatehouse Road, Stamford, Conn. 06902 203-323-2191 // fusiongreenwich.com Top administrator: Maggie Roche Open house dates: Wednesday, Sept. 19, 6-8 p.m. and Wednesday, Oct. 10, at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

FUSION ACADEMY WESTCHESTER 701 Westchester Ave., Suite 200E, White Plains, N.Y. 10604 914-285-9036 // fusionwestchester.com Top administrator: Stephanie Gold Open house dates: Please call school for details.

THE HARVEY SCHOOL 260 Jay St., Katonah, N.Y. 10536 914-232-3161 // harveyschool.org Top administrator: Bill Knauer Open house dates: Saturday, Oct. 20, 9 a.m.

IONA PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Lower School, grades K-8 173 Stratton Road, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804 917-699-7744

Upper School, grades 9-12 255 Wilmot Road, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804 ionaprep.org Top administrator: Brother Thomas Leto Open house dates: Grades 9-12: Sunday, Oct. 21, 12-3 p.m.; Wednesday, Oct. 24, 6-8 p.m.; Grades PK-4-8: Thursday, Oct. 25, 6-8 p.m.

Westchester’s only all-boys, K-12 Catholic school has been preparing young men for success for more than 100 years. Rigorous academics with three levels of study, a personalized and comprehensive school counseling and college advisement program, unique Christian service and leadership opportunities locally, nationally and internationally, championship athletics and an array of activities provide students with the foundation for success in college and in life. An Iona Prep education is an investment that reaps dividends—78 percent of seniors attain academic scholarships to college, with nearly $30 million earned in merit-based scholarships and an average scholarship offer of roughly $60,000. Come for a visit and see the Iona Prep Difference for yourself.

KING SCHOOL

1450 Newfield Ave., Stamford, Conn. 06805 203-322-3496 // kingschoolct.org Top administrator: Karen E. Eshoo Open house dates: Grades 6-11: Sunday, Oct. 14, 1-4 p.m.

Grades PK-5: Sunday, Nov. 4, 1-4 p.m.

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Boarding and Day for Boys Grades 8-12 / Postgraduate

Join us at our OPEN HOUSE on October 8 or November 10, 2018!

Active, engaged, and out of their seats — this is how boys at Trinity-Pawling experience learning.

Our distinctive programs bolster the way boys learn best: by doing.

As experts in boys’ education, we understand how to guide our students to become young men of integrity who can rise to the challenges of an ever-changing world.

This educational experience could make all the difference in your son’s future.

Learn more about the benefits of a Trinity-Pawling education at www.trinitypawling.org

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Engaged Minds. Meaningful Connections. Be inspired in a community that unites academic challenge, kindness, and personal growth. We provide an excellent, progressive preK- grade 12 education, grounded in the traditional disciplines of the arts and sciences, committed to the nurturing of individual potential and designed to promote critical thinking and reasoned reflection.

MARIA REGINA HIGH SCHOOL

500 W. Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale, N.Y. 10530 914-761-3300 // mariaregina.org Top administrator: Valerie Reidy Open house dates: Saturday, Oct. 27, noon to 4 p.m.

Since its founding in 1957, Maria Regina High School has been a distinguished leader in education for young women, providing a rigorous learning environment and strong social and moral guidance in a faith-based tradition. Celebrating more than 60 years of excellence, MRHS is committed to the values of scholarship, Service and Spirit. We challenge young women to “FIND YOUR STRENGTH” intellectually, spiritually, athletically and through extracurriculars. By embracing the diverse personal, cultural and intellectual backgrounds of its students, MRHS develops young women so that they can make a significant contribution to their community and society.

THE MASTERS SCHOOL

49 Clinton Ave., Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. 10522 914-479-6400 // mastersny.org Top administrator: Laura Danforth Open house dates: Saturday, Oct. 20, 9 a.m. grades 5-8 and 1 p.m. grades 9-12

Founded in 1877, The Masters School is a leading co-ed day, 5-and 7-day boarding school for grades 5-12 located on a beautiful 96-acre campus. Masters is distinguished by its renowned teaching method, an accessible residential faculty and a welcoming and inclusive culture.

Students find their own voices through the school’s transformative seminar-style learning approach, which builds collaborative and confident learners. All students benefit from the boarding school environment featuring true global diversity (students from 30 countries) and a vibrant 24-7 campus life with the majority of faculty living on campus. The result is students who are empowered to realize their greatest potential across academic, athletic and artistic disciplines and emerge ready for success in college, career and life. Visit our Open House on October 20: grades 5-8 at 9 AM, grades 9-12 at 1 PM. To RSVP or learn more, contact us at admission@mastersny. org or 914-479-6420.

NOTRE DAME CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL 220 Jefferson St., Fairfield, Conn. 06825 203-372-6521 // notredame.org Top administrator: Christopher Cipriano Open house dates: Sunday, Oct. 21, 1:00 p.m.

OAKWOOD FRIENDS SCHOOL 22 Spackenhill Road, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12603 845-242-2340 // oakwoodfriends.org Top administrator: Chad Cianfrani Open house dates: Saturday, Nov. 10 and Sunday, Nov. 11, 12-2 p.m.

RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL

Lower School 325 W. Patent Road, Mount Kisco, N.Y. 10549 914-244-1200 Upper School 439 Cantitoe St., Bedford, N.Y. 10506 914-244-1250 rcsny.org Top administrator: Colm McMahon Open house dates: Thursday, Oct. 25, 6-7:30 p.m., lower school open house, grades PreK through four; Saturday, Nov. 17, 9 -11:30 a.m., all school open house, PreK through grade eight Rippowam Cisqua School ignites learning in prekindergarten through grade 9 students. Parents are drawn to RCS because of its unique ability to stretch, challenge and lift young minds. Strong student/teacher relationships are supported by small class sizes, flexible learning spaces and an immersive curriculum that integrates academics, arts, athletics, wellness and innovation. By cultivating their imagination through academic play, exploration, and discovery, students engage in joyful learning experiences that spark their intellectual curiosity and personal growth.

Graduates emerge as independent thinkers, confident communicators and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.

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FIND YOUR STRENGTH AT MARIA REGINA HIGH SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY. OCTOBER 27. 2018 FROM 12PM-4PM Strong Academic Program Strong Spiritual and Community Service Programs Strong Athletic and Extracurricular Programs

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RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL 3 Cedar St., Rye, N.Y. 10580 914-967-1417 // ryecountryday.org Top administrator: Scott A. Nelson Open house dates: Sunday, Oct. 14 at 1 p.m. for lower and middle school; Sunday, Oct. 28 at 1 p.m. for middle and upper school.

SACRED HEART GREENWICH 1177 King St., Greenwich, Conn. 06831 203-531-6500 // cshgreenwich.org Top administrator: Pamela Juan Hayes Open house dates: Thursday, Oct. 5, 9 a.m. to noon; Thursday, Nov. 2, 9 a.m. to noon; Thursday, Dec. 7, 9 a.m. to noon; Thursday, Jan. 11, 2019, 9 a.m. to noon

SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD

2225 Westchester Ave., Rye, N.Y. 10580 914-967-5622 // holychildrye.org Top administrator: Melissa Dan Open house dates: Saturday, Oct. 13, 1-4 p.m.

A college-preparatory school for girls, fifth grade through 12th grade, that strives to develop “women of conscience and action.” Accomplished and dedicated faculty members foster the spiritual development, individual talents and interests of each student. This is realized through rigorous and comprehensive academic, arts, athletics, service and global programs.

SOUNDVIEW PREPARATORY SCHOOL

370 Underhill Ave., Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598 914-962-2780 // soundviewprep.org Top administrator: Ken Cotrone Open house dates: Sunday, Oct. 14, all day Soundview Preparatory School is an independent day school for grades six through 12, offering several academic specialties, including a flexible support center, music production and recording course, a design studio, a science research program and expanded AP course offerings.

THE URSULINE SCHOOL

1354 North Ave., New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804 914-636-3950 // ursulinenewrochelle.org Top administrator: Eileen F. Davidson Open house dates: Saturday, October 27, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

The mission of The Ursuline School, an independent, all-girls Catholic school is to educate, inspire and empower a diverse population of 800 young women in grades six through 12 with our college preparatory curriculum. Ursuline students learn 21st century critical thinking skills and engage in service opportunities both locally and globally. The school belongs to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association and has 33 teams of student athletes.

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700 Route 22, Pawling, N.Y. 12564 845-855-3100 // trinitypawling.org Top administrator: William W. Taylor Open house dates: Monday, Oct. 8, 9 a.m. and Saturday, Nov. 10, 9 a.m.

The goal of a Trinity-Pawling education is to unlock the potential for greatness that exists in each boy. The school pursues this goal through a vigorous experiential learning environment that emphasizes innovation, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking. The Trinity-Pawling learning experience combines a timeless commitment to character with a dedication to prepare young men for an ever-changing world. One of the school’s most distinctive attributes is the Effort System—teaching boys that the more they invest in themselves the greater their accomplishments will be.

Trinity-Pawling’s Center for Learning Achievement provides support services to assist students in reaching their academic potential. Specific instructional programs are available for students who have language-based learning differences and for students with executive-function difficulties.

WHITBY SCHOOL 969 Lake Ave., Greenwich, Conn. 06831 203-869-8464 // whitbyschool.org Top administrator: Simone Becker, head of lower school; Jonathan Chein, head of upper school Open house dates: Sunday, Nov. 4, 1 p.m.

The power of you, unleashed by a Masters education.

The Masters School is a leading co-ed day, 5 and 7-day boarding school for grades 5-12 that fosters active intellectual exploration through a vibrant interchange of ideas, cultures, arts and athletics. Masters students find their own voices and emerge ready for college, career and life.

To learn more, contact us at admission@mastersny.org.

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49 Clinton Avenue | Dobbs Ferry, NY | mastersny.org | 914.479.6420

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DISCOVER THE IONA PREP DIFFERENCE 78% of Iona Prep’s 2018 graduating seniors received 472 academic scholarships totaling nearly $30 million to the colleges of their choice.

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Conservation, Wine & Floral Design Presented by Westmoreland Sanctuary

Come and enjoy evening discussions on nature and conservation over wine, appetizers and floral design sessions.

And bring home a beautiful arrangement‌ created by YOU!

Thursday, April 12 WINE & VINE 7pm

Wednesday, May 16

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Saturday, Sept. 29

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To register, please visit www.westmorelandsanctuary.org MISSION To secure and preserve land for the enjoyment and enrichment of all ages through Environmental education and Conservation programs.

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ophie, an 8-year-old Terrier mix, was abandoned at the SPCA by her owner, who claimed to have found her running down the road. Luckily, Sophie has an upbeat personality. She understands she is on to bigger and better things with a new family.

This sweet girl’s favorite thing is to snuggle up on your lap. She does have a slight heart murmur, but it doesn’t stop her from being happy and living life to the fullest.

Sophie is easygoing and will make a great

companion for someone looking for a low-key, loyal companion.

To meet Sophie, visit the SPCA of Westchester at 590 N. State Road in Briarcliff Manor.

Founded in 1883, the SPCA is a no-kill shelter and is not affiliated with the ASPCA. The SPCA is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays. To learn more, call 914- 941-2896 or visit spca914.org.

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BY ROBIN COSTELLO

othing brings back happier memories than the sight of a beloved toy from your childhood. With one quick glance we are momentarily transported back to a simpler place in time, when we were young and carefree. Long before the digital age, we had only three TV channels, a ball and bat, a doll and, if we were very lucky, some rollerskates to play with. Children relied on their low-tech toys and their imaginations to bring their childhood dreams to life.

Out of this innocent age in the 1950s and 1960s came the toys called the Dream Pets. They were small toy animals made of velveteen, stuffed with sawdust. Each huggable one resembled a cartoon character come to life. They also came with accessories and a collector’s card about the toy’s “dream.” Monkeys, lobsters, hippos, lions, dolphins, tigers, cows and kangaroos, each one was more adorable than the next.

The brand’s history was as charming as the stuffed animals’ sweet little faces. In the 1950s, the R. Dakin Co. of Japan used them as inexpensive packing material to cushion the fancy toy trains that they shipped to the United States. The trains were forgettable, but the Dream Pets became an instant sensation. Inexpensive, they were perfect for kids, toddlers to teens. Both kids and collectors couldn’t get enough of them.

Avid collector Paige J. Nichols held onto the Dream Pets of her youth, knowing one day she would bring them back to life in her own vision.

Fast forward to 2018 and her dream has come true. Her new collection of “Dream Pets” retro toys has been redesigned to be a bit larger and a little more plush. Her hope is that these sweet toys will inspire the next generation of dreamers.

For more, visit dreampets.com.

Today’s “Dream Pets” for a new generation of dreamers. Courtesy Dream Pets.

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The SPCA of Westchester’s Top Hat and Cocktails Gala

Join the SPCA on Friday, October 12th from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the elegant Ritz-Carlton in White Plains for the best dog event of the year! Come out and celebrate the accomplishments of the SPCA and help raise funds for the nearly 4,200 animals they rescue and support through their community programs every year. You’ll enjoy an evening of fabulous food, delicious drinks, an awesome auction and fun activities for your furry friends.

From the canine ice cream bar and professional photo portraits to the relaxing seated chair massages, this is truly a one of a kind event that you and your pooch will never forget! For information on Sponsorship, Ticket, Journal and Auction donation opportunities, please visit SPCA914.ORG or email Lisa@spca914.org.

Founded in 1883, the SPCA of Westchester is a no-kill, not for profit animal shelter located in Briarcliff Manor. The SPCA is not affiliated with the ASPCA.

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These pieces will make your pooch red-carpet ready. Courtesy Paco & Lucia.

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t’s a family affair. In 2016, sisters Alejandra and Pauline Martinez combined their love of animals with a flair for fine fashion and launched a new line of high-quality garments for dogs called Paco & Lucia.

The full line of colorful shirts, coats and accessories for your favorite dog is known for its beautiful fabrics and exquisite workmanship. The textile designs were influenced by the sisters’ world travels, and the detailing is similar to what you’ll see in the clothing of their native Peru.

Pauline’s artistic background and keen eye for style, paired with Alejandra’s business acumen

and love for her local shelter pets, were the perfect formula for the success of Paco & Lucia. Although the sister’s talents differ, they both share a great passion for animals and a dedication to giving back. Their company donates a portion of all sales to shelter and rescue organizations to help care for homeless and mistreated animals.

Their creations are rich in color and details, buttery and luxurious to the touch. Each one is a piece of art made for the discerning pet owner who wants nothing but the best for his or her “fur baby.” The pieces make your pup as stylish as we all want ourselves to be.

For more, visit pacoandlucia.com.

WHEN & WHERE

Through Sept. 9 “Donald Judd: Variations on a Theme” features 16 etchings by Donald Judd, one of the most significant artists of the Minimalist movement. The works, from the Hudson River Museum’s permanent collection, explore Judd’s interest in precise geometric forms. 511 Warburton Ave., Yonkers; 914-963-4550, hrm.org

Through Sept. 14 “June Greenspan’s World Photos” contains colorful works from the artist’s extensive travels to India, China, Russia and Egypt and other locales. Atelier 811 Gallery, 811 N. Broadway, White Plains; 914-419-6252

The Rudresh Mahanthappa Trio performs Sept. 14 during JazzFest White Plains. Photograph by Ethan Levitas.

Sept. 1 Through Nov. 30 Sound artist Jennie C. Jones’ audio collage, “RPM (revolutions per minute)” permeates the Philip Johnson Glass House. This installation employs a harmonious combination of frequencies that encourages visitors to consider the aural environment of the transparent pavilion while underscoring its reverberating cultural influence. 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays, 199 Elm St., New Canaan; 203-594-9884, theglasshouse.org

Sept. 1 Untermyer Performing Arts Council presents Silvana Magda With the Katende Band & the Viva Brazil Dancers to conclude its World Fest 2018. The group brings Afro-Brazilian sounds, Latin rhythms and Brazilian dance to the Great Lawn Stage at Untermyer Park.

7:30 p.m., 945 N. Broadway, Yonkers; 914-375-3435, untermyer.com

Sept. 4 through 22 The Mamaroneck Artists Guild presents “Double Vision: Color & Line,” an exhibition that features the work of two local artists — Jennifer Cadoff and Hilda Green Demsky. Reception: 3 to 6 p.m. Sept. 8; Artists’ “Walk & Talk” 2 p.m. Sept. 22. Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 126 Larchmont Ave., Larchmont; 914-8341117, mamaroneckartistsguild.org

Sept. 6 The opening reception for “Paradise [Lost],” an exhibition of the photographs by Árpád Krizsán, best-inshow winner at Pequot Library’s 2017 art show. 6:30 p.m., Exhibition continues to Oct. 7. 720 Pequot Ave., Southport; 203-259-0346, pequotlibrary.org

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The opening reception for “Looking Forward, Looking Back,” an exhibition featuring four artists who use their familiarity with the work of past masters to open a dialogue with the inspired innovators who preceded them.

6 p.m., Exhibition continues to Oct. 17. The Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library, 101 W. Putnam Ave.; 203-622-7947, flinngallery.com

Sept. 7 and 8 The Jazz Forum Club presents jazz and blues concerts by multi-instrumentalist, singer and Grammy nominee Joey DeFrancesco, who signed his first record deal at age 16 and has since recorded and performed with many jazz greats. 7 and 9:30 p.m., 1 Dixon Lane, Tarrytown; 914-631-1000, jazzforumarts.org

Sept. 10 through Nov. 28 The Center for the Digital Arts at Westchester Community College presents “HIGH CONTRAST: Culture Confronts Chaos,” a group exhibition featuring artworks, all in black and white, that focus on such topics as post-2016 politics, social justice and environmental concerns. 27 N. Division St., Peekskill; 914-606-7300, sunywcc.edu/arts

Sept. 12 through 16 ArtsWestchester, the City of White Plains and White Plains BID present “JazzFest White Plains,” a five-day celebration of jazz throughout downtown White Plains.

The festival, which includes 20-plus sets at 10-plus venues, culminates in a Sept. 16 outdoor festival on Mamaroneck Avenue at Main Street. Times and locations vary, 914-428-4220, artsw.org/jazzfest

Sept. 14 Pelham Art Center holds an opening reception for “Waxing Poetic,” an exhibition featuring six New York-based artists who create a symbolic language or aesthetic with encaustic paint. 6:30 to 8 p.m., Exhibition continues to Oct. 27. 155 Fifth Ave, Pelham; 914738-2525, pelhamartcenter.org

“A Place at the Table: Community, Cuisine and Culture” is a locally sourced, biannual, three-course, farmto-table dinner — prepared by Hayfields Market — that encourages the community to come together, share a meal, engage in conversation and celebrate local flavors. Registration required. 7 p.m., The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main St., Ridgefield; 203-4384519, aldrichart.org

Sept. 15 Meet some of Weston’s finest artists at Lachat Town Farm for Weston Arts’ annual “Cocktails to Canvases” party. Cocktails will be for sale, music will be in the barn and a food truck will be on the grounds.

5 p.m., Lachat Town Farm, 106 Godfrey Road West; westonarts.org

Shop at the craft and artisan boutiques at Arts & Crafts on Bedford, a Stamford Downtown signature event. Bedford Street will be closed to traffic for the weekend, so enjoy the space and dine in the extended sidewalk cafe. Don’t miss the Imagination Station with hands-on activities for kids, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., (Also, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 16). Bedford Street, Stamford; stamford-downtown.com

experience something real #PAC1819 September 16 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano 29 Artist as Activist: A Conversation with Angélique Kidjo 29 Benin International Musical (BIM) October 6 An Evening with Jimmy Webb 13 American String Quartet and Salman Rushdie 20 Lea DeLaria 21 Westchester Philharmonic Season Opener 26 Black Violin & Purchase Symphony Orchestra 27 Velvet Caravan November 2 NW Dance Project 4 Aida Cuevas 18 Circa Carnival of the Animals December 1 CMS of Lincoln Center Windstorm 1 Jazz at The Center: Joe Lovano Plays Bernstein 2 The Rainbow Fish Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia 8 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | Steven Isserlis, cello 9 Boston Brass Christmas Bells Are Swingin’ 14 The Rob Mathes Holiday Concert (also on Dec 15) 16 Westchester Philharmonic Winter Pops!

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January 19 Gina Chavez 26 CMS of Lincoln Center Esteemed Ensemble February 2 DIAVOLO: Architecture in Motion® 10 Westchester Philharmonic Friends and Family 16 Robin Spielberg March 2 CMS of Lincoln Center Hungarian Fire 10 Shadow Play Trusty Sidekick Theatre Company 16 Aspen Santa Fe Ballet 23 Portland Cello Project Homage to Radiohead April 7 Tiempo Libre 7 Westchester Philharmonic All-Beethoven Season Finale 20 The Triplets of Belleville 25 BODYTRAFFIC May 4 CMS of Lincoln Center Deeply Inspired 5 Daniel Kelly’s Rakonto: Student Voices

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Sept. 21 and 22 Pilobolus performs “Ringcycle,” three programs of different works all combining multimedia, projected shadow play and front-of-screen choreography. 8 p.m. Sept.

21 and 2 and 8 p.m., Sept. 22, Quick Center for the Arts, 1073 N. Benson Road, Fairfield; 203-254-4010, quickcenter.fairfield.edu

Sept. 22 Smart Arts at Westchester Community College presents the Spanish dance company, Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater. The company will share rich traditions of the dance, music, literature and culture of Spain through contemporary and classical Spanish dance, along with folkloric dance and flamenco accompanied by guitar and percussion. 8 p.m., 75 Grasslands Road, Valhalla; 914-606-6262, sunywcc.edu/smartarts

Sept. 22 through Dec. 30 The Bruce Museum opens its signature fall exhibition, “ReTooled: Highlights from the Hechinger Collection,” a look at the unexpected subject of tools, featuring more than 40 richly imaginative, quirky, and thought-provoking paintings, sculptures, photographs and sketches.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich; 203-869-0376, brucemuseum.org

Sept. 23 The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center presents an evening with memoirists Mindy Lewis and Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes. These writers will provide a reading, discussion and Q&A on the topics of suicide and survival. 4 p.m., 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow; 914-332-5953, writerscenter.org

Sept. 29 and 30 Pilobolus has performances set for Sept. 21 and 22 in Fairfield. Photograph by Christopher Duggan.

Sept. 16 The opening reception for “E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One,” an exhibition of contemporary figurative prints on the theme of diversity — both in terms of subject and the variety of printmaking processes used. 2 p.m., Exhibition continues to Nov. 25. Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Mathews Park, 299 West Ave., Norwalk; 203-899-7999, contemprints.org

Tony-, Grammy- and Emmy-award winner Cynthia Erivo rose to fame with her performance as Celie in the Broadway revival of “The Color Purple”. Hear her, backed by a five-piece band, as she performs songs from “The Color Purple,” “The Wiz,” and more. 7:30 p.m., Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 E. Ridge Road; 203-4385795, ridgefieldplayhouse.org

Sept. 21 The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum presents its 11th annual Old-Fashioned Flea Market. Featuring repurposed furniture, collectibles, jewelry, crafts, household items, clothing, toys and other unique bargains and treasures. Rain or shine, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mathews Park, 295 West Ave., Norwalk; 203-838-9799, lockwoodmathewsmansion.com

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Westchester Photographic Society presents “The Amazing World of a Micrographer” by Andrew Paul Leonard, a specialist in microscopic photography.

Discover surreal images using an electron microscope. 8 p.m. at Westchester Community College, Technology Building Auditorium (Room 107), Valhalla; wpsphoto.org

Natasha Paremski will play Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra. The concert will open with Beethoven’s “Namensfeier” Overture and will include Debussy’s “L’après-midi d’un faune” and Bernstein’s “On the Waterfront Symphonic Suite.” 8 p.m. Sept. 29, 4 p.m. Sept. 30, Performing Arts Center, Greenwich High School, 10, Hillside Road; 203869-2664, greenwichsymphony.org

Sept. 30 Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley will host the fourth annual Dylan J. Hoffman Memorial Walk & Family Fun Day. The event will benefit critically ill children and their families in the Hudson Valley. 11 a.m., Westchester Medical Center, 80 Woods Road, Valhalla; 914-493-6455,rmh-ghv.org

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To celebrate the official opening of its newly renovated theater, ACT (A Contemporary Theatre) of Connecticut hosted more than 200 guests at its June gala. The sold-out evening event included a cocktail hour, silent and live auctions, a performance of “Mamma Mia!,” a cast meet-and-greet and an after party. Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal and First Selectman Rudy Marconi attended the event, which raised more than $175,000 for the nonprofit theater. Photographs by Bruce Glikas.

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ARC Westchester, the county’s largest agency supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, recently hosted its 18th annual “Golfing for Kids” outing at Hampshire Country Club in Mamaroneck. The event raised more than $260,000 for children with autism, Down Syndrome and other developmental disabilities. Following a day on the course, more than 110 golfers and attendees enjoyed an awards banquet, which featured a welcome by “CBS2 This Morning” co-anchor Mary Calvi and silent and live auctions.

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Glenn Close was the star attraction in her hometown for a fundraising event at the newly renovated Bedford Playhouse. The evening featured a cocktail party that served two signature cocktails knowingly named the “Fatal Attraction” and “The Big Chill.”

Then attendees were treated to an advance screening of her upcoming film, “The Wife,” in one of the new luxury theaters. Proceeds from the evening, which included a post-film discussion and Q & A, went to support the ongoing renovation of the facility. Photographs by Peter T. Michaelis.

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Summer Trails Day Camp in Somers recently celebrated its 45th season of summertime play for children ages 3 to 14. Since 1974, the camp has created wonderful opportunities for campers to engage in sports, have fun with friends, expand their limits and learn about sportsmanship. The camp also offers multiple clinics on topics such as STEM robotics, horseback riding, hip hop, lacrosse and rock ’n’ roll band. Among the most popular offerings is a highly specialized baseball camp. Throughout the summer, retired and current baseball players, as well as coaches and managers, visit Summer Trails to lead discussions, demonstrations and interactive exhibitions.

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HOW IT’S DONE

Hospice of Westchester (HOW) recently hosted its 16th annual golf invitational at Westchester Hills Golf Club in White Plains. More than 100 local business leaders and community members participated in the event to support the nonprofit health care agency. The all-day event featured brunch/lunch, 18 holes of golf, a barbecue on the ninth hole, a cocktail reception, dinner and an awards ceremony, as well as a silent auction and raffles. Proceeds went to support HOW’s commitment to providing compassionate end-of-life care.

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The Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation’s annual golf and tennis classic took place July 26 at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Scarborough. Hosted by former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre and wife, Ali, the event drew many sports superstars with its promise of fun on the links and a dinner reception. The all-day affair raised more than $400,000 to help support the foundation, which provides young people with the help they need to live a life without violence. Since their founding, the Safe At Home Foundation and its Margaret’s Place programs have reached more than 85,000 children and provided almost 33,000 counseling sessions.

Photographs by John Chan Photography.

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SUPPORTING SENIORS

More than 150 friends, donors and community and business leaders attended United Hebrew of New Rochelle’s 33nd annual golf tournament and dinner July 9th at Brae Burn Country Club in Purchase. The event included a $50,000 shootout contest for closest-to-the-pin winners as well as an 18-hole tournament. Golfers enjoyed a cocktail hour and a reception with an awards ceremony, raffle prizes and a silent auction. The event raised more than $185,000 for the residents at United Hebrew’s campus of comprehensive care, which includes skilled nursing and rehabilitation, assisted living, and Alzheimer’s and dementia care.

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Hospice of Westchester (HOW), an organization which has provided end-of-life care to residents of Westchester County for more than 25 years, recently hosted its eighth annual Celebration of Life Memorial Butterfly Release. On June 24, families, friends and community members gathered at the Wainwright House in Rye for the remembrance ceremony and butterfly release. The annual event provides HOW families the opportunity to honor the lives of loved ones who have passed away.

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Berlin Productions, an award-winning marketing and promotion agency, recently teamed up with White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach to plant flowers in the city’s Renaissance Park. The company donated the flowers to celebrate its recent achievement of receiving Westchester Green Business certification from the Business Council of Westchester’s Green Business Partnership.

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CIRCUS MAGIC

On July 20, the Greenburgh Police Benevolent Association (PBA) brought its annual circus to the White Plains campus of the John A. Coleman School. Students were dazzled with magic tricks and illusions and were thrilled by the daring feats performed.

After the performance, members of the PBA went to each and every classroom to hand out ice pops, T-shirts and police officer action figures to all the students. This is the 85th year the Greenburgh PBA has sponsored this popular event.

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Westfair Communications, the parent company of WAG magazine, recently conducted its first online business competition called the “Barracuda Tank.”

The contest invited early stage businesses to submit videos describing their businesses to compete for valuable prize packages. The top-10-submitted videos were selected, and an online competition allowed the public to cast votes for which company it hoped would claim the top prize. The grand prize winner and lucky finalists were announced at an Aug. 7 reception at Saltaire Oyster Bar and Fish House in Port Chester. All the “barracudas” were recognized for having learned how to navigate the rough waters of the business environment.

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“I’ve always been told that the clothes make the man. I don’t know if that’s entirely true, but I do think that clothes are an important part of a first impression.”

“I think we, as a society, put a little too much importance on one’s appearance. There’s no substitute for substance.

The time you spend working on yourself should be much more important than your outfit.”

“I’d be lying if I said that looking nice wasn’t important to me. I think clothes are a great way to let people know something about yourself.

Without speaking to you, someone can take a glance and form an idea of who you are based on how you represent yourself, and I think that’s pretty neat.”

“Clothes say so much about you. You can tell how much someone respects themselves by seeing if they’ve taken the time to put a nice outfit together.

Even without expensive clothes, you can see if someone has a stain on their shorts or holes in their pants. Clothes definitely say something about how you view yourself.”

“Clothes shouldn’t say too much a about a person. If we all trust what we see from a distance and form ideas based on that then we might never get closer to someone and see that we were wrong.

There’s nothing wrong with having a first impression, but if you never investigate it further then that can be a bad mentality.”

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“Clothes are great because it gives you the chance to show the world what you’re all about. Do you dress in bright, floral patterns? Are you a little more buttoneddown and conservative? We can really speak to the world with what we wear. Now, not everyone sees it that way, but I think that’s a missed opportunity.”

“Clothes are a very personal thing. Some people try to make a statement about who they are with an outfit, but other people are just trying to look appropriate for their job. I think clothes can make a statement, but we should remember that not everyone is trying to say something with what they wear.”

“I think people treat clothes with a little too much reverence. As a woman, I constantly feel pressure to dress a certain way for other women or men, or my friends.

I wish I could free a little space in my mind for things that I deem a little more important.”

“I think clothes say a lot about you, whether we choose to accept it or not. If I just wear the first thing I grab in the morning, then I need to accept that the world is still going to react to it as if I sat down and thought about it for a long time before deciding to wear it. It might be unfair, but we can all decide for ourselves if we choose to participate in that mentality.”

“I think clothes are a fun way to put your creative side on display. We don’t always get the opportunity to get crazy and think outside the box at our jobs or school, but we can do it every day with our clothes. I think that’s special.”

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