Issue
No. 115
September 25, 2021
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Robert Clergerie
It’s been 40 years since Robert Clergerie stomped onto the fashion scene with a lace-up oxford—for women!—that made…
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Elizabeth Holmes Podcasts
On her 2019 podcast Dropout, Rebecca Jarvis of ABC News told the story of how Elizabeth Holmes…
Clean
The Laundress
I’ve never been moved by a cleaning product, let alone moved enough to publicly sing its praises. But the Laundress’s Wash & Stain Bar…
Wear
Saint Laurent
Do things right the first time and you won’t have to do them again. That’s why Saint Laurent’s leather-piped gabardine trench…
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The Hoxton, Rome
Once considered the suburbs, the Salario district of Rome is now a mix of art-house cinemas, independent clothing stores…
Watch
The Nowhere Inn
What do we really talk about when we talk about stardom? That’s the question that drives The Nowhere Inn, a mockumentary written…
Walk
Robert Clergerie
It’s been 40 years since Robert Clergerie stomped onto the fashion scene with a lace-up oxford—for women!—that made…
Listen
Elizabeth Holmes Podcasts
On her 2019 podcast Dropout, Rebecca Jarvis of ABC News told the story of how Elizabeth Holmes…
Clean
The Laundress
I’ve never been moved by a cleaning product, let alone moved enough to publicly sing its praises. But the Laundress’s Wash & Stain Bar…
Wear
Saint Laurent
Do things right the first time and you won’t have to do them again. That’s why Saint Laurent’s leather-piped gabardine trench…
Stay
The Hoxton, Rome
Once considered the suburbs, the Salario district of Rome is now a mix of art-house cinemas, independent clothing stores…
Watch
The Nowhere Inn
What do we really talk about when we talk about stardom? That’s the question that drives The Nowhere Inn, a mockumentary written…
Mad for Majolica
What is it about majolica that ravishes the eye and inflames the imagination? The riotous forms? The supersaturated lollipop colors? The syrupy glazes that look ready for a lick? The exhibition “Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915,” on now at the Bard Graduate Center, addresses these questions with roughly 350 works pulled from collections in America and across the pond. Organized by the center’s founder and director, Susan Weber, and associate curator Jo Briggs, the show places these giddy, gaudy pieces in their historical and cultural contexts. READ ON
A peacock designed by Paul Comoléra and manufactured by Minton & Co., circa 1875.
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Say Bonjour to France’s Most Elegant Castle Photos of the Château de Haroué celebrate life chez Beauvau-Craon, the family who has called Haroué home for 300 years
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Against the Grain
A collection of songs in the maverick vein of Karen Dalton, by Elizabeth Cotten, Odetta, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and more
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