Golden Balls
Ticket prices for this year’s World Cup are already sky-high. But some luxury packages—complete with police escorts, cigar rollers, and Tibetan singing bowls—can turn a trip to the game into a seven-figure spectacle
New York or Bust
Ukrainian designer Svitlana Bevza scrambled to finish her new collection. As she prepares to show it at Fashion Week, the stakes are higher than ever
Tax Shelters in the Sky
For years, luxury Manhattan high-rises have been used to launder dirty foreign money. But with a new rule designed to curb the practice just weeks away, will oligarchs and dictators have to start looking elsewhere?
The Birkin Bag of Workouts
Since when did a single Pilates class cost $500? The slow-and-steady workout is now the height of luxury—and the depths of madness
The Things They Carried
From lipstick holders to compacts, the elegant necessities once tucked inside a woman’s handbag are returning—not as tools but as treasures
A Night Celebrating Sloane Crosley
Salman Rushdie, Griffin Dunne, Naomi Fry, Gary Shteyngart, and others gathered at the Waverly Inn in celebration of the writer’s new memoir
Twentieth-Century Woman
A new book collects 100 images taken by Lee Miller, the intrepid photographer, war correspondent, and Surrealist muse, played by Kate Winslet in an upcoming film
The Boom Before the Bust
From caviar and Dom Pérignon at Mach 2 to the fatal Air France crash of 2000, former members of the Concorde crew revisit the era of supersonic flight