Art & Culture

Creator: Neilson Barnard/MG25 | Credit: Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Copyright: 2025 Getty Images On a crisp November morning inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Anna Wintour stepped onto the dais with the ease of a woman who has shaped fashion for four decades — and is nowhere near finished. Months after transitioning out of her role as Vogue ’s editor-in-chief (yet still very much the mastermind behind the Met Gala), Wintour joined longtime curator Andrew Bolton

Image: The Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer For nearly twenty years, The Devil Wears Prada has lived rent-free in our cultural consciousness — not merely as a blockbuster film, but as a piece of fashion folklore. Released in 2006 and adapted from Lauren Weisberger’s bestselling novel, the movie didn’t just rake in over $326 million worldwide; it recalibrated the image of the modern working woman, gave us a rolodex of unforgettably sharp one-liners, and pulled back the velvet cur

Leonard A Lauder.Photo : The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. When the cosmetics titan and art collector Leonard A. Lauder passed away this summer, he left behind more than a legacy in lipstick and luxury. He left one of the most extraordinary private art collections of the 20th century — a trove now headed to auction, and one that’s set to become a defining moment for the global art world. This November, Sotheby’s will unveil The Leonard A. Lauder Collection at its new Madison

The designer-turned-director is swapping runways for Venetian canals — again proving that good taste always finds the spotlight. Tom Ford is back in the director’s chair, and naturally, he’s doing it in silk-lined style. Nearly a decade after Nocturnal Animals , Ford is set to direct Cry to Heaven — an adaptation of Anne Rice’s lush 1995 novel about 18th-century Venice, opera, and the tortured beauty of the castrato world. Think powdered wigs, candlelight, and scandal with

image credit; Courtesy of Art Basel Art Basel Paris turned the City of Light into an open-air gallery — and left the rest of us plotting next year’s trip. Even if you weren’t strolling through the glass-domed halls of the Grand Palais this weekend, trust us — Art Basel Paris 2025 was the place to be. From October 24 to 26, the world’s most glamorous art fair took over the French capital, bringing together more than 200 galleries from over 40 countries and transforming Paris i

Where Heritage Meets Design Image courtesy of Allora Charleston A century ago, the Navy Yard was a world of iron and industry — shipbuilders, rivets, and the hum of the Cooper River. Today, that same stretch of shoreline is being reimagined as Charleston’s most exciting new design destination. Opening this fall, the Charleston Design District will anchor the 85-acre redevelopment, transforming the storied Storehouses Eight and Nine into a curated collective of showrooms, stud

When a $650,000 masterpiece pulls a disappearing act between Madrid and Granada—because apparently even Picasso couldn’t resist a little mystery. Pablo Picasso once said, “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” Ironically, one of his own “truths” has just vanished into thin air. A small but mighty Picasso painting — Still Life with Guitar, created in 1919 — has mysteriously disappeared somewhere between Madrid and Granada, Spain, sending the art world into a ta

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer must be in want of solitude to practice her craft.” So Jane Austen might’ve penned were she writing this piece. Yet solitude was never the whole story. Without elegant balls, assemblies, and the daily rituals of family meals—most especially tea—there would have been little material for a writer whose wit and humanity still captivate us today. Jane Austen (Dec. 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817), whose 250th birthday is being celebra

It’s not often that a star redefines herself in the middle of her life. Reinvention in Hollywood tends to mean disappearing, resurfacing, or playing a self-parody. But Pamela Anderson — forever etched in cultural memory as the blonde bombshell who sprinted across our television screens in slow motion — is scripting something different. At fifty-seven, she has embarked on what can only be described as a renaissance: raw, real, and radiant in ways that feel both unexpected and

During the most thrilling decades in New York City, Barneys wasn’t simply a department store—it was a stage for the most influential moments in fashion, a place where creativity collided with commerce, and where style became a cultural language. In They All Came to Barneys , published in September 2025, Gene Pressman tells the story only he can: from the inside. As the grandson of founder Barney Pressman and co-CEO of Barneys New York during its most innovative era, Gene of

When travelers step off the plane at Hilton Head Island Airport, they’re now greeted by a breathtaking work of art that captures the soul of the Lowcountry. Charleston-based mixed-media artist Christy Kinard has unveiled Focused Precision , a 16-foot-by-28-foot installation that stretches across a glass wall inside the airport’s new terminal — a piece that feels both personal and profoundly Southern. Selected from more than 229 submissions by over 100 artists, Kinard’s design

For nearly a century and a half, Krigler has been the secret weapon of the world’s most captivating figures—Audrey in her ingénue years, Grace before the crown, Hemingway with a tumbler nearby. These are not just perfumes, they’re love affairs in glass bottles that hold history, scandal, and the kind of glamour that refuses to fade. Images from Getty Images If the walls of The Plaza Hotel could talk, they’d probably gossip in perfume. And if the bottles lining Krigler’s gild

When Angie Harmon opens the door, it isn’t Hollywood fanfare that greets you—it’s a warm exhale. Candlelight flickers, a dog winds between chairs, and the air carries that sense of home where laughter and love live. The woman who once lived by call sheets and cameras is most at ease without scripts: at home, surrounded by her daughters. Motherhood was never the role she expected to define her, but it’s the one she treasures most. “Being a mom was something I never really expe

A century on, The Great Gatsby has traded bargain bins for Broadway spotlights and half-million-dollar auction blocks. Once scorned as a flop, it’s now the ultimate Jazz Age comeback—proof that even the green light gets brighter with time. On April 10, 1925, Scribner’s released a slim novel by a 28-year-old writer with champagne tastes and a mounting pile of bills. The title? The Great Gatsby. The reception? Tepid at best—just 20,000 copies sold in its first year, hardly the

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Photo: Alexis Clinton/Axios Charlotte’s nightlife just turned up the volume. University City is now home to Aura HiFi, a sleek new cocktail lounge that blends high-fidelity sound with low-lit glamour. The venue officially debuted this fall, quickly making its mark as the city’s next go-to destination for after-dark energy. Part listening lounge, part social hotspot, Aura HiFi was designed to be a one-stop nightlife experience. The interiors lean into moody sophistication — th

Forget the café au lait at noon — Paris this fall belongs to the night owls. The City of Light is dimming the chandeliers, shaking up the cocktail scene, and reminding everyone why no one does soirées quite like the French. duc des lombards Start with the buzziest opening: Bar De Vie. Tucked in near the Champs-Élysées, this sleek newcomer is rewriting cocktail culture with one radical rule — no ice. Drinks are chilled to perfection through temperature-controlled spirits, maki

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