While the wealthier cadres gripe on the Left Bank, Hidalgo’s support is anchored in working-class neighborhoods, where her efforts to maintain the city’s social and economic fabric, despite the inevitable march of gentrification, has been focused. A quarter of Parisians now live in social housing, up from 13 percent in the late ’90s. Hidalgo has … Read more
Moyer is tall, funny, and 41 years old, six years younger than Martinez. She is the only child of an artist mother, who also became a therapist, and a father who was the lighting director (or “gaffer”) on John Hughes’s films. They moved from Chicago, where Moyer was born, to Los Angeles when she was … Read more
“I don’t want the invitees to my runways to say, Wow, wow, and then forget about it the next day,” he says. He wants people to appreciate the quality and the hidden detail of his designs; he wants them to dream about it—and then to go into the stores in four months “and buy it … Read more
Alessandro’s uncle had a studio restoring antique furniture tucked in the gardens of Via Margutta, and there Alessandro would smell the glue and mastic and dream of the past lives of tables and armchairs. He also spent hours in the Villa Giulia, the Renaissance palace that houses the National Etruscan Museum, immersing himself in its … Read more
Edward and Josephine Hopper made a funny pair. He was from a small village on the Hudson River, while she was born and raised in New York City. Where he tended toward brooding introversion, she signed her letters, regardless of their content, “Cheerily, Jo.” They fought bitterly, yet they stayed together for more than 40 … Read more