Finneas O’Connell likes to disappear. A tendency toward self-effacement may seem like an unexpected character trait for the youngest person ever to win a Producer of the Year Grammy, a prize that has pride of place in Finneas’s living room, alongside the other nine he’s earned for his work with his sister, Billie Eilish. But … Read more
Are you in pain?” Cadence Dubus, a Brooklyn-based fitness instructor who has developed a program for “fascia release,” asks, sending me spiraling before our session begins. There’s that twinge in my shoulder and the carpal tunnel at night—but aren’t such annoyances simply the conditions of modern life, of getting older? “Some,” I answer, shy to … Read more
Culkin marvels at her approach. “She was nice enough to let me off the hook,” he says. “So I guess I’m…in?” When he flew to Poland, Stone made sure she and her husband were on the same flight. Eisenberg likens the choreographed airport travel to a hostage swap. It wasn’t until A Real Pain premiered … Read more
The ’80s in London, of course, was a melting pot of talent and exuberant fun. I was kitted out in full John Galliano for a fashion show—a skirt for men, cropped jacket, and overscaled shirt made of patches of dyed cotton: fetching. David Holah and Stevie Stewart were creating forward-thinking magic with BodyMap, with leggings, … Read more
Plenty of us dream about, read about, and fantasize about fairy-tale endings. Fairy-tale beginnings, though? Not so much—unless you’re Erdem Moralioglu. After almost two decades of building his namesake label around dreamy dresses and romantic brocades fit for storybook heroines in array after array of lush botanicals, he’s only now setting about launching a bag—called, … Read more
Many months ago, when the British playwright Jez Butterworth was starting to ponder the subject for his next work, he was watching a spider build a web in the doorway of his farmhouse in Devon. The sun illuminated each delicate strand as the arachnid labored. “And it didn’t know,” he tells me, “that my dog … Read more
Kamali has set up a study for herself in the house, the walls lined with racks of blouses organized in a muted rainbow; it’s more like a cozy boudoir than a place of work. Kamali has been collecting blouses for decades and estimates that she now has about a thousand, ranging from antique Victorian garments … Read more
Three years ago, Francesco Clemente was in his Manhattan studio speaking with a friend, a devoted vegetarian, by phone. “She was asking me if we should go have a meal at Daniel’s restaurant,” recalls Clemente, meaning the much-acclaimed and then newly plant-based Eleven Madison Park, helmed by chef Daniel Humm. “I said to her, ‘I … Read more
Recently, in the name of research, I found myself on a waterbed for the first time since elementary school. I put on a set of headphones, and the bed began to pulse in sync with the hypnotic, repetitive sounds blasting into my ears. My entire body was vibrating like the floor of a nightclub. As … Read more
Every generation has its own Romeo and Juliet. For many, it was the (now controversial) 1968 Franco Zeffirelli adaptation, with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in sumptuous Danilo Donati–designed period costumes. For me, it was Baz Luhrmann’s radical recasting of fair Verona as a beachside gangland, with a doe-eyed Leonardo DiCaprio staring moodily out at … Read more
