To truly understand the Salvatore Ferragamo brand, one must walk in the shoes of its founder. In 1914, a sixteen-year-old Salvatore took a risk, packed his bags and emigrated from Italy to Boston, where he joined his brothers in a boot factory. His courage only continued when he and his ... More

Film star Victoria Tennant’s new book, Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, provides an intimate account of the life of her mother, the famous ballerina Irina Baronova, through a collection of breathtaking photographs, correspondence and news clippings. When she first came across these things, Tennant wasn’t thinking about writing ... More

Contemporary artist Jeff Koons fused high fashion and high art in his latest project. The lauded artist, acclaimed for his Balloon Dog sculpture, transformed Hermès Birkin bags into “Readymade” objects to support Project Perpetual, a new initiative to benefit children at risk. Koons’ ten new and unique works featuring ... More

The question, “Where did you come out?” used to have quite a different meaning in this country, especially among certain socioregional groups. For Mary John Frank, New York-based choreographer and director, the answer is Houston, Texas, and the experience of her deb ball was the genesis for her latest work:  More

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, artist (and passionate runner) Rob Mango “ran and dreamed of coming to New York.” After arriving in the ‘70s, Mango began capturing the nuances of the city on canvas. His new memoir, 100 Paintings An Artist’s Life in New York City, is a collection ... More

Philip Hook has spent more than three decades honing his innate knowledge of the art world. The London-based art expert and author began his career with Christie’s in 1973 before landing at Sotheby’s 20 years later, where he currently serves as a board member and the company’s senior director of ... More

In an era when the factory method of art-making has literally removed the artist’s—let alone the human—touch from paintings and sculpture, it’s downright nostalgic to imagine a single painter putting in eight to 10-hour days for over a year at a time on a single work on paper. But that’s ... More

Over the last decade or so, we’ve come to identify paparazzi as the aggressive, smarmy-looking guys who ruthlessly lurk outside of celebrity homes awaiting their next tabloid-worthy shot. But the term actually originated in the ‘60s, thanks to Frederico Fellini’s La Dolce Vida, which chronicled a week in the life ... More

“The Einstein of fashion,” “the world’s best and only dressmaker” and “poetry”—these are a few of the phrases used to describe the late designer, Charles James, and his cutting-edge fashions. Yet almost three decades after his death, James—who was earlier this year the subject of a retrospective at the Costume ... More