Town & Country June - July 2015

1949 SLIM DUNK The perennially best dressed Nancy “Slim” Hayward (later Lady Keith and, like Babe Paley and C.Z. Guest, one of Truman Capote’s “swans”) shows T&C readers how to wear Charles James, “America’s first couturier” and the subject of a long overdue retrospective last year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Harvey Weinstein bought the designer’s name shortly thereafter, and rumors of a revival have been swirling ever since.…

Everyone loves an inaugural event. And yet we were unprepared for the reaction to T&C’s first annual Philanthropy Summit last May, which gathered some of the most inspirational thinkers and donors in the charitable world. The response to the talks and panels was overwhelmingly enthusiastic, and there was clearly a meaningful exchange of lasting ideas. It was a little like capturing lightning in a bottle, but how do you accomplish that twice, as we are hoping to do at our second summit, on May 7, which, as I write this, we are in the last weeks of planning? The world is at a historic juncture between great need and unequaled resources. Never have the rich been richer, or the divide between their lot and the rest of society’s more striking—the…

VICTORD EMARC HELIER For this month’s cover story, “A BEAUTIFUL MIND” (page 122), Demarchelier photographed Jennifer Connelly, whom he calls “a real beauty” with “a strong opinion and point of view.” After graduating from Vassar, where he studied economics and studio art, Demarchelier worked for his fashion photographer father, Patrick. He has shot several covers for T&C, including Gugu Mbatha-Raw in March. TOM SHONE Shone, pictured with daughter Juliet, profiled Jennifer Connelly for “A BEAUTIFUL MIND” (page 122). “She has a rep as a tough interviewee who doesn’t suffer fools, but we got on terrifically,” says Shone, who describes her emotional intelligence as “like rock salt. I love the way she drills down into characters.” Shone, the movie critic for the Economist’s Intelligent Life magazine, teaches film history at NYU.…

APPROVAL RATINGS “I’ve told Hillary that I don’t think I’m good [at campaigning] anymore because I’m not mad at anybody,” Bill Clinton told Klara Glowczewska in “Raising Haiti,” our May cover story. “I got to see my granddaughter last night, and I can’t be mad.” The article garnered an unprecedented amount of attention thanks to Clinton’s of-the-cuff remarks about his wife’s presidential run (which was officially announced less than a week after the story was published). Outlets as diverse as the Today show, Women’s Wear Daily, the Washington Post, and New York magazine jumped on his first public comments about how involved he’d get in Hillary’s campaign. One reader accused us of attempting to capitalize on the upcoming election: “To tout his foundation and so blatantly slant the whole article…

WHAT: Celebrating the launch of Re-Nutriv Ultimate Diamond Transformative Energy Crème, Esteem lauder’s new luxury skincare, infused with the rare power of Black Diamond Truffe Extract. WHEN: February 26, 2015 WHERE: Neiman Marcus NorthPark in Dallas, Texas WHO: Derek Miller, Estée Lauder Global Makeup Artist, T&C’s Beauty Director, Jamie Rosen, and T&C’s Executive Style Director, Stellene Volandes. WHAT: Chef Daniel Boulud hosts annual “Black Truffes and Blue Jeans” themed Sunday Supper beneftting Citymeals-on-Wheels. WHEN: March 8, 2015 WHERE: DANIEL in NYC WHO: Citymeals-on-Wheels Board of Directors Co-President Chef Daniel Boulud, Chef Jacques Chibois of La Bastide Saint Antoine. WHAT: Town & Country celebrated Italian Week Palm Beach with a week of events including a kick-off brunch, a night of opera entertainment at Hamilton Jewelers and a closing party on the…

R. S. V. P. In April, at the Longines Global Champions season opener in Miami (the tour’s only stop in the U.S.), all eyes were on show jumper Jessica Springsteen—including those of her parents. The 23-year-old, who graduated from Duke last spring, had one of the biggest wins of her career last September, at the American Gold Cup CSI4*-W. At that point she had already signed on to join Charlotte Casiraghi as a Gucci equestrian ambassador. This past February she took top prize at Florida’s Winter Equestrian Festival in Palm Beach, an event she has been participating in since she was 10. Now her sights are set on the 2016 Rio Olympics and, it seems, on her rumored boyfriend, Argentine polo player Nick Roldan. Her success is payoff for her…