Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2019 i Town & Country

1977 TIME AND ESSENC “This is one of my favorite photographs of them,” Aerin Lauder says of this portrait of her grandparents, Joseph and Estée Lauder, taken for T&C ’s October 1977 issue. “She loved wearing red, and this epitomizes timeless elegance.” The couple, who founded the Estée Lauder company in 1946, invited T&C into their NYC townhouse for a story on Devin, Estée’s latest cologne for men. “I wanted to create a new fragrance that would give a man confidence,” she said. “If you have confidence, you can do anything.”…

May 2–5 Frieze New York Along with Randall’s Island, the art fair also takes over Rockefeller Center with Frieze Sculpture, its new public art initiative. May 14–25 Cannes Film Festival Director Alejandro Iñárritu leads the jury at the most glamorous event on the Côte d’Azur. April 6–May 19 Norma Jeane Baker of Troy New York’s Shed premieres this play about Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy, starring Renee Fleming and Ben Whishaw. Through July 28 Karl Lagerfeld The legendary designer, who died in February, was also a prolific photographer. His works are on view at Savannah’s SCAD Museum. April 24–May 5 Tribeca Film Festival The lineup includes Georgetown, Christoph Waltz’s directorial debut. May 13 Christie’s New York The art market litmus test begins with Impressionist and Modern and ends with…

On the chilly New York morning when I meet Silvia Venturini Fendi, a front-page story in Women’s Wear Daily blares: “End of the ‘It’ Bag Era.” In an industry where accessories rule, this bit of news might unnerve a designer, but Fendi is unflappable. The creative director and caretaker of a 94-year-old dynasty, “a family of women, crazy about fashion,” she is not easily perturbed. Behind her table at the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca, she might even be grinning. The woman who did for handbags what Michelangelo did for marble when she created the Baguette in 1997 finds herself agreeing with the paper’s declaration. An “It” bag, you see, has a sell-by date, just one season to preen in the spotlight. “‘It’ bags are over,” she says. “The Baguette is…

I had a great-uncle who was a big watch collector, and I was always fascinated with the ones he wore. When he passed away he left me his collection of historic watches, including a 1914 trench watch from World War I (above, bottom left). The shrapnel guard, which is meant to protect the glass face from breaking during combat, is particularly beautiful. The stories my great-uncle told me about each timepiece helped foster my obsession—now I own about 45 watches. I bought my first one about 20 years ago: a Cartier Américaine (top left). I love its diamond bezel, which is classic and understated. Others were given to me by my late husband Jim, who was also an avid collector. An early Tiffany’s watch (top right) that belonged to his…

The pursuit of dewy skin was once quite a literal thing. Ancient tradition held that the droplets of moisture clinging to grass on May Day morning held complexion magic, and that maidens who washed their faces with them at dawn would be granted everlasting beauty. Modern methods offer more of a sure thing, with a new array of shimmery highlighters, ceramide-packed hydrators, radiance-boosting serums, and light-reflecting foundations that promise to bestow a beguiling glow—no traipsing through meadows required.…

ANDRÉ ASSOUS (THE ORIGINAL ESPADRILLE) Style is as timeless as tradition, which has run through the brand’s roots for more than 40 years. André Assous espadrilles are handcrafted with 100% natural jute and premium leather. Made in Spain, designed in New York. ANDREASSOUS.COM BRUNELLO CUCINELLI In collaboration with Aspen Art Museum, Town & Country and Brunello Cucinelli invited prominent arts and fashion patrons into the Aspen boutique for an afternoon of shopping. Notable community fixtures Nancy Magoon and Melony Lewis co-hosted the evening, which benefited Aspen Art Museum’s annual President’s Day fundraiser, The AAM Artist Party. SHOP.BRUNELLOCUCINELLI.COM TO ACCESS OUR EVENTS AND PROMOTIONS, GO TO TOWNANDCOUNTRYMAG.COM/INSIDER & FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM @TOWNANDCOUNTRYMAG…

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I’ve never been anywhere quite this quiet. From the deck of room 72 at Schloss Elmau the view is a tableau that’s more 16th-century pastoral than 21st-century retreat: in the far distance, the snow-blanketed Wetterstein Mountains, home of the Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak; below, forests of spruce and fir, a picturesque little stream rushing through it all. In midwinter, under a brilliant sun and the palest of blue skies, even the faraway murmur of the valley or the occasional chirp of a lark are muted. “For five days, three weeks ago, the snow never stopped,” my driver told me en route from the Munich airport. “Suddenly everything became even quieter.” Then again, that was the point from the very beginning. In 1914 the German philosopher and theologian Johannes Mueller built…

When it comes to talking about infidelity, there is, as in so much of life, a gender imbalance. If a married man has a long-term affair with a woman, we’re quick to dub that woman the man’s “mistress.” And yet with the roles reversed, there’s no equivalent term for a man who is a woman’s illicit lover. How did this come to be? Once upon a time, mistress was simply the feminine counterpart of master, both words having been borrowed from the French and ultimately going back to the Latin magister, meaning “chief.” In the Middle English of Chaucer’s time, a mistress was a woman in charge, whether she was in charge of a household, a school, or some other establishment. But by the 15th century men had started using…

BY VOICEMAIL “Hey, it’s Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor. Can you please take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone and may be calling you.” SYSTEM GLITCH Jaimee Grubbs, who claims she had a 31-month affair with Tiger Woods, played the above message, left on November 24, 2009, to the editors of Us Weekly. BY GMAIL Then–CIA director David Petraeus and his biographer, Paula Broadwell, shared a Gmail account that they used to write each other love letters. SYSTEM GLITCH While investigating an unrelated case against Broadwell in 2012, the FBI checked the drafts folder. BY CRAIGSLIST In 2011, married 54-year-old congressman Christopher Lee sent a shirtless photo of himself to a woman he had found on the website’s “Women for…

THIS LADY’S LIFE The many debuts of Kitty Spencer. You might know her father from the funeral of his sister, Princess Diana, where he delivered a passionate and widely quoted eulogy. But you likely know Lady Kitty Spencer from a much happier occasion: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, where the prince’s cousin (her father, the 9th Earl Spencer, was Diana’s younger brother) made her debut on the world stage—clad in Dolce & Gabbana with Bulgari diamonds around her neck, no less. Where had they been hiding her? Cape Town, actually, where the Spencer family moved when she was five years old. In 2013 she decided it was time to go to London, a city where, she believes, “it’s impossible to be bored.” It’s also a good base for the…

The world is vastly different from how it was in 1982, when Tootsie—the comedy that starred Dustin Hoffman as a struggling actor who finds fame by dressing as a woman—was released, but some things never change. Like the power of transformation, and how integral makeup—not to mention wigs, false eyelashes, oversize glasses, and that famous sequined dress—can be in turning us from who we are into who we want to be. Want proof? Look no further than Santino Fontana’s dressing room vanity, where the star of the new Broadway musical adaptation of Tootsie, at the Marquis Theatre, undergoes this season’s most impressive metamorphosis.…

We knew Lee best. She became part of the Town & Country family through her great friend, our contributing editor Alejandra Cicognani. I learned of her death on Saturday, February 16, and we all smoked Vogue cigarettes and drank Domaines Ott rosé that night in her honor and toasted her, an exquisite beauty, an exceptional wit, and a witness to history. The visionary Karl Lagerfeld died just a few days later, and by the end of the week Marella Agnelli, the style icon we had called the Last Swan, died at home in Italy. Some people like to say that everyone is replaceable. Simply not true. STELLENEVOLANDES@HEARST.COM @THEREALSTELLENE @STELLENEVOLANDES…

The usual Greek itinerary has long been: two days in Athens at the Hotel Grande Bretagne, to see the Acropolis, maybe with a daytrip to Delphi, where the famous oracle presided. And then it would be off, by ferry or plane, to some combination of islands. But this is changing with the recent opening of the Four Seasons Astir Palace on the Athenian Riviera, the 35-mile stretch of coast between the city and the temple of Poseidon on Cape Sounio, to the south. It is close enough to central Athens (30 minutes by car, 10 by helicopter) that you can base yourself there and forgo staying in Athens altogether. And its setting, on a pine-clad promontory that juts into the Saronic Gulf, might just give the Aegean islands a run…

For more than a year, London-based jewelry designer Cora Sheibani hunted for fluorescent gemstones that seem normal but that under ultraviolet light emit laserlike beams and change color. She used luminescent pink “Jedi” spinels and rare blue “Smurf” diamonds to reinterpret her popular jewelry designs and inspire new ones like the Gugelhupf ring, seen here. “I don’t rank gemstones the way most people do. For me, every gem has its perfect time and place,” she says. “Diamonds, rubies, and spinels stand out in UV light like nothing else.” London’s Louisa Guinness Gallery is presenting an exhibition of the pieces, titled “Glow,” which will come to New York’s Colnaghi Gallery from May 16 to 23. CORA SHEIBANI GUGELHUPF RING (FROM $20,000), LOUISAGUINNESSGALLERY.COM…

Greek jewelry designer Nikos Koulis likes to push the limits of his craft in his Athens atelier—no small challenge, as goldsmithing has been flourishing in his hometown since 3000 BC. Though Koulis’s previous Art Deco–inspired pieces, resplendent with colorful stones, have been saluted as paragons of design, more recently the master jeweler was intrigued by the idea of a fluidity not reminiscent of any particular era. To make the Feelings collection he experimented with taking a classic gold snake chain and twisting it into intricate knots set with diamonds. The palette is simple, and the effect is indeed timeless.…

You know you’ve arrived when you smell the yeast. Row upon row of plump blue grapes, ready for picking each evening, greet you as you enter the town of Healdsburg. During the day all is quiet and bright. Pristine pickup trucks that look borrowed from a Ralph Lauren photo shoot are parked at nearly every property, while solar panels and tall evergreens line the dust-covered roads. It’s early October, harvest season in Sonoma, California, and Karen Behnke is just getting started. Four months ago she and her husband, Dr. Howard Luria, a recently retired cardiac surgeon, purchased a hilly 20-acre property with an expansive view of the Dry Creek Valley, as well as 10,000 grapevines and 350 olive trees. It has been quickly transformed into Juice Beauty Farm, a cozy…

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“A writer reached out to me recently, wanting to write a TV show about my life,” Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey says over blueberry pancakes at the Sunset Tower Bar, the famed canteen on L.A.’s Sunset Strip, which often serves as her office these days. “But I don’t know which part she’s interested in.” Where to start? There’s her atypical childhood: Grey was born in San Fran cisco 41 years ago to hippie parents and by 12 had lived in a teepee on an Oregon reservation and in a Quaker community in the Smoky Mountains. But it’s the past two years of Grey’s life that have seen enough heartache and high drama to fuel several seasons of a hit series. A gamine beauty with a pixie haircut and penetrating brown eyes, Grey…

SUNDAY 1– 2 p.m. Personal training involving body work, weights, and Pilates 2:30–3:30 p.m. Physio Relax Massage in the Retreat 6 p.m. Scamorza ravioli, braised veal in the Retreat’s restaurant Tutto Mondo MONDAY 1:30–2 p.m. Fitness assessment in the Gym Schloss 2–3 p.m. Personal training in the Schloss 4 p.m. Session to measure heart and circulatory performance 6 p.m. Swordfish with beans, Australian tenderloin in the Retreat’s restaurant Summit TUESDAY 12:15–1:15 p.m. Traditional Chinese medicine consultation 1:30–2:30 p.m. Personal training in the Gym Schloss 4:15–5:00 p.m. Acupuncture in the Badehaus 6 p.m. Roasted duck salad, steamed seabass in the Thai restaurant Fidelio WEDNESDAY 1:15–2:15 p.m. Personal Pilates in the Gym Schloss 2:30–3:15 p.m. Acupuncture in the Badehaus 5:45–6:45 p.m. Traditional Chinese medicine counseling 8 p.m. Organic foie gras, Karwendel venison…

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Cheating is so old-fashioned. Even the language around it is dated (see “Don’t Call Me His Mistress,” page 103). Most people considering infidelity think they have two options: Do I step out on the DL, or do I settle for companionship? There’s a third option for couples who want it both ways, and it’s called consensual non-monogamy. The term may sound like a turn of phrase out of Goop, but it has been in the academic lexicon since the early 2000s and in practice since the Romantic poets started preaching free love in the 19th century. Essentially, CNM (naturally there’s a nifty shorthand) encompasses a range of arrangements that allow couples to explore outside the conventional contours of their primary union: open relationships, swinging, polyamory. In 2005 one survey found…

Dear baby sussex, Welcome to the world! First and foremost, my sincere apologies for not using your proper royal title. There has been much speculation over how you will be styled. Will your parents request an official designation, making you a prince or princess? Or perhaps your father, always something of a begrudging recipient of his own status, has chosen to spare you, instead opting for a simple lord or lady. No matter! We will toast your arrival with a gin and Dubonnet cocktail, a favorite of your great-grandmother’s. And in honor of your grand entrance, we’re offering a quick primer on what you can expect from the world. YOUR GREAT-GRANDMOTHER You will meet many people in the coming weeks, but none is more important than dear old corgi-lovin’ Lizzy—officially…

1 IT’S ALREADY A HIT This revival of the 76-year-old Rodgers and Hammerstein musical opens on Broadway on April 7, after sold-out runs at Bard College and St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The New York Times called the latter “thrilling.” 2 YOU’LL KNOW THE SONGS The musical—which follows a group of Sooner State homesteaders as they plan a box social, fall in love, and, yes, fight to the death—has won a Pulitzer Prize, spawned an Oscar-winning film, and launched countless high school productions. In many ways it’s the quintessential American musical. 3 BUT IT’S NOT THE SHOW YOU DID AT SUMMER CAMP Director Daniel Fish’s dark adaptation brings out the show’s focus on the sometimes frayed fabric of America. It feels entirely contemporary and makes it worth considering whether Oklahoma!…

I think last summer tipped me over the edge. Maybe it was all the “Rosé All Day” T-shirts or the “Rosé S’il Vous Plait” sweatshirts or the “Stop and Smell the Rosé” baseball caps. Granted, my antipathy was sometimes aggravated by the fact that I had drunk too much cheap rosé the night before at some garden party or movie screening in the Hamptons where the only other wine on offer was prosecco. Ouch. Rosé may look pretty in the glass, but a cheap rosé hangover is an ugly beast. Maybe it’s the residual sugar, or maybe it’s just the fact that the average rosé is so insipid that I drank 18 glasses without noticing it at the time. This summer I’m having “No Way Rosé” T-shirts printed for my…

Italian for “little garden,” the giardinetto emerged as a jewelry style in the late 17th century in the form of rings and brooches. A resurgence in the 1920s included earrings, bracelets, and necklaces wrought as opulent jeweled bouquets that were perfectly suited to the Art Deco era. Ever since, a devoted following of connoisseurs (including Queen Elizabeth) ensures that the giardinetto remains fresh.…

Isn’t there a saying, the only real luxury is time? Between going to the gym to see my trainer in Brooklyn, and then sessions with my acupuncturist in Tribeca, therapist in Midtown, hair colorist in Flatiron, and masseuse on the Lower East Side, not to mention the nail salons, meditation studios, and nutritionist offices I frequent, commuting between wellness appointments takes up more of my day than I should publicly admit. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose? Emerging from Joanna Vargas’s oasis of a salon with glowing facial-fresh skin only to sit in traffic for half an hour is an effective way to deflate my mood. Luckily, we live in boom times for concierge wellness, where cooks, meditation gurus, hair stylists, and even doctors and nurses will come to your house,…

A love of nature infuses everything the Chantecaille women do, from the rose-strewn print of their recent collaboration with luxury British wallpaper house de Gournay to the seasonal makeup collections they create to benefit wildlife conservation (sales of three new Lip Veil shades, launching this month, will support the Asia-focused Elephant Family foundation). Brand founder Sylvie and her daughters Olivia and Alex, Chantecaille’s creative director and vice president of sales and promotion, respectively, take a moment to reflect on family values, and how beauty is best when it gives back. Olivia and Alex, what’s one thing you have learned from your mother? OC: To listen to my inner voice and follow my instincts, especially when it comes to creativity. And she has also told me that I should always wear…

TAURUS APRIL 21–MAY 21 Think new plans through, and launch them near the new Moon of the 4th. Your enthusiasm is going to draw more support than you expect, but be ready to make realistic adjustments midmonth. With Venus, your muse, entering your birth sign on the 15th, it’s time to go after your dreams and charm your way to new success. GEMINI MAY 22–JUNE 21 Even if others think you’re being capricious, give yourself permission to change your mind repeatedly. You are at a crossroads, and it’s time to reset your compass and dare to follow your hunches. The solutions you finally arrive at—especially around a personal dilemma—promise to set your world to rights. CANCER JUNE 22–JULY 22 You seem at odds with the world as May wafts in,…

Less than an hour after Jeff Bezos and his wife of two decades announced their divorce in January, CNBC was already asking, “How much could MacKenzie Bezos get?” It’s the $70 billion question. The Bezoses are married in Washington, a community property state, and experts say his entire fortune—as much as $140 billion—could be split right down the middle. What could cause a billionaire to sacrifice that much money? For Bezos, as for a string of magnates and potentates over the past decade, it’s a story as old as time: the siren song of another woman. Bezos’s affair with a TV personality, Lauren Sanchez, spiraled into a tawdry tabloid drama—with National Enquirer boss David Pecker in a starring role and a cameo by a “below-the-belt” selfie—that threatened the mogul’s reputation…

That day we read no further in the book.” So go the last words uttered by the notorious 13th-century adulteress Francesca da Rimini in Dante’s Inferno, in the second circle of which, reserved for the Lustful, Francesca and her married lover, Paolo—the handsome brother of her crippled husband—are consigned to everlasting damnation. Locked in an eternal embrace, destined to waft for all eternity through the air of Hell together (just as, in life, they were carried away by waves of passion), the lovers pause for Dante while Francesca relates how she and Paolo came to consummate their illicit passion. Long attracted to each other, she recalls, the pair were sitting and reading the romantic tale of Lancelot and Guinevere when, at the very moment that the story’s adulterous characters finally…

THE DOORMAN If someone is visiting you regularly—especially when your spouse is out—the doorman will notice. But most likely he won’t tell, according to J. Antonio, a New York City doorman who made the 2017 film Night Job about the profession. “We see everything,” he says, “but unless there’s a reason for it, we don’t get involved.” Remember that the next time you tip. THE MAÎTRE D’ “It’s pretty apparent in the restaurant industry when people are trying to be discreet,” says Rosalina Iannucci, of Robert’s Steakhouse in Atlantic City. Customers will make off-the-books reservations, ask for tables in social Siberia, and offer to pay the bill in cash. But discretion works both ways. “I’ve trained my staff to never say ‘Nice to see you again,’” Iannucci says, “because it…

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