In August 1967, a 50-year-old Irving Penn rented a building in Sausalito, California—a picturesque Bay Area enclave straddling San Francisco—with north-facing windows and made it his studio. The renowned photographer—who, …
Iris Apfel, the interior design and fashion insider who stepped into the spotlight in her 80s thanks to interest in her maximalist personal style, has died at the age of …
Who We asked three Parisian creatives for their musings on the city of light: Lolita Jacobs, an art director and co-founder of the creative agency Jacobs+Talbourdet-Napoleone; Pierre-Marie Agin, a designer …
In early 2015, Swiss Beatz was studying the wall texts for Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, Brooklyn Museum’s retrospective of the portraitist’s career. As he has told the story multiple …
Ever wish you could text the most stylish people in the world to ask them for their lists of things to do in the places they know best? Here are …
New York might be known as the city that never sleeps, but one could just as easily call it the city that’s always shopping. From the mom-and-pop shops in the …
Visiting Ding Shilun’s studio, in an industrial area of west London, is like stepping into a dream—or, possibly, a fantastical nightmare. In one huge canvas, a naked man leans back …
On a late December afternoon in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, Loie Hollowell ushers me inside her immaculate studio and introduces me to her tabby, Felix. Christmas is days away, …
The first day Kenny Scharf visited New York, in 1977, he found himself at Food, the fabled artist-run SoHo restaurant, when a commotion outside alerted him to the fact that …
When he was a teenager, Russell Tovey found himself terrified when he flipped on Queer as Folk and saw a scene involving what the Sex and The City girls might …