It’s not quite the Factory but the 1880s Lexington Avenue townhouse where Andy Warhol created the Campbell’s Soup and Dollar Bill series just sold. In 1959, Warhol paid $60,000 for the home he shared with his mother. The recent asking price was $4.295 million. Meanwhile, the Brooklyn Heights home where Truman Capote penned both Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood is still up for grabs for a cool $15.9 million. Capote rented the house’s garden apartment from 1955 to 1965 from Broadway art director Oliver Smith and was known to throw wild parties when the director left town, pretending that the house was his own.
Truman Capote’s former home in Brooklyn Heights
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All the frenzy over Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding got Tory thinking about great royal weddings from the past. Here, the towering wedding cake of William’s great grandparents the Duke and Duchess of York (and future King George VI and Queen Mother). It measured over 10-feet-tall and weighed more than 770 pounds. The Yorks’ 1923 nuptials were heralded as “The Wedding of the Century.” Read more in Tory’s latest for the Huffington Post, It’s A Royal Affair.
More great advice (and vintage family pics) from our Tastemakers and their moms… See the feature…
Cotton candy, pink lemonade and mini donuts were on the menu.
Our Seoul window says it all.
Korean super group Girls Generation
Models in Spring 2011
Korean actress Kim Sa-rang
It’s been one year since Tory inaugurated our Chung-dam flagship in Seoul, Korea. To celebrate, Samsung helped us throw a birthday party, replete with pink cotton candy. Click here for more from the evening.
The Man Repeller shares great style and a sense of humor with her mother Laura and grandmother Leyla.
My mother is… My #1 fan. I’m hers too.
My favorite thing to do with my mother and grandmother is… Go to Nespresso. Go cafe-chic’ing! There was a cafe in Paris called Cafe Chic that I was obsessed with when I was younger, so instead of chic I say cafe-chic, and I’ve turned it into a verb….so we go “cafe-chic’ing.”
Lessons I’ve learned from my mother and grandmother… From my mother: The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, wear all the harem pants you want. From my grandmother: Water is for washing, always drink champagne.
Style tips I’ve learned… From my mother: Always invest in shoes and handbags, you can improvise the rest with meager means. From my grandmother: More is more is more is more. Trust everything Hermès.
My mother’s and grandmother’s style is… My mother is wildly graceful and elegant, we can’t believe she birthed me. My grandmother is a lot more like me, or I’m more like her. She takes risks, loves color and shoes and suede, would ombré her hair if my grandfather would let her, owns various versions of leopard print outerwear. I take a lot from my mom and I get all my cool vintage stuff from my grandma. People always ask me, “Where do you shop for vintage? And I say my grandma’s closet — it’s great and it’s free!”
Our Mother’s Day plans… Every year we do the same thing: It’s a big brunch at a restaurant on 70th street called Sette Mezzo. Me, my three brothers, my parents, my grandparents, my aunt, her daughters and their significant others. It’s a good time.
Equal parts beauty, brains and heart, supermodel Christy Turlington Burns is raising global awareness about the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR). Here, she talks about what inspired her to film the documentary No Woman, No Cry, which debuts on Oprah’s OWN network on May 7th. See the feature…
The TriBeCa Film Festival is hosting L’Amour Fou (or Mad Love), Pierre Thoretton’s documentary about the legendary designer and his longtime partner Pierre Bergé. Insightful and honest, it’s an intimate look at one of fashion’s most beloved artists and an epic love story. We can’t get enough of Yves Saint Laurent, from the beauty of his Majorelle Garden in Marrakesh (still meticulously cared for by Bergé) to his iconic bow-blouses — a favorite of Tory’s.
We love Serena Altschul’s segments on CBS Sunday Morning so we jumped at the chance to interview her about graduating from MTV to CBS, her insider’s take on the Tribeca Film Festival (she’s a board member) and her love for the New York City subway ….
