Mr. Blasberg’s Etiquette: Travel Style
Very Classy‘s Derek Blasberg on how to look like a seasoned traveler at the airport this summer:Mental State: With a smile on her face and a zip in her step, a lady is more likely to get that complimentary upgrade. Eyewear: Sunglasses to cover superficial signs of tiredness are a good idea. Watch: A lady is […]
Ask Tory: Summer Essentials
Q: I’m getting ready for summer Fridays and long weekends. What are the five things I need? — Daniela, Maryland A: My boys and I are counting down the days — we spend our weekends in Southampton. We go to clam bakes, we fish, and my boys surf (I watch), so layers are essential — […]
Style Tip: The Long, Hot Summer (Dress)
First, we saw Brooklyn Decker — who is doing the rounds for not one, but two new summer movies What to Expect When You’re Expecting and Battleship — wearing our Bevin Dress, custom-made for her in the same mint color as our Beckett Dress. Then one of our Facebook fans, Jennifer Addison Youngs Harris, asked us what […]
Spotlight On: Barbara Bush & Jenna Bush Hager
Barbara Bush (above, left) and Jenna Bush Hager share that bond that only twins can. They call each other “Sissy” and are both devoted to social service. Jenna, a contributing correspondent for NBC’s Today show and a UNICEF Next Generation chair, is launching the Novo Project, dedicated to social change. Barbara is the CEO of Global Health […]
Best Dressed: Feyt’s Ferebee Taube & Eleanor Ylvisaker
Feyt’s founders Ferebee Taube and Eleanor Ylvisaker are taking the personal stylist experience online and talk about spring’s hottest color.
Book of the Week: The Barnes Foundation
Matisse, Picasso and Modigliani moved to a new building in downtown Philadelphia this weekend. The legendary Barnes Foundation opened in its new location, allowing art lovers to view the over 2,000 paintings and objects that were meticulously collected by Dr. Albert C. Barnes — an early 20th Century scientist and entrepreneur with an eye for […]
What’s Your Sign? Gemini
Astrology expert Susie Cox tells us what to expect this month now that we are in Tory’s sun sign, Gemini (May 20 – June 20).
Spotlight On: Rachel Lee Hovnanian
We smelled fresh coffee and pecan pie at Rachel Lee Hovnanian’s MUD PIE exhibition, but found out they are all manufactured in a chemist’s lab, not a kitchen. In the interactive exhibition, at Leila Heller Gallery (through June 2), Rachel asks, “What’s real, what’s not?” Everything is beautifully fake, including the flowers — metal floral sculptures. We asked Rachel, photographed here in front of Gates of Narcissus series, about it all….
Tory’s Playlist: Best of Wes
Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom premieres today at the Cannes Film Festival, and Randall Poster — Wes’ music supervisor (and our contributing music editor) — will be there with him. “Doing the music for Wes’s films is always an adventure and these projects have taken me all over the world,” Randall says. “What distinguishes the soundtracks is how indelible the music is from the storytelling. No one uses music better than Wes.” We hope Wes brings home the Palme d’Or. Here, Randall’s favorite songs from Wes’s movies.
Inspiration: Summer’s Duriez Print
Rorschach test: What do you see when you look at this image? Our print of the season — the Duriez — is a floral take on camouflage in bright, painterly colors. Tory was an art history major in college, and often draws inspiration from the art world, which can be seen in this abstract print. […]
Insider’s Guide to Singapore: Vincenzo La Torre
Vincenzo La Torre has lived in five countries, but now calls Singapore home. To help us celebrate our new boutique in Singapore, the Deputy Editor of Harper’s Bazaar Singapore tells us where to go and what to see.
Video: The Summer Scarf, 3 Ways
A scarf for summer? Yes. It’s an essential layering piece for stylishly handling unexpected weather if you’re by the water or traveling. We asked our stylist to show us three simple ways to tie our bright mixed-print scarf for that nonchalant-chic everyone in Paris seems to have naturally mastered. Want to tie one on? Shop […]
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn On: Keith Haring
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, our contributing art expert, recently visited the Brooklyn Museum’s Keith Haring exhibit. Here, her take-away.
Mother’s Day: Dr. Sam on Enduring Advice
Dr. Samantha Boardman discovered that her mom Pauline’s advice about combing your hair, standing straight and smiling is the best medicine. (Dr. Sam is the one above in pink, with ears, with her sister Serena and mom Pauline Baker Pitt.)
Mother’s Day: Jeanne Yang & Family
“Motherhood is happiness — more rewarding and joyful then anything I have ever done,” says Jeanne Yang, Hollywood stylist and co-designer of Holmes & Yang, with Katie Holmes. For Mother’s Day, we photographed her at her Los Angeles home with her twin daughters Zoey (left) and Sydney Cort and her mother Helen Hahn, each wearing […]
Mother’s Day: Susan Sarandon & Eva Amurri Martino on Activism
Susan Sarandon is as famous for her activism as she is her acting. She’s passed both a sense of on-screen timing and social responsibility to her daughter Eva Amurri Martino — they’ve played mother-daughter in movies like The Banger Sisters and the upcoming (appropriately titled) Mother’s Day, as well as campaigned together against human trafficking. For the Tory Blog, Susan and Eva discuss what they’ve learned from each other.
Ann Dexter-Jones On: Music & Family
Jewelry designer Ann Dexter-Jones is the rock ’n roll matriarch of five musically-inclined Mark, Charlotte and Samantha Ronson and Alexander and Annabelle Dexter-Jones. Here, what she loves about being a mom and the lessons – other than music appreciation — she hopes she has passed on.
Mother’s Day: Karen Finerman On…Women’s Finances
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, mother of two sets of twins contributor on CNBC’s Fast Money — Karen Finerman is our definition of a modern-day woman. Here, the Co-founder and CEO of Metropolitan Capital Advisors, a New York-based investment management firm, kicks off the first in a new series on personal finance. Her seasonally-appropriate topic? What her own mother taught her about money.
Most Wanted: Woven Clutch
Rattan is as essential to summer as espadrilles and sunglasses. We dressed up our Woven Clutch with high-gloss patent and metallic leather, making it an easy evening-out accessory. We love it paired with our long goddess gowns for a dressy look with a laid-back vibe. We’re all about the clutch silhouette this season for carefree summer […]
Tory’s Playlist: Mother’s Day 2012
A playlist to celebrate the women we love most — moms!
Mother’s Day: Lydia Carron On Loving What You Do
On the set of our Pre-Fall Lookbook shoot (live on June 19), model Lydia Carron told us the best career — and life — advice she ever received came from her mom Cathy. Once a banker, Kathy translated her love of knitting into a design and book business. “Do what you are passionate about and what […]
Mother’s Day: Georgina Chapman On Style
For Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, photographed with her toddler India, great style is in the genes.
Day in the Life: Rashida Jones
Put this on your must-see list this week: Celeste and Jesse Forever, a romantic comedy starring Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones (who also wrote the screenplay) about a couple who splits but isn’t quite yet…separated. They still live together — she in the house; he in the backyard studio — while navigating the tricky terrain of post-divorce friendship. The reviews are in, and they’re great.
Earlier, Rashida gave us a sneak peek into her life while she was working on the film, which she wrote with best friend Will McCormack, earlier this year. Also on the day’s agenda: the Met Gala and Amy Poehler.
David Netto On: Entertaining
Architect and designer David Netto learned everything he knows about entertaining and design from his mom, Kate Netto.