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Antiques Roadshow, the 44-year-running reality series in which inheritors find out if their family jewels are invaluable heirlooms or passed-down clutter, may have you believe that the only entry point into the rarefied world of antiquities…

From late 2018 to late 2019, design curator and author Glenn Adamson sat down with the renowned artist Gaetano Pesce for a series of interviews. It was a daunting task: the 83-year-old Pesce is known as a private figure whose public…

In the era of Pinterest and Instagram, it’s easy to find interior inspiration with a flick of the index finger—sometimes, well, too easy. The endless scroll is just that, serving up an onslaught of random photos that often lack originality.…

Flower textiles, top row: Abigaille, 1981; Allegra, 1982; Cattleya, 1969; Fulvia, 1975; Gagliarda, 1966; K 135, 1988. Middle row: Franca 2, 1970; Libellule, 1981; Bianca, 1969; Kalinka, 1990; Kenny, 2001; Kathleen, 1986. Bottom row:…

Out in May, Fashion Icons 2: Fashion Lives with Fern Mallis (Rizzoli), should be required reading for anyone contemplating a career in fashion. Contrary to appearances, a life in the industry is not all about glamour, runway shows, models,…

Years before I started as an accessories assistant at Vogue, my mom and I would go to see the Costume Institute exhibitions together, and it became a tradition I looked forward to every summer. We’d meet at the uptown 6 train platform at…

Anna-Marie Kellen, Associate Chief Photographer in The Met’s Imaging Department, has photographed selected looks from “Lexicon” on unadorned mannequins, in a way that highlights the objectness and construction of the garments. They are then…

Out next month, The Men’s Fashion Book (Phaidon) takes stock of where menswear has been and suggests where it might be going at a time when the industry is heading in uncharted directions. Some of the changes in menswear relate to new…

“My first memory of her was probably her scent,” Aerin Lauder recalls of her grandmother, cosmetics pioneer Estée Lauder. Not a specific scent, she clarifies, as Estée was forever test-driving perfume samples for her eponymous company to…