Erik Maza

On Tuesday, the world’s largest furniture fair, the Salone del Mobile, opens to the public in Milan, turning the city into a global destination for the design elite. Some 300,000 visitors are expected at the Rho Fiera fairgrounds, but many more are flying in for the broader events of Milan Design Week, including the 90th anniversary celebration of MolteniC and the unveiling of Design Ancora, a home extension of Gucci creative director Sabato De Sarno’s debut collection for the Italian label. Wit…

The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, who is known for whimsical and ravishing large-scape sculptures that give Jeff Koons a run for his money, began her practice some three decades ago. But it’s only in the past handful of years that she’s found mainstream attention outside the art world thanks to expansive collaborations with the likes of Christian Dior—she’s conceived sets for the house—and Roche Bobois, which commissioned her to design its booth at last year’s Salone del Mobile fair and B…

Play the song “Ancora, Ancora, Ancora,” by the great Italian diva Mina, at any club in Milan, and the ragazzi will still, nearly 50 years after its release, breathlessly sing along. “Farmi morire ancora/Perché ti amo ancora,” the chanteuse croons. “Make me die again/Because I still love you.” The translation doesn’t quite do the word ancora justice. Literally it means again, but as the lyrics suggest, it also evokes unfinished business, a craving for someone or something that you tried once and…

Where are we going? Venice is never far from the cultural conversation. Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, now dominating the awards circuit, first screened at the city’s 80th film festival. The milestone was marked by Cartier, a main sponsor for three years, with a commission from musician Solrey for the legendary Teatro la Fenice, the first effort in the maison’s new initiative to support the upcoming season at the opera house.What are we wearing? The season’s signature work is Rossini’s Barbiere…

In some corners of the fashion industry, reporters speculate about the future of Italian luxury as it faces competition from French conglomerates. The conventional wisdom has it that investors who value the French model of quick-change creative directors worry that Milan’s monarchs are flagging because they refuse to plan for succession. Never mind the flawed premise of that argument—during September’s Milan Fashion Week, some retailers reported that their Italian business was actually stronger…

An event at the United Nations is always a serious affair. It’s even more sober if it’s held on September 11. But a gathering on that day this year was anything but. Michael Kors wouldn’t have had it any other way. There were diplomats and there were New York Fashion Week busy bees, some fresh off his show earlier in the day. “People who rarely encounter each other, all together for one reason: to fight hunger,” he says. “It was special.” The occasion wasn’t just a special party, it was marking…

During Hollywood’s Golden Age, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer boasted it had “more stars than there are in heaven.” Old Louis B. would have a hard time recognizing his stomping grounds today, not to say the entertainment firmament writ large. Where you can be certain to find a megawatt constellation of stars in 2023 is front row at a fashion show. A Chanel extravaganza, to be exact. There they all were—Margot Robbie, Kristen Stewart, TC cover star Chloë Sevigny—on the Paramount lot to take in a cruise col…

It’s been a little over a year and a half since New York luxury’s MVP played a home game, but Ralph Lauren returned to the fashion week calendar on Friday night with enough star power to light up Flushing Meadows.Jennifer Lopez, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, and the queen of the TikTokracy herself, TC cover star Sofia Richie Grainge witnessed a spring 2024 collection itself paraded by megawatt models, including Christy Turlington and Natalia Vodianova. Judging by the expression on Keaton’s face…

The Luxury Collection hotel has a distinguished royal pedigree and features the most private garden in the bustling Spanish capital.

There is a reason this 207-year-old gem in the heart of the City of Light became known as the “Hotel of Kings.”