Erik Maza

The First Lady was the surprise guest at the label's Spring 2025 show, staged in Bridgehampton on Thursday night.

An uptown bible celebrates the 40th birthday of a downtown darling with a first-of-its-kind magazine collab and a cast of brats, chanteuses, legends and grande dames.

Here at TC, we pride ourselves on our discerning eye for quality. With Tried True, our editors will give you an inside look at the pieces they simply cannot live without.A couple of years ago, the actor Jeremy Allen White, the star of Hulu’s The Bear, shared in an interview the maker of the binder he’s been using for years to store his scripts. “Il Bisonte,” he said. “They work in leather. They also make bags and stuff.“To say that Il Bisonte makes bags is to say that Mercedes dabbles in automo…

For the past eight years, the French house has staged its resort shows at increasingly extraordinary design destinations. The latest was in Barcelona.

A new name is making the social rounds lately. It’s not an influencer. Or an “It” girl. It’s the spirits label LALO Tequila. From the Grammy Awards party circuit to the shows of New York Fashion Week, the handsome transparent bottle with the blue and gold band seems to be ubiquitous. On May 14, it’ll be the tequila of choice at the annual Whitney Museum Gala. Founded in 2017 by friends David Carballido and Lalo Gonzalez, the brand is made traditionally in Jalisco, Mexico and bills itself “a trul…

Florals? For spring? I thought we’d gone over this years ago. It’s cheesy. It’s predictable. It’s not groundbreaking. The 2024 Met Gala would have earned an eye roll from Miranda Priestly. The red carpet was awash in flowers—rosettes, velvet orchids, silver carnations that seemed to be swallowing Kim Kardashian like a Venus flytrap. There were flowers on ball gowns, on jewels, on ludicrously capacious headpieces. On men and women, on pop stars and actors, on Kris Jenner and Lauren Sánchez. The c…

Highlights from the 62nd edition of the Salone del Mobile, the world’s largest furniture fair, and the rest of Milan Design Week.

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…

For one afternoon in February, the hottest taqueria in Mexico City was inside a former lumberyard in the neighborhood of San Miguel Chapultepec, not far from Luis Barragán’s famed Casa Gilardi. It was there, at Kurimanzutto, that the art world gathered during the 20th anniversary of the influential Zona Maco fair to toast Gabriel Orozco, who had just opened an acclaimed exhibit that was a shared milestone for both the artist and the gallery he helped establish 25 years ago. Back then, co-founder…

Town Country’s April 2024 issue is all about the home, with cover-to-cover coverage dedicated to design and its many faces. Among them is Robin Standefer, the co-founder with Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams, the design firm best known for London’s NoMad hotel, New York’s famous Boom Boom Room, and the renovation of the British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Oh, and Gwyneth Paltrow is also a fan. TC invited Standefer to creative-direct, exclusively for the issue, a feast for t…

You can’t blame fashion for getting into the documentary business. Everybody else already has. Michael Jordan, Jennifer Lopez, Prince Harry and Meghan, they’ve all participated in recent documentaries that breathlessly promise—for the first time!—to share their side of the story as they experienced it, not as reported by pesky tabloids. Except these projects, despite their varying degrees of gravity, are not 20 Days in Mariupol. They are not interested, as that film’s director Mstyslav Chernov p…

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…

The Hermès of paint partnered with the New York fashion designer on its latest paint collection, Carte Blanche.

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 couturier and costume designer discusses a new exhibit, his upcoming 2025 retrospective, and why young designers should stop promoting logos and egos.