On Monday I was invited to talk about the haute couture collections on the France 24 culture show. I shared the stage with the author Nicholas Evans whose first novel “The Horse Whisperer” became one of the best selling books of all time. It was an interesting pairing, but Mr. Evans is a lovely man [...]

Brazil Is Online — but It Isn’t Used to Shopping There Yet

The Cariocas, as the residents of Rio de Janiero call themselves, like to joke that the people of São Paulo, the Paulistanos, love to shop because they don’t have any beaches. That might be true. But little of that luxury shopping — in São Paulo or in the rest of Brazil — is happening online. [...]

In this video that I produced my colleague Suzy Menkes, the fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune, speaks with Carla Sozzani about how she created a retail concept store that blends art, fashion, music and design under one roof.

Remembering Diana Vreeland: A New Documentary Celebrates Her Life

Diana Vreeland, who died in 1989, is hardly an unknown figure in the worlds of fashion and journalism, with several books and even a critically acclaimed one-woman play having explored her influence as an editor at Harper’s Bazaar and then at Vogue, and later her ground-breaking work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its [...]

My First Day.. and Night....at the 2011 Venise Film Festival

I had a great first day here at the Venice Film Festival in Italy. After a bit of window shopping in the Piazza San Marco I headed over to the Lido to catch my first film. This is the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival and it has almost two dozen films in competition [...]