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As they drove up to the house on a winding dirt road lined with lambs and donkeys, Borromeo says, “we looked at each other and we were like, ‘Oh no, we’re in trouble.’” They were immediately charmed. “It was a project.” Even though the 50-year-old building needed work — it had been unoccupied for a decade — the couple knew they’d discovered something worth preserving. In 1973, following a trip to Tokyo, the Italian poet Gianni Malabarba and his wife, both influential art collectors, had hired a local landscape designer to construct a weekend home inspired by their time abroad. The result is an Italian dwelling in the Japanese vernacular that would make as much sense in Kyoto as it would in California. Although they added a fireplace in the living room and redivided the rooms, they were careful, as Ferri says, “to keep the spirit alive.” But, says Borromeo, “we changed basically everything.”

Persons: Borromeo, ’, ”, Ferri, they’d, Gianni Malabarba, “ Locations: Tokyo, Italian, Kyoto, California

☆ Men’s Tights Aren’t Just for Elizabethan Aristocrats Anymore
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Nick Haramis | More About Nick Haramis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

AFTER SATIRIZING EVERYTHING from the western to the Stone Age, Mel Brooks in 1993 released the movie “Robin Hood: Men in Tights,” a sendup of “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” which had come out two years earlier. Although Brooks’s parody was uniformly idiotic — Maid Marian wears an Everlast chastity belt; Blinkin, a blind servant, gropes a Braille edition of Playboy — many of the laughs were at the expense of so-called feygeles, a Yiddish slur for gay men. During a musical number with a cancan interlude, the heroic outlaw assures the audience he’s not one. “We may look like pansies,” he and his Merry Men sing, “but don’t get us wrong or else we’ll put out your lights. To protect the social order, sumptuary laws were passed that discouraged commoners from dressing above their class.

Persons: Mel Brooks, Robin Hood, “ Robin Hood :, Marian, ”, we’ll, William Shakespeare, Richard Thompson Ford Organizations: Playboy

VACCARELLO’S DEBUT FOR Saint Laurent wasn’t as rapturously received as Yves Saint Laurent’s for Dior. “Anthony has been scrutinized and told his dresses were too vulgar or too sexy,” he says. At the beginning of his tenure at Saint Laurent, it sometimes seemed like Vaccarello was art directing someone else’s movie. Illuminated by the soft glow of chandeliers — a reference to the ballroom at Paris’s InterContinental hotel, the frequent site of Saint Laurent’s presentations — the women summoned the femmes fatales of Helmut Newton photographs. “Now that I’m a free man, I feel inclined to say that I think that what Anthony has done with Saint Laurent has been positively brilliant.

Persons: Saint Laurent wasn’t, rapturously, Yves Saint Laurent’s, Saint, Flinn, “ Anthony, Vaccarello, Saint Laurent, Luchino Visconti, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, can’t, he’s, Helmut Newton, Henri Pinault, ”, Tom Ford, Anthony Organizations: Saint Laurent, Dior, Montaigne, —, Eiffel, InterContinental Locations: Saint, Malibu , Calif

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