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☆ Roberto Cavalli, Designer Who Celebrated Excess, Dies at 83
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Steven Kurutz | More About Steven Kurutz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Roberto Cavalli, the Italian-born fashion designer who celebrated glamour and excess, sending models down the runway and actresses onto red carpets wearing leopard-print dresses, bejeweled distressed jeans, satin corsets and other unapologetically flashy clothes, has died. His company announced the death on Instagram but provided no details. Mr. Cavalli’s signature style — “molto sexy, molto animal print and molto, molto Italiano,” as the British newspaper The Independent once described it — remained essentially unchanged throughout his long career. But he skillfully reinvented his clothes for different eras, enjoying several renaissances and building a global lifestyle brand in the process. When the model Naomi Campbell wore a pair during a runway show in 1993, stretch jeans became a huge trend.

Persons: Roberto Cavalli, —, Cavalli, minidresses, St . Tropez, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Naomi Campbell Organizations: British, Independent Locations: Italian, molto, ”, St ., Europe

☆ Prince Fashion Items, Including the Ruffled Shirt, Go Up for Auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Steven Kurutz | More About Steven Kurutz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Twenty years ago, Bertrand Brillois, a Parisian businessman, began contacting seamstresses, costume designers, fabric dyers, production assistants and others who had worked for Prince. He told them that he thought Prince was not only a musical genius but also a fashion icon, and he wanted to buy clothing, jewelry and other accessories designed or worn by him. The many items acquired by Mr. Brillois over the years included an ankle-length white cashmere coat that Prince had custom-made by a tailor in Nice, France, when he was filming the 1986 movie “Under the Cherry Moon.” The coat, along with more than 200 other items, is on sale as part of the Fashion of Prince, an online auction that is accepting bids through Nov. 16. The sale, held by RR Auction, also features one of Prince’s signature wardrobe items: a white, high-necked, silk shirt with elaborate ruffles, puffy sleeves and faux pearl buttons. Prince wore it, according to the auction company, when he performed a blistering rendition of “Purple Rain” during the American Music Awards ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Jan. 28, 1985.

Persons: Bertrand Brillois, seamstresses, Prince, Brillois, Cherry Organizations: Mr Locations: Parisian, Nice, France, Los Angeles

☆ TikTok’s Finest Lobsterman
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Steven Kurutz | More About Steven Kurutz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was another busy day for the crew of the Rest-Ashoar, a lobster fishing boat that works the waters off the rocky coast of Winter Harbor, Maine. The captain, Jacob Knowles, had gotten up at 3 a.m. on a brisk October morning and took his vessel 10 miles into the ocean. Using a hydraulic hauler, buoys and ropes, Mr. Knowles, Keith Potter (the stern man) and Coty White (the third man) hauled up 400 wire traps over the next 10 hours. As the boat listed in the rolling waves, they heaved the empty traps back overboard. Even while doing the grueling work of commercial fishermen, the crew was engaged in another job: filming a video.

Persons: Jacob Knowles, Knowles, Keith Potter, Coty White Locations: Winter Harbor , Maine

☆ One Last Chance to Be Lazy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Steven Kurutz | More About Steven Kurutz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Early afternoon, late summer. The cicadas were whirring outside. I closed my laptop, got up from the desk in my home office and went to the bedroom. Instead of fighting off sleep, I put the book aside and gave in to a nap. Now several firms whose employees have continued to work remotely, including Amazon, BlackRock and Meta, are cracking down.

Persons: ”, Ron Shelton, “ Bull, snooze, Andy Jassy, “ it’s Organizations: of Baseball, Amazon, Labor Locations: “ Bull Durham, BlackRock, Meta

☆ How Many Former Vanity Fair Staffers Does It Take to Build a Roof?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Steven Kurutz | More About Steven Kurutz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

While doing things that felt familiar to the core business, the Davids were also expanding Standard Investments, an investment arm they established, which now manages more than $4 billion. The majority of that money is invested in the public markets, in other industrial companies like Shell. But in an email from Italy, where he was on vacation with his family, Mr. Carter dispelled that idea. “Hamilton was on the front lines in this,” Mr. Carter said. “He brought in Beth Kseniak to handle communications and, before you know it, the place was filled with the VF diaspora.”Stylish and well connected, Mr. South, 59, is also a Vanity Fair alum.

Persons: Davids, Carter, Kelly, “, ”, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, “ Hamilton, Mr, Beth Kseniak, Tina Brown Organizations: Investments, Shell, Standard Investments, Air Mail, Hamilton, HL Locations: Italy

☆ A Tiny Cabin, a Little Island and a Big Change: ‘Am I Crazy?’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Steven Kurutz | More About Steven Kurutz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Duck Ledges Island,” the listing read, “offered in its entirety.”The accompanying photos showed a scene of stark beauty: a tiny spit of rock sitting in clear blue waters, with a little cabin on it and nothing else — not even a single tree — to block the 360-degree views of ocean and sky. The island was in Wohoa Bay, in Downeast Maine, along a section of rocky coastline known as the Bold Coast. To anyone who has fantasized about their own private island getaway — and who hasn’t, judging by the way such idylls capture worldwide attention? — the ad for Duck Ledges, when it appeared last June, was a clarion call. She had to sell her house, she said, with its Victorian garden she’d grown and tended over a decade.

Persons: “, —, Charlotte Gale, Gale Locations: Wohoa Bay, Downeast Maine, New Jersey

☆ A New Summer Camp Activity: Dealing With Extreme Weather
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Steven Kurutz | More About Steven Kurutz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On a rainy Sunday in July, the Trailblazers began to arrive at Camp Squanto, a 100-acre sleep-away retreat in southern New Hampshire. As many of the campers tried to settle in, the rainstorm grew more intense. Within hours, flash floods turned the roads around the camp into muddy rivers. Campers, parents and staff members huddled in the dining lodge. Many of them bedded down on the floor for the night, intermittently checking weather updates as the rain continued into the next day.

Persons: Squanto Locations: New Hampshire, Swanzey

☆ A Doomsaying Theory Enters Pop Culture
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Steven Kurutz | More About Steven Kurutz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After Mr. Cannavale’s character remarks that people are fleeing New York City, the man replies: “It’s the fourth turning.”The puzzlement on Mr. Cannavale’s face invites an explanation. According to “fourth turning” proponents, American history goes through recurring cycles. Each one, which lasts about 80 to 100 years, consists of four generation-long seasons, or “turnings.” The winter season is a time of upheaval and reconstruction — a fourth turning. The theory first appeared in “The Fourth Turning,” a work of pop political science that has had a cult following more or less since it was published in 1997. In the last few years of political turmoil, the book and its ideas have bubbled into the mainstream.

Persons: Bobby Cannavale, “, Cannavale’s Organizations: Netflix Locations: New Jersey, New York City

☆ Making Them Laugh, and Swoon
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Steven Kurutz | More About Steven Kurutz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

After 11 years in comedy clubs, Matt Rife was selling around 70 tickets per show, sometimes clearing as little as $150 a night. He wasn’t a big enough name last summer to earn an invitation to the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, an annual showcase for established comics and promising up-and-comers alike. “I had to fly myself out, put myself up for no pay. I’m about to post this video of crowd work. I was watching it, and I was like, This is so stupid.

Persons: Matt, ”, “ Locations: Montreal, Syracuse, N.Y, “

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