Icons of Palm Beach
Palm Beach society, written for people who live on the island.
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A Century On, Pooh Keeps a New York Address
The bear turns one hundred this year, and the place that claims him is not an English wood but the New York Public Library. Town & Country has traced …
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The Best Lip Work on the Island Is the Kind Nobody Can Spot
Town & Country has assembled a primer on the mouth, and its governing principle is one the North End has always understood: an overcorrected lip annou…
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Twelve Seasons In, Adam Brody Still Talks About His Wife Like a Newlywed
Adam Brody, forty-six, has given Vanity Fair an account of his marriage to Leighton Meester, the two having wed in 2014. It is the kind of durable Hol…
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The Man Behind the Frames Opens His Doors in Los Angeles
Jérôme Mage, the designer whose Jacques Marie Mage sunglasses have earned a devoted and faintly obsessive following, has let Vanity Fair into his home…
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Manhattan Has a New Girl, and She Takes Her Martini Dirty
For anyone who keeps an apartment in the city between seasons, Vanity Fair has filed the latest word on which downtown type currently holds the room. …
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Keri Russell Makes the Case for Deco Diamonds
Keri Russell arrived at the fourth-season premiere of The Diplomat wearing earrings of Art Deco design, set with diamonds, and they were the thing peo…
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Out of Range, and Glad of It
The newest thing worth wanting is a spot where the phone simply gives up, no bars, no network, nothing to refresh. Vanity Fair reports a growing appet…
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Brown Denim Makes Its Case for the Season
Town & Country's editors have settled on a single pair of jeans this autumn, and the color is brown rather than the blue everyone assumes. The label b…
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Before the Screen, a Bartender Worth Crossing Town For
Long before Moonlighting put him in living rooms and Die Hard put him everywhere else, Bruce Willis was the draw at Cafe Central on the Upper West Sid…
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Where the Bars Finally Drop to None
Vanity Fair has gone looking for the rarest luxury left: a spot the signal simply cannot reach, with no network, no connection, and no chance of a not…
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The Real Ben Affleck, Too Genuine for His Own Account
Ben Affleck, the Oscar winner, says Instagram has banned him twice, and in both cases the charge was impersonating Ben Affleck. He told it on himself,…
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Zizou Bergs Stops Hoping and Starts Believing
On the courts of the North End, every serious player knows the moment when a match against a better opponent stops being an honor and becomes a contes…
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Daniel Boulud Opens Another Door in Manhattan
Readers who spend part of the year in New York have one more reservation to think about. Daniel Boulud has opened a new restaurant in the city, and To…
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A Breakfast Tray That Gives Back: As Ever Joins the Malala Fund
The duchess's As Ever has found a cause worth stocking up for. To mark the day set aside each year for girls, the sales from its preserves and its tea…
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J.Crew and '47 Bring Some Campus Loyalty to the Island This Season
J.Crew has joined forces with '47 on a new collaboration, and it is built around the pride of alma mater. The pieces are cut for autumn and wear their…
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C.Z. Guest Gets the Museum Treatment This October
C.Z. Guest is the subject of a new museum exhibition, and the clothes are its centerpiece. *C.Z. Guest: Portrait of an American Style Icon* opens at S…
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Pope Leo Keeps One Loyalty for the White Sox
Pope Leo blesses every dugout equally, but Robert Prevost, the man who wears the title, still saves a particular warmth for the Chicago White Sox. His…
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Chanel Hands an Artist Its Past, and Gets a Magazine Back
A much-admired contemporary artist, stalled and short of ideas, got a call from Chanel with an unusual offer: the run of everything the house has kept…
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Twenty-Four Small Doors Before Christmas Morning
Town & Country has gathered a selection of advent calendars built on the luxury model, where each numbered door hides a gift of its own rather than a …
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The Summer Internship Still Earns Its Keep
Town & Country has taken up the question of whether a college internship is worth a student's summer, and its answer is yes. Many of these positions c…
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A Marianne Dashwood Who Came to the Part Without the 1995 Version in Her Head
Esme Creed-Miles takes on Marianne Dashwood in the new Sense and Sensibility, and she arrived at the role having deliberately left the 1995 film unwat…
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Thousands of Families, One Pier: The Lincoln Comes Home to San Diego
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has tied up again in San Diego, closing out a deployment of 321 days. That is nearly eleven months away, and …
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Southampton's Kitchen Secrets Travel South for the Season
Olivia Tiedemann cooks in Southampton homes where the people who own the kitchen rarely stand in it, and she has decided to talk about what she has se…
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Lady Violet's Own Courtship Is Coming to the Screen
The Bridgerton world is going back a generation. A new series has been confirmed with Lady Violet at its center, tracing how she and a young Viscount …
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Where the Dog Sleeps Is a Matter of Taste, Too
Town & Country has put together a list of twenty well-made beds for dogs, which on this island means for the household members who are rarely left at …
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Forty Ideas for the Friend Whose Dog Outranks Everyone Else in the House
Town & Country has put together forty present ideas for the person whose devotion to their dog runs deeper than most. On the island, nearly everyone k…
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Sixty Last-Minute Presents, On the Doorstep Before the Host Notices
Town & Country has put together a list of sixty gifts that can all be ordered from Amazon and delivered fast. The idea is simple. When an invitation a…
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The Windsors Built a Crown Collection of Their Own
Having given up one throne's worth of jewels, the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson went on to assemble a collection that may have measured up to the…
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Catherine Zeta-Jones Set the Terms, and a Marriage of More Than Twenty-Five Years Followed
Michael Douglas has a new interview out, and in it he recalls the moment, early in their courtship, when Catherine Zeta-Jones told him plainly what sh…
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A British Chef Opens in SoHo, and Plans to Keep His Own Table for Decades
Thomas Straker, the London chef, now has a restaurant in SoHo, and it has quickly become one of the hardest tables to get in New York. For anyone flyi…
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For the Dog Who Has the Run of the House, a Collar That Keeps Up
The Fi Series 3+ is a GPS collar that records where your dog is, how much ground they cover in a day and how they sleep at night. All of it shows up f…
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Kara Swisher, Poetry Reader, Prefers to Have the Final Word
Kara Swisher was among the first journalists to cover technology seriously, and she now hosts podcasts. She has sat for the Proust Questionnaire. Her …
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As Ever Gets a Head Start on the December Gift List
The Duchess of Sussex has added new gift pieces to As Ever, her lifestyle label, in time for the holidays. It is October, which on the island is exact…
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Josh Hartnett, Grown Into the Part
The actor whose face once hung on bedroom walls has become the kind of leading man the best directors call. Josh Hartnett shares the screen with Anne …
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The Season's Best Memoirs Are the Ones You Hear in the Author's Own Voice
A memoir read aloud by the person who lived it has become a serious business, and the credit belongs to the people on the other side of the studio gla…
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Town & Country's Editors Share Their Amazon Prime Sale Picks
The editors at Town & Country have published the list of what they are actually buying during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days. It reads as a selection ma…
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The Bottle on Every Table This Season Has a Biographer
Florence Fabricant, the food critic whose verdicts have long carried weight at the table, has written a memoir called *Salty Not Sweet*, and one of it…
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Two Days to Refresh the Apple Watch and MacBook Before the Season Arrives
October Prime Day brings a two-day window of savings on Apple, and the Apple Watch and MacBook lead the list. It's an easy errand to finish before the…
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Saint Laurent Leather, Cut Generously, for a Birthday Supper in Manhattan
Taylor Swift marked Travis Kelce's birthday with a night out in New York City, and she chose a Saint Laurent leather jacket worn deliberately large. I…
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James and Kathryn Murdoch Set Out a Grand Cultural Design, With New York Magazine in the Frame
James Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn, have sat down to talk about New York magazine, and about something larger behind it. The couple are building one …
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Thirty Dollars, and the Right Eye: A Modest Purchase Brings $1.35 Million
It cost thirty dollars when someone carried it out of a sale of a household's contents. At auction, it brought $1.35 million. Anyone who has spent a s…
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Scorsese Gives New York an Autumn Evening With *Gone to Earth
The New York Film Festival brought Martin Scorsese to the screen this fall with *Gone to Earth*, a British picture that came close to vanishing. It wa…
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The Gown Carl Dean Kept: Dolly Parton's 1966 Wedding Dress Comes Out of the Trunk
Every house on the island has a cedar closet or a garment bag that nobody has unzipped in years. In 2024 Dolly Parton's turned out to be a trunk belon…
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Before Season, the Vanity Gets Its Fall Edit
Town & Country has published its first look at this autumn's new skincare, and the picks fall into two camps: rich creams that put moisture back into …
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Ryan Murphy, From John Waters and Barbra Streisand to the Top of Television
Ryan Murphy grew up taking comfort in the films of John Waters and the voice of Barbra Streisand, and the producer now oversees a slate of television …
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Vanity Fair Names Its 2026 New Establishment, and the Machine Age Takes the Head of the Table
Vanity Fair has released the 2026 edition of its New Establishment, its ranking of the people who hold the most sway over money, influence and taste. …
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Sam Altman Takes the Long View, and Vanity Fair Gives Him the Time
Sam Altman, one of the founders of OpenAI, has sat down with Vanity Fair for a filmed conversation in two installments, and the first is now out. He t…
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Lachlan Murdoch Makes the Family's Biggest Deal Yet With Roku
With the acquisition of Roku, Lachlan Murdoch has closed the largest transaction the Murdoch family has ever made. It is a significant step for a fami…
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Plaid for the Palm Beach Season, by Way of the Princess of Wales
Diana went back to plaid many times over, and anyone planning the months ahead on the island can take the hint. Her example shows a plaid can carry it…
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Damien Hirst Turns to Cashmere, and the Season's Knitwear Gets an Artist's Hand
Damien Hirst has designed a cashmere line with Barrie, the knitwear house. For the island, cashmere is the sweater over the shoulders on a cool Januar…
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