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On a trip to Monte Carlo in 1923, the French couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was introduced to Hugh Grosvenor, the second Duke of Westminster, with whom she began a decade-long love affair....

DiotimaThe designer Rachel Scott’s focus on tailoring and craft — in particular, crochet made in her native Jamaica — has been clear since she launched her brand, Diotima, in 2021. But it...

IT’S BEST TO arrive at Casa Valle, the home the Mexican architect Alberto Kalach designed for his family in 1996, at night, when darkness heightens its mystery. Past a wooden gate in...

Bags and shoes in cushy shearling, plush and faux fur.

new video loaded: Our TowntranscriptBacktranscriptOur TownYounger Asian Americans fight to keep the history of Manhattan’s Chinatown alive — while reimagining its future as an ethnic enclave. My grandmother has always been the...

SOME NIGHTS, IN her bedroom in a former tenement in downtown Manhattan, the fashion designer Sandy Liang can hear the strains of “Happy Birthday” filtering up through the floorboards from Congee Village,...

The experience of entering Eddie Roschi’s country home in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal is purposefully disorienting. The first thing you see, from the end of a long dirt drive, is...

As a child growing up in the center of Paris, Matthieu Blazy, the 39-year-old designer at the helm of Bottega Veneta, had a robust imagination. Though his father, Jacques, an art expert,...

“There are a number of folks who will say, ‘Oh, his work has a $15 million price tag on it,’” says Carter. “ ‘Let me pay attention to it.’ And I’m like, ‘Well,...

Freed from the constraints of frames and flat surfaces, terrazzo can be as versatile as clay. In the London-based sound artist and designer Yuri Suzuki’s Totem collection of miniature linking toys, the...