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Exuberant look-at-me footwear adds a bounce to your step and some fun to your wardrobe.

The Flowers of BuffooneryA novel by Osamu Dazai (translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett)“‘What’s with the pose, Hida?’“‘You’re the one posing, idiot. Look at your hands!’“The three young men burst out...

The French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, 58, has always had a flair for the dramatic. Even the act of sitting down to lunch at his home in Melides, Portugal, a quiet coastal...

The designer invites T into his 350-acre vacation compound in Melides, Portugal, which includes a color-shifting party tower.

HEAD SOUTH FOR 80 miles from Lisbon to the village of Melides, on the Alentejo coast, take the dirt road that borders the lagoon and leads to the Atlantic and, after a...

Mirrored paillettes, iridescent beads and eye-catching chain mail shine bright after dark.

THE GLORIOSA LILY originated in tropical regions of Africa and tropical and temperate Asia, and now grows naturally in other parts of the world, like Southern Florida and Australia, where it is...

THERE ARE, STRANGELY, a lot of other women in Whitney Houston’s 1993 video for the song “I’m Every Woman,” that can-do anthem powered by Houston’s unparalleled midrange pipes. “It’s all in me,”...

The actor Nathan Lane had been planning to play the American anti-father Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” (1949) when that production fell apart. Restless during the pandemic and...

Twice a year, a few of my colleagues and I attend the European fashion shows in Milan and Paris. These shows serve many functions — they are theater, provocation, performance art —...