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1982
B O O K O F R E V E L AT I O N S
“Alvin Ailey pulled things
out of me that I didn’t even
know were there,” says Donna
Wood Sanders, pictured here
with the legendary dancer
and choreographer in our
November 1982 issue. “There
was always more to do, more
to learn, more to grow.” This
December, as the Alvin Ailey
Dance Theater celebrates its
60th anniversary at New York’s
CHRIS CALLIS (AILEY AND SANDERS)
FEATURES
154 THE WOMAN
WHO KNEW
TOO MUCH
Rosamund Pike takes
on the heroic life and
tragic death of the
first lady of foreign
correspondents.
By Janine di Giovanni
160 MAN IN
DON PENNY/STUDIO D, STYLED BY JILL TELESNICKI (HANDBAGS); LIZ COLLINS (PIKE); TIAGO MOLINOS (WALLACE); VICTOR DEMARCHELIER (THE PLUS ONE); KAREN BLEIER/AFP/
THE MIDDLE
Chris Wallace was born
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into journalism royalty,
but that hasn’t stopped
Fox News’s resident wildcard from OLD RULES
Give a classic this
blazing a surprising path all his own. season—or keep
By Andrew Goldman it for yourself.
L O U IS V U IT T O N
166 THE PLUS ONE BIFACE BAG
($3,200); DAUPHINE
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174 YEAR OF
THE LAWYER
Meet the new leads in
our national drama.
They defend, they
prosecute, they even
commentate. And they are way too
big to be contained in a courtroom.
By James Atlas 188 HOW TO WEAR
A DIAMOND
178 SWEETEN A landmark collection
THE DEAL arrives with a new set
It’s been a tough year. of rules.
Have the dessert, buy By Stellene Volandes
the jewelry.
194 THE GRAFFITI
184 I CELEBRATE QUEEN OF MIAMI
MYSELF! Meet Jessica Goldman
A birthday party Srebnick: real estate
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By Marshall Heyman SOURCEBOOK . . . . . . . 202 By Danielle Stein Chizzik
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43 FASHION FILE Want to impress people who want it
a jewelry
Chanel lands in New York connoisseur? These
all, have it all, and
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new boutique, and a a good place to
blockbuster show to rival start. For more 96 THE ONE
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SOPHIE ELGORT (FASHION FILE); DAVID DOWNTON (SOCIAL STUDIES); MIGUEL DE GUZMAN (SHOPPING ATLAS); CHUCK KENNEDY
A fight for luxury M ISDEM EAN O RS
dollars as sprawling 106 WHAT THEY DON’T TEACH
(OBAMA WITH WINFREY); ARTHUR BELEBEAU/TRUNK ARCHIVE (EYE); JAMES R.D. SCOTT/GETTY IMAGES (ELEPHANT)
as Game of Thrones. YOU IN PREP SCHOOL
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right for you? in empathy.
By Jason Zengerle
60 A HEARST
SPECIAL 115 WHERE TO GO
EVENT IN 2019
Former First See the gorillas?
Lady Michelle Go back to the
Obama discusses Caribbean? Cruise
her memoir—and her marriage— the Mekong? We’ve
with Oprah Winfrey. got your global
wheres and whys.
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EDITOR’ S L ET TER
THE RIGHT
QUESTIONS
An essay from the
Tiffany archives, and
the one-of-a-kind
Freesia necklace
from Blue Book 2018,
the first for chief
artistic officer Reed
Krakoff. TIFFANY.COM
Wine Critic JAY MCINERNEY Editors at Large MICHAEL HAINEY, VICKY WARD
European Editor at Large MARTINA MONDADORI SARTOGO
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Research Chief LINDA A. CROWLEY Associate Research Editor KAREN LUBECK
why Karina Longworth’s
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its contemporary art
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through the women he
scene; Kigali, Rwanda,
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Deputy Directors CARY GEORGES, FIONA LENNON
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brilliance of the American Editorial Director the artist’s 102-piece series
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J A M E S AT L A S
REED KRAKOFF The author, whose encounters with
For “HOW TO WEAR A DIAMOND” (page 188), the the law have mostly involved
chief artistic officer of Tiffany & Co. parking tickets, picked up a valuable
photographed seven iconoclasts tip while reporting “ Y E A R O F T H E L AW Y E R ”
modeling pieces from his new Tiffany (page 174): “Now I know what to
Blue Book collection. “Each individual do in the event I should ever need a
styled it in a unique and personal way, lawyer: turn on Fox News or CNN.”
challenging the rules of high jewelry.” Atlas was previously an editor at
the New York Times Magazine.
DAVID DOWNTON
The illustrator, whose
work is featured in “ T H E A R T
O F S H A M E ” (page 53), about
CHRISTINA TOSI the politics of restaurant
he founder of Milk Bar has long portrait walls, is artist-in-
collected dessert memories, and in residence at Claridge’s in
“SWEETEN THE DEAL” (page 178) she shares London. “The portraits of
the sweetest: her grandmother’s the most revered guests tell
Christmas cookies. Tosi’s Milk Bar: the story of our times,” he
All About Cake came out in October. says. “I’m sure if you crept
into the gallery at 2 a.m.,
they would all be talking.”
I N E Z & V I N O O D H ( K R A K O F F ) ; J A C O B U S S N Y M A N ( D O W N T O N ) ; B I L LY FA R R E L L / B FA N Y C . C O M / S H U T T E R S T O C K ( H E Y M A N ) ; J I L L G O L D M A N ( G O L D M A N )
ANDREW GOLDMAN
“I pride myself on being a pretty
good interviewer, so meeting Chris
Wallace—who is arguably the MARSHALL HEYMAN
best interviewer alive—was pretty Heyman, a frequent T&C
daunting,” says the author, who contributor, tracks the rise of
profiled the Fox News anchor for extravagant birthday parties for
“M AN I N T H E MI D D L E ” (page 160). “ I C E L E B R AT E M Y S E L F ! ” (page 184).
Consequently, he found himself
dreaming of a “Mamma Mia!
JANINE DI GIOVANNI Here We Go Again–themed
The veteran reporter interviewed destination birthday on some
Rosamund Pike, who plays journalist rustic yet still perfect Greek isle.
Marie Colvin in the film A Private I bet Cher would come, right?”
War, for our cover story, “THE W OM AN
W H O K N EW TO O MU C H ” (page 154). Colvin,
who died in 2012, was a friend of
di Giovanni’s. “We met in London in LIZ COLLINS
1992, in the glory days of journalism.” For our cover story, “ T H E
W O MA N W H O K N E W T O O M U C H ”
(page 154), the fashion
KEIRNAN MONAGHAN & THEO photographer captured
VAMVOUNAKIS Rosamund Pike. The
The husband-wife team photographed actress’s chops stood
desserts, and jewels, for “ S W E E T E N T H E out, Collins says, “when
DEAL” (page 178). The pair, who she channeled a Helmut
previously shot a T&C Travel story Newton muse” for the
about memorable jewels, envisioned shoot, at the Savile
“a world of food and luxury objects Club in London.
both modern and nostalgic.”
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FASHION FILE
BIENVENUE!
Chanel lands in New York with a new collection, a new boutique,
and a blockbuster show to rival all the lights on Broadway.
By Erik Maza
hilosophy is a big word,” Karl constantly called on to address by fashion
Photographs by Sophie Elgort
Styled by MaryKate Boylan “P
Lagerfeld said. “I’m just a designer.”
It was only a couple of days ater
Lagerfeld had shown a new collection for
tea leaf readers: inspiration. When he
sketches, he continued, he does so “for the
garbage bin.” In other words, don’t read
Chanel, and he was dodging the topic he’s too much meaning into his interiors, his
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FASHION FILE
the hatmaker Maison Michel and the the crew flitted among three decks, and
embroidery magicians at Lesage. a horn announced that departure was
It is tempting to divine a subtext to imminent. When the models emerged,
Lagerfeld’s peregrinations, to imagine with saddlebags dangling rom haute rope
that he is intuiting our collective desire straps (someone else would be doing the
for escape rom a turbulent world. But in heavy liting, natch), they were an immac-
the end he is a peerless showman. He set ulately attired parade of first class ticket
the stage for this fall’s transatlantic jaunts holders ready to glide into a Mediterra-
back in May, in Paris, when he docked a nean sunset, much as Coco Chanel did on
330-foot ocean liner in the Grand Palais her many trips aboard the Flying Cloud
for Chanel’s 2019 cruise collection (whose and the Cutty Sark, yachts that belonged
looks are featured here on the actress to her lover the Duke of Westminster. he
Ella Hunt). he grand diorama under- clothes themselves were witty comple-
scored that inside that historic hall on the ments to the proceedings: flirty, nautically
Champs-Elysées Lagerfeld is both couturier inspired tweed suits and Capri pants that
and auteur, master of the mise-en-scène. seemed designed for a stroll past the surf,
Steam rose rom two smokestacks, perhaps drenched in saltwater, or jewels.
C H A N E L ( S H O W ) ; D O M I N I Q U E C H A R R I A U / W I R E I M A G E ( S H I P, M O D E L S )
sets, his collections. “My secret is I don’t
analyze. I don’t have the recipe to tell
you,” he told T&C. “Most of the things I
do quite well I see when I sleep. I always
have a pad next to my pillow.”
Lately Lagerfeld has been dreaming of
journeys, both physical and of the mind.
In November Chanel is expected to make
an entrance worthy of the Queen Mary
in New York to unwrap its redesigned
flagship on 57th Street. And in December
Lagerfeld will bring the Metropolitan A BIGGER SPLASH
Museum of Art to life with the Métiers Hunt breaks out in the holiday movie Anna and the Apocalypse , a zombie musical
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“I says Ella Hunt. And while the actress
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By Leena Kim
A RT S & C U LT U R E
January 25
Robert Mapplethorpe
he late artist is celebrated
with a yearlong exhibit
at NYC’s Guggenheim.
December 5
Hilary Knight
November 30–December 8 he works of the Eloise
Marrakech Film Festival illustrator go to auction at
A high-wattage crowd (see: Bonhams New York. his
Sofia and Francis Ford oil portrait of the Plaza’s
Coppola, Bill Murray) helps resident heroine is estimated
support Moroccan film. at $100,000 to $150,000.
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The Beverly Hills Hotel
How to pack for a stay at
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about a 1950s housewife its second year.
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January 9–March 31
Winter Equestrian Festival
Riders descend on
Wellington, FL, for 12
weeks of competition.
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December 31
The Coconuts New
Year’s Eve Party
David Koch and
Leonard Lauder
are members of
the exclusive men’s
club, which rings December 31
in 2019 at the St. Bart’s
Flagler Museum he island is back in
in Palm Beach. business ater 2017’s
Hurricane Irma. Book
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The Rothschild family has long been a presence in
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a run in 1963. Below: The Four Seasons Megève.
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In the French Alps, a great European family
Charade, in which Audrey Hepburn and
Cary Grant are chatting on a snowy ter-
race at the Chalet du Mont-d’Arbois. hat
hotel still exists—it was, in fact, part of
heads downhill. By Paige Darrah the Rothschilds’ original estate, just 275
yards rom the house where Ariane and
he resident Bouvier Bernois at give us their notes,” Ariane says over lunch Benjamin spend winter holidays with their
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same name as President Emmanuel skip the feedback.’ ” Does rolling a Four Seasons into town
Macron’s dog, Nemo, but it wasn’t the he baroness teamed up with interior diverge rom Baroness Noémie’s desire
president who began the trend. “Macron designer Pierre-Yves Rochon, who is cur- to escape the St. Moritz buzz? With just
copied us,” says Ariane de Rothschild. “I rently overhauling the Beverly Hills Wal- 55 tasteful rooms, absolutely not. Indeed,
need to invite him here.” dorf Astoria. He’s instilling a masculine despite the upscale lodging and well-
he here in question is Megève, a resort feel with caramel herringbone couches in heeled admirers, the village hasn’t become
town in the French Alps where the Baron- guestrooms and 1970s-style rugs in sot oppressively posh or showy. And it’s still
ess de Rothschild has recently opened the shades of brown lining the hallways. “I a great place to be a Rothschild. As the
Four Seasons, her first hotel. It’s a property drew the rugs based on what Noémie’s baroness notes, “No photographers bother
that has been a long while in the making. architect Henry-Jacques Le Même did you in the street.” FROM $1,000 PER NIGHT, FOUR
In the 1920s, an earlier baroness, Noémie with tiles,” Rochon says. For Bar Edmond, SEASONS.COM/MEGEVE
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came to find traveling to the overexposed to highlight one color: cham-
St. Moritz tiresome. Her ski instructor pagne. he bar itself is made
suggested Megève, a 13th-century village of glass tubes etched to look
with Mont Blanc for a backdrop only an like aspen trees, champagne
hour’s drive rom Geneva. light glowing through them.
hree generations down the line, Ari- he process wasn’t
ane—or Madame, as she is referred to by entirely without hiccups.
nearly everyone—has just opened the first A week before the Four
Four Seasons in Europe with direct access Seasons Megève opened, in
to the slopes; she oversaw the design and December 2017, Ariane real-
selected the cratsmen, rom glassblowers ized she didn’t like the living
to walnut whittlers. While Four Seasons room. “I was like, ‘Pierre-
operates the hotel, Ariane and her hus- Yves, this is perfect. It’s too
band Benjamin de Rothschild fully own it. perfect.’ I said, ‘You have to
“At the beginning, Four Seasons wanted to go a bit crazy.’ ” So Rochon
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hen it comes to fashion, Miami Lincoln Road, one of the country’s first the strip, are long gone—as faded as last
AVENTURA: FOR THE BIG SPENDERS LUXURY VALHALLA into its own as a vibrant enclave.
CRAVING EVERYTHING FROM SUSHI Bal Harbour Shops ( seen Existing public installations
TO GUCCI here ) is at work on a by the likes of John Baldessari
“We’re in a mall, but it doesn’t 350,000-square-foot, and Buckminster Fuller have been
have the stigma associated with $400 million expansion joined by site-specific works by
old-school malls,” says Jackie to open in 2023. Barneys Urs Fischer and the Bouroullec
New York will be among
Sofer, the co-chair and CEO of its tentpoles. brothers. Homes for the Institute
Turnberry Associates, the family- of Contemporary Art Miami
held company that is the majority (supported by Norman Braman)
owner of Aventura, the leviathan and the De la Cruz collection
in northeastern Miami that opened have opened, as has the Museum
in 1983 and gets 28 million visitors Garage, a parking station the
a year. “It’s more sophisticated than façade of which has been tricked
people expect.” out by five diferent artists. Top-
No kidding. Sofer, who is tier brands such as Hermès, Dior,
dressed in a high/low mix of and Louis Vuitton continue to
Celine and COS, her petite rame build monumental flagships, lend-
augmented by towering cork ing weight to the argument that
wedges, is walking me through while the foot traic here might
the ground level of the new not yet match the District’s rivals,
three-story, 315,000-square-foot the shoppers are not short of a
luxury wing that opened in 2017. dime. Meanwhile, stalwarts such as
he entrance to the $214 million Michael’s Genuine Food will now
expansion is dominated by two have competition rom new spots
interactive artworks, a 93-foot by Brad Kilgore and Joël Robuchon
spiral structure designed by Ger- (his partners are still committed to
man sculptor Carsten Höller and the three locations the master chef
a splash fountain installation of was slated to open before he died
three large-scale bronze gorillas earlier this year), as well as Swan,
and four bronze trees by design an eagerly anticipated restaurant
world darlings Simon and Nikolai
“The goal in retail is to create and lounge by Pharrell Williams
Haas. he landscaping, by designer and hospitality maven David Grut-
and urban planner Nathan
multiple reasons for people to come.” man, with very Instagrammable
Browning (mostly transplanted — Ja c k i e So f fe r, C EO , Tu rn b e r r y A s s o ci a t e s interiors by Ken Fulk.
mahogany and black ironwood “Whenever you truly invent
trees), looms over the courtyard, giving implored her to do so in the early ’00s something, it takes time,” Robins says,
it an air of ripened permanence. he only (“He basically told me it was my civic sitting in his oice at Dacra, the develop-
clue that the place is relatively new is a duty”), she might also be accused of find- ment company that operates the District.
COMING SOON sign for a restaurant by San ing inspiration a little closer to home. “And with a new vision for an outdoor
Francisco’s award-winning Michael Mina. museum that makes a statement about
On the upper level we find three Ugo D E S I G N D I S T R I C T: F O R A R T C O L L E C T O R S , retail that’s diferent rom anything else, it
Rondinone clay sculptures, a Tesla show- C U LT U R E V U LT U R E S , A N D L A B E L was always going to take a little while to
room, a hipster gastropub, and a sprawl- COGNOSCENTI build up. But I think we’re almost there.”
ing indoor-outdoor event space, which, Sofer is married to developer Craig
perhaps as a sign of the changing tenor Robins, who was responsible for the B A L H A R B O U R : F O R R O YA L S , P O T E N TAT E S ,
of shopping, may or may not ultimately revitalization of South Beach in the ’80s AND JETSETTING VOLUPTUARIES
include a discrete VIP area. and is the driving force behind the Design Of course, the emergence of the Design
“Retail today is all about critical mass District, which spans 18 city blocks north District as a bona fide force in the luxury
and increasing the reasons for shoppers of downtown Miami, bordering the neigh- wars is in no small part the result of
to come,” Sofer says, somehow manag- borhoods of Wynwood and Edgewater. protracted arm-wrestling between Robins
ing to juggle two other conversations on (hey met at a deposition.) he knock on and the Whitman family, which owns Bal
her phone. “he goal is to create multiple the Design District following its 2002 Harbour, the ne plus ultra of shopping in
reasons for people to want to experience opening was that it was a fancy Potemkin South Florida since it opened in 1965. he
our property.” village of sorts, a cluster of luxuriously city relies on tourists (recent studies point
hough Sofer, an art collector in her appointed retail palaces on oten deserted to more than 15 million overnight visitors
own right, is quick to point out that she streets in search of a neighborhood. But a year, generating sales of $26 billion), and
has been acquiring significant works for ater years of seemingly endless construc- rom the get-go Bal Harbour’s location,
her properties since Norman Braman, tion, the art-inflected area—also land- near many hotels and condos in a one-
the Miami businessman and art collector, scaped by Browning—is finally coming mile area between the [ C O N T IN U E D O N PA G E 19 8 ]
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Georgetown Prep—a private dral, or its sister school, the
all-boys Catholic school in sub- National Cathedral School.
urban Washington, DC—served Or you might scope out the
as a surprising revelation about
These days, we could all use a coed Quaker school Sidwell
the smallness and insularity of lesson in empathy. Friends, just a couple of blocks
our country’s ruling class. To By Jason Zengerle up Wisconsin Avenue from
those of us who attended a ritzy St. Albans and NCS, or the all-
DC private school, however, Gorsuch’s and is. From its founding in 1789 to its nearly girls school Holton-Arms in Bethesda,
Kavanaugh’s shared alma mater came as a $40,000 annual tuition to its nine-hole golf Maryland. You might even stop in at
diferent kind of shock. course, which doubles as the ront lawn, Georgetown Day School, which is some-
hat a DC prep school would produce Prep has all the trappings and accoutre- times confused with Georgetown Prep, at
two Supreme Court justices wasn’t terri- ments of an elite institution. But there are least by outsiders, but is in fact its polar
bly remarkable. Frankly, it was almost to degrees of elite, and in the rarefied world of opposite: It has female students and it
be expected—at least by our parents. But DC private education, Prep has long been doesn’t have a football team.
that, of all the DC private schools, George- viewed as a middling student at best, a You wouldn’t visit these schools just
town Prep would be the one to have two problem child at worst—good on the foot- because they are where the members of
ALAMY (SCHOOL)
graduates on the highest court in the land ball field, lousy in the classroom, wasted on Washington’s power elite send their own
was something few of us could fathom. the weekend. children. The Obamas and the Clintons,
Georgetown Prep is invariably described If you wanted to find the DC private not to mention Bob Woodward, have all
in national news stories as “elite,” and it school most likely to be incubating future been Sidwell parents; Al Gore chose
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St. Albans, his own alma mater, for the importance of empathy, both
his son and NCS for his daughters. BLAZER FOCUS
professionally and personally.
You’d also look at them because, in Movies like 1992’s Landon had recently been
Washington, they have the reputa- School Ties have through a trying time. A group of
tion for furnishing their students embraced the drama reshmen were exposed, by the New
with the educations—and the con- of prep schools. York Times’s Maureen Dowd, for
nections—that enable them to having invented a fantasy-football-
eventually reach the pinnacle of like game in which they drafted
American politics. girls and then accumulated points
I don’t mention this to boast, based on how far they got sexu-
since I didn’t attend any of these ally with each one. (At the time a
schools. I went to Landon, which, Landon rep said, “Landon has an
like Georgetown Prep, is an all-boys extensive ethics and character edu-
school with a reputation for being cation program which includes as
more of an athletic powerhouse its key tenets respect and honesty.
than an academic one. While the Civility toward women is definitely
parents at Sidwell or NCS tended to part of that education program.”)
be old money or worked for high- Far worse, a recent Landon grad-
powered law firms or as prominent uate named George Huguely V, a
doctors, the stereotypical Landon lacrosse player at the University
parent was a wealthy suburban real of Virginia, had been charged with
estate developer. murdering his former girlfriend
I had the occasional senator’s or (he would later be found guilty
congressman’s son as a classmate, of second-degree murder), a true
but the suspicion was always that crime story that wound up on the
they were at Landon because they cover of People.
didn’t have the test scores to get into In my lecture I talked about
St. Albans. And while Landon had how putting myself in the shoes
many phenomenal teachers, and the of the people I wrote about made
top students in each class did typi- me a better journalist and how
cally go on to the Ivies or one of the top putting myself in the shoes of the people
liberal arts colleges, my classmates tended Although I graduated I knew made me a better person. I made
to be better at football and lacrosse (and an oblique reference to the troubles Landon
keg stands) than chemistry or calculus. a decade after Brett had been experiencing and noted that I
Indeed, when we would play—and, usu- didn’t remember Landon being the most
ally, whoop—St. Albans or Sidwell in bas- Kavanaugh, the empathetic place when I was a student but
ketball, their students would taunt us by that if the school were going to overcome
chanting, “SATs! SATs!” hallmarks of his teenage its problems, a little more empathy might
And yet, at Landon we still looked go a long way.
down our noses at Georgetown Prep. Not years were all still As I spoke, I noticed a lot of yawns and
as much as we looked down at, say, Bul- eye-rolls coming from the students. And
lis (where the school colors, some of us
very much the norm for who could blame them? I had once sat in
used to joke, were “dumb and gold”), but the same seats, yawning and rolling my eyes
we viewed the Prep boys as even bigger
my own. too. One speech rom an alum wasn’t going
meatheads than we were. When we faced to change the place or its pathologies. I fin-
of in basketball, Landon students would It’s also why the picture of Kavanaugh ished my remarks and prepared to leave.
taunt our Prep counterparts with chants of at his confirmation hearings—his anger, But then one alum in the audience
“Teabag!”—a reference to a rumored (and his narcissism, his solipsism—was so rushed up. “I am so glad you talked about
notorious) hazing ritual at the school. familiar to us as well. If you grow up in the the importance of empathy,” he told me,
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Which is why the picture of Kavanaugh elite world of DC private schools, you don’t shaking my hand and telling me how
as a hard-drinking, hard-partying, boor- necessarily outgrow the pathologies you meaningful my speech had been. I smiled
ish high school student is so recognizable acquired during your upbringing. and thought for a moment that maybe
to those of us in the DC private school A few years ago Landon invited me to my message had been heard, maybe things
community. Although I graduated from give its annual ethics lecture. When I was could change.
Landon in 1992, a decade ater Kavanaugh a student, the speaker was typically a poli- Then he continued. “I’ve been going
was a student at Prep, the hallmarks of his tician or a successful businessman, who down to Charlottesville to visit with
teenage years—the keg parties, the year- would talk about leadership. As a jour- George in jail while he waits for his trial,”
book inside jokes, Beach Week—were all nalist, that wasn’t a topic on which I had he said, “and no one understands what he’s
still very much the norm for my own. much to ofer, so I decided to talk about been going through.” «
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You seem to be over- Others may not Do and dare in You seem to be December is a time Magic is in the air
stimulated in Decem- agree with your December. It’s time quite driven in to lay the ground- this December, with
ber, but whatever plans, but by the 6th to break ree of hin- December, but try work for future blissful Venus com-
issues might be com- you’ll be able to fit all dering constraints. not to rule feath- plans and tie up ing out of a tailspin
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Staying focused is Jupiter in Sagittarius in many peoples’ of the 22nd accents of the 22nd accents around. his is very
vital near the 7th, is an angel on your eyes, and it’s time to pleasures and con- family ties and much a time to pur-
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vision is in charge, foundation of your you’ll have a great a bit turbulent and the moment. Once entering a hidden
heightening your chart in January, deal to mull over, worried as January January begins, angle of your chart
prospects. Bumps in changes are afoot, but that doesn’t marches in, and you’ll be on a mis- in January, though,
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ber 6, details will and work-related your logic will give them a wide December is a sig- sign this December,
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head will clear. Still, all about. And your month you’ll sense issues will begin to step back. By the the right kind of
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as does the new Silversands, a sleek, ultra- Amelia Earhart spent one of her last holidays. over on Rendezvous Bay, with new interiors
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I
first met Marie Colvin in 1992, by the photocopier in the he film begins in Homs, Syria, and follows Marie through tours
oices of the Sunday Times in London. I had just come in Sri Lanka and Iraq, her personal life crumbling as she hops rom
rom reporting on the war in Bosnia and was grubby and one war-torn hot spot to another. he actress worked so hard to
disheveled. She was wearing a pale, fitted Calvin Klein blend into the character she actually shrank—rom hunching her
sheath dress and very high heels, and her wild hair was shoulders to mimic Marie’s posture. “When I went for a medical
tamed into a sleek chignon. She had just come rom a examination ater A Private War,” she says, “I was one and a half
wedding, she explained as she extended her hand and in a centimeters shorter.” She has since regained the height, she says,
gruf, cigarette-drenched voice, said, “Hi. I’m Marie.” by doing intense spinal stretching exercises.
During most of her working life Marie looked nothing like Pike watched endless footage of Marie to learn to imitate her
the sleek woman by the copy machine. As a senior foreign cor- accent (she was born in Queens), and in one scene, when Marie
respondent for the Sunday Times, she worked in war zones in the is lying on a bed in a negligee, smoking and talking to her ex-
Middle East, Asia, and Arica. Her wardrobe usually included a husband, I had to catch my breath, because everything about
flak jacket, heavy boots in which she could run rom danger, and Pike—the way she smoked, moved her head, and crossed her
her famous Burberry leather jacket. But she always packed beau- legs—was hauntingly familiar.
tiful clothes, and she was fond of wearing Bass Weejun penny Above all, the film is about capturing the truth at a time when
loafers—with pennies inserted—in her downtime at whatever journalism is under threat and even the president of the United
bar was nearest the ront line. States has called journalists “enemies of the American people.”
hat was the beauty and complex- Marie was killed by a rocket that
ity of Marie. The New York City landed near where she was staying in
native led a glamorous and giddy “MY SUITCASE Baba Amr, a neighborhood of Homs;
life in Notting Hill, London, where
we both lived in the 1990s, throwing JUST GOT ROBBED. in the years since she died, her sister
Cat Colvin, a lawyer, has launched a
some of the best parties I’ve ever been
to, complete with some of the most
THEY LEFT civil suit against the government of
Bashar al-Assad, because Cat believes
amusing characters in England and
a guaranteed hangover the next day.
EVERYTHING Marie was deliberately targeted.
But when the parties were over, she EXACTLY THE WAY he daughter of two opera sing-
became a diferent woman: fearless
and uncontactable in her professional
life. She managed to combine the two,
I PACKED IT BUT T ers, Pike grew up far from
war zones but absorbed in the
arts, “in a home,” she says, “where
but she nevertheless remained utterly STOLE ALL MY we weren’t well off but creatively
contrarian. “My suitcase just got
robbed,” she told me once, when we LA PERLA BRAS.” wealthy.” She learned to play the vio-
lin and cello, and with her family she
ran into each other in Libya around traveled and lived throughout Europe.
the time of the fall of Muammar Qaddafi. “hey let everything She speaks French and German, and at Oxford she studied English
exactly the way I packed it but stole all my La Perla bras.” literature before becoming a stage actress. She was only 23 when
In real life the 39-year-old British actress Rosamund Pike, who she was cast as Miranda Frost alongside Halle Berry and Pierce
plays Marie in the new film A Private War, which chronicles her Brosnan in the James Bond film Die Another Day.
life rom 2002 to 2012, doesn’t resemble her. Tall and willowy, her But it is her delicacy as a performer that has allowed her to
blond hair gathered in a sot ponytail this aternoon at a Man- take on increasingly challenging roles. In 2017’s Hostiles she
hattan hotel, Pike is more approachable than Marie was at first. played a rontier mother whose children and husband are slaugh-
She’s warm and empathetic, hugging me when we meet and pour- tered in ront of her. he intensity of her performance, alongside
ing mint tea. She wraps her arms around her legs and talks about a hardened soldier played by Christian Bale, makes for some of
work, life, and her beliefs. Perceptive, sensitive, committed, you the best moments of the film. Next up she’ll play Marie Curie in
can’t help feeling this is a real woman, a serious actress who is the Radioactive, a biopic of the French-Polish chemist who pioneered
best possible choice to play the part. research into radioactivity. he film is directed by the Iranian
Onscreen Pike uncannily becomes Marie, down to the clothes— writer/director Marjane Satrapi, who wrote the graphic novel
including a pale green Oxford I could swear I’d seen Marie wearing. Persepolis. “I went rom playing one strong Marie to another,” Pike
Her posture, her voice, her figure, the angle of her chin when she says. “I wanted to capture her spirit of rebellion. But I also had to
talks: his is Method acting to the extreme. Marie was feisty and dive into Curie’s bitterness.”
smart but complicated, and she could be mercurial. She was plagued In her own life Pike craves normalcy. She’s able to play troubled
by demons, and she repeatedly chose love and passion above sta- women and then go home to her partner, the mathematician Robie
bility. Pike has mastered this mix, but in an unselfconscious way. Uniacke, whom she has been with since 2009, and their two young
Before I saw the film, a riend who had caught a preview in London sons for a life that, by movie star standards, is ordinary. “I want
wrote me, “It’s reaky how much she looks like Marie.” to recreate the childhood that I had for my own children,” she
Pike, a former Bond girl who broke out in the U.S. in 2015 with says, adding that she tries to expose them to books and music and
an Oscar-nominated performance in Gone Girl, is mesmerizing as raise them with no sense of entitlement. When she and her fam-
my old riend, who died in 2012 while reporting on the Syrian war. ily wander around London, they do it on the Tube. “People might
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recognize me,” Pike says, “but I think they just see me as a mother correspondents were rare—was exceptional, her private life was
trying to handle small kids on the subway.” turbulent and painful. She married writer Patrick Bishop twice,
Which is not to say she doesn’t use her life experiences in her and in between married her close riend Juan Carlos Gumucio, a
work. Her second son was born early, leaving her no time to get to Bolivian-born reporter, who killed himself in February 2002.
a hospital; she gave birth in her mother’s apartment. “here was no “He had seen too much,” Marie told me ater Gumucio’s death,
time for pain medication, no time to get to the clinic, so I just let referring to the misery that a war reporter absorbs over time.
my body take over,” Pike says. “I thought, If I can let my mind go She herself battled depression and alcoholism, miscarriages, and
somewhere else, my body will do the job.” Her son arrived healthy, mental and physical exhaustion. She wanted children when she
but Pike believes her body absorbed the trauma and can recall it. was with both Bishop and Gumucio; in neither case did it come to
Luckily, she counts on such things for her work. She doesn’t be. She was a complicated character to capture, and Pike fought
want to dwell too much on how she changed herself, physically hard to master the part.
and spiritually, to become Marie Colvin, because, she says, “so his meant filming in Jordan over a period of two months and
much of this work is mysterious.” acting with Syrian women Pike actu-
She pauses. “I don’t want to analyze ally interviewed, who played widows
it too much. he body just takes over, Marie had met in Syria. In the film,
and I do it.” when a mass grave is opened in Iraq,
“Rosamund worked hard to be the Shia women seen mourning are
authentic,” says Matthew Heineman, people Heineman found on location.
A Private War’s director. Heineman, Both director and actress watched
who made documentaries on the drug and read everything they could find
cartels of Mexico (his Cartel Land on war reporting, Syria, and the
was nominated for an Oscar) and the places Marie had worked. “It was an
Islamic State, also strove for cred- homage to her,” Pike says, “but also an
ibility. He was conscious of the chal- homage to journalists.”
lenges when he signed on to make his A Private War isn’t alone in address-
first narrative film, and he wanted to ing that topic. In October 2006, Anna
tell the story accurately. “I was aware Stepanovna Politkovskaya, another
when I took on this project,” he says, colleague of mine who tirelessly criti-
“that there was an army of people out cized Vladimir Putin and his security
there who loved Marie and would be apparatus for their work in Chech-
watching it carefully.” nya, was assassinated in Moscow by
He was also determined to avoid men believed to be linked to the Rus-
the clichés associated with a hard- sian government. By chance I saw A
drinking, cigarette-wielding female Private War and the play An Intractable
war reporter. It was no easy mission, Woman, about Politkovskaya, in the
since that was just what Marie was, same week. Both brought back to me
but according to the director, casting the importance, now more than ever,
Pike solved that problem, since she of our need to have reporters search-
J A S O N B E L L / C A M E R A P R E S S / R E D U X ( C O LV I N ) ; PA U L C O N R O Y / AV I R O N P I C T U R E S ( P I K E )
so fully embodied some of the char- ing for the truth, something that also
acter’s other qualities. “She came to matters to the people making these
me,” he says, “with the ferocity that I artworks. “I want people to care
think Marie would have had.” about journalism again,” Pike says.
THE FRONT LINES I’m not sure what Marie would
n April 2001, when reporting on Marie Colvin ( top ) is portrayed by Rosamund Pike in this month’s think of the film, but I believe she
landed near her and shrapnel pierced her retina. It took her a year
would approve of Pike’s sentiment.
In 2005 a documentary, Bearing Wit-
ness, was made by director Barbara Kopple about both our lives
to learn how to navigate stairs and pour wine into a glass again, as war reporters; Marie was far cooler with the idea of cameras
but by 2003 she was back in the field during the invasion of Iraq. following her around than I was. Seeing my private life on a big
She wore a black patch over her eye, though sometimes at par- screen, including the birth of my only son, was painful for me. But
ties she wore a glitzy spangled one that her riend Helen Fielding, ater the opening of the film, Marie gathered all of us in her hotel
author of Bridget Jones’s Diary, made for her. For anyone else it room, ordered cheeseburgers for everyone, and produced a gallon
would have been a debilitating blow (“I liked my eyes,” she wrote of vodka. “Let’s celebrate!” she said, and that’s just what we did.
to me ater the operation), but Marie kept going, doing some of She always did know how to throw one hell of a party. «
her best work ater the accident, reporting rom Egypt, Libya, and
Tunisia during the Arab Spring and winning Foreign Reporter Janine di Giovanni spent 30 years as a war reporter and has written
of the Year at the British Press Awards three times. While her eight books. She is currently a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson
career—30 years of being a war reporter at a time when female Institute of Global Affairs.
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Chris Wallace, the Emmy-winning anchor
of Fox News Sunday , spends his time off
outside the Beltway at a family getaway
in Annapolis, Maryland.
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iven the praise Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump place for Wallace’s four grown kids rom his first marriage, Lor-
have slathered on each other, it wasn’t a surprise raine’s two rom her previous marriage (to comedian Dick Smoth-
that, last July, after the pair met in Helsinki, ers), and their six grandkids. Wallace is holding “The Crab,” a
Putin granted his sole post-summit American crustacean trophy engraved with his name made to commemo-
interview to Fox News, the only network permit- rate a July 2017 victory over his sons in a putt-putt tournament.
ted on the screens of Air Force One and one of he Crab is a testament to Wallace’s famous competitiveness; back
the few outlets the president has never accused of when he was NBC’s chief White House correspondent, he and
being “fake news.” But judging rom the pained look on Putin’s face, Donaldson nearly came to blows ater Wallace hijacked Donald-
he hadn’t anticipated that sitting down with Fox News would mean son’s briefing room spot. “No punches were thrown,” Donaldson
an interrogation by the channel’s Chris Wallace. When Wallace says, noting that he did eventually get his spot back, “but Chris’s
asked him why so many of the Russian president’s political enemies tactics would be put in a very aggressive category.”
“end up dead,” the normally imperturbable Putin began to flail, and Wallace admits that it rankles him every time a George Stepha-
at the interview’s end he couldn’t remove his lapel mic fast enough. nopoulos or Chuck Todd interview makes news and his doesn’t.
It’s worth remembering that the late Roger Ailes, Wallace’s former “Honestly, I think I’m better,” he says when asked about how he
Fox News boss, once toasted Wallace by saying, “You’re a great stacks up against the other Sunday morning hosts; neither Stepha-
questioner, and, rankly, every guest who comes on hates you.” nopoulos nor Todd would comment for this story. “he only one
Making subjects squirm isn’t a goal for Wallace, who, in the I didn’t feel that about was Tim Russert.” In the Wallace fam-
14 years he has hosted Fox News Sunday, has become the top news ily, Trivial Pursuit, skeet shooting, and minigolf matches can be
anchor on the most successful cable news channel. “I view my job equally cutthroat. “I think it’s important to note that I was not
as being the cop on the beat, walking around with a nightstick and at that tournament,” says his son Peter Wallace, referring to the
trying to keep people honest—both Crab. “He is in possession of the tro-
Republicans and Democrats,” he says. phy, and is the reigning champion, but
He has done it well enough to distin- “I VIEW MY JOB only my brother, my stepbrother, and
guish himself as an impartial voice on a my brother-in-law played.”
network considered by some to be any- AS BEING THE COP ON Chris Wallace surely internalized
thing but. “A lot of what the Fox News THE BEAT, WALKING many lessons rom watching his father
opinion hosts do is misleading and Mike sufer publicly for what his son
disorienting, but then Chris Wallace AROUND WITH labels “unforced errors”: a 1981 scandal
comes on and attempts to provide the
truth,” says Brian Stelter, senior media
A NIGHTSTICK AND ater a 60 Minutes hot mic caught him
making a racist comment (for which
correspondent for CNN and the host TRYING TO KEEP he later apologized), the 1982 libel suit
of Reliable Sources. Wallace’s former
colleague Megyn Kelly, now an anchor
PEOPLE HONEST— filed by U.S. Army Chief of Staf Wil-
liam Westmoreland over his portrayal
at NBC News, says, “You can ask me BOTH REPUBLICANS in a CBS Reports documentary. Chris’s
about 40 diferent people and I’ll tell career is virtually unblemished. On TV
you, ‘He’s the nicest guy. You just want
AND DEMOCRATS.” he comes of as composed, his expres-
to spend tons of time with him.’ hat’s sion suggesting a feline bemusement
not exactly Wallace. He’s acerbic and unsparing and radically hon- that can unnerve guests. Bill Clinton, ater Wallace asked him in
est even one-to-one, but I can’t think of a journalist I respect more.” 2006 if his administration should have done more to stop Osama
Veteran broadcaster Sam Donaldson, who, during his 42 years at bin Laden, growled, “You’ve got that little smirk on your face. You
ABC News, was at times both a competitor and a colleague of Wal- think you’re so clever.” Ater the New York Times referred to Wal-
lace’s, says, “If Fox News is the type of entertainment people want, lace as “prickly and probing,” Lorraine had the words committed
believing somehow that they’re listening to solid news reporting, to a pillow in needlepoint.
more power to them. But Chris has not joined that pack. He plays President Trump got his initial taste of the prickly Wallace
it straight. He deserves his reputation for doing that.” during Fox News’s first Republican primary debate in August
hat reputation was reinforced in September. Just before Chris- 2015, when Wallace asked how a businessman who had run four
tine Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony, in which she alleged that businesses into bankruptcy could lead a country with a GDP of
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted $18 trillion. he following night on CNN, during the rant when
her in high school, Wallace made headlines for noting on air that he said co-moderator Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her
the national conversation had inspired his daughters to recount eyes, blood coming out of her…wherever!,” Trump said Wallace
their own similar experiences. “I don’t think we can disregard had “blood pouring out of his eyes too!” He finished by needling
Christine Blasey Ford and the seriousness of this,” he said at the Wallace with a familiar insult. “he great Mike Wallace was a
time. “I think that would be a big mistake.” (Wallace doesn’t make riend of mine,” Trump said. “He was a tough cookie and he was
it through these news cycles unscathed. Twitter mobs have come great. And the son is only a tiny raction of Mike, believe me.” If
ater him with suggestions like, “You should go work at CNN.”) Trump’s comment ever stung him, Wallace is over it. “One of us
One crisp day in Annapolis, Maryland, Wallace is in the living has daddy issues, and it isn’t me,” he says.
room of the estate overlooking Chesapeake Bay that he and Lor- Myron “Mike” Wallace married Norma “Kappy” Kaphan,
raine, his wife of 21 years, bought in 2015. he house is a gathering whom he met at the University of Michigan in 1937. Just ater son
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Peter was born in 1942, Mike enlisted in the navy and was sent to hroughout his career, Wallace has kept his politics to himself,
the Pacific. Around the time Chris was born, in 1947, a 20-year-old
blond starlet named Buf Cobb moved to their block in Chicago.
“At a certain point he started living with Buf and not with my
T acknowledging only that he was registered as a Democrat;
to do otherwise as a resident of reliably blue Washington,
DC, means having no say in the local primaries. George Clooney,
mother,” Chris says. Cobb became the second of four Mrs. Mike despite an avowed hatred of Fox News, invited Wallace to stay at
Wallaces, and the couple moved to New York to co-host a talk his Lake Como house in 2012. “Obviously, he works for a network
show, disappearing rom the Wallace kids’ lives. In 1957, Kappy with a political point of view diferent rom mine, but that makes
married Bill Leonard, a CBS News reporter, and Leonard became no diference when you have respect for someone,” Clooney says.
known to the Wallace brothers as “Dad.” “As much as I love my “I’m glad Chris is out there asking tough questions.”
father and mother,” Wallace says, “the person who was most influ- Sometimes those questions have been directed at colleagues.
ential in who I have become is Bill Leonard.” During President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, in a tense
Ater Leonard was transferred to New York, Mike (“Mike” is appearance on Fox & Friends, Wallace chided the hosts for distorting
the only way Chris ever addressed his father) tried to initiate a an Obama quote on race. A year later, ater a withering exchange
relationship with his younger son, but they wouldn’t have any real with Tucker Carlson on the same show, Wallace stopped appearing.
connection until 1962, when Peter Wallace went backpacking in Ailes was unhappy. “His one thing was, if you’re upset with some-
the mountains of Greece and fell to his death. Chris’s eyes well thing that’s going on at Fox, you don’t make it public,” Wallace says.
up as he tells the story of learning of his brother’s death. He says, Some things went public anyway, including the harassment
“his is an absolutely unhealed wound 55 years later.” charges that ultimately led to the firing of Ailes and the network’s
In grade school Chris was awarded a medal for being “honor biggest star, Bill O’Reilly, and, eventually, executive Bill Shine,
boy” every year rom fith to ninth grade except one (“it would have now White House communications director, for his mishandling
caused a riot if I got it again”). He has of the allegations. (To understand the
smoked exactly one cigarette in his life, relationship between the White House
drinks only occasionally, and, despite “CHRIS WORKS FOR and Fox News, one should note that
graduating rom Harvard in 1969, never Hope Hicks, the president’s former
got high there. He began his journal- A NETWORK WITH A communications director, has landed
ism career in 1964 as a gofer for Wal- POLITICAL POINT OF a job as chief communications oicer
ter Cronkite. He was accepted to Yale at the channel’s parent company.) Wal-
Law School in the same class as Hillary VIEW DIFFERENT FROM lace cried in 2016 when he learned of
Clinton but at the last minute took a job
with the Boston Globe. (He was a city
MINE,” SAYS GEORGE the numerous allegations against Ailes,
who died a year ater his ouster. “here
hall reporter when he met Elizabeth CLOONEY, “BUT THAT is no excuse for it,” Wallace says, “but
Farrell, whom he would marry in 1973.)
He moved to TV news and worked his
MAKES NO DIFFERENCE having said that, that doesn’t take away
from how profoundly grateful I am
way up through local stations until WHEN YOU HAVE to him.” Fox News, he says, is the last
NBC News drated him into the majors. job he’ll have in journalism. Accord-
He rose quickly at NBC, becoming chief
RESPECT FOR SOMEONE.” ing to industry sources, Wallace was
White House correspondent, and, in approached about taking over CBS Eve-
1987, host of Meet the Press. A year later, ater the new president of ning News last year, but a network newscast didn’t appeal to him
NBC News told him he was being replaced in both capacities, ABC (his Fox contract extends beyond the 2020 election).
hired him for the new newsmagazine PrimeTime Live. In October 2015, just two months ater the debate contretemps,
Ater Bill Leonard died, in 1994, Chris and Mike became closer. Wallace scored an interview with Trump, who was horrifying
Chris’s marriage collapsed around the same time, and Mike, also many but impressing Wallace—a feeling the anchor still has. “I
divorced, started calling nightly. Chris now says, “hat’s really don’t know that I’ve ever seen as big a diference between some-
when we became best riends.” It wasn’t always easy, though. In body’s public and private personae as I have with President Trump,”
1996, Chris arrived at a comedy club to interview the comedian he says today. “He is thoughtful, asks questions about you, and is
Chris Rock, only to be told that 60 Minutes had big-footed Prime- very pleasant to be around. On a personal level, I kind of like him.”
Time for the booking—and the poacher had been Mike Wallace No one would ever mistake Wallace for a member of the anti-
himself. When Mike died, in 2012, his son opened his eulogy by Trump resistance, and he’s not secretly attempting to save Fox
saying, “Let’s be honest…at some point over the years…many peo- News viewers rom their beliefs. “here are things that trouble
ple in this room were not speaking to my father.” me, but I have faith in the American government and the separa-
Chris found himself stuck at ABC ater Diane Sawyer decided tion of powers, and so far it seems institutions are holding,” he says
she wanted to merge PrimeTime Live with 20/20. In 1999 he got an of the administration. He also believes in what conservatives call
ofer to join the soon-to-launch 60 Minutes II, which would have Trump Derangement Syndrome. “While there are things that are
allowed him to work with his father, but he says that even though going on now that disturb me, I do think there is some anti-Trump
he was miserable at ABC, Sawyer stood in the way of the network hysteria that exaggerates what’s going on as well,” he says. Even so,
letting him out of his contract. In 2003, at the end of that con- since his election Trump has refused every ofer to go on Fox News
tract, Wallace made a diferent move: His riend Brit Hume, who Sunday, preferring Sean Hannity’s gentler touch. Wallace could
had leaped rom ABC to Fox News, introduced him to Roger Ailes. never lay of his famous fastball, even for a president he likes. «
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OF
THE
YEAR
I
s everyone a lawyer now? Whenever I turn on became writers.) hey were principled, serious, idealistic; it was
my TV these days—that is to say, when I turn the ’60s, and laws were meant to be challenged, not broken. I’m
it on at seven in the morning and turn it off not saying that lawyers have fallen rom some exalted place in
at around midnight—I see Lanny Davis, Bill society. hey have always drawn sharp words. Let’s not forget
Clinton’s (and now Michael Cohen’s) lawyer, or Dick the Butcher’s advice in Henry VI: “he first thing we do, let’s
Alan Dershowitz (famous for getting Claus von kill all the lawyers.” Or the grubby attorneys grinding away on
Bülow and O.J. Simpson of of murder charges), the interminable Jarndyce and Jarndyce case in Dickens’s Bleak
or that guy in Minneapolis, Richard Painter, who House: “Whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the
was George W. Bush’s ethics lawyer. hey’re the suit.” Perhaps no lawyer has ever been more loathed than Don-
new celebrities. When Jeffrey Toobin, a staff ald Trump’s mentor, the late Roy Cohn, whose professional and
writer at the New Yorker and CNN’s senior legal personal qualities—tax evader, racist, mob defender, professional
correspondent, walks onstage to interview Sally liar—earned him the role of cultural touchstone for unrepentant
Yates at the New Yorker Festival, people cheer as immorality in Tony Kushner’s 1991 play Angels in America. (“Am
if he’s Bradley Cooper. I a nice man? Fuck nice!” says Cohn, the based-on-the-real-man
There is also a rascals’ row of permanent fixtures installed character. “You want to be nice or you want to be efective? You
around the networks’ fiberglass tables. heir oices are ransacked want to make the law, or be subject to it? Choose!”)
by the FBI (Michael Cohen); they’re accused of intimidation (Marc
Kasowitz); they’re even described as having used the same tactics miss distinguished representatives of the profession like Clar-
as thugs. (I refer to the mythic David Boies, who signed a contract
with an outfit of Israeli undercover operatives called Black Cube
to dig up dirt on accusers of Harvey Weinstein.) hey’re in so deep
I ence Darrow, defender of a high school teacher prosecuted for
teaching evolution, and the fictional Atticus Finch, the lawyer
in To Kill a Mockingbird, with his suspenders and his Southern elo-
they need lawyers of their own. quence, defending a black man accused of rape. And remember
Do you believe the way they talk? Kasowitz, for a short period Archibald Cox, a victim of Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre? As I
one of Trump’s lawyers, replied to a harsh e-mail with a barrage recall, he wore a bow tie. In times of crisis we depended on lawyers
of profanity: “Watch your back, bitch” and “Call me…you piece like these to ofer stability and serve as referees.
of shit.” And here is Cohen in 2015, when he was special counsel I suspect there’s a disheartening reason for this dumbing-down
to the Trump Organization, talking to a reporter rom the Daily of the legal profession. It has to do—like everything these days—
Beast who displeased him: “I’m warning you, tread very fucking with money. It’s not that lawyers don’t make a lot of it. David Boies
lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking charges $1,850 an hour, and a partner at one of the white-shoe
disgusting. You understand me?” All too well. firms can expect to pull in about $3 million a year. here are few
he once obvious distinction between white-shoe-firm lawyer poor lawyers. As Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels,
and ambulance chaser is no longer so clear. Today’s real life law- said, “I’m a mercenary. hat’s what people hire me for, and I don’t
yers make Bob Odenkirk’s moth-eaten character on Better Call Saul apologize for it.”
seem like a model of decorum (and, when he’s up to it, sartorial ele- he problem is that their clients are making ten, a hundred
gance). But it’s not just the New Crassness talking. he increased times as much. As the members of the one percent grow richer,
ease of communication has also put a dent in civility. “he growth their lawyers become their servants, paid to perform clerical
of megafirms makes practice more impersonal,” notes the cele- work for high rates that feel low. “We’re being treated like service
brated novelist and fearless lawyer Scott Turow, who in his days as providers—vendors,” says William Tanenbaum, an intellectual
a prosecutor in Chicago sent numerous crooked politicians “down property attorney at the firm Polsinelli. “Since 2008 companies
the river,” as they say there. “When you dealt only with lawyers have realized they had market powers to push around lawyers.”
rom your city, you could be sure you’d see them again and didn’t In response, law firms have turned into investment banks, Tanen-
want anyone carrying grudges. Now, if somebody shows up rom baum notes: “It’s just a derivative of how corporations behave.”
Atlanta for a motion call, they have less vested interest in not mak- Scott Turow ofers another explanation: the publication of
ing enemies.” he sense of community has been lost, and with it compensation figures in American Lawyer. (he magazine added
a sense that there were rules. Everyone wants to talk at once, and the “compensation—all partners,” or CAP, metric to its annual
they don’t care how they sound. AM Law 100 list in 1995.) his “has made everybody more openly
In my day (forgive this hoary phrase), the law school–bound competitive,” he says. “That competition makes lawyers more
students tended to be at the top of the class. (Some of us—fools!— determined to prove to clients that they, the lawyers, are true pit
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bulls, with the result that lawyers are inclined to act like canines.” defendant make it impossible to prosecute? What happens when
Or prima donnas. he media has made them stars. hey tweet, an accuser is accused? We are in a whole new realm of law here.
they show up on he Rachel Maddow Show and on CNN, they are Kavanaugh’s televised circus was the most riveting legal show
fawned over by NBC’s Hallie Jackson and CNN’s Alisyn Camerota. since Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence homas in 1991. Seen
We can hear White House counsel Emmet Flood talk about worldwide, viewed in airports, shopping malls, and oice lobbies,
impeachment and the 25th Amendment and the penalties for per- it ofered perhaps the most visible evidence of why the law has
jury on Fox & Friends. Michael Avenatti appeared on television 100 become a global form of tawdry entertainment, in which the quest
times in two months; he is even considering a presidential bid. If for truth has become a quest for power. he pursuit of justice is no
you have a degree in jurisprudence, the bookers are on the phone. longer disinterested; it’s a pursuit in which only vindication mat-
Unless you’re the craggy-faced Robert Mueller, entering his ters, and the end justifies the means. he phrase court of law has a
oice rom the garage. he man’s probity is surreal. He doesn’t sportive connotation: It’s all about the score.
talk to the press. He isn’t a guest on MSNBC. He leaves each day But I think there’s another reason for the intrusion of lawyers
with a briefcase bulging (one assumes) with enough indictments into our consciousness, and that is the winner-take-all mentality
to send a busload of lawyers and Russian money launderers to a that dominates society. In this world guilt is irrelevant. Justice is
minimum security prison. No one knows what’s in it—or even, no longer a value. It’s all about winning. Just as Wall Street has
really, who Mueller is. Virtually our only given up even the pretense of playing by the
biographical information about this Lincoln- rules, just as politics has become a game of
esque figure is that he allegedly had a row smearing your opponent, law is now a gladi-
with Donald Trump over golf fees at one of
Trump’s country clubs. For now, he’s keeping
The atorial contest. When your client walks, it’s
because you’ve outmaneuvered the other guy.
quiet, but his silence could be broken any day,
and what happens then?
MEDIA In itself, this is nothing new. In America
everyone has the right to the lawyers he or she
But how could even Mueller, with his cache has made can aford. Consider the battery of attorneys
of explosive secrets, compete with the noise
of a news cycle like ours? he airwaves are lawyers who worked so hard to exonerate O.J. Simp-
son. Here was a case where, to a layman, it
filled with talk of rape and sexual coercion.
Every anatomical variation is discussed in
INTO seems it should have been—was—ethically
wrong even to defend the client. The goal
clinical detail. Did someone wave a body part
in the vicinity of someone else’s face? Did
STARS. If wasn’t to serve justice but to circumvent it.
Or maybe the notoriety of lawyers corre-
someone grab somebody he shouldn’t have
grabbed? here was plenty of salacious mate-
you have lates with the increase in crime—not street
crime, which, despite appearances, has dimin-
rial in Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial too, a law ished over the past decade, but white collar
but it was deeply shocking at the time to hear
about semen stains and…other stuf. Now it’s degree, the crime. Only one Wall Street executive was
sent to jail for the Crash of 2008, but a great
routine, part of the daily diet of information
we ingest on cable TV. Lisa Bloom, who was
bookers many had to be defended, and the pace hasn’t
slackened since. he incidence of banker mal-
famous for representing sexual harassment
victims before she became even more famous
are on feasance and thet is high, and someone has to
represent all those employees who get caught.
for briefly advising Harvey Weinstein, sounds the phone. I wonder if the American impulse to litigate
like Dr. Ruth. has become less an efort to ensure a fair out-
he lawyers are entertaining; their clients come than to pump up a profession that was
are colorful. Avenatti has been accused of ris- beginning to lose its luster even as it gained
ing to fame by “p---ing” (I can’t bring myself to use this word, but in numbers. “Applications to law schools, especially the top half
Rudy Giuliani did) for one of Donald Trump’s former girlriends. dozen, have risen sharply over the past couple of years,” Laurence
Gloria Allred—this isn’t only a guy thing—speaks of “creative Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard and a regular on
lawyering,” putting your case in ront of the public before the trial the TV circuit, told me. (Tribe suggested that the keen interest in
has even started. “You can’t let these stories die—you have to keep the Constitution, perhaps sparked by the musical Hamilton, might
them in the news,” she says. Allred has represented the family of have something to do with it. Or it could be Meghan Markle in
O.J. Simpson’s murdered ex-wife, Nicole. It makes for good copy. Suits, Charlie Weber in How to Get Away with Murder, or any of
the countless other bright, attractive denizens of our television law
o development has contributed more to the high visibility firms.) he number of lawyers in the United States has increased by
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TED SOQUI/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES (BOIES); YANA PASKOVA/GETTY IMAGES (COHEN); ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES (GIULIANI)
ALAN
RUDY GIULIANI
MICHAEL COHEN
DERSHOWITZ
DAVID BOIES
LISA BLOOM
AV E N AT T I
MICHAEL
JEWEL BOX
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Sweeten
THE DEAL
It’s been a tough year.
Have the DESSERT.
Buy the JEWELRY.
Photographs by Keirnan Monaghan and heo Vamvounakis
Styled by Will Kahn
D E B E E R S DIAMOND AND
GOLD NECKLACE (PRICE
ON REQUEST)
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M ARTI N KATZ GREEN SAPPHIRE, AMETHYST, AND DIAMOND RING ($26,500), OPAL, BLUE SAPPHIRE, AND TSAVORITE RING ($188,000),
AND ORANGE SAPPHIRE, AMETHYST, AND DIAMOND RING ($79,500); D AV I D W E B B RUBY, TURQUOISE, DIAMOND, AND GOLD RING ($38,500) AND EMERALD, AMETHYST,
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By Christina Tosi
D
essert is the vehicle for memory. Every Christ- decorating the cookies with sprinkles and whatever design we
mas we used to go to my grandmother’s house in wanted—and then the anticipation of waiting for them to bake.
Ohio and play cards while eating cookies out of It’s the most beautiful, untouchable moment.
a tin. I remember it all so vividly, rom the sound Otentimes my approach to making dessert is to find ways to
of the metal can to the rustle of the wax paper pull out the emotions of moments like these. You can’t touch the
to those sandy, buttery cutout cookies with just sacred nature of these food memories—competing with them
a little bit of rosting on top—even the magic of would be silly. Instead I pick them apart to celebrate and honor
how cold the tin would be when you ran out to the garage in your them. hat’s what makes a great dessert; that’s the power of food.
pajamas to get a new one. It goes far beyond baking. Especially now, during the holidays,
Now I make these cookies every single year, and I will go so far we’re creating our most poignant memories. All of our senses are
as to collect cookie tins rom thrit shops and store them in the on high. he thrill of indulgence has led us to let our guards down.
reezer to get that sitting-in-the-garage rostiness. he recipe is so You might find yourself asking more oten than ever: Why not?
simple (they’re just butter, light brown sugar, flour, and salt), but
it was all about the personalization—choosing the cookie cutters, Christina Tosi is the chef, founder, and owner of Milk Bar.
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“During the holidays all of our
senses are on high. The
THRILL OF INDULGENCE has led
us to let our guards down. You
might ind yourself asking more
often than ever: Why not?”
CHOPARD SAPPHIRE, DIAMOND, AND WHITE GOLD EARRINGS AND TANZANITE, SAPPHIRE, DIAMOND, AND WHITE GOLD NECKLACE (PRICES ON REQUEST).
OPPOSITE, FROM TOP: DAVI D W E B B AMETHYST, EMERALD, AND FIRE OPAL EARRINGS (PRICE ON REQUEST); H E M M E R L E RED TOURMALINE, SAPPHIRE, AND WHITE
GOLD EARRINGS AND GREEN TOURMALINE, ALUMINUM, AND WHITE GOLD EARRINGS (PRICES ON REQUEST). FOR DETAILS SEE PAGE 200.
Food styled by Michelle Gatton
E L E B R A T
I C
ANDREAS WALDSCHUETZ (VAN WYCK PARTY); ANDRES OTERO/WENN.COM (SCHWARZMAN PARTY)
NO GIFTS, PLEASE
In certain circles, over-
the-top birthday parties
are a grand tradition. They
have been thrown by the
likes of Saul Steinberg,
whose 50th birthday bash,
in 1989, is pictured top
right. Other examples
include, clockwise from
right , Rena Sindi’s recent
50th in St.-Tropez, Stephen
Schwarzman’s 60th at the
Park Avenue Armory, and
Bronson van Wyck’s 2018
party in Mykonos, Greece.
SOCIETY BABYLON
E M Y S E L F !
A BIRTHDAY PARTY
MARATHON is the event
© DAFYDD JONES (STEINBERG PARTY); PAT DENTON /REVELATION STUDIOS CANNES (SINDI PARTY)
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or Saul Steinberg’s 50th birthday, in 1989, the late
financier’s wife threw a party for 250 guests at their
Long Island home that included actors posing in
tableaux based on Steinberg’s favorite Old Masters
paintings, and twins dressed as mermaids rolick-
ing in the pool. When Malcolm Forbes turned 70,
also in 1989, the bash he threw in Tangier drew 800
revelers—ferried to Morocco by private jet—including Gianni
Agnelli, Barbara Walters, and Elizabeth Taylor, and cost a rumored
$2.5 million. And who can forget Stephen Schwarzman’s 60th,
which took over the Park Avenue Armory in 2007 and featured
Patti LaBelle singing “Happy Birthday” in ront of 350 of the bil-
lionaire’s closest riends?
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up.” One writer who oten raternizes above her station adds, “I
don’t even know if I can aford to have riends anymore.” “If it’s not a birthday
Of course, that isn’t stopping the hosts and hostesses with
something to celebrate. Rena Sindi, who marked her 50th birth- that ends in zero, it’s kind
day last summer with a multiple-day-and-night affair in St.-
Tropez, feels that destination birthdays are never a bust. “hey’re
of RIDICULOUS for people
always a success,” she says. “Now that we’re not having weddings
so much anymore, it’s an opportunity to get everyone in one
to have these parties.
place.” And there is some charm in making the event’s setting an I’m happy to do it, but
R O N G A L E L L A / W I R E I M A G E ( TAY L O R A N D F O R B E S ) ; N Y D A I LY N E W S A R C H I V E V I A G E T T Y I M A G E S ( N E W S P A P E R )
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PHILIP CRANGI
Working on various collections for Tiffany
has given jewelry designer Philip Crangi
a new appreciation for diamonds. “I don’t
wear them, but when you see these 50-carat,
absolutely bonkers stones, it’s crazy—the
kind of thing you only read about.”
T IF FA N Y & C O . ROSE GOLD, SAPPHIRE, AND DIAMOND BROOCH
FROM THE 2018 BLUE BOOK COLLECTION; T IF FA N Y & C O . RING
HOW TO WEAR A
DIAMOND
A LANDMARK COLLECTION arrives
with a new set of rules.
Photographs by Reed Krakoff
By Stellene Volandes Styled by Will Kahn
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ONE OF A KIND
OLYMPIA SCARRY
he artist may have inherited her creative
talents rom her grandfather, illustrator
Richard Scarry, but Olympia Scarry prefers
reality to children’s books. “I like thinking
three-dimensionally,” she says. She has crated
thought-provoking sculptures rom glass,
rock salt, and even animal fat. Her personal
style is equally compelling—the self-described
minimalist has played muse to Raf Simons
and Riccardo Tisci, and she walked the run-
way for Proenza Schouler in spring 2019.
T IF FA N Y & C O . GRAY AND WHITE DIAMOND AND PLATINUM
EARRINGS FROM THE 2018 BLUE BOOK COLLECTION
DAVID NETTO
“I grew up in New York, in preppy, Upper
East Side circumstances,” says interior
designer (and T&C contributor) David
Netto. “I didn’t value that as a source of style
at the time—in fact, I had contempt for it.”
Now the L.A.-based Netto draws inspiration
rom his patrician upbringing when decorat-
ing homes everywhere rom Park Avenue to
Big Sur. “It’s quite an exotic thing, and, in a
funny way, it has become hip.”
T IF FA N Y & C O . PINK AND WHITE DIAMOND
BROOCH FROM THE 2018 BLUE
BOOK COLLECTION; T IF FA N Y & C O . RING
LAILA GOHAR
What does food
designer Laila
Gohar—who creates
fashionable (and
SAMI MIRO Instagram-riendly)
“I’m the best git-giver culinary installations
any riend could ask for such events as
for,” says fashion Art Basel—consider
designer Sami Miró, indispensable for an
whose style is derived unforgettable event?
rom scouring the “Imagination,” she
world for vintage says. “You have to
finds that she fashions think big.”
into one-of-a-kind
pieces. Last fall she T IF FA N Y & C O . DIAMOND
HEADPIECES, BLUE TOURMALINE
debuted her own line.
AND DIAMOND NECKLACE, AND
T I F FA N Y & C O . PINK TOURMALINE AND TANZANITE AND SAPPHIRE EARRINGS
DIAMOND PENDANT NECKLACE FROM FROM THE 2018 BLUE BOOK
THE 2018 BLUE BOOK COLLECTION COLLECTION; T IF FA N Y & C O . RINGS
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he world of Tifany, it would be safe to say, begins high jewelry collection—the theme is the Four Seasons—marks
in ice, not fire. And, yes, that should be taken meta- the first of chief artistic oicer Reed Krakof. For Krakof the
phorically: Charles Lewis Tifany was named King Blue Book is meant to be a “creative laboratory” that “over time
of Diamonds in 1887, ater he had shrewdly set will be a place where new ideas are born.” he success of this
up shop in Paris and bought about a third of the experiment, which includes the pieces seen here in portraits made
newly available French crown jewels for his clients exclusively for Town & Country by Krakof himself, is a result of
in the rising class of American aristocrats. In 1878, those moments when the “laboratory” fuses Tifany’s tradition of
Tifany acquired the world’s largest and finest yellow diamond, and radical innovation (this was the company that discovered tanza-
in 1886 the company introduced the diamond engagement ring. nite and kunzite and morganite, and had Jasper Johns and Robert
But let’s also consider actual ice, blocks of it. Like the one that Rauschenberg doing window displays) with modern relevance.
visionary Tifany window designer Gene Moore put in the middle he theme may be a classic—the brand has long been known
of a display on Fith Avenue in 1957 next to a Tifany ring. Or the for jeweled butterflies and flowers—but in this Blue Book, moths
block sitting in the middle of a raw space of Tenth Avenue in are created by pinning two triangles together with a platinum rivet
Manhattan this fall, infused with wildflowers near a gem-encrusted and pavé diamonds, and a hydrangea is designed as if it has been
flower on a gold industrial wire choker. hat was just a room away pulled apart. he key for Krakof “is to balance history with nostal-
rom a video installation of the patterns water makes as it reezes, gia. We need to understand what something meant then, and what
the backdrop for a vitrine holding a one-of-a-kind necklace that would that be today? We have to recontextualize history: What did
has 237 uniquely cut diamonds connected by cratsmen in a kind this used to do, and what is it going to do now? What was extraor-
of high jewelry puzzle to create the illusion of ice—or, to “mimic dinary then? Maybe a big, rare stone. What is extraordinary now?
an iceberg adrit on a sea of platinum.” We have now entered the Something unique. Something that takes your breath away.”
universe of the Tifany Blue Book 2018. It’s a good place to be. hat Blue Book Freesia necklace illustrates his point. he flower
he Blue Book, introduced in 1845, is Tifany’s annual show- is pure Tifany archive, rom the period when Louis Comfort Tif-
case of its most extraordinary gemstones and designs. he 2018 fany, son of the founder, was a leader of the [ C O N T IN U E D O N PA G E 2 0 0 ]
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JESSICA WILLIAMS
With a colorful, vintage-inspired fashion
sense that has garnered its own following,
Jessica Williams is a millennial style tour
de force. “In this modern age, there’s room
to be somebody who is a slash: actor/
comedian/singer,” she says. Accordingly,
she morphs rom actor (most recently in
Fantastic Beasts: he Crimes of Grindelwald)
to writer (she’s currently working on a
television series) to co-host of the comedy
show 2 Dope Queens.
T IF FA N Y & C O . PLATINUM AND DIAMOND NECKLACE
FROM THE 2018 BLUE BOOK COLLECTION;
T IF FA N Y & C O . RINGS AND BRACELET
DELPHINE KRAKOFF
Formerly an accessories designer, Delphine
Krakoff now runs an interior design studio
in New York City. In her off hours she
and her husband Reed Krakoff renovate
houses, translating their personal style into
a charmingly avant-garde mix of art and
furniture rom various decades. “We collect
the way we design. It’s based on what we
love, not an intellectual pursuit.”
T IF FA N Y & C O . DIAMOND AND GOLD BRACELET FROM
THE 2018 BLUE BOOK COLLECTION; T IF FA N Y & C O .
BRACELET AND RINGS. FOR DETAILS SEE PAGE 200.
BOMB SQUAD
Jessica Goldman
Srebnick with German
street artist Andreas
von Chrzanowski,
a.k.a. Case Maclaim,
at Goldman
Properties’ Florida
office. Opposite: A
detail of a mural at
Wynwood Walls, her
art park in Miami,
HAIR AND MAKEUP BY STEVEN HOEPPNER
spray-painted by
Kenny Scharf.
J
essica Goldman Srebnick was standing in front of Goldman) and other big names, like the London Police, sit along-
a cartoon image of Donald Trump urinating on the side the work of such newcomers as Tatiana Suarez and Pro176.
Constitution, biting her lip with mild concern. It was Hordes of schoolchildren, tourists, and local artsy types gather
just days before Art Basel Miami Beach in 2017, and at the gates to Wynwood Walls every morning before the 10:30
Srebnick, looking both breezy and statuesque in a opening and wander through, ending their stroll at the Goldman
sundress and sandals, was assessing this particularly Global Arts gallery, where they can buy works by the artists fea-
provocative panel of a large mural by Lady Pink. he tured on the walls. But most valuable of all are the millions of
street art pioneer was one of the 12 artists Srebnick commissioned posts with #WYNWOOD and #WNWOODWALLS and #WYNWOODART hashtags; as
to create something new to coincide with the fair at Wynwood charming as it is in person, Wynwood Walls is a place distinctly,
Walls, the outdoor art park that she owns and has cultivated into savvily made for social media.
one of the most Instagrammable spots on earth. he night before Srebnick found herself assessing the diaper-
Srebnick called over her rather hip mother to listen as Lady clad Trump, she hosted her annual pre-Basel dinner party. Scrufy
Pink cheerfully explained the nearly finished mural; the artist street artists and their significant others filtered through her
referred to the Trump administration’s recent executive orders gleaming Miami Beach mansion, some of them seeing their work
on immigration and made on the walls while they drank
statements that at least half top shelf liquor and feasted
the country would agree with. on a Thanksgiving spread
Soon everyone was convinced made by Srebnick’s chef. Her
that the pee image would not husband Scott Srebnick intro-
be the most controversial thing duced her lovingly, and she
at the fair, let alone ofensive to made an eloquent toast, sport-
the point of problematic back- ing her signature half-art-
lash, and Lady Pink should world, half-real-estate-scion
carry on with her painting. look: lots of black clothes and
Srebnick was relieved hipster glasses, paired with
to have arrived at that con- serious jewelry. Ater the meal
clusion. Though she is a some of the artists retired to
businesswoman—in addition a shag-carpeted family room
to Wynwood Walls she owns to play video games with her
much of the neighborhood, three sons, then ages 15, 13, and
including two trendy restau- 10, who are incredibly charm-
rants serving items like fig- ing and conversationally
strewn brick oven pizza, oice adept beyond the standards
buildings, and storefronts of adolescent boys. It was a
housing tenants like Warby wholesome evening for a crew
Parker and Panther Cofee, all of people who have their own
of which has made the Wyn- tags, perhaps in part because
wood neighborhood Miami’s they would all be at the walls
most vibrant across-the- early the next morning, spray
causeway destination—she cans in hand, racing to com-
loves her artists. hey are like L A U N C H I N G P A D plete their pieces before the
Along with murals, Srebnick shows work by emerging street
family to her, and she adores sculptors at her Wynwood Walls property in Miami, such as Art Basel opening night party
their often weird, outsider Plastic Florida Panther , a 2017 piece by Bordalo II. inside the walls, which would
perspectives. Not only has she be attended by everyone rom
become, over the years, a patron to such street artists as Shepard Fairey to then–Miami Dolphins tight end Julius homas.
Fairey and Kenny Scharf, but she is a sort of fairy godmother to
the ones following in their footsteps, artists like Joe Iurato, Audrey rts patron is only a raction of Srebnick’s résumé. She is
Kawasaki, and Tristan Eaton. Some she anoints by awarding them
space on the coveted Houston Bowery Wall in Manhattan, which
became famous in the late 1970s when Keith Haring turned it into
A CEO of Goldman Properties, the real estate company
founded by her larger-than-life father in 1968. Tony Gold-
man became known for taking industrial areas of cities and mak-
his canvas. he wall has been owned by the Goldman family since ing them chic by infusing them with art; his first major project
1984; Srebnick chooses a new artist to grace it about once a year. was Soho in the ’70s. “We are in the business of neighborhood
“It’s the Oscars of graiti art,” she says. revitalization. My dad has always seen the best in neighborhoods
he same can now be said of Wynwood Walls, where Sreb- that other people see as dilapidated or hopeless,” Srebnick says. “He
nick periodically invites artists both famous and unknown to take became known for turning these kinds of urban neighborhoods
over vast spaces for months or even years, until she decides that a into pedestrian destinations.” Ater Soho, Goldman followed the
particular wall is in need of something new. Right now works by same model in the Art Deco district of Miami Beach in the ’80s
Fairey (a giant mural of Srebnick’s real estate tycoon father, Tony and then Center City, Philadelphia, in the ’90s. In 2006 it was time
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for a new zone, and Goldman dispatched Srebnick’s brother Joey his gallery is the only other one inside Wynwood Walls. “Peter is a
to find a spot. “Wynwood was all single story industrial buildings,” character,” Srebnick says. “He knows a ton of people, he has a ton
she says about the patch of land her brother scouted. “No pedes- of connections inside and outside the art world, and he thinks only
trian anything. You could roll a bowling ball down the center of outside the box.” Tunney agrees that it’s a complementary match.
the street. But there was a lot of interesting graiti here, and the “Jessica is completely her father’s daughter—she shares his vision.
real estate was inexpensive.” hey set to work buying up a criti- But she’s also incredibly pragmatic, which means she can actually
cal mass of property. hey opened two casual-chic eateries (Joey’s make our crazy ideas happen.”
and Wynwood Kitchen + Bar), and they leased an annex space to And indeed, the first fish the Goldman Global Arts duo landed
Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art for $1 a year. “We factor was a big one: real estate mogul Stephen Ross, who hired Srebnick
in that we’re going to lose money for a period of time,” she says. and Tunney to adorn Hard Rock Stadium, home of his NFL team,
“But now, all of a sudden, MOCA has a space here, and then other the Miami Dolphins, with street art murals. “At Wynwood Walls,
people begin to feel comfortable putting their galleries here, or Jessica created an inspiring environment that has become a liv-
another restaurant. And we cultivated a neighborhood.” ing, breathing cultural mecca,” Ross says. “She brought that same
Just before Tony Goldman died, in 2012, he named Srebnick spirit to the stadium. If you put great art into environments, you
CEO. She believed in continu- completely change the expe-
ing his vision; she also knew rience for everyone who vis-
she wanted to double down its.” he project was a dream
on the art aspect of it. It’s a for Srebnick, whose family
business strategy, for sure, but attends every Dolphins home
it’s also a religion to her: that game and who is a co-chair of
life should be infused with art, the 2020 Miami Super Bowl
and that artists should have Host Committee. “It was an
ample opportunities to show incredible opportunity Mr.
their work and make a living. Ross gave us—that our first
She loves street art best of project could be something
all because it’s so democratic. this massive and high-profile,”
“Street art is not intimidating. she says. “I’m forever grateful
Street art is for everybody. to him.”
And I would like to find a bet- here’s much more on the
ter word for street art, because horizon—Goldman Global
it’s about public art, and that’s Arts is currently working on
what I love. I love the fact that projects in Miami for Ameri-
I had hundreds of kids from can Airlines Arena and Citi
the public school system com- Bike, among others—but first
ing through Wynwood Walls there is this year’s Basel to
today, touring and learning attend to, which happens to
about something they might coincide with the 50th anni-
feel diferently about if they versary of the founding of
were in a museum or a gallery. Goldman Properties. Street
I hope this is their first step artists from Ron English to
into feeling comfortable and W A L L O F F A M E Tomokazu Matsuyama to
Who will get a Wynwood Wall next has become a guessing
excited about art, as opposed game. Here, a 2017 mural by Tristan Eaton. This month Vhils will unveil new works
to thinking it’s only for a cer- new works by Ron English and Vhils will debut. at Wynwood Walls. And Sreb-
tain kind of person.” nick will have the opportunity
his philosophy led her to start a second business, Goldman to unveil something of her own: Wynwood Garage, a vast parking
Global Arts, a division of Goldman Properties that specializes facility—made necessary by the explosion in neighborhood traic
in bringing art into large public or semipublic places. For this since she opened Wynwood Walls—that will also include creative
endeavor she teamed up with an interesting bedfellow: Peter Tun- oice space and ground floor retail and will look like an art instal-
ney, who was once an eccentric millionaire investor, celebrity lation itself. “When we build, we absolutely have to marry art and
hobnobber, and nightlife fixture. (In 1994, Lifestyles of the Rich architecture,” she says. “We have to lead by example.”
and Famous crowned him an eligible bachelor ahead of JFK Jr. and Srebnick doesn’t plan to limit her projects to buildings or
Prince Albert of Monaco.) He subsequently went broke, became an installations or spray paint on walls, either. “Art can enhance any-
artist, and in 2003 earned ringe fame for an exhibit that involved thing. his can be about product. It can be about merchandise. It
him living full-time in a makeshit VIP room at the New York can be food and beverage establishments, hotels,” she says. “I don’t
nightclub Crobar for nearly a year. Tony Goldman had become want to put a billion more T-shirts into the world, but I want
riends with Tunney in the ’90s, when Tunney was making art to do projects that are really thought-provoking, and really—I
in a firehouse turned studio in Soho, and Goldman subsequently don’t want to say epic…” She pauses, smiles. “But actually I kind
persuaded him to become one of the first tenants of Wynwood— of do.” «
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mysterious process, but Downton says
that each must have a meaningful rela-
tionship with the hotel, and each must sit
for him in person. Assorted visitors and
luminaries have quietly lobbied for inclu-
sion, to no avail. “here have been strong
hints,” says a Claridge’s representative,
“but we pick our subjects.”
I ask if it has been nerve-racking to
THE ART OF SHAME launch a portrait gallery during a period MIAMI RETAIL WARS
of drastic upheaval, with prominent fig-
for sexual assault),
[ C O N TI N U ED F R O M PAGE 53] ures toppling in the realms of politics, beach and the bay,
[ C O N T IN U E D F R O M PA G E 5 8 ]
film producer Harvey Weinstein (charged broadcasting, and the arts. Downton says gave it a direct pipeline to the most alu-
with rape; out on bail at time of writing), he’s grateful that such considerations are ent among them, making it the most con-
and broadcaster Matt Lauer (fired by NBC “beyond my pay grade.” A hotel repre- sistently profitable mall in the country.
ater accusations of sexual misconduct), sentative says, “We’d think long and hard A none-too-secret element of its suc-
the removals made national news. about removing a portrait. We wouldn’t cess was its savvy radius restriction,
he Occidental Grill in Washington, knee-jerk it.” (Downton adds, “It will be which prevented tenants rom setting up
DC, has quietly taken down the picture of interesting to see who’s here in 10 years.”) shop elsewhere by relegating them to
Senator Al Franken rom its gallery of U.S. Rearranging them wouldn’t require less-traicked areas or requiring them
presidents, senators, representatives, and the invention of any new skills, however. to cough up a percentage of sales. In 2011,
Beltway journalists. Sardi’s hasn’t pulled Establishments on both sides of the Atlan- when Louis Vuitton let Bal Harbour,
anyone down yet, even though its gallery tic have for decades dealt with diicult other LVMH labels followed, and with
features caricatures of such contentious politics surrounding some of their custom- them went the suggestion that there
figures as Dustin Hofman and James ers. “Restaurants have always been about was only one luxury name in town—
Franco (both of whom deny wrongdoing seeing and being seen, and making it onto especially when LVMH bought into the
amid sexual misconduct allegations). the wall of a well-known restaurant is a Design District through one of its
“We have a few on our walls who have way of doing that,” says food anthropolo- investment arms.
been accused but not convicted,” says Sean gist and historian Willa Zhen. And while At the time, Randall Whitman, the
Ricketts, Sardi’s co-owner and general displaying one’s lotiest ailiations in son of founder Stanley Whitman, sent
manager. hat said, he notes that if Sardi’s pictures does bring prestige, the sword has Robins a stinging message to relay to
had had a likeness of Weinstein on the always cut both ways. (Ater her husband’s the bigwigs at LVMH. But if there is any
wall, “we would have taken him down.” (In abdication of the throne, former Claridge’s residual animosity, the key players aren’t
the past, a diferent disgraced producer regular Wallis Simpson—whose visage is telling. “Frankly, I think it was past time
nearly had his Sardi’s portrait turned prominently exhibited in the hotel lobby— to move on,” says Matthew Whitman
upside down, but instead it was relocated was once considered the most reviled Lazenby, Stanley’s grandson, who has been
to a wall upstairs and ultimately removed.) woman in England.) For years portraits president and CEO since 2013. “Life’s too
When I heard that Claridge’s Hotel, the in prestigious restaurants and hotels have short. And whether it’s for us or for them,
Art Deco landmark in London’s Mayfair come under attack for all sorts of reasons. business is too important to sacrifice on
neighborhood, had unveiled a portrait “We’ve seen divorce settlements where things like that.” Lazenby points out that
gallery in this raught climate, I went to people have demanded that their exes get some of LVMH’s brands—including Loro
behold it in person. he hotel has long taken of the wall,” says Bruce Bozzi Jr., Piana and Bulgari—never let, and he is
displayed photographs of its illustrious executive vice president of the Palm, working with the company to bring back
clientele, but its gleaming new “Black and whose family has run the restaurant line some defectors.
White Corridor” features dozens of water- for four generations. In the past, he says, Robins is playing nice too. “I think the
color portraits of the hotel’s most glamor- “it has taken a lot” for a patron portrait to Whitmans have contributed so much to
ous contemporary guests, including Diane be taken down. O.J. Simpson was removed our community, and I wish them nothing
von Furstenberg, Sarah Jessica Parker, rom the Palm’s now-defunct Hollywood but the best,” he says. Sofer adds, “I see
Alber Elbaz, and Christian Louboutin. location in the 1990s, but other than that them out, but I really don’t know them”—
heir creator, artist David Downton, calls Bozzi could not recall another eviction though she sounds more like the Mariah
them “the talking heads” and imagines that before this tumultuous year. he banish- Carey meme in which the diva claims to
“if you walked down the corridor at 2 a.m., ment of a Palm portrait subject is no small be unfamiliar with a rival.
they’d be having a good time, I think.” thing, as the portraits are usually painted Besides, Lazenby and his team are
he gallery has been in the works since straight onto the walls and have to be lit- busy developing an additional 350,000
2013, and it seems as if it should have erally chiseled away. square feet, including an adjacent parcel
been there forever. Ater all, for decades Ultimately, Bozzi adds, the restaurants of land on the southwest side of the mall.
Claridge’s has held supreme client boast- just “patch up the wall and celebrate some- Construction on the $400 million expan-
ing rights; its devotees have included roy- one else.” One thing is certain in uncertain sion won’t be completed until 2023, but
als (current, retired, and exiled), movie times: here will always be prominent fig- Lazenby is worried not so much about
stars, and other such creatures. Its current ures in disgrace, and there will always be growing as about diluting the exclusiv-
portrait subjects have been chosen via a more rising stars. « ity of his oferings. “We could probably
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fill the entire new space just by making perceived: noble but stodgy, exceptionally
existing tenants larger,” he says, adding delicious but expensive.”
that he could fill any letover space rom Raj Vaidya, the head sommelier at the
the wait list of prospective tenants. “My restaurant Daniel in New York, took issue
philosophy of almost everything in life is with the prevailing, wine-geeky sentiment
that it’s all a cycle. Right now luxury is in in the room, pointing out that the Big Fla-
expansion mode, and at some point, as in vor style has many fans. “It may not be my
all things, it will go too far and contract personal cup of tea, but we have a robust
again. But it’s a diferent world, and for customer base that likes a style of Napa
now the Miami market can definitely IS CABERNET THE NEW MERLOT? cab that’s big and ripe and inky and sweet.
accommodate three or four locations for here are a lot of fans for these wines, and
luxury brands.” wines like Harlan,
[ C O N T I N U E D F R O M PA G E 6 6 ] I’d be doing my customers and my boss a
Colgin, Dalla Valle, and Screaming Eagle, disservice not to provide them. Not every-
B R I C K E L L : F O R T E C H I E S A N D T I TA N S and pretty soon all their neighbors were one wants lean, herbaceous wines.”
OF INDUSTRY emulating the high-price, high-octane cult Petroski’s own working life is an inter-
As of late 2016, the latest entrant in wines, picking late, pushing ripeness to esting reflection of the great divide in
Miami’s Game of hrones is Brickell City extremes. As Matthiasson said, “It became the current wine scene. By day he makes
Centre, a retail-and-hospitality behemoth macho about how late you pick.” Until rich, high-scoring cabernets at Larkmead,
owned by Hong Kong’s Swire Properties some started to say, enough. a historic Napa estate. But his very suc-
that, in a neat twist to rival the Robins- Among those who derided this trend cessful side project is Massican, a label
Sofer marriage, has gotten an assist rom was critic and Blue Hill panelist Jon devoted to white wines made with ribolla
an unlikely ally: the Whitmans. With Bonné, in his influential 2013 book he gialla, tocai riulano, and sauvignon blanc
a price tag of more than $1 billion, the New California Wine. Bonné dubbed the that are poured by the glass at the French
4.9-million-square-foot shopping, oice, prevailing sun-drenched, sugary style “Big Laundry and are featured on the lists at
condominium, and hotel project is argu- Flavor,” complaining that many California Le Bernardin in New York and Alinea in
ably the most talked-about development wines, especially the cabs, were unbal- Chicago. hey are all light, bright, and
in Miami. In addition to the 40-story anced and overblown—that they quickly crisp—perfect summertime food wines.
East Miami Hotel, it’s home to Saks Fith exhausted the palate and overwhelmed Sommeliers love them; Robert Parker,
Avenue, the three-story Italian food hall almost any food. Bonné’s book sought to on the other hand, doesn’t even review
La Centrale, a newfangled CMX movie identify and champion the winemakers, them—although he does review Petroski’s
theater, and the holy grail of millennial some of whom have been around since Larkmead cabernets, which are very ripe,
retail: an Apple store. the late ’60s, who were part of a counter- giving them scores in the high 90s. he
Whereas close to 65 percent of sales revolution, seeking balance and finesse audiences for his two labels probably have
at Bal Harbour come rom tourists, this and acidic lit—winemakers like Mat- no overlap.
complex in the financial district is relying thiasson, Cathy Corison, and Paul Draper Matthiasson also has a foot in both
on the area’s large daytime oice popula- of Ridge Vineyards. “In a way,” Bonné told worlds. He has a thriving business as
tion and the residents of the 5,000 apart- the audience, “the fight over cabernet is a a vineyard consultant, having worked
ments that have sprung up nearby in the culture war, or maybe even a generational for both Araujo and Dalla Valle, two
past few years. “People don’t want to live war.” He asserted that younger drinkers benchmark makers of cult cabernets. he
a million miles away rom where they were increasingly turned of by caber- wines he makes under his own epony-
work,” says Kieran Bowers, the Oxford- net. “It’s the cultural baggage of a lot of mous label, including a Napa cabernet
educated president of Swire Properties douchebaggery in times past, of big wines and a Bordeaux blend, are much more
USA. “And with the way the Miami map that were all about peacocking.” hink savory and restrained than is the norm in
is divided, we saw a real opportunity in a finance bros in suspenders crying out for Napa. Matthiasson’s career may answer
downtown location with next to no retail $1,000 bottles of Harlan. the question of what cabernet should
of any substance.” Jason Wagner, the 39-year-old wine be: here’s room on the table for both
Bowers and his cohort have been pay- director at Union Square Café, said, “For styles—or multiple styles. Cabernet will
ing close attention to the competition. the generation of sommeliers just under never be a dainty wine, or a good partner
Brickell doesn’t yet have a permanent art me, cabernet is not cool. Too pricey, not to oysters. And in Napa, where land and
collection, but last year, just in time for food-riendly. People eat diferently now. farming are expensive, it will never be
Art Basel Miami Beach, the mall invited It’s less and less that a meal is centered on cheap, but its various expressions can
local curators to incorporate feminist- a single meat-based dish. Instead guests please diferent audiences.
themed exhibitions by Yoko Ono and the are sharing plates, smaller portions, mul- Of course, vegan Snapchat users and
Guerrilla Girls into its oferings. “Art may tiple courses, tasting menus. hey’re look- pescatarians are unlikely to drink any
not have a direct transactional purpose, ing for something to go with a wide array style of cab. he days when cabernet (and
but it creates a flash point and a sense of foods, and cabernet is generally not chardonnay) ruled the wine world are
of urgency,” he says. “At the end of the built for that.” over. But there is a new generation of
day we are all in the business of creating Dan Petroski, who organized the California winemakers who are seeking
stimulating moments and curiosity.” Or, panel, did not disagree. “Cabernet defi- more finesse rom the grape. And as long
to borrow rom the universal language of nitely has an image problem. It seems to as there’s steak on the menu, there will be
commerce, ka-ching! « be stuck in the past in terms of how it’s cabernet on the wine list. «
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