David Sedaris on the Joy (and Peril) of Wearing Comme des Garçons
I was on an elevator a few years back, on my way to a theater I’d been booked into, when two women boarded, both middle-aged and smelling of alcohol. It…
At Sacai, Chitose Abe Doesn’t Chase the Hype—It Finds Her Anyway
Chitose Abe is sitting at a conference table in a bare-bones office upstairs at the Paris headquarters of her company, Sacai. The building is a Haussmannian-style hôtel particulier with a…
Meet Mira Chai Hyde, Hollywood’s “Godmother of Grooming”
In Los Angeles, the most consequential heads of hair go to Mira Chai Hyde, the 67-year-old self-proclaimed “Godmother of Grooming.” Nicolas Cage’s publicist recommended her to Simu Liu, who hired…
IDEA’s Angela Hill Is as Discerning About Looks as She Is About Books
Officially, IDEA is a secondhand bookshop in London, but it also feels like Angela Hill’s living room. Fashion designers, art students, and her many acquired “nieces and nephews”—young people she’s…