California’s cultural boom has redrawn the global arts map via billion-dollar museums, blockbuster galas, and a creative spirit all its own Words by DEGEN PENER Museum galas don’t typically rival the Oscars when it comes to celebrity turnout. That’s why the 2011 debut of LACMA’s Art+Film Gala felt like such a game changer for the art world. Everywhere you looked was another one of your favorite stars — Emily Blunt, Olivia Wilde, Jane...
A rebellious instinct and resilient spirit have made the chef the country’s first (and only) female to win three Michelin stars. What’s in her secret sauce? Photography by FRANÇOIS DISCHINGER Styling by LAUREN GOODMAN Words by DAVID NASH October marks Dominique Crenn’s five-year anniversary of being cancer-free. “Yes, hallelujah! There’s no stopping for me. I’m not paying attention to — or internalizing — negative energy. I have two children, and I want to...
Decades after reshaping daytime TV, Oprah Winfrey is back behind the mic with a new podcast. C pays a visit to the media titan in her Montecito idyll Photography by KURT ISWARIENKO Styling by ANNABELLE HARRON Words by ROBERT HASKELL There’s a misconception about Oprah Winfrey. It’s so well known that it can hardly be called a misconception: that she is the ultimate people person, that her prodigious interpersonal gifts emanate from a...
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