Way back when I wasn’t 59 years old and my right hip and back didn’t hurt every morning from 36 years of umpiring, I was in Winchester, Virginia, one July week to work a Little League softball state tournament and rooming with a chap named Kat Stapleton. Among other things, Kat was looking to beef…
Donatella Versace has taken her last runway bow. Ms. Versace, the younger sister of the founder Gianni Versace and the woman who stepped in to safeguard the company after his murder in 1997, is leaving her post as chief creative officer after almost 30 years. She will become chief brand ambassador, an honorary role involving…
One evening in late January, Haider Ackermann, the new designer at Tom Ford, was tucked into a velvet banquette at La Reserve, the discreet, tryst-worthy hotel not far from the Élysée Palace in Paris. He was doing his best impression of Tom Ford, the man. “Hello, Haider,” Mr. Ackermann purred, his voice dropping an octave…