ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, the 88th Academy Awards were held in Hollywood, California. Leonardo di Caprio won his first Oscar with longtime friend Kate Winslet by his side — click through the slideshow for more of this moment and a few of our other favourites from the evening . . .
In the Northern hemisphere’s sky, hovering above the Milky Way, there are two constellations—Cygnus the swan, her wings outstretched in full flight, and Lyra, the harp that accompanied poetry in ancient Greece, from which we take our word “lyric.”
Driving offers some compensating advantages over mass transit, of course, including a greater sense of autonomy and control. But one of the seeming conveniences of driving—that getting from home to work doesn’t force you to walk any farther than from your kitchen to your garage at one end, and from your employer’s parking lot to your desk at the other—isn’t a benefit. It’s a liability.
TEN PANDAS were born this year at the Ya’an Bifengxia Giant Panda Breeding Center in China, making their first public appearance last...
Empathy is hot in business wisdom these days: Forbes says it’sinvaluable, Apple’s training manual offers empathy exercises, and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson calls caring “key.”
If you have been following along on Instagram and facebook, you may have come across a few subtle hints here &...
A little inspiration in shades of green for spring or Saint Patrick’s Day — topiaries and London doors, Chinoiserie and...
THIS WEEK’S LINKS include recipes for seafood pasta and a coconut & fig cheesecake, books for lists and marble trays for the office, a guide to getting enough beauty sleep, and more . . .
1. What Is Fatigue? “When, on a blustery day in Oxford in 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile,...
Silicon Valley is not a place where one is invited to show frailty or despondence. It is, as Nick puts it, “the place where everybody is killing it all the time.
Today’s Articles of Interest from Around the Internets 1. At the gates of power: how Marine Le Pen is unnerving...
Acclaimed Fashion designer, Oscar de la Renta passed away on Monday, at his home in Kent, Connecticut, after a long battle with cancer. He was 82 years of age.
“Despite the hype that always accompanies the staging of an Apple event, only a handful of them over the past decade have truly mattered. It seems pretty clear that next Tuesday’s event is going to fall into that category, based on the way Apple has handled the run-up to it and the fact that we’re about to enter a new era for the storied company.”
AS YOU KNOW, WE WERE IN OXFORDSHIRE recently, for shop business and studio visits, and are extravagantly excited to be introducing a few new items to the line-up, including the loveliest things in shades of Blanc and French Grey and Bruyère, from a French tannery we have been working with for the past few months. And in all the busy-ness of the past few weeks, hadn't a chance to tell you about the latest addition -- the new LONDON URBAN PACK -- made of ultra-lightweight Nappa leather, it is the NEW COOL in sport luxe and the perfect intersection between form & function, ROCK & refined . . .
DO YOU REMEMBER all those months ago, had hinted at an enormous and enormously exciting project in the works? Well it’s here! it’s here! at long last: the brand new This Is Glamorous! After months, [months!] of hard work, we are so very excited to reveal an entirely new website. A very special thank you [& so much love] goes to P., who spent hundreds of hours dreaming up and researching the concept for the site, bringing his ideas to life with our designers & developers in months of correspondence that added up to over three hundred emails.