The Upper East Side has long been home to “social” New York, but it’s also where you’ll find Museum Mile–a stretch of Fifth Avenue that holds the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim and (tucked at the north end of Central Park), the Museum of the City of New York. Tasked with celebrating the city’s diversity and “perpetual transformation,” this gem of a museum recently mounted an exhibit that looks at the work of 20th-century photographer and artist, Cecil Beaton, and his extraordinary career in New York. Along the way, the show offers proof of the power of glamour, and the transformative effect it can have on portraitist, subject and viewer alike.

On the final day of the Prêt-à-Porter last month, I attended the opening reception for the Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective at the Petit Palais. It is so overwhelmingly beautiful, you can hardly take it in with just one visit. Paris-based journalist Nora Baldenweg went back to the Petit Palias after we visited that night, and she has written this piece on my behalf…

Much has been written of this exhibition already—and all of the accolades are deserved. Covering two floors at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and featuring 130 outfits from the designer, the Madeleine Vionnet exhibition is so thorough and so marvelous that I had to go twice!

While reading my newsletter from JC Report yesterday, I saw that my friend Liana Yaroslavsky was featured with a great write-up!  Liana is an extraordinary artist and interior decorator located in Paris.

During Haute Couture back in January, I attended the exhibition of her first table collection and wrote about it here on my website.  Congratulations to Liana on her visionary work and the recognition it has received!