Sleeping Beauty is a classic fairy tale involving a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince. The version collected by the Brothers Grimm was an orally transmitted version of the original literary tale by Charles Perrault published in 1697. Yet the story is much older than that, dating back to 1330-44 when it was composed for Perceforest, a...

Orundelllco, known as “Jemmy Button” (c. 1815-1864) was a native from the islands of Tierra del Fuego, in modern Chile and Argentina. In 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy took him hostage in a larger group, then purchased him for with a mother of pearl button, hence his name. Jemmy Button was taken to England, where he became a local celebrity and met...

 Stella Tennant by Mario Testino. Fashion Editor James Valeri.

 Binx by Roe Ethridge. Fashion Editor Robbie Spencer.

Saskia by Collier Schorr. Fashion Editor James Valeri.

Tom of Finland by Peter Marino.

DAria by Richard Price. Fashion Editor James Valeri.

Document. What...

 
Fanny by Jacqueline Probert

Nelson Bloncourt & Fanny

Once upon a time there was a dog named Fanny. A French bulldog who was known on the streets of San Francisco. She was companion to Nelson Bloncourt and together they lived in the hills. As time went on Fanny became Bloncourt’s muse, inspiring the publication...

 
"Give Joy" at Guild Green, Brooklyn

An Aldo Tura ice bucket on an Aldo Tura presentation table.
Both covered in dyed parchment (goatskin). Aldo Tura’s parchment dyes are unmatched today.
The Kay Bogensen penguin has an articulated neck and the grain of the wood is incorporated into the sleek form of the bird.

1953 Knoll chair with a Bitossi (Italian) ceramic floor lamp and a biomorphic wood sculpture (artist unknown)....

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Newport, Rhode Island—celebrated for its stunning seascapes, famous mansions, Jazz Festival, annual Flower Show, and world-class sailing—is 375 years old, making it one of the oldest cities in the United States. What makes this majestic town all the more striking today is its reverence for history and its preservation of the past, not as...

 
Andi Potamkin and Steven Kasher, photograph by Jake Chessum

 
Vee Speers, Isabelle, 2004, Fresson print, 17 x 14 in, Edition of 10
Courtesy of Kasher|Potamkin

Jessica Harrison, Martha, 2014 Found ceramic, epoxy resin, enamel paint, acrylic varnish,
8 11/24x 43 5/48x 5 1/10in, Unique
Courtesy of Kasher|Potamkin

Biata Roytburd, One, 2013 Porcelain, 3 5/10x 3 5/10x 9 5/10in, Unique
Biata Roytburd, Two, 2013, Porcelain, 4 x 3 x 7 in, Unique
Courtesy...

The Golden Player. Serie Diary of an artist, 2012. Acrylic on linen, 130x97 cm
Courtesy Halcyon Gallery, London

 
Bajo las estrellas / Under the Stars. Serie Canary Paradise, 2008 . Acrylic on linen, 195 x 130 cm
Courtesy Halcyon Gallery, London

Mai Lucas is an independent spirit that travels the globe in search of the beauty of every day life. She is drawn to the people whose souls live and breathe on the streets we cruise and the sidewalks we strut. For more than twenty years, Lucas has been documenting the look of urban style as it finds itself moving from...

Osvaldo Jiminez and Kara Mullins are the founders of La Petite Mort, a vintage boutique on the Lower East Side that reminds one of nothing so much as New York. Dedicated to the spirit of the 1980s and 90s, La Petite Mort reminds...

Polaroids and poems. Piles of jewels. Clothing lines and pop-up stores. These are a few of my favorite things. Come together in...

While most teenagers daydreamed of summer break while playing records in their bedrooms, fourteen-year-old Paul Zone spent his youth immersed in the New York underground, exploring the concrete playground with actors, drag queens, and drug addicts. The mid-1970s was a time when the death of Glam and the birth of Punk collided in a celebration of glitter and grime, and Zone had a front-row seat to it...

Sugar and spice and all things nice, like glitter and gold, sparkle and shine and delight, like lip gloss and candy-colored purses with matching shoes and perfume that smells like spring, like flowers in bloom. All things femme, feminine, sexy, sex,...

Joie Iacono is a diamond, polished to shine, reflecting, refracting, and bending light at she desires. A photographer, painter, designer, director, DJ, and collaborator, Iacono is a many-faceted gem who best embodies the phrase, “I am every woman.” She first picked up a camera at the age of eight and turned the lens upon herself, becoming both artist and model in each frame.

Iacono reveals, “My work is diaristic; I am always pulling...

Debra Shriver, a 12th generation Southerner, Francophile, passionate preservationist and jazz devotee, is the author of two books on New Orleans: Stealing Magnolias: Tales from a New Orleans Courtyard (Glitterati Incorporated) and In the Spirit of New Orleans (Assouline). Although she is an inveterate New Yorker, living and working as a media executive here in the city, her heart belongs to New Orleans.

Shriver recalls, “Creating both books was a labor of love....

“We thrive on confusion, on not being pinned down. You should not have to be the same person you were five minutes ago,” Connie Hanson says, sharing of a point of view that has endowed Guzman with a wit and a joie de vivre. Guzman itself embodies the Dada charm of the absurd, as the husband/wife team of Russell Peacock and Ms. Hanson let it be known that Guzman had a back story....

Freddie Leiba is the embodiment of elegance. He is at once both very cool, and warm. His lyrical voice soothes and charms. Once seated in his resplendent abode in midtown Manhattan, Mr. Leiba begins to reflect on the early days, and how they laid the path to a life in fashion, photography, and style that is undeniably glamorous. His vision has been seen on some of the most beautiful women of our time, from Iman...

Valentina Ilardi Martin, portrait courtesy of Citizen Couture

Valentina Ilardi Martin is the Editor in Chief of GREY Magazine, a sumptuous compendium of fashion photography, fiction and poetry that has been published in a hardcover periodical every spring and every fall since 2009 featuring photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Sarah Moon, Martin Parr, Robert Polidori, and Ellen von Unwerth among many more. 

The...