Icons of Palm Beach
Palm Beach society, written for people who live on the island.
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Damien Hirst Turns to Cashmere, and the Season's Knitwear Gets an Artist's Hand
Damien Hirst has designed a cashmere line with Barrie, the knitwear house. For the island, cashmere is the sweater over the shoulders on a cool Januar…
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On the Island, a Senior Year Conversation Worth Having: Eight Admissions Assumptions, Set Straight
Town & Country held its first gathering on the college question, and the panel it brought together set out to correct eight widely held beliefs about …
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Sheila Johnson, in Command of the Third Chapter
Town & Country has turned its attention to Sheila Johnson and finds her well into a third act, and running it with real mastery. The phrase deserves a…
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For the Beach Bag: The Scientist Heroines of Ali Hazelwood, Taken in Sequence
There's now a guide to reading Ali Hazelwood's romance novels from the first one onward. The case for starting at the beginning is the heroine Hazelwo…
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For the Pampered Companion, a Stroller Worth Its Place on Worth Avenue
Town & Country's editors have tested the field and named one dog stroller the best in its class, the benchmark the others get measured against. The ve…
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Sylvester Stallone Writes Down the Lean Years in His New Memoir, The Steps
Sylvester Stallone has written a memoir called The Steps, and it covers the years before anyone knew his name. He writes about the many times he was t…
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Joseph Zada Wins the Part of Haymitch Abernathy
Out of thousands of young actors who tried for it, Joseph Zada is the one who will play Haymitch Abernathy in *The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reapin…
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Tom Cruise, Digger, and the Art of Wanting It Gracefully
Here on the island, it is understood that the hardest thing to do well is to want something without letting it show. Tom Cruise, the star of Digger, n…
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Before the Fame, the Lion Cages: Stallone Looks Back on the Climb in "The Steps"
Sylvester Stallone has written a memoir, and he has called it *The Steps*. It's about the stretch of his life before the fame: many years when the ans…
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Before the Season Turns: Town & Country's Autumn Edit for the Outdoors
Town & Country's editors have put together their favorite things for autumn days outdoors, for anyone spending the weeks before the season in orchards…
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Fifteen New Tables in Manhattan Before the Island Calls Us Home
Town & Country has named fifteen newly opened New York restaurants worth booking this autumn. It's a long list for a short window, the weeks between t…
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Mr. and Mrs. Carbone Take the Seagram Building, With Benson Boone at the Microphone
Mario Carbone and Cait Bailey Carbone are now married, and the two of them celebrated it in New York at the Seagram Building. Their party was big, and…
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Shuffle Along Is Back on Stage, With a Party to Match
Shuffle Along, one of the great names in Broadway history, has come back in concert form, and seats were hard to get. Its return was marked with a par…
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Vanity Fair Opens a Screening Room Ahead of the Awards Season
Vanity Fair has introduced the Screening Room, a new series built around the pictures expected to compete for the 2026 awards. The guest list reads li…
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Before the Season, a Head Start on a New MacBook or Apple Watch
Apple markdowns are already showing up ahead of October's Prime Day, and the Apple Watch and the MacBook are both on the early list. Ordering now mean…
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The Sheer Flat Finds Its Ambassador in the Duchess of Sussex
The Duchess of Sussex appears in new campaign photographs for her label's holiday countdown calendar, and she's wearing a ballet flat in satin, cut in…
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A River Voyage Planned Around Painting, Music, the Past and the Cellar
AmaWaterways is rethinking how a voyage by river should be spent. It is building the time on board around four interests: painting, music, history and…
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Florence Pugh Takes On Cathy Ames, and Zoe Kazan Asks Us to Look Again
Of all the women in fiction, Cathy Ames may be the one most readers have long since judged, and Zoe Kazan's new Netflix miniseries of *East of Eden* a…
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For the North End's Four-Legged Set, a Possible Arrival From the Duchess
The Duchess of Sussex seems to be hinting that her As Ever label may soon offer something for the dog. It's only a hint for now, with no product named…
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A Charity First Written Into Fiction Now Exists for Real
The Irina Foundation began as an invention of the story "Heated Rivalry," where it was founded by two of its characters, Shane Hollander and Ilya Roza…
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The Emmys Writer Stephen Colbert Thanked From the Stage
Ariel Dumas, formerly head writer of The Late Show, wrote this year's Emmys broadcast, and Stephen Colbert stopped to credit her from the stage. Few p…
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A Montecito Christmas, in Chocolate
Meghan Markle's As Ever has joined the chocolatier Compartés on a holiday calendar that will only be made in a short run, and its design takes its cue…
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Your Face Goes North Before the Season Begins
Town & Country has put together its list of the facial rooms Manhattan regards most highly, covering everything from hands-on contouring work to the f…
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A New High Jewelry Collection Asks to Be Read Slowly
A new high jewelry collection has been made to be studied as much as worn. Each piece carries its own emblems and motifs, set alongside gemstones chos…
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October's Short List, Before the Island Fills Up
Town & Country has put together its October picks: the films, television, exhibitions, plays, and books it thinks are worth your time this month. Ther…
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Fasano Fifth Avenue Offers a Park-View Room That Feels Like a Manhattan Apartment
Town & Country has picked its favorite room at Fasano Fifth Avenue. The hotel sits on the Upper East Side, and the magazine's case for this room is th…
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The Maine Hunting Boot Earns Its Place by the Door
It was first made for hunters in Maine who needed their feet dry, and it has since become a standard piece of weatherproof footwear in closets across …
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Kyle MacLachlan Credits His Wife With Trey MacDougal
Kyle MacLachlan's memoir, *Fictional Selves*, says he did not originally want to play Trey MacDougal in *Sex and the City*: he had hoped to be cast as…
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With "Digger," Iñárritu Hands Tom Cruise His Most Compelling Picture in Fifteen Years
Alejandro González Iñárritu has directed Tom Cruise in "Digger," and Vanity Fair considers it the most engaging film of Cruise's past decade and a hal…
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A Novelist's New Book Goes Inside the After-School Academy
Min Jin Lee's new novel is set in the Korean for-profit learning centers where families pay for extra hours of study, and here those centers are on Am…
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A Menagerie Worth Keeping
The animal kingdom has been set in precious materials, one creature after another, in a just-released line of fine jewelry that treats wildlife as a s…
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A Best Picture Winner Returns to the Big Screen, Just Ahead of the Season
Ten years on, "Moonlight" is back in cinemas, with screenings beginning Friday, October 2. It's a welcome chance for anyone who first watched it at ho…
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The Ring Arrives Before the Gown
Taylor Swift walked the red carpet at the 2026 VMAs with diamonds on her hand, and one ring in particular was the one everyone looked for: her new wed…
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For Taylor Swift, Tonight Belongs to the VMAs
Anyone with the Dolphins on in the library tonight should not expect to spot Taylor Swift among the crowd, since by all indications she has passed on …
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A Namesake Bag Worth Carrying Through the Season
Tory Burch's Lee Radziwill handbag has settled among fashion's defining designer shapes, and its staying power comes down to the shape itself. A bag n…
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Taylor Swift Adds Four More Songs to Her Showgirl Encore
The encore's four new tracks run from "Cleveland!" to "Babylon," and they are written by a woman who is contentedly married. Swift now looks back at o…
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Partners for Astaire: Sabrina Carpenter Is Ginger, Margaret Qualley Is Adele
The Fred Astaire picture now has its leading ladies. Sabrina Carpenter has been cast as Ginger Rogers, and Margaret Qualley will take the part of Adel…
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The Gilded Age Cast Takes Its Voices to Christmas
The cast of The Gilded Age is preparing a Christmas album, giving the ensemble a rare turn to sing together outside the frame of the series. It is as …
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The Bowery's Own Museum Steps Onto the World Stage
The New Museum, whose new building went up earlier this year, opens its large-scale fall exhibitions this week — the first full test of that expanded …
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The Shortcut to an Heirloom, Available This Season
A handbag's character has always been the slow kind — earned through years on someone's arm, not manufactured in a season. That kind of quiet authorit…
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The Five-Pocket Standard: Why Palm Beach Closets Never Retire Their 501s
From the North End to Worth Avenue, the uniform under the linen and the caftans rarely changes, and Town & Country's latest confirms what closets here…
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Mizrahi's Unzipped Gets a Second Life on Screen
The 1995 documentary that followed Isaac Mizrahi backstage—long before backstage footage was a genre unto itself—is being rereleased, and the designer…
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Diana Reid Isn't Precious About Jane Austen, and That's the Point
Diana Reid has written the screenplay for the new Sense and Sensibility, and she isn't pretending the book arrived at her desk untouchable. Her word f…
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The Season's First Rule: Boots Before Bags
Worth Avenue window displays are already turning over for fall, and the shift starts at the ankle, not the shoulder. This season's edit leans toward p…
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John Green Officially Graduates to the Adult Shelf
John Green, the author who spent two decades turning teenage readers into lifelong ones, is publishing his first novel written for grown-ups. He marke…
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The Season's New Neutral: Why Worth Avenue Closets Are Trading Blue for This Wash
A fresh denim shade is easing out the classic blue jean this fall, prized for pairing as easily as its predecessor did. For a wardrobe built around Wo…
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The Corner Store's New York Crowd Looks Like Ours
Eugene Remm's Corner Store has become the reservation to chase in New York, drawing Taylor Swift, Gigi Hadid, Hailey Bieber, and the Knicks' Karl-Anth…
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Two Fashion Week Fixtures Turn Their Attention to the Fall Closet
Joseph Altuzarra and Zac Posen — names that have shared a runway calendar for more than ten years — have joined forces on a line of fall essentials fo…
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Back to the Books: Michelle Williams Is Chasing a Degree in Psychology
Michelle Williams, who first came to fame as one-third of Destiny's Child, is headed back to the classroom. Psychology is the subject she has her sigh…
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The Denim Verdict Worth Packing This Season
A truly well-made pair of jeans earns its keep anywhere the season takes you — Worth Avenue errands, a weekend off-island, the drive up to the Hampton…
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