Viva La Gallophobia! But Save Françoise Hardy

Despite my Miss Piggy-like fondness for French and Franglais, I’m a raving Gallophobe. Aren’t you? That snotty French superiority! Is there anything more annoying than a frog blathering on about the finer things in life and asserting his cultural preeminence? Rien ! And they’re scary, too. Clichéd notions of Paris–a romantic city peopled by Proustian Read More

Nan Kempner Likes Her Bathrooms Pink and Private

“I’m a fashion victim,” Nan Kempner admitted from the back seat of a black sedan headed down Fifth Avenue on June 18. “Really,” she said. A few months ago, Mrs. Kempner bought an elaborate concoction: a pair of stockings with heels attached from John Galliano’s couture collection for Christian Dior.

“Those marvelous, black, cotton Read More