"I like things not too funky, but not too ordinary, like you can wear it every day, but still it is something fabulous."

"I grew up in Georgia. We tend to be a little vain, and we do not mind maintenance routines."

His shows are always late, hot, crowded, uncomfortable—but he’s always forgiven. Until this year, when some in the fashion industry finally turned on Marc Jacobs, and he turned back on them.

The Proenza Schouler boys reconstruct the birth of their spring collection, from a book found in L.A. to a Japanese kimono, by way of Karen Blixen.

Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh Building houses the offices of Martha Stewart, Hugo Boss, Nina Ricci, and Club Monaco, plus a passel of product-and graphic-design firms. No wonder the elevator crowd looks so good.

"I come from a sort of crafty family. We were always making things at home."

"I tend to do a schoolboy-orphan look, with maybe a touch of Hermès."

Surely most of your friends aren’t natural-born master-logisticians. Here, ideas for the festivities they’ll be planning for you in the months to come.

"He personally is a Ferrari fan, but wants to practice baseball when grown up."

Imagining Cécilia Sarkozy’s escape to New York.