I don’t want to think too much about getting ready in the morning, so I end up sticking with the things I know. i have been using Youth to the People Superfood Cleanser during years. Same with Epicuren body wash and body lotion and Shu Uemura Silk Flower Shampoo and conditioner. Once a week, I will rub Christophe Robin Purifying Sea Salt Scrub on my scalp, it feels like a science experiment. my dermatologist, jessica weiserturned me on Biossance Squalene + Vitamin C Rose Oil. It leaves my skin glowing and hydrated and has a soft rose scent which is lovely. I usually Augustinus Bader the Cream as my moisturizer, or will I use Weleda skin food. I am going to wear Biafine If I just caught a flight or am sunburned. Fig. 1 makes a beautiful Vitamin C Eye Cream that illuminates
After putting on my sunscreen, EltaMD Clear UV Sunscreen – I apply Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Foundation with a beauty blender. For a bronzer I use Healthy Glow Tanning Cream of Chanel with a large brush. I’ll wear Ilia Clean Liquid Eyeliner, maybe a little thicker at night. If I go to an event, I will add the blush fresh as water by Chanel Les Beiges. During the day, I use By Terry Baume de Rose Liquid Lip Balm. My aunt introduced me to it in college and I have used it ever since. I also got into it Clarins Lip Comfort Oil. For the fragrance, I love Taffin’s Brownand I just ordered the Hermès classic caleche.
In the summer, next to Supergoop’s Play Daily Use Lotion SPF 50 in my body. In winter, I use Tata Harper Revitalizing Body Oil and Santa Maria Novella Relax Fluid Body Cream. There’s something really luxurious about applying one of those and then wearing a thick sweater and being the only person who can smell it. Love Austin Palmarosa & Vetiver Hand Soap It’s on every sink in my house and makes a great housewarming gift.
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Williamsburg, Brooklyn is now home to so many elegant waterfront hotels that it’s sometimes hard to remember the scrappy, artsy vibe that drew them there. Visitors nostalgic for the early years will feel more at home at Penny Williamsburg, a 118-room hotel named after a Chihuahua whose portrait hangs above the entrance (commissioned by artist Michelle Devereux). “This is not a Manhattan-style big-budget project,” says Chihuahua owner Andrew Zobler, who wanted the space, he says, to feel “tactile and warm” like an enviable apartment, and he achieved it with a mix of vintage and designer furniture like the Faye Toogood chairs stuffed with Dusen Dusen cushions. The rooms have plants, art books and a coffee set with beans from the nearby Devoción roastery. The hotel is minutes from the tube, but in a quieter corner of the neighborhood, just across the BQE from scruffy Union Pool. Upstairs is a greenery-covered rooftop, where ElNico restaurant serves a Latin American menu that includes a bright-pink vegetarian mole and ramp martinis. In the lobby, floating shelves hold hand-illustrated audio cassette covers: the sculptures of Michael Pellew, a founding member of Land Gallery, who works with artists who have developmental disabilities and helped curate art throughout the hotel along with Pure Vision Arts. “I think we captured the Zeitgeist of the neighborhood,” Zobler says. “It’s this little gem that has a lot of personality.” Sort of like her chihuahua, Penny, whom he says he now recognizes on walks around the neighborhood. Rooms from $200, penny-hotel.com.
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A reimagined breakfast at Tiffany’s
Just weeks after the opening of its newly renovated Fifth Avenue flagship store in Manhattan, Tiffany & Co. will relaunch its café, Blue Box, with newly appointed chef Daniel Boulud. Like the rest of the 10-story building, the cafe, which is located on the sixth floor, is designed by architect Peter Marino, who commissioned ceramicist Molly Hatch to create her artwork. To adorn the walls, the artist assembled her characteristic hand-painted clay plates in the form of brooches from the brand’s archives. A constellation of small Tiffany gift boxes hang from the ceiling. The French-inspired menu will have three offerings, including a breakfast at Tiffany’s, named for the 1961 film, which includes oeuf à la coque (scrambled eggs served in a shell), caviar, a croissant and latte. “We always reference Holly Golightly, dreaming in front of Tiffany’s window of her croissant and her coffee,” says Boulud. Afternoon tea will feature homemade cakes and tasty sandwiches served with Tiffany tea blend. An all-day seasonal a la carte menu currently includes a Wagyu burger and a lobster salad made with, what else? — European blue lobster. Daniel Boulud’s Blue Box Café will open its doors on May 22; reservations will be available from May 15; tiffany.es.
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An interior designer’s ceramics on display at her new Los Angeles store
Los Angeles interior designer Wendy Haworth has always found magic in the last few layers of a room. “I think you can totally transform a space with art, bowls, planters, and an interesting chair or two,” she says. This belief inspired her new store, Now Voyager, which opens this month below Haworth’s Silver Lake design studio. The space is filled with finds that she has handpicked for their combination of style and function. A pair of Mies van der Rohe cantilever chairs sit near a mid-century Italian lamp and a stack of brightly colored woven throws from Turkey, while an 18th-century secretary displays small sculptures and abstract artworks alongside. Ceramic bowls, vases and match lighters made in the Pottery Studio at Haworth Place. She and her boyfriend, Michael Towey, an engineer turned furniture and lighting designer, often spend weekends creating the minimalist pieces found in the store. In time, Haworth hopes to host workshops on flower arranging and the Japanese art of kintsugi. Now Voyager opens May 10, instagram.com/now.voyager.shop.
In 1981, artist Tim Rollins got a job as a high school teacher at IS 52 in the Bronx. His assignment: help students with learning disabilities to make art and improve their reading and writing skills. What resulted became much bigger than any class. Together, Rollins and a rotating cast of teenagers, who called themselves KOS (Kids of Survival), developed a distinctive visual language and a heavyweight followers in the art world. (By 1989, they were exhibiting at the Dia Art Foundation, and MoMA acquired their work.) After discussing famous texts like “Dracula” and “The Scarlet Letter,” the collective reduced each narrative to a single image and painted it directly onto the book’s pages. This week, 20 works from the group’s best-known series, based on Franz Kafka’s first incomplete novel, “Amerika,” will be on view at the Jay Gorney booth at the New York Independent Art Fair. Also on display is a new painting by two original KOS members, Angel Abreu and Rick Savinon, who have continued the collective’s work under the name KOS study following Rollins’ death in 2017. “We had a joyous reunion,” says Gorney, who first showcased the work of Tim Rollins and KOS in 1986. “I remember them so clearly when they were kids.” The interlocking horns motif in the “Amerika” series comes from a line in the book about the Oklahoma Nature Theater where, appropriately for this unlikely art troupe, “All are welcome.” Independent Art Fair takes place May 11-14, independenthq.com.
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A New Skincare Line Highlighting Haitian Plant Life
After Harvey Gedeon retired from his Executive Vice President position at Estée Lauder, where he had worked for 13 years, he set out to shine a light on Haiti’s potent plant life. “I’ve been in the business for a long time, and yet I was never associated with Haiti, where I was born, that always bothered me,” says Gedeon. His new skincare brand, founded with beauty entrepreneur Nathania Dominique, is called Furcy Botanik, after Furcy, a town known as the garden of Port-au-Prince. The line, which is launched with an essence, a serum and a gel cream, has two star ingredients: djon-djon and guava. Both Dominique and Gedeon grew up eating djon-djon, a delicate mushroom rich in protein and vitamins that only grows in Haiti. After testing its effectiveness in skin care, the founders realized it was also packed with beta-glucan, a complex sugar that draws water into the skin. Guava, for its part, contains antioxidants that help repair environmental damage caused by the sun and free radicals. “I have my roots in Haiti,” says Dominique. “I want the world to know how rich we are in nature.” From $75, furcybotanik.com.