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Nov 25, 2024 | 
family.style | Alisha Wexler |Althea Champion |Frances Lorenzini
A crowd mingles over craft cocktails and canapés at the Sanasaryan Han hotel in Istanbul, moving between the upbeat interior of the sleek restaurant Sini and its open-air terrace as rain gently falls. In the middle of the room, two dessert tables draw partygoers in—like bees to a flower, they gather around a decadent, domed cake infused with cherry and fig filling. At the center of it all is Laila Gohar.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
family.style | Althea Champion |Alisha Wexler |Frances Lorenzini
After Luca Guadagnino finished William S. Burroughs’ 1985 novel Queer as a teenager, the director could not put it out of his head.The book is slim, unfinished, and thinly veiled as fiction. Anchored in 1950s Mexico City, it reflects the writer’s time in Central America and his relationship with both heroin and a younger expat student. Its wonderfully strange nature attracted Guadagnino, who first set out to adapt it for the screen at 21, and now, more than 30 years later is doing so by way of A24.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
family.style | Alisha Wexler |Althea Champion |Frances Lorenzini
The past year, the artist Meriem Bennani has been making a lot of scallop crudo. This dish is a combination of bright and fresh flavors (think crisp sugar snap peas and salty pickle juice) that come together without any cooking. It's an easy and quick way to make something that feels special,” she tells Family Style.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
family.style | Alisha Wexler |Althea Champion |Frances Lorenzini
“Such is the power of travestis, we attract the gazes of the world,” wrote Camila Sosa Villada in Bad Girls. “No one can escape the allure of a man dressed as a woman, the faggots who go too far, the degenerates everyone stares at.” In the 2019 novel, in which a pink house is the main axis of a reeling band of trans sexworkers, house mother Auntie Encarna is a matriarch to society’s castaways, including a literal infant she rescues from a ditch.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
family.style | Ella Quittner |Alisha Wexler |Althea Champion
The last place I expected to find Eric Wareheim was in a garden in muted shades of beige. At least four dozen succulents and ferns and small trees, each lovingly potted and trimmed, stand at varying heights around a sitting area in front of the actor-comedian-director’s A-frame home.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
family.style | Meka Boyle |Marcus Gabrielli |Althea Champion |Alexandra Carl
David Altmejd’s sculptures appear as if they are continuously morphing: a man into a rabbit, a woman into a killer whale, a swan into a saxophone. They are mercurial yet fixed in material and appear to be many things at once. Depending on the angle of La métamorphose du symbole, 2024, (“The metamorphosis of the symbol”) a two-headed swan’s form is either pregnant with an egg or the skull of a goat. But what I want to know is if works transform the artist, too?
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
family.style | Marcus Gabrielli |Meka Boyle |Althea Champion
A figure gazes upward into the opening of a rising palazzo, while a lamp hangs centrally before the ascending marble floors, its curling tentacles illuminated by small light bulbs. The light fixture, crafted by Venetian designer Gino Sarfatti in 1958, is captured in a black-and-white photograph and recalls a past time.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
family.style | Marcus Gabrielli |Meka Boyle |Althea Champion |Alexandra Carl
In the fall of 1988, Issey Miyake presented an exhibition at Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs titled “Issey Miyake A-ŪN.” The sweeping panorama of the late Japanese designer’s work focused on his pioneering exploration of material. By 1993, Miyake had patented his “garment pleating” process and launched Pleats Please Issey Miyake as a standalone brand.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
family.style | Marcus Gabrielli |Meka Boyle |Althea Champion
Brad Ogbonna is a photographer’s photographer. Twin Cities-raised and New York-based with a deep connection to his Nigerian ancestry, the documentarian and portraitist seems to have done it all––captured icons like Zendaya and Barack Obama, and spent years depicting the cultural and visual landscapes of the Caribbean and West Africa. Another thing Ogbonna has done––pick up a pasta recipe on his travels through South Carolina—a unique clam and sausage pasta recipe that he made his own.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
family.style | Marcus Gabrielli |Meka Boyle |Althea Champion
Amy Verner has a Francophile sensibility––at least when it comes to making omelets and choosing where to live. The Torontonian journalist studied media criticism at New York University, returned to her native Canada to gain experience as a fashion reporter, and then moved to Paris where she now resides…and dreams of cooking like le chef de cuisine.
