Dana Thomas

1 week ago | architecturaldigest.com | Dana Thomas |Matthieu Salvaing |Sarah de Beaumont

There was much to be done to convert the stately manor from a French aristocrat’s city residence to an American rocker’s crash pad, where he could spend half the year recording new music in a home studio, recovering from European tours, and spending time with Zoë, his now-36-year-old actor-model-filmmaker daughter with his former wife, actor Lisa Bonet. He spends the other half of the year at his compound in Eleuthera, Bahamas, and on occasion visits a ranch he owns in Brazil (AD, May 2019).

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Dana Thomas

Fashion and art have long danced a pas de deux, with artists evoking dress in their work and designers referencing art in their creations. But rarely are the two examined together by major art institutions, said Annabelle Ténèze, the director of the Musée du Louvre-Lens, a satellite in Lens, northern France, of the famed Musée du Louvre. "The intersection of art and fashion speaks to everyone. We all dress every day, which is an act of artistic expression, in its way.

1 month ago | architecturaldigest.in | Dana Thomas

For more than a century, Château de Beaucastel, a vineyard in Provence owned by the Perrin family, has produced some of France’s finest Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Côtes du Rhône wines. During much of that time, the 100-hectare vineyard was run by Jacques Perrin and his wife, Marguerite, following the biodynamic practices of philosopher Rudolf Steiner.

1 month ago | danathomas.substack.com | Dana Thomas

Plus: LVMH’s former security consultant found guilty of using public resources to benefit the luxury group. For the last few years now, the fashion and business press have been following play-by-play the moves Bernard Arnault has made to set up his luxury group, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, for when he retires.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Dana Thomas

For 50 years, Didier Ludot's vintage couture boutique at the Palais-Royal in Paris was a time machine to a more fashionably elegant era. Tourists and Parisians would stroll along the arcades that frame the 17th-century residential square and park, pause in front of the Ludot vitrines and marvel at the haute couture dresses, suits and gowns by such revered midcentury designers as Cristóbal Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior. Sometimes, they'd enter and buy a piece, or two or three.