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2 days ago | yahoo.com | Leena Kim |Emily Burack

Search query 'American Love Story' Reportedly Found Its JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Tue, May 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM UTC A New Show on JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette's Romance New York Daily News Archive - Getty Images From the O.J. Simpson trial and Gianni Versace's murder, to the feud between Truman Capote and his swans, Hollywood producer Ryan Murphy has made a name for himself by taking sensational events and cultural moments throughout history and giving them his signature, campy spin for the...

3 days ago | townandcountrymag.com | Leena Kim

There is nothing like scarcity to fuel the imagination. A leather shortage in the years following World War II compelled Guccio Gucci, founder of the Florentine brand, to look elsewhere for materials. He turned to his son’s bamboo walking sticks; imports of bamboo from Japan were plentiful at the time, and it helped that it was so lightweight and durable. Gucci’s artisans soon patented a handcrafted process for heating, bending, and glossing the wood for use as bag handles and closures.

4 days ago | townandcountrymag.com | Leena Kim

Jim Manley was 10 when he first fell in love with the American West. And it wasn’t because he was on a dude ranch somewhere out in Montana or Wyoming or Colorado. He was in the living room of his parents’ house in New Jersey, transfixed by John Wayne westerns and the infinite stream of cowboy shows that would play on TV. It was around this time that he decided he was going to own a piece of that landscape one day. “It wasn’t just a dream. It was an obsession,” he tells T&C.

6 days ago | townandcountrymag.com | Leena Kim

Where are we going? Modern bibliophiles have nothing on Gilded Age financier J.P. Morgan, who understood the power of bookshelf wealth long before the term entered the lexicon. His trove of the world’s oldest and rarest tomes grew so vast he needed a separate building for it, which became the Morgan Library & Museum. In honor of its centennial, the NYC gem is currently showing off its latest acquisitions. Through August 17, themorgan.orgWhat are we wearing?

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Leena Kim

Where are we going? Modern bibliophiles have nothing on Gilded Age financier J.P. Morgan, who understood the power of bookshelf wealth long before the term entered the lexicon. His trove of the world’s oldest and rarest tomes grew so vast he needed a separate building for it, which became the Morgan Library & Museum. In honor of its centennial, the NYC gem is currently showing off its latest acquisitions. Through August 17, themorgan.orgWhat are we wearing?