When Rick Owens ordered the alabaster for his new furniture range, so much was removed from a quarry in Spain that spies—actual spies—were dispatched to Paris to see what was being done with it. The answer, the enormous ton-and-a-half bed that is the centerpiece of his new show of furniture (pictured), is now on view [...]

Just who is the customer for Duro Olowu’s intensely arty, vibrant patchwork dresses (this season inspired by Picasso)? Who else but intensely arty, vibrant women? At a lunch today on the sixth floor of Barneys, in addition to co-hosts Amanda Brooks and Olowu’s wife, Thelma Golden, the director of the Studio Museum of Harlem, there [...]

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn leads the art world by example. Salon 94, where she displays vanguard art in her Upper East Side town house, is one of Manhattan’s premier creative hubs. And as an eminently erudite and elegance presence on the art scene, Greenberg Rohatyn herself serves as a role model for aspiring collectors. That status [...]