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5 picks · 1978–1992

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FIGURING IT OUT
profiles ·

PROFILE of classical guitarist Eliot Fisk. At 37, Fisk is a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg; he keeps a pieda-terre on the Upper West Side of …

The Corporate—and Private—Secrets of Estée Lauder
onward and upward with the arts ·

Kennedy Fraser profiles Josephine Esther Mentzer, the American businesswoman behind Estée Lauder, the billion-dollar, family-held cosmetic company, at work on the marketing for her new perfume, Beautiful.

THE LIGHT IN THE EYE
profiles ·

PROFILE of British photographer Norman Parkinson, 71. When not busy photographing lovely, famous, rich, or royal people all over the world, he runs a pig …

THE GREAT MOMENT
profiles ·

PROFILE of Issey Miyake, a Japanese fashion designer, and report on Japanese fashion. Writer went to a fashion show featuring the clothes of Miyake on the …

The Fashionable Mind
reflections ·

Kennedy Fraser’s 1978 essay on fashion and influence. “Many societies have been openly dominated by fashionable people, but our society is quietly permitting itself to be dominated and transformed by fashionable minds.”