Divorce or separation typically means that you shift from living in a shared household to living alone, and may become newly eligible to claim state benefits if your income is low – see Chapter 2. These life events can have a big impact on your financial situation. Pension savings and pensions built up by you…
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Interior Lives
Above: The author and Santo Domingo in her François Catroux–designed home in Paris DEREK C. BLASBERG talks to LAUREN SANTO DOMINGO and MARTINA MONDADORI about living in spaces created by a pair of interior-design visionaries—RENZO MONGIARDINO and FRANÇOIS CATROUX—and the most important LESSONS they LEARNED from working with these LEGENDS of HOME Mongiardino. Catroux. Precisely…
The people and ideas shaping the culture
From left: Shazam, architect Peter Marino, and Fox at a Tiffany & Co. event, February 2024; Fox, Shazam, and stylist Briana Andalore in New York, 2024; Fox, designer Willy Chavarria, and Shazam at a New York Fashion Week party, February 2024 ====================================== Housemates JULIA FOX and RICHIE SHAZAM on MOVING IN together, the beauty of…
Victoire de Castellane’s My Dior collection
There are a few elements that are archetypal of a distinguished luxury house: its savoir-faire, artistry and its logo, a visual symbol that is representative of the brand. Motifs also play a similar role and like all fashion greats, the house of Dior has its own tapestry of notable codes. The Cannage, which Dior describes…
Indigeneity and Eating in US National Parks – Eating in US National Parks
US national parks are known for spectacular vistas, and for wholesome recreation opportunities targeting contemporary middle-class (white) tourists, who are today encouraged to “find your park.” As argued in Chapter 2, cosmopolitanism serves as a lens that helps us to understand, contextualize, and evaluate many elements of the experience of eating in the US national…
Haute Bijoux – The latest and most talked-about collections
TOTAL CANNAGEThe artistic director behind Dior Joaillerie, Victoire de Castellane, pays tribute to the Maison’s heritage with the latest My Dior collection, which references the iconic cannage pattern that once adorned the Napoleon III chairs in the haute couture salons at 30 Avenue Montaigne where Monsieur Dior presented his fashion show in 1947. Seen on…
Pensions you arrange for yourself – Life Insights
Pension schemes you arrange for yourself are always defined-contribution pensions, so all of the information in the last four sections applies (except there are usually no employer contributions). Anyone can have a pension scheme, and anyone else can pay into it for you – for example, if you’re caring for children or doing other unpaid…
Management Strategies in Suicide – Mental Health
A lifetime history of suicide attempt predisposes the individual to future suicide attempts and, eventually, death by suicide. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in the development and implementation of various effective interventions in populations with a recent suicide attempt. Evidence-based interventions in attempted suicide can be grouped under pharmacological treatments, psychosocial interven-tions, brief…
Transporting Taste – Eating in US National Parks
Before the twentieth century, it was the upper classes who could afford to travel to the few existing national parks. To reach Yosemite Valley in the 1860s, “it was necessary to take a boat from San Francisco to Stockton, followed by a sixteen-hour stagecoach ride to Coulterville, and finally a fifty-seven-mile, thirty-seven-hour trek by horse…
Tourism and Taste – Eating in US National Parks
Romantic sensibilities have significantly shaped the past of the national parks, and cosmopolitan tastes stand to shape their future. Romanticism, a movement that emphasized individual self-expression, emotion, imagination, nature, and the personal experience of the sublime (Swiggett 1903), gained traction in nineteenth-century Europe as a critique of the Enlightenment rationality that had ushered in the…