One of the most inspiring features I’ve read recently was an interview with Ali McGraw in the Telegraph. Actually, if I’m really honest, what was really compelling was how brightly the very brilliant whites of her eyes shone. Here was the visibly lined face of an 80-year but by God did she look as if she was having fun.
There are not enough superlatives to describe the powerhouse that is Lydia Fenet: by day, global director of strategic partnerships at Christie’s New York and a leading benefit auctioneer who has raised over half a billion dollars for over 400 non-profits around the world by night.
One reason to love a handwritten letter? My friend, Gina puts it best when she ways: “I’m very over the top about letters because the ones I have are the paper soldiers alongside me when I don’t have much fight.”
Last month I went to Rome for a 45 minute interview. The 16 hour round-trip was totally worth it however to meet the utterly charming, former L’Uomo Vogue fashion editor, Robert Rabensteiner. He of the twinkling Paul Newman eyes – can you tell I have a crush? – who told me a story from his childhood in South Tyrol.
Explaining how important nature was to him, Rabensteiner, who grew up with parents who were deaf, said that his grandfather would always ask him to ‘listen’ for the snow coming. Not to look for the snow, but to listen for it.