<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comMon, 15 Jun 2026 00:41:00 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[How Hoyt Richards, the world’s best-paid male supermodel, was abducted by a brain-washing cult]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2026-06-12/how-hoyt-richards-the-worlds-best-paid-male-supermodel-was-abducted-by-a-brain-washing-cult.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2026-06-12/how-hoyt-richards-the-worlds-best-paid-male-supermodel-was-abducted-by-a-brain-washing-cult.htmlFri, 12 Jun 2026 18:16:58 +0000Glamorama, the fourth novel by Bret Easton Ellis, arrived to U.S. bookstores just in time for Christmas 1998. The book tells the story of Victor Ward, a young, attractive model who becomes involved in an international terrorist group. To critics, Glamorama seemed delirious. To Ellis, it was a satire of ‘90s society, obsessed with consumerism, brands and success. During the same era, Hoyt Richards, who is considered the first male supermodel, was immersed in his own thriller rife with conspiracy and paranoia. At 36 years of age, he was a fashion legend. He had worked for the best designers, walked runways around the world, and earned millions. What no one knew is that he was also trying to escape from an exclusive sect for the hot and rich.

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]]>Fairchild Archive<![CDATA[The downfall of Julio Iglesias: How the world’s most famous Spaniard disappeared in his own Bermuda Triangle]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2026-01-20/the-downfall-of-julio-iglesias-how-the-worlds-most-famous-spaniard-disappeared-in-his-own-bermuda-triangle.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2026-01-20/the-downfall-of-julio-iglesias-how-the-worlds-most-famous-spaniard-disappeared-in-his-own-bermuda-triangle.htmlTue, 20 Jan 2026 16:13:58 +0000“There comes a time in every man’s life when we have to choose, and I chose,” Julio Iglesias explained to EL PAÍS in June 1985. “Choose between what, Julio?” asked journalist Juan Cueto, who had traveled to the Caribbean to interview him. “Between a psychiatrist or the Bahamas,” Iglesias replied. The singer had just conquered the United States with his first English-language album, 1100 Bel Air Place, but he was feeling down. He had lost his voice at a concert in Frankfurt and had to undergo surgery. Instead of going to a psychiatrist, he took refuge on the Caribbean island of New Providence, in a colonial-style villa called Capricorn, where, in his words, he lived “almost like a hermit.”

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]]>EJP<![CDATA[Alejandro Jodorowsky, the immortal artist: ‘I’ve been thinking about death since the day I was born’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-01-16/alejandro-jodorowsky-the-immortal-artist-ive-been-thinking-about-death-since-the-day-i-was-born.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-01-16/alejandro-jodorowsky-the-immortal-artist-ive-been-thinking-about-death-since-the-day-i-was-born.htmlFri, 16 Jan 2026 12:56:33 +0000On February 17, Alejandro Jodorowsky — born in Tocopilla, Chile in 1929 — will turn 97. His birthday was still a few weeks away at the time of this interview, but the artist said he already knew the three wishes he’ll make when he blows out the candles: time, time, and more time. “I want to live 15 more years to continue doing what I’m doing: living pleasantly,” he explained in a video conference from his home in Paris. He has so many projects in the works that it’s hard for him to list them all. “Ask my wife,” he said, pointing to his wife, the artist Pascale Montandon, who was by his side throughout the interview.

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]]>JOEL SAGET<![CDATA[Abuse, secret children, luxury trips and bedroom scandals: The old European monarchies are finding it hard to hide their modern scandals]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-11-15/abuse-secret-children-luxury-trips-and-bedroom-scandals-the-old-european-monarchies-are-finding-it-hard-to-hide-their-modern-scandals.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2025-11-15/abuse-secret-children-luxury-trips-and-bedroom-scandals-the-old-european-monarchies-are-finding-it-hard-to-hide-their-modern-scandals.htmlSat, 15 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000When French authorities accused Prince Luis Fernando de Orleans y Borbón of drug trafficking, Spain’s Alfonso XIII quickly pulled strings to ensure the scandal involving his cousin went as unnoticed as possible. The year was 1924, Miguel Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship was just beginning, and the Spanish king managed to silence the matter by pressuring the media and making his troublesome relative disappear. Stripped of his titles and condemned to exile, Luis Fernando died in Paris in 1945, impoverished and forgotten by the Spanish people. Eighty years after the prince’s death, the Crown no longer finds it so easy to sweep its controversies under the rug.

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]]>Catalina Guerrero<![CDATA[Maye Musk, mother of the world’s richest man: ‘There’s nothing a Musk can’t do’]]>https://english.elpais.com/eps/2025-10-05/maye-musk-mother-of-the-worlds-richest-man-theres-nothing-a-musk-cant-do.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/eps/2025-10-05/maye-musk-mother-of-the-worlds-richest-man-theres-nothing-a-musk-cant-do.htmlSun, 05 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000There isn’t a soul on the streets of Chelsea on a Sunday in summer. The residents of this New York neighborhood — once an industrial area in lower Manhattan, now transformed into a haven for bohemian bourgeois — have abandoned their luxurious lofts overlooking the High Line to retreat to their beach houses in the Hamptons. Maye Musk, 77, could be in Cape Cod, Palm Beach, or wherever she pleases. But the mother of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is about to enter the Wolf Building, an old printing house between 10th Avenue and the Hudson River, for a photoshoot with EL PAÍS.

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]]>Michael Schwartz<![CDATA[Jack Schlossberg, the Kennedy rebel with a cause: ‘Trump is obsessed with my grandparents’]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2025-09-13/jack-schlossberg-the-kennedy-rebel-with-a-cause-trump-is-obsessed-with-my-grandparents.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2025-09-13/jack-schlossberg-the-kennedy-rebel-with-a-cause-trump-is-obsessed-with-my-grandparents.htmlSat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000At 32, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was already a member of the United States House of Representatives. At the same age, Robert F. Kennedy was an advisor to the president and Ted Kennedy was a senator. At 32, John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, better known as Jack, is a successful content creator. JFK’s only grandson has more than 1.5 million followers on TikTok and Instagram and a YouTube show, Test Drive, in which he dissects current events with irreverent humor, from Donald Trump’s tariffs to Sydney Sweeney’s controversial campaign for the clothing brand American Eagle.

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]]>NBC<![CDATA[Graydon Carter, the man who knows Hollywood best: ‘Seeing the Kardashians on a magazine cover is the end of civilization’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-08-23/graydon-carter-the-man-who-knows-hollywood-best-seeing-the-kardashians-on-a-magazine-cover-is-the-end-of-civilization.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-08-23/graydon-carter-the-man-who-knows-hollywood-best-seeing-the-kardashians-on-a-magazine-cover-is-the-end-of-civilization.htmlSat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000Getting an interview with Graydon Carter, 76, is almost as difficult as gaining access to the rich and powerful he has surrounded himself with since he began working as a journalist in the 1970s. Last March, the former editor of the U.S. edition of Vanity Fair published his memoir, When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, and has since been immersed in a marathon of promotional interviews.

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]]>Nikolai von Bismarck (foto cedida)<![CDATA[Pamela Hicks, the lady who danced with the Queen of England and meditated with Gandhi: ‘I am not a legend’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-06-21/pamela-hicks-the-lady-who-danced-with-the-queen-of-england-and-meditated-with-gandhi-i-am-not-a-legend.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-06-21/pamela-hicks-the-lady-who-danced-with-the-queen-of-england-and-meditated-with-gandhi-i-am-not-a-legend.htmlSat, 21 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000Few people can boast of having been born in the suite of a luxury hotel. Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks, 96, is one of them. The English aristocrat entered the world on April 19, 1929, in a room of the old Ritz hotel in the Spanish city. Her mother, the wealthy heiress Edwina Ashley, went into labor during a vacation in Spain. Her father, Louis Mountbatten, related to almost all the European royal families, called the Royal Palace of Madrid to speak with his cousin, Queen Victoria Eugenie. Alfonso XIII answered the phone.

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]]>INDIA HICKS<![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa’s great loves: His aunt Julia, his cousin Patricia, and socialite Isabel Preysler]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-04-16/mario-vargas-llosas-great-loves-his-aunt-julia-his-cousin-patricia-and-spanish-socialite-isabel-preysler.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-04-16/mario-vargas-llosas-great-loves-his-aunt-julia-his-cousin-patricia-and-spanish-socialite-isabel-preysler.htmlWed, 16 Apr 2025 10:38:17 +0000The brief and stormy marriage of Ernesto Vargas and Dora Llosa left a lasting mark on their only son, Mario Vargas Llosa. The writer’s parents separated five and a half months after their marriage, before the child was even born. Little Mario grew up with his maternal family, believing his father was dead. Much later, when he already had gray hair, the Nobel Prize winner understood the reason for his parents’ failed marriage: resentment and social complex. “Because Ernesto Vargas, despite his white skin, his light eyes, and his handsome figure, belonged — or felt that he belonged, which is the same thing — to a family socially inferior to that of his wife,” he revealed in his memoirs, A Fish in the Water, published in 1993.

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]]><![CDATA[The silent suffering of Mario Vargas Llosa: Five years of dealing with an incurable disease]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-04-15/the-silent-suffering-of-mario-vargas-llosa-five-years-of-dealing-with-an-incurable-disease.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-04-15/the-silent-suffering-of-mario-vargas-llosa-five-years-of-dealing-with-an-incurable-disease.htmlTue, 15 Apr 2025 10:31:29 +0000Mario Vargas Llosa had known for almost five years that he was going to die. His doctors told him in the summer of 2020. According to the writer’s closest associates, one of the first things the Nobel Prize winner in Literature did after receiving the news was write a letter to his three children: Álvaro, Morgana, and Gonzalo. In it, he told them about his illness, a serious illness, in his case incurable, but for which there were treatments that could delay the final outcome. The “tribe,” as the Vargas Llosas call themselves, was quick to respond to the call of the pater familias. The letter served to bring Vargas Llosa even closer to his children and for everyone to finally forget the family disagreements that arose in 2015, when the author of works such as The Time of the Hero (1963) and Conversation in the Cathedral (1975) broke off his 50-year marriage to Patricia Llosa to begin a relationship with Isabel Preysler.

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]]>Samuel Sanchez<![CDATA[Fifty years of ‘Playgirl’: Soft porn for strong women (and gay men)]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-16/fifty-years-of-playgirl-soft-porn-for-strong-women-and-gay-men.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-16/fifty-years-of-playgirl-soft-porn-for-strong-women-and-gay-men.htmlMon, 16 Dec 2024 13:03:08 +0000Playgirl, the first magazine to undress men for women to enjoy, had a misfire when it debuted. In the first issue, published in June 1973, there was not a single nude male portrait, not a single penis in sight. Magazine founder Douglas Lambert, a Los Angeles nightlife impresario who dreamed of a feminine, feminist Playboy for women who were “independent, self-confident, sensual, informed, involved, ambitious, sensitive, loving, generous, alive, liberated and free,” felt that female readers did not want to see everything, feel everything or experience everything.

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]]>FOTO CEDIDA<![CDATA[The female rebels of the Spanish empire: The women who armed America’s fight for independence]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-10-20/the-female-rebels-of-the-spanish-empire-the-women-who-armed-americas-fight-for-independence.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-10-20/the-female-rebels-of-the-spanish-empire-the-women-who-armed-americas-fight-for-independence.htmlSun, 20 Oct 2024 01:34:55 +0000In a room at the National Historical Museum of Argentina, located in Buenos Aires’ San Telmo neighborhood, hangs a painting titled Damas Patricias (Patrician Ladies). It is not one of the most important or famous paintings in this museum, a centennial institution that, according to different historians, was built in the same place where the conquistador Pedro de Mendoza founded Buenos Aires in 1536. This piece, by the relatively unknown 19th-century painter José Gerompini, holds historical value for other reasons.

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]]>Colección Museo Histórico Nacional <![CDATA[Elegance, sex and nostalgia: Why John-John Kennedy continues to evoke fascination 25 years after his death ]]>https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2024-07-20/elegance-sex-and-nostalgia-why-john-john-kennedy-continues-to-evoke-fascination-25-years-after-his-death.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2024-07-20/elegance-sex-and-nostalgia-why-john-john-kennedy-continues-to-evoke-fascination-25-years-after-his-death.htmlSat, 20 Jul 2024 04:05:00 +0000When John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was asked, in March 1999, if he planned to run for mayor of New York City, he responded: “I can see myself lying on a beach and I can also see myself holding public office.” However, his political career ended before it could begin. Just four months later, on July 16, John-John (as he was known since childhood) and his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, lost their lives in a plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, an island in the state of Massachusetts. The “prince of Camelot” was 38-years-old and his consort was 33.

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]]>Lawrence Schwartzwald,Agencia Getty<![CDATA[Tom Bianchi, the master of homoeroticism: ‘Gay people of my generation believed that we were going to die sad and alone’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-07-07/tom-bianchi-the-master-of-homoeroticism-gay-people-of-my-generation-believed-that-we-were-going-to-die-sad-and-alone.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-07-07/tom-bianchi-the-master-of-homoeroticism-gay-people-of-my-generation-believed-that-we-were-going-to-die-sad-and-alone.htmlSun, 07 Jul 2024 04:05:00 +0000“Before we start, is your surname also Bianchi?” asks photographer Tom Bianchi, 78, on the other end of the phone. The Chicago-born artist, a gay icon, famous for his photographs of male nudes and his fight against homophobia, is surprised by the coincidence.

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]]>Getty Images / Blanca López (Collage)<![CDATA[Prince William, the grieving royal who has learned to suffer in silence ]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-03-25/prince-william-the-grieving-royal-who-has-learned-to-suffer-in-silence.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2024-03-25/prince-william-the-grieving-royal-who-has-learned-to-suffer-in-silence.htmlMon, 25 Mar 2024 14:20:26 +0000Prince William was 13 when his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, admitted in a BBC interview that her husband, then Prince Charles, had been unfaithful to her with Camilla Parker Bowles — Britain’s current Queen — and that she herself had had an affair with her sons’ riding instructor, Captain James Hewitt. “There were three of us in my marriage,” the Princess confessed in November 1995 in front of an audience of 23 million Brits and 200 million worldwide. William had just begun at Eton, and followed the so-called “interview of the century” from his house master Andrew Gailey’s office.

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]]>OLI SCARFF<![CDATA[The error that lays bare the vulnerability of the British royal family]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-12/the-error-that-lays-bare-the-vulnerability-of-the-british-royal-family.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-12/the-error-that-lays-bare-the-vulnerability-of-the-british-royal-family.htmlTue, 12 Mar 2024 10:42:31 +0000The Emperor’s New Clothes, Hans Christian Andersen’s 19th-century fable, contains a moral that never loses its relevance: something is not necessarily true simply because everyone believes that it is. It also teaches us that there are no stupid questions. The warnings of Andersen’s tale resonate more than ever at Buckingham Palace, the official residence of the king of the United Kingdom and spiritual temple of the British monarchy. In September 2022, when Charles Mountbatten-Windsor was proclaimed Charles III, public opinion unanimously celebrated the accession to the throne of a 74-year-old who had been waiting more than half a century for his moment. Today, a year and a half later, the people are wondering if their king is not naked.

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]]>Getty<![CDATA[Cornelia Guest, Truman Capote’s last swan: ‘He was desperate to write and didn’t consider the consequences’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-27/cornelia-guest-truman-capotes-last-swan-he-was-desperate-to-write-and-didnt-consider-the-consequences.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-27/cornelia-guest-truman-capotes-last-swan-he-was-desperate-to-write-and-didnt-consider-the-consequences.htmlTue, 27 Feb 2024 16:04:06 +0000“At the age of 13, I started wearing braces. I felt horrible, like an ugly duckling. One day, Truman took me to lunch at Le Cirque on the Upper East Side, to cheer me up. We had such a good time,” recalls Cornelia Cochrane Churchill Guest, 60, in a telephone conversation with EL PAÍS. The New York-born socialite — an actress, horse rider, animal rights activist, designer and writer — has never forgotten the day when Truman Capote transformed her into a swan (he called all his female friends “swans”). The anecdote summarizes the immense power that the writer exercised over the women of New York high society, their husbands and their daughters.

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]]>STEWART SHINING<![CDATA[Paz de la Huerta, Harvey Weinstein victim: ‘There are many girls who continue to be exploited in Hollywood’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-17/paz-de-la-huerta-harvey-weinstein-victim-there-are-many-girls-who-continue-to-be-exploited-in-hollywood.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-17/paz-de-la-huerta-harvey-weinstein-victim-there-are-many-girls-who-continue-to-be-exploited-in-hollywood.htmlSat, 17 Feb 2024 09:50:01 +0000Paz de la Huerta, 39, is showing some of her paintings in contemporary art gallery Ruttkowski; 68, in the Parisian neighborhood of Le Marais. It’s the first time exhibiting her art for the cult actress and underground icon, who has been a muse for directors like Jim Jarmusch and Martin Scorsese. She was also one of the women who in 2017 called out the sexual abuse of producer Harvey Weinstein. The group show she’s participating in until the end of February is a preview of a solo show that will open this summer in the same gallery. Her canvases, impregnated with surrealism and religious themes, are influenced by artists like Francesco Clemente, who she calls “a friend and teacher”, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, who went to the same New York high school that she did, Saint Ann’s in Brooklyn Heights.

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]]>James Orlando<![CDATA[Gen Z falls in love with the ring with which French poet Jean Cocteau declared his passion to his lover ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-05/gen-z-falls-in-love-with-the-ring-with-which-french-poet-jean-cocteau-declared-his-passion-to-his-lover.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-05/gen-z-falls-in-love-with-the-ring-with-which-french-poet-jean-cocteau-declared-his-passion-to-his-lover.htmlMon, 05 Feb 2024 04:00:00 +0000The appointment with Marie-Laure Cérède, Cartier’s creative director of watches and jewelry, is in an apartment at the top of an elegant building located on Avenue Bosquet, in Paris. Before going up, you have to announce yourself to a security guard. The mere presence of this uniformed man confirms that, at the top of this building, between the Champ de Mars and Les Invalides, there is a secret (or a treasure) that must be guarded.

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]]>Archivo de Cartier<![CDATA[Delphine Jelk, the perfumer who creates custom fragrances that cost over $135,000 ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-04/delphine-jelk-the-perfumer-who-creates-custom-fragrances-that-cost-over-135000.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-04/delphine-jelk-the-perfumer-who-creates-custom-fragrances-that-cost-over-135000.htmlSun, 04 Feb 2024 15:58:33 +0000The office of Delphine Jelk, Guerlain’s nose, is located on the penultimate floor of a historic building next to the La Samaritaine department store. Above, on the top floor, is her laboratory, a space with large windows overlooking the four cardinal points of Paris: Notre Dame, Sacré Coeur... Curiously, the workshop where Maison Guerlain’s fragrances are created has no particular smell. “My team and I don’t wear perfumes when we work, as they can interfere with our creative process. It is better to have no outside smells,” explains Jelk, one of France’s great perfumers, who in 2021 received the Order of Arts and Letters granted by the Ministry of Culture for “her extraordinary olfactory knowledge.”

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]]>Léa Crespi<![CDATA[The hidden side of fashion’s Cristóbal Balenciaga: From his despotic nature to his relationships with Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s elites]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-13/the-hidden-side-of-fashions-cristobal-balenciaga-from-his-despotic-nature-to-his-relationships-with-spanish-dictator-francisco-francos-elites.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-13/the-hidden-side-of-fashions-cristobal-balenciaga-from-his-despotic-nature-to-his-relationships-with-spanish-dictator-francisco-francos-elites.htmlSat, 13 Jan 2024 23:36:41 +0000If Cristóbal Balenciaga (Getaria, Spain, 1895-Xàbia, Spain, 1972) were alive today, he would probably refuse to collaborate in the making of a television series about his life. What’s more, he would probably request that the production be “kidnapped” until he could watch it. The most celebrated Spanish designer of all time jealously guarded his privacy, obsessively controlled his creations and his image, and was so discreet that in his own day that it was rumored that he did not actually exist. He never went out to say hello after exhibiting his collections, rarely met with his clients and only gave two interviews in the 50+ years of his career. He detested advertising and being photographed (he made one exception to promote his perfume Le Dix, in 1947) and abhorred public scrutiny of his work and private life. Despite his legendary reclusiveness, or perhaps because of it, he was a celebrity. In 1962, at the height of his career, the newspaper France-Soir published a photograph of the couturier in his white work coat and the caption, “This is Balenciaga, the man of mystery.” A few years later, with the rise of ready-to-wear fashion driven by Yves Saint Laurent and the French May’s wave of youth protests, he announced his retirement from fashion and ordered the closure of his stores and workshops.

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]]>Pablo Zamora<![CDATA[Gianni Ferrari, celebrity photographer: ‘No one ever said no to me’]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2023-12-25/gianni-ferrari-celebrity-photographer-no-one-ever-said-no-to-me.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2023-12-25/gianni-ferrari-celebrity-photographer-no-one-ever-said-no-to-me.htmlMon, 25 Dec 2023 15:18:55 +0000Gianni Ferrari, 89, walks up and down the stairs of his home in Madrid’s Mirasierra neighborhood with the agility of a young gymnast. “When I was a kid living in Tripoli, I won gold medals in track and field,” recalls the Italian-born photographer who built his career in Spain. In the end, he didn’t take up sprinting, but instead spent more than half a century chasing kings, princes, duchesses, actresses and singers in search of the perfect snapshot. In 1962 he set up his own photo agency, Contifoto, which provided exclusives for the booming celebrity magazines of the era. Today, Ferrari has more than 50,000 photographs stored in the basement of his house, where he keeps his private studio and archive. The walls of his home are lined with portraits of the women he immortalized: Jacqueline Kennedy, Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot, Geraldine Chaplin, Audrey Hepburn, Claudia Cardinale and many more. “Women inspire me,” he says. There is only one photo of a man: Juan Carlos I, the former king of Spain. From 1978 to 1997, Ferrari accompanied the monarch on 78 official trips.

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]]>Claudio Álvarez<![CDATA[Mary McCartney, the former Beatle’s daughter, cooks for celebrities: ‘Ringo Starr doesn’t eat much’]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2023-11-15/mary-mccartney-the-former-beatles-daughter-cooks-for-celebrities-ringo-starr-doesnt-eat-much.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2023-11-15/mary-mccartney-the-former-beatles-daughter-cooks-for-celebrities-ringo-starr-doesnt-eat-much.htmlWed, 15 Nov 2023 16:31:30 +0000On April 17, 1970, Paul McCartney released his first solo studio album — McCartney — a few weeks before The Beatles released Let It Be, the band’s final record. The cover of McCartney features a photo taken by his wife Linda. Nestled inside Paul’s fur-lined jacket is their newborn daughter, her face peeking out at the world. The iconic image represented a new phase in the life of the ex-Beatle and became part of pop culture history. Mary McCartney — the baby girl in the photo — said, “I was born into fame, but no one recognizes me on the street. I can go for a walk without being bothered.”

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]]>Simon Aboud<![CDATA[Diana Widmaier, Picasso’s granddaughter: ‘My grandfather liked the smell of women and paint’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-11-14/diana-widmaier-picassos-granddaughter-my-grandfather-liked-the-smell-of-women-and-paint.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-11-14/diana-widmaier-picassos-granddaughter-my-grandfather-liked-the-smell-of-women-and-paint.htmlTue, 14 Nov 2023 20:30:00 +0000What would Picasso’s artworks smell like? Guernica would probably stink of smoke from Civil War bombings; Les Demoiselles d’Avignon would give off the scent of Provence’s lavender fields; Boy with a Pipe would reek of tobacco; and Portrait of Jaime Sabartés would be infused with the mild aroma of beer. Diana Widmaier Picasso, 49, the Spanish artist’s granddaughter, has been thinking about this and other unusual aspects of her grandfather’s legacy all her life. Whenever it seems that everything has been said and written about the legendary modern artist, she appears to discover something new (or not so new). “My grandfather liked the smell of women and paint,” says the expert in Picasso’s paintings and guardian of her family’s secrets.

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]]>Katharina Kaminski<![CDATA[The wealthy’s obsession with Louis Vuitton trunks: How they manufacture the most expensive suitcases in the world ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-11-06/the-wealthys-obsession-with-louis-vuitton-trunks-how-they-manufacture-the-most-expensive-suitcases-in-the-world.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-11-06/the-wealthys-obsession-with-louis-vuitton-trunks-how-they-manufacture-the-most-expensive-suitcases-in-the-world.htmlMon, 06 Nov 2023 15:24:04 +0000Beyond Neuilly, one of the residential enclaves preferred by the moneyed Parisian bourgeoisie, sits Asnières-sur-Seine. On a quiet street of this elegant commune of Hauts-de-Seine, 40 minutes from the center of the capital, there is a house with cream-colored walls, a maroon roof and green shutters. Louis Vuitton, founder of the luxury empire that bears his name, lived here from 1859 until his death in 1892. Vuitton built the home just five years after creating his luggage brand. At the end of the 19th century, his only son, Georges, added on an art nouveau wing. The property is like one of the trunks that gave fame and fortune to the Vuitton family: a box of surprises, a cabinet of curiosities full of gems, sumptuous furniture and oriental vases.

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]]>Léa Crespi<![CDATA[Nikolai of Monpezat, the prince who became a model: ‘My title is the closest thing I have to a normal surname’]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2023-10-29/nicolas-de-monpezat-the-prince-who-is-a-model-my-title-is-the-closest-thing-i-have-to-a-normal-surname.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2023-10-29/nicolas-de-monpezat-the-prince-who-is-a-model-my-title-is-the-closest-thing-i-have-to-a-normal-surname.htmlSun, 29 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000The Danes have been watching their royal family plunge into a modern-day Shakespearean drama for a year now. In September 2022, Margrethe II, Europe’s longest-reigning monarch, stripped half of her grandchildren of their royal titles. According to the palace, the queen made this decision so that the four children of her youngest son, Joachim of Denmark, could “shape their own lives, without being limited by the special considerations and obligations that a formal affiliation to the Royal House of Denmark entails.” But experts interpreted it as part of a plan for renewal and austerity in the Nordic monarchy, an institution that dates back millennia to Viking times. A plot worthy of Hamlet ensued: Prince Joachim was offended, and spoke of his children’s mistreatment; his ex-wife, Alexandra of Frederiksborg, admitted to feeling “sadness and shock”; and the queen grieved and asked for forgiveness “as a mother,” but she did not waver.

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]]>Pablo Sáez<![CDATA[Eugenia de Errázuriz, the Chilean Marie Kondo who invented minimalism 100 years ago ]]>https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2023-10-23/eugenia-de-errazuriz-the-chilean-marie-kondo-who-invented-minimalism-100-years-ago.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2023-10-23/eugenia-de-errazuriz-the-chilean-marie-kondo-who-invented-minimalism-100-years-ago.htmlMon, 23 Oct 2023 01:14:00 +0000“Everything she did seems like nothing, but who ever conceived things like Eugenia before Eugenia?” pondered writer Victoria Ocampo in a 1949 essay where she admitted to feeling “a little impatient” with the excessive “Eugenism” present at the time in cities like Buenos Aires, Paris, London, and New York. The text by the Argentine intellectual and feminist was a tribute to the Chilean Eugenia de Errázuriz, benefactor of Pablo Picasso and other artists and creator of what we know today as minimalist decoration. It was also a farewell to Errázuriz, who had just died at the age of 89 in her native Santiago, Chile. “With you, one could not know where your spirit began and your matter ended,” Ocampo concluded in her eulogy.

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]]><![CDATA[The secret formula behind the world’s priciest anti-aging cream]]>https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2023-10-15/the-secret-formula-behind-the-worlds-priciest-anti-aging-cream.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2023-10-15/the-secret-formula-behind-the-worlds-priciest-anti-aging-cream.htmlSun, 15 Oct 2023 12:46:57 +0000“I’m sorry. There are no appointments available until next week,” said the salesperson at Japanese beauty giant Shiseido’s flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo’s glamorous shopping district. The sought-after appointments are for Inner Beauty Charge, a futuristic, orb-shaped pod where customers can indulge in a 30-minute meditation session surrounded by soothing sounds, aromas and lighting. For about $30, you can “disconnect and recharge.” After you exit the luminous orb, explore the boutique where you’ll find captivating makeup classes, personalized anti-aging serums, and virtual try-on screens for flawless foundations, sultry eye shadows and beguiling mascaras.

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]]>Matthew Jordan Smith<![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa dedicates latest novel to Patricia, his cousin and ex-wife]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2023-10-12/mario-vargas-llosa-dedicates-latest-novel-to-patricia-his-cousin-and-ex-wife.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2023-10-12/mario-vargas-llosa-dedicates-latest-novel-to-patricia-his-cousin-and-ex-wife.htmlThu, 12 Oct 2023 15:34:25 +0000“To Patricia” reads the inscription of Le dedico mi silencio — I give you my silence, in English — the new novel by Mario Vargas Llosa. Patricia Llosa is both his cousin and ex-wife. The forthcoming book by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature will be available in bookstores on October 26. It’s a heartfelt tribute to Peruvian music — waltzes, “marineras,” polkas, and “huainos” — as well as the rich folklore of his country. The novel also eloquently conveys Vargas Llosa’s love for his wife of 50 years. A member of the writer’s inner circle said the dedication was “a thoughtful and fitting gesture,” but demurred from putting labels on the couple’s current relationship. “It’s not my place to say whether their relationship is romantic or not, but the important thing is that the family, estranged for seven years, is back together.”

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]]>SOPA Images<![CDATA[Actress Ester Expósito: ‘After “Elite,” I realized I was alone’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-10-09/actress-ester-exposito-after-elite-i-realized-i-was-alone.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-10-09/actress-ester-exposito-after-elite-i-realized-i-was-alone.htmlMon, 09 Oct 2023 23:32:46 +0000If Spanish actress Ester Expósito’s life were a reality show, it would be one of the world’s most-watched television programs. Over 27 million people follow her on Instagram, and a video of the 23-year-old dancing to the remix of Rauw Alejandro’s hit song El efecto is one of the most viewed videos in Instagram’s history, racking up almost 100 million shares and 11 million “likes.” Since her time on Elite, the Netflix series in which she played Carla Roson for three seasons, she has become one of the most searched Spanish actresses on the internet. According to Netflix, over 20 million households worldwide watched the show’s first season in its first month on air. At the time, Expósito was virtually unknown and had only 5,000 Instagram followers; she gained hundreds of thousands of followers overnight. Today, she has a legion of them, on par with global stars like Spanish singer Rosalía.

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]]>Txema Yeste<![CDATA[Jackie Kennedy and the billion dollar nude: 50 years since the first case of ‘revenge porn’]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2023-09-11/jackie-kennedy-and-the-billion-dollar-nude-50-years-since-the-first-case-of-revenge-porn.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2023-09-11/jackie-kennedy-and-the-billion-dollar-nude-50-years-since-the-first-case-of-revenge-porn.htmlMon, 11 Sep 2023 18:31:49 +0000“Sometimes I have to undress to put on my bathing suit. My wife does the same thing,” commented an unperturbed Aristotle Onassis when journalists showed him a copy of the Italian magazine Playmen in December 1972. In that issue, his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, widow of President John F. Kennedy, appeared completely naked during her summer vacation on the private island of Skorpios (Greece). The Greek tycoon did not seem surprised or outraged by the unauthorized images of Jackie, then 43, as God had brought her into the world: sunbathing bikini-less, carefree, and without losing her graceful demeanor as a former student of Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut.

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]]>Anastasselis POLYDOROS<![CDATA[How did the former king of Spain kill his brother? A documentary explores the mysterious death of Alfonso de Borbón ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-07-19/how-did-the-former-king-of-spain-kill-his-brother-a-documentary-explores-the-mysterious-death-of-alfonso-de-borbon.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2023-07-19/how-did-the-former-king-of-spain-kill-his-brother-a-documentary-explores-the-mysterious-death-of-alfonso-de-borbon.htmlWed, 19 Jul 2023 14:35:57 +0000On March 29, 1956, the Spanish royal family — then in exile — attended a morning mass on Holy Thursday, receiving Communion in the Church of San Antonio, in Estoril, Portugal. After a light lunch, the Count of Barcelona and Juan Carlos I (father to the reigning monarch Felipe VI) accompanied the young Infante [Prince] Alfonso to a golf competition. Despite the bad weather, the 14-year-old — his father’s favorite son — won the semi-final. The Bourbons then returned to their home, the Villa Giralda.

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]]>API<![CDATA[In Don Julio, the best steakhouse in the world, meat is no trivial matter]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-24/in-don-julio-the-best-steakhouse-in-the-world-meat-is-no-trivial-matter.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-24/in-don-julio-the-best-steakhouse-in-the-world-meat-is-no-trivial-matter.htmlSat, 24 Jun 2023 15:21:01 +0000Argentina was born, literally, from the entrails of the Spanish. The conquistadors who arrived at the La Plata River in 1536 devoured each other in an attempt to survive hunger and the hostilities of the Querandi tribes: “The things that were seen there have never been seen in writing: eating a brother’s own offal,” narated the poet Luis Miranda de Villafañe, who accompanied Pedro de Mendoza in the founding of Buenos Aires. The episodes of cannibalism took place on the banks of the Riachuelo, in what is now the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Boca.

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]]>Eduardo Torres<![CDATA[Eva Herzigova: ‘How many black sweaters do we need?’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-07/eva-herzigova-how-many-black-sweaters-do-we-need.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-07/eva-herzigova-how-many-black-sweaters-do-we-need.htmlSun, 07 May 2023 14:05:54 +0000Czech model Eva Herzigova was planning to throw a party to celebrate her 50th birthday, but a few days before sending out the invitations she received a call that upended her plans. “Eva, you have to go to the Oscars in Los Angeles,” her agent told her. “But that weekend is my birthday,” she replied. “It would be nice if you went,” her agent insisted. “I don’t live in Los Angeles, and I don’t go there very often. I have some friends there, but they were all out of town on those dates. So, I spent my birthday alone in Los Angeles. I managed to organize a small dinner, but without my family. It was very strange,” she explains as she prepares for an El País Semanal photo shoot in a studio in Corvetto, Italy, an industrial area in Milan. “Since I haven’t celebrated my 50th birthday yet, I still say I’m 49,″ she continues, smiling the same smile that made her a supermodel in the mid-1990s.

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]]><![CDATA[Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, the surprising star of ‘Emily in Paris’: ‘The #MeToo movement was cosmetic. Everyone used the hashtag and then forgot about it’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-06/philippine-leroy-beaulieu-the-surprising-star-of-emily-in-paris-the-metoo-movement-was-cosmetic-everyone-used-the-hashtag-and-then-forgot-about-it.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-06/philippine-leroy-beaulieu-the-surprising-star-of-emily-in-paris-the-metoo-movement-was-cosmetic-everyone-used-the-hashtag-and-then-forgot-about-it.htmlSat, 06 May 2023 22:02:42 +0000The tourists who crowd Paris often mistake Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, 60 years old, for Sylvie Grateau, the character the Parisian actress plays on the TV show Emily in Paris. Whether she’s having lunch in a quiet bistro on the Rive Gauche or checking out Schiaparelli’s latest haute couture collection across the Seine, someone always approaches her, wanting to talk and take a selfie with Emily Cooper’s (Lily Collins) sexy, irreverent boss. “Of course, I say hello and I’m attentive. Then they realize I’m not like Sylvie and say, ‘You’re much nicer,’” Leroy-Beaulieu admits as she chats with us in a small café near her home in Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood. “I can no longer go down to the street in my pajamas to buy a baguette. The French don’t care because they are blasé, indifferent. But the tourists are very enthusiastic,” she continues, lowering her gaze a little so as not to be recognized by two young girls who have just entered the restaurant.

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]]><![CDATA[$4,000 for a pair of loafers? The discreet shoes that obsess the wealthy]]>https://english.elpais.com/society/2023-04-14/4000-for-a-pair-of-loafers-the-discreet-shoes-that-obsess-the-wealthy.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/society/2023-04-14/4000-for-a-pair-of-loafers-the-discreet-shoes-that-obsess-the-wealthy.htmlFri, 14 Apr 2023 17:55:36 +0000The first Spanish kings of the Bourbon dynasty used to seal their alliances in a very original way. The monarchs gave pairs of Merino sheep from Cuenca, famous for their fine, soft wool, to foreign sovereigns; it was both a token of friendship and proof of their wealth and power. When Philip V gave a pair to his French grandfather, Louis XIV, it marked the beginning of the globalization of this precious breed. Now, more than 300 years later, the rich and powerful of the world still buy and gift Merino wool — only now they do it in the form of Loro Piana sweaters.

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]]><![CDATA[Diane de Beauvau-Craon, the last rebel princess: ‘I did a lot of drugs, drank a lot of booze, slept with a lot of queers, and I’m still here’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-01-15/diane-de-beauvau-craon-the-last-rebel-princess-i-did-a-lot-of-drugs-drank-a-lot-of-booze-slept-with-a-lot-of-queers-and-im-still-here.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-01-15/diane-de-beauvau-craon-the-last-rebel-princess-i-did-a-lot-of-drugs-drank-a-lot-of-booze-slept-with-a-lot-of-queers-and-im-still-here.htmlSun, 15 Jan 2023 03:35:54 +0000Diane de Beauvau-Craon was born twice. First, on August 2o, 1955, when her mother, the Spanish aristocrat María Cristina Patiño y Borbón, gave birth at Belvédère clinic, an upscale maternity hospital on the outskirts of Paris. Second, on November 7, 2001, in the same city, when doctors at Cochin Hospital saved her from almost certain death. She was admitted in an unconscious state, weighing barely 70 pounds, her body consumed by drugs and alcohol. “I was born again that day,” Beauvau-Craon says, speaking to EL PAÍS by phone from her home in Naples, a villa with views of Mt. Vesuvius. Her voice, raspy from years of smoking, doesn’t match her figure: her body seems almost brittle, but she bursts with vitality.

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]]>Léa Crespi. <![CDATA[Inside Casa Cruz, the most expensive restaurant in New York City]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2023-01-08/this-is-casa-cruz-the-most-expensive-restaurant-in-new-york-city.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2023-01-08/this-is-casa-cruz-the-most-expensive-restaurant-in-new-york-city.htmlSun, 08 Jan 2023 05:13:09 +0000The prices on the menu at Casa Cruz are reasonable, if you consider that the restaurant is the hottest new spot in one the most elite neighborhoods in one of the most expensive cities in the world. The grilled wagyu beef picaña with roasted carrots and charcoal-grilled sweet potato runs a mere $82 dollars, and the grilled veal chop with potatoes is only $81 dollars. But your tab quickly skyrockets into the stratosphere if you’re lucky enough – and wealthy enough – to dine in one of the private salons and indulge in one of chef Bill Brasile’s top-end dishes. Casa Cruz, which is part restaurant and part VIP club, currently has 99 members, each of whom pays between $250,000 and $500,000 in annual dues, giving them exclusive access to dine in the establishment’s private rooms, alongside original works by Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Keith Haring and Fernando Botero.

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]]>Weston Wells<![CDATA[Elizabeth II’s last gift to her son ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-09-10/elizabeth-iis-last-gift-to-her-son.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2022-09-10/elizabeth-iis-last-gift-to-her-son.htmlSat, 10 Sep 2022 00:16:42 +0000This past February, Elizabeth II ended more than two decades of uncertainty about her daughter-in-law’s position within the British royal family.

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]]><![CDATA[War no obstacle for Russia’s super-rich: Summer vacations in Dubai and Turkey, instead of the French Riviera]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-07-11/war-no-obstacle-for-russias-super-rich-summer-vacations-in-dubai-and-turkey-instead-of-the-french-riviera.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2022-07-11/war-no-obstacle-for-russias-super-rich-summer-vacations-in-dubai-and-turkey-instead-of-the-french-riviera.htmlMon, 11 Jul 2022 15:17:47 +0000Russian elites have always had a soft spot for the French Riviera or Côte d’Azur. After the Russian Revolution, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich, a cousin of Nicholas II, Russia’s last tsar, fled to Villa Marizzina – a palace on a precipice in Cap-d’Ail – with his mistress, the famous ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, another cousin of Nicholas II and one of the architects of Rasputin’s assassination in 1916, also chose the French Riviera to live out his love story in exile with another celebrity of the time, Coco Chanel. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Russians returned to the Mediterranean coast, landing at Cap d’Antibes and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. The nouveaux riches of Moscow and St. Petersburg bought up the old mansions, turning the area into their summer playground.

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