By Peter Davis 7/12/12 10:00am

As Seen in SCENE

St. Regis Hotel, Aspen

Get Out of Town: The A-List Aspen Summer Set

You never really know the Christmas season has started until you see a tabloid photograph of Goldie Hawn, decked out in haute Western gear, strolling the snowy streets of Aspen—the winter playground for the very rich and very famous. But the Hawnster, a year round resident of the once sleepy silver mining town, can also be spotted in the summer months when Aspen is just as hopping as it is in high ski season. And this July, all of the A-List Aspen crowd—think Heidi Klum, Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey, Kate Hudson, Zoe Saldana and social New York names like Dennis and Coralie Charriol Paul and Tory Burch—will all be eating at the Chefs Club, the spanking new restaurant at the St. Regis Hotel. Read More

By Benjamin-Émile Le Hay and Melissa Wiley 6/14/12 4:30pm

Interviews

Todd Haynes unfortunately didn't wear 8" platforms heels to Persol's Magnificent Obsessions premiere.

Todd Haynes’s Obsession with Mary Poppins and Love of 8” Platform Heels

“We could have flown to Boston at this rate,” spat one late arrival to the premiere of Persol’s Magnificent Obsessions: 30 Stories of Craftsmanship in Film exhibition last night. For many of the film and art glitterati that attended the event at the Museum of Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, the trek, albeit worthwhile, seemed endless. The Italian eyewear brand, which has a storied history in cinema–it provided Cary Grant with sunglasses in North by Northwest and Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita–honored costume designer Arianne Phillips and director Todd Haynes at the event. Publicist-groomed celebs such as Zoë Saldana and Patricia Clarkson mingled alongside fashion legend Diane Pernet and creative cognoscenti.

On the second floor, John Turturro engaged guests in an intimate discussion on cinematography, while others soaked up the history and painstaking process of filmmaking through interactive installations on the third. Magnificent Obsessions is the second installment in a series of three, which boasts rare film props, equipment, costumes, sketches and footage to provide viewers with an insider perspective of some of cinema’s most acclaimed motion pictures.

The Observer caught up with Mr. Haynes to learn more about his unique approach to the art of filmmaking and to see if he actually likes Persol’s eyewear. Read More