Open Luxury
Closed mid-April 1995 · On stands late April 1995
The Front
Index of April
Runway show counts, front-row seating charts, magazine ad-page commitments for fall — and the sums a celebrity front-row seat is now rumored to command from a house eager for the photograph
On Language
A short column on the word 'maximalism' entering the fashion trades
The Essay
The Recovery, Unevenly
A house essay on the spring economic numbers and who felt them first, read against the same quarter's record contemporary-art auction totals
The Foreign File
Milan, Between Seasons
Furniture on the trade fairs surrounding the collections
The Feature Well
The House That Waited
A profile of an old Italian leather-goods house before its recent turnaround
The Sound Without a Name Yet
A profile of a Lower Manhattan DJ-producer building dance tracks on rented studio time after midnight, argued with the same critical apparatus the magazine gives a poet — filed a year and a half before the trade press agrees on a name for what he's doing
The City
Subject: A spring gallery-week roundup, briefly
The Back
Books: Review of a fashion-industry memoir · Art: Spring's regional auction circuit, briefly · Film: Tom Ford's Fall 1995 Gucci show reverses minimalism into open luxury — read here as the season's clearest turn