Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic My personal style signifiers are pretty casual and consistent: my tortoiseshell glasses \u2013 I\u2019ve worn various brands over the past 20\u00a0years \u2013 and a navy cashmere four-bar cardigan, chino trousers, white cotton Oxford shirts, a rep tie and classic wingtip brogues, all by my partner Thom Browne.\u00a0The last thing I bought and loved was\u00a0a painting by Ewa Juszkiewicz, the Surrealist Polish artist. She recreates paintings from the renaissance to the 19th century, but obscures their faces with fabrics or phantasmagoric wigs. Ours references the 17th-century portrait of Maria van Strijp by Dutch golden age artist Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, which belongs to Amsterdam\u2019s Rijksmuseum. We\u2019d been looking for one of her paintings for a long time and were lucky to get it in a Sotheby\u2019s evening auction.\u00a0The work of art that changed everything for me is Francis Bacon\u2019s \u201cscreaming Pope\u201d, after Diego Vel\u00e1zquez\u2019s 17th-century Portrait of Pope Innocent X. It\u2019s\u00a0such a depiction of postwar existential angst and I tend to gravitate toward artists who reinterpret history in different ways.The best book I\u2019ve read in the past year is Alan Hollinghurst\u2019s Our Evenings, a\u00a0social comedy about gay life in England from the 1960s to the pandemic. I\u2019ve always loved his operatic writing style. It\u2019s told through his lived experience, and I think it resonated with me because I was also reading Monica Miller\u2019s Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity at the same time. Both examine issues of race, gender and sexuality and are rooted in history, and Miller\u2019s book inspired our upcoming exhibition at The Met.The place that means a lot to me is Villa d\u2019Este in Lake Como. It was the first place Thom and I went on holiday together and we still go two or three times a year. It\u2019s become a home from home. We tend to go right after the Met Gala in May, after the fashion shows in Milan and for three weeks at the end of August. Lake Como has such a\u00a0microclimate: one day it\u2019s sunny, one day it\u2019s hailing, one day it\u2019s snowy, so it\u2019s a very biblical place in terms of the weather. We used to explore the lake more, but now we just stay put and catch up on reading.\u00a0And the best souvenirs I\u2019ve brought home are chocolates from London; the KitKats and Cadbury dark chocolate buttons are outstanding. I once brought a Moroccan rug home, but these things tend to lose their lustre in different environments. Now\u00a0I stick to edible souvenirs.The most interesting things in the Costume Institute archives are the\u00a0toiles of Charles James, an English-American designer known for his ballgowns and sculptural dresses. They reveal his process and brilliance, his obsessive attention to detail and his raw talent. They\u2019re both spontaneous and contrived; they reflect the soul of the designer.Once you\u2019re a dachshund owner, you collect dachshund memorabiliaMy favourite Met Gala theme was 2003\u2019s Goddess by then-curator Harold Koda. It was the first one I attended, and it was when Tom Ford was at the height of Gucci, which was a sponsor. Nicole Kidman was a co-chair, and she brought Adrien Brody, who\u2019d just won an Oscar for\u00a0The Pianist, and Diana Ross was the entertainment. The night was so glamorous, and the exhibition illustrated beautifully the influence of classicism on contemporary design.My style icons are David Bowie, 100 per cent. I\u2019ve worshipped him since I was a kid. He was a confident chameleon, wearing everything with such style and surety. And Tom Wolfe for his uniform white suits, regardless of the season.\u00a0The best gift I\u2019ve given recently was a Herm\u00e8s dachshund picture frame that is made up of six smaller articulated photo frames. It was made for Princess Margaret, and it\u2019s engraved with the letter \u201cM\u201d and a crown on one side of the dachshund\u2019s head. Once you\u2019re a dachshund owner \u2013 which we are \u2013 you collect dachshund memorabilia. I\u00a0had missed two of these frames at auction and I finally got this one for Thom on 1stDibs.\u00a0And the best gift I\u2019ve received is a Georges Rouault painting from Thom that once belonged to Alfred Hitchcock. It\u2019s called La Sainte Face and has elements of Fauvism and Expressionism. He used rich\u00a0layers of paint that look like stained glass. It hangs in our dining room.The last music I downloaded was \u201cBorn\u00a0with a Broken Heart\u201d, the second solo single from Damiano David of Italian rock band M\u00e5neskin. It\u2019s so theatrical and\u00a0uplifting, yet sad and dark at the same\u00a0time. I\u2019d call it soulful pop.\u00a0The best way to spend $20 is going to the Met. For New York State residents (and tri-state students) entrance is a pay-as-you-wish situation, but it\u00a0offers good value for money. The recent Siena: The\u00a0Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 exhibition was breathtaking, as are the Greek and Roman galleries. The light changes throughout the day, so they\u2019re different every time you visit. You can see objects again and again, but they will affect you in different ways depending on the mood.I have a collection of Cartier Tank watches from the\u00a0\u201930s to the 1980s. My favourite is a \u201970s gold example with a grain de riz\u00a0mesh bracelet.Amy Schumer makes me laugh, as does\u00a0Saturday Night Live, but I even find someone tripping in the street \u2013 without incident, of course! \u2013 funny. I always laugh at myself when I trip. And I used to watch The Vicar of Dibley with my dad. The dry, silly joke at the end never failed to amuse us.In my fridge you\u2019ll always find leftovers from takeaway orders, and cans of Hector\u2019s Royal Canin dog food for his digestive issues. You\u2019ll also find the basics: Ladur\u00e9e strawberry jam, milk and a bottle of Dom P\u00e9rignon.I\u2019ve recently rediscovered Mr Kipling Bakewell Slices. They\u2019re so old-school \u2013 my grandmother used to eat them. They\u2019re reminiscent of something from the Blitz. I\u00a0had them on a recent trip home and came back to New York with a suitcase full.\u00a0The most spectacular gown I\u2019ve seen at the Met Gala was a 1998 John Galliano for Dior haute couture gown worn by model Jessica Stam. It was hand-embroidered and stunning. I tend to like the less-famous people on the red carpet; for example, theatre producer Jordan Roth in a custom Iris van Herpen \u201ccurtain\u201d cape that revealed a full theatre with elements of the Palais Garnier, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Royal Opera in Stockholm underneath. Life is theatre!\u00a0An object I would never part with is the first painting Thom and I bought together, a study by John Singer Sargent from around 1901. It\u2019s a painting of a boy \u2013 Alexander McCulloch \u2013 that the artist gave to his mother. The McCulloch family was from Southport, where my mother was also from, so it has a nice connection to her as well. It\u2019s very sketchy and fluid, which I love\u2026My grooming and wellbeing guru is Laila Hayani, who does these incredible facial massages using a little roller with cold steel balls. It sounds rude but it\u2019s so relaxing. She comes right before I hold press conferences and on the first Monday in May, and she\u2019s just so quiet and relaxing. I also rely on Robin at Kinhouse in SoHo. He\u2019s been cutting my hair for 15 years and was trained as a traditional barber at Freemans Sporting Club.\u00a0The last item of clothing I added to my wardrobe was a Thom Browne navy corduroy jacket with silk grosgrain armbands. It was an impulse purchase at 1am. I don\u2019t want to push my luck asking for things.The thing I couldn\u2019t do without is listening to WQXR every morning and evening. They play classical music as well as live concerts. I find it so soothing.\u00a0My favourite room in my house is the drawing room, especially for evening drinks. We have a small study by Lucian Freud here \u2013 it hangs next to the Sargent \u2013 and the light is so beautiful. It overlooks a communal garden, and we have views of the East River and the Queensboro Bridge. It\u2019s rural and urban at the same time.\u00a0Some of my best ideas have come from movies, books, travelling, fashion shows, a friend, an advertisement, an exhibition \u2013 it\u2019s more about my frame of mind and openness at the time. I love street style and find Tokyo particularly inspiring. I also get great ideas while running at the gym; I\u2019m not worried then, and I don\u2019t have any devices to distract me.A place I\u2019m excited to explore is India. The tradition, craftsmanship, embroideries \u2013 all done by men \u2013 are very interesting to me and I hope to do an India-influenced show in 2028.An indulgence I would never forgo is a glass of champagne with Thom, every evening about seven o\u2019clock. It\u2019s our lovely, stress-free ritual. We\u2019re like\u00a0two old men!In my carry-on you will always find a book, laptop, my Yankees baseball cap, sunglasses and my Smythson notepad. If I feel\u00a0stuck on my laptop, I\u00a0write in my notepad and invariably get unblocked. I have an old-school briefcase \u2013 very The Thomas Crown Affair \u2013 which is hard-sided and works as a portable desk. It\u2019s black with red, white and\u00a0blue stripes as it is by Thom.My biggest adventure was being immersed in the Vatican \u2013 surrounded by papal tiaras, rings, robes, mitres \u2013 for the 2018 show Heavenly Bodies. We spent months trying to borrow objects and garments from its archives, and I finally found the right person for loan approvals. Donatella called him \u201cGorgeous Georg\u201d because he was an ex-tennis player and ski instructor, and he had the final say. He asked if I knew Roger Federer \u2013 which I did \u2013 and gave us the loans in exchange for an introduction. The special places I saw, the artwork\u2026 it was like being Alice in Wonderland.\u00a0The grooming staple I\u2019m never without is Aveda Men Pure-Formance Thickening Paste for thickening hair. I have\u00a0a lot of fine hair and it allows me to go out in G-force wind. I also use Dr Barbara Sturm\u2019s cleanser and moisturiser for sensitive skin. I\u2019m fairly low-maintenance. Aveda Men Pure-Formance Thickening Paste, \u00a328 for 75ml. Dr Barbara Sturm Cleanser, \u00a318 for 50ml, and Face Cream Men, \u00a3145 for 50mlIn another life, I would have been a psychoanalyst. I love the psychology of dress and would like to do a \u201cFreud and fashion\u201d show at some point. A psychoanalytical look at fashion. One way to do it would be\u00a0to examine one person\u2019s wardrobe throughout time and see how they develop.The best bit of advice I ever received was from Anna Wintour, who said \u201cno is a very good word\u201d. It\u2019s better to just say \u201cno\u201d upfront, rather than cancelling later or overcommitting, but it\u2019s hard for me. Thom is better at saying \u201cno\u201d before I have to. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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