If it hadn’t been for some parental matchmaking, the Dove and the Wolf, a k a Paloma Gil and Louise Hayat-Camard, might never have met. Gil grew up in Paris; Hayat-Camard in Martinique. But Gil’s mother introduced them when they were 14 and, Gil says, “We started playing music together.” Now 22, the duo, whose band name is a multilingual play on words — “paloma” is Spanish for “dove” and “loup” (which sounds like Lou, Hayat-Camard’s nickname) is French for “wolf” — just released their first EP, a four-song collection of spare but soaring harmonies. They came to T’s attention via Gaby Basora, the fashion designer for Tucker, who hired Hayat-Camard to babysit her sons while in Paris for business. Cut to a recent day in the Rockaways, a surf spot in Queens where the musicians were making a video for Tucker’s resort collection, set to their song “Springtime.” “It’s one of the first songs we wrote together,” Hayat-Camard says. “It’s about growing up and leaving the place you’ve always lived in.”
Monday, October 22, 2012
Catherine Townsend and Peter Katsis
Emily Berl for The New York Times
LOS ANGELES, SEPT. 21
AS a former London sex columnist who, as The Guardian once reported, has “had more sexual encounters than she can either accurately count or reliably remember,” Catherine Townsend is not easily rattled when it comes to men. But on her first date with Peter Katsis, she discovered that he had also invited several scantily clad women, along with another guy
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WOMEN'S WINTER ISSUE 2012
Cedric Buchet
Halle Berry graces the cover of T’s latest fashion issue. The actress sits down with Joyce Maynard to discuss her career, the paparazzi and her love life. Inside, the actress Bella Heathcote, the singer Grimes and the musical duo the Dove and the Wolf wear the clothes of the season, while The Selby drops in on Aan de Amstel in Amsterdam. Don’t forget to read about Joan Juliet Buck’s search for the perfect mattress, Suzy Menkes’smusings on the blurring lines between couture and not couture or Florence Kane’s survey of facials, along with an overview of the latest products and treatments designed to ease wrinkles. When you’re done, visit the studio of the jewelry designer Gabriella Kiss, which is filled with all the objects that make up her creations.
A Fashion Photographer’s Museum Moment
Mario Testino
FASHION photographers are finally being taken seriously in the art world. Perhaps that is not surprising, given the art world’s recent obsession with fashion as subject matter, but lately those model-chasing photographers are getting their own attention from museums.
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