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Givenchy names Sarah Burton new creative director

Givenchy names Sarah Burton new creative director

PARIS (AP) — Givenchy has named Sarah Burton creative director for women’s and men’s collections, with immediate effect, the fashion house announced on Monday.
Book Review: ‘Category Five’ examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

Book Review: ‘Category Five’ examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

I graduated from Middlebury College with Porter Fox just over 30 years ago. We weren’t friends, but it was a small campus and everyone knew something about everybody else. I knew he sailed and wore L.L. Bean like a native Mainer.

Keri-Lynn Wilson, who founded Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, becomes music director of Kyiv Camerata

NEW YORK (AP) — Keri-Lynn Wilson was hired Monday as music director of the Kyiv Camerata. She succeeds Valery Matyukhin, who established the chamber orchestra in 1977 and died last year.

Jessica Hagedorn, R.F. Kuang among winners of American Book Awards, which celebrate multiculturalism

NEW YORK (AP) — Author-playwright Jessica Hagedorn, “Yellowface” novelist R.F.
Mike Leigh on 'Hard Truths' and his moviemaking struggles

Mike Leigh on 'Hard Truths' and his moviemaking struggles

TORONTO (AP) — When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was 6, his father, a doctor who would oppose his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people. In a way, Leigh never stopped.
Book Review: Hiroshima bomb saga revisited with witness accounts

Book Review: Hiroshima bomb saga revisited with witness accounts

An atomic bombing is so horrific all accounts tend to be quintessential. M.G. Sheftall’s “Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses,” a carefully and respectfully researched oral history, is no different.
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 15-21

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 15-21

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 15-21: Sept. 15: Screenwriter and director Ron Shelton (“Bull Durham,” “White Men Can’t Jump”) is 79. Actor Tommy Lee Jones is 78. Movie director Oliver Stone is 78. Drummer Kelly Keagy of Night Ranger is 72.
'Shogun' wins record-breaking 14 Emmys at Creative Arts ceremony as Jamie Lee Curtis gets her first

'Shogun' wins record-breaking 14 Emmys at Creative Arts ceremony as Jamie Lee Curtis gets her first

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Shogun” won the most Emmys ever for a single season of a television series with 14 at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday night, while “The Bear” won seven including best guest actress in a comedy series for Jamie Lee Curtis .
Hilfiger goes full nautical for Fashion Week, with runway show on former Staten Island Ferry boat

Hilfiger goes full nautical for Fashion Week, with runway show on former Staten Island Ferry boat

NEW YORK (AP) — Tommy Hilfiger loves celebrating New York City and its landmarks. He also loves a nautical theme — and a big surprise.
Hilfiger goes full nautical for Fashion Week, with runway show on former Staten Island Ferry boat

Hilfiger goes full nautical for Fashion Week, with runway show on former Staten Island Ferry boat

NEW YORK (AP) — Tommy Hilfiger loves celebrating New York City and its landmarks. He also loves a nautical theme — and a big surprise.
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