FENDI IS ROMAN BY BIRTH, HAVING STARTED IN THE CITY AS A fur and leather workshop in 1925. The striking Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana is its storied headquarters, the financial and artistic command post of the company. It’s here that we’re introduced to the relaunched Fendi Casa, a marriage of sorts between Fendi and Design Holding, the owner of a number of legacy brands in the world of luxury furnishings and lighting. Newly joined, Fendi and Design Holding have birthed Fashion Furniture Design (FF Design), a venture focused on developing Fendi Casa’s business and strengthening ties between the house’s trend-driven fashion collections and its interiors arm. Silvia Venturini Fendi, the house’s artistic director of accessories and menswear, has signed on as creative director, taking over the interiors business that her mother,…

When Fabio Jakobsen finished his opening time-trial at the start of last year’s Vuelta a España in Burgos, he came coughing and wheezing his way through the mixed zone, the area where journalists speak to riders beyond the finish line. This journalist called for an interview but Jakobsen appeared to ignore the request. This is not unusual. Plus, it seemed that the 7.1km up-and-down effort through the city had taken it out of him: he was in some distress. Yet once he had sufficiently recovered, with the coughing fits coming only every 30 seconds or so, he turned around and, riding against the flow of riders finishing their own efforts, made his way back to the journalists. This is unusual, and perhaps it says quite a lot about Jakobsen. At the time,…

The Rıse and Fall of Jeff Zucker ON THE RAINY MORNING of March 28, 2020, President Trump addressed a phalanx of journalists outside the White House following a call with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “There’s a possibility that sometime today, we’ll do a quarantine — short-term, two weeks — of New York, probably New Jersey, and certain parts of Connecticut,” he said while clutching his umbrella. “This would be an enforceable quarantine. You know, I’d rather not do it, but we may need it.” Hours later, Cuomo was asked during his daily press conference about Trump’s comments. “From a medical point of view, I don’t know what you’d be accomplishing,” he offered with a shrug. But as sunset approached, the governor appeared on CNN with a much more forceful assessment, predicting that…