Nicolas Ghesquière was an 18-year-old fashion assistant at Jean Paul Gaultier when he took his first trip to New York in 1989. As it does on almost everybody, the city made a big impression. In a ...

A few weeks earlier, in Indian Wells, California, she had defeated her recent nemesis and temperamental foil, the taciturn Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan. Still flusterable, still a bundle of facial ...