THE DREAM SEQUENCE
Town & Country|May 2022
When it all gets to be too much, is it forgivable to indulge in a little fantasy? Absolutely. Especially when it involves a dashing young couple, a suitcase full of family jewels, and their own daring getaway.
R.O. KWON
THE DREAM SEQUENCE

It's a full-circle moment for Ivy Getty, photographed throughout with actor Tom Blyth: 39 years ago her grandmother Ann was T&C's cover star. "I still have the magazine, which I keep in good condition," she says.

ON HER: RALPH LAUREN COLLECTION JUMPSUIT ($2,390); IVY'S GRANDMOTHER'S SHAWL; AQUAZZURA PLATFORMS; CARTIER PANTHERE HIGH JEWELRY EARRINGS; VAN CLEEF & ARPELS NECKLACE ($442,000); BOUCHERON NECKLACE ($95,800); LUCIEN GOUBET BRACELET FROM FD GALLERY ($170,000); DAVID WEBB RING ($36,500). ON HIM: RALPH LAUREN PURPLE LABEL SUIT ($2,895) AND TUXEDO SHIRT ($695); CHARVET TIE ($250); HARRY WINSTON CUFF LINKS; STEPHEN RUSSELL BROOCH ($95,000); MIANSAL RINGS (FROM $295)

Last fall I went to a splendid exhibition in San Francisco featuring sculpture, collage, and video by the artist Wangechi Mutu. Because we went on a weekday afternoon, it wasn't crowded, and my friend Anisse and I could linger up close with Mutu's chimerical, often towering sculptures. Mutu has spoken of inventing her own mythologies with her work; accordingly, the hybrid deities she'd shaped with bronze, clay, soil, and gems were newly strange, and fantastically haunting. It was one of the best afternoons I've had all pandemic long, and it was one I'd desperately needed, this brief time with an artist's made-up world yielding a kind of magic that has helped sustain me through many less charmed days.

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