NEW YORK – Every year the Council of Fashion Designers of America honors the achievements of veteran designers and celebrates the potential of a class of newcomers. Monday night’s ceremony highlighted the old-school craft of clothes, the gut-instincts...

Human beings are mysterious creatures with interior lives full of secrets, complexities and warring impulses. The guests at Chevalier d’Eon in the summer of 1962 understand that only too well. The rundown Catskills bungalow colony, named for a famous...