JANUARY The CULTURAL DIVIDE

FANFAIR

A GONDOLA RIDE TO SUCCESS

The Sundance Film Festival—Park City, Utah's annual haven for cineastes, celebrities, and the snow bunnies who love them—turns 25 this winter. Apres-ski at the Legacy Lodge will kick off this year's 10-day slalom of indie competition. (1/15-1/25; festival.sundance.org)

Renaissance Man

Blake Edwards, director of such memorable films as Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 10, and the Pink Panther series, starring Peter Sellers, has for decades brought the same smart, whimsical sensibility to another talent—as an artist. This month, the Pacific Design Center, in Los Angeles, will present a retrospective of Edwards’s sculptures and paintings from the past 40 years. (1/9-1/31; thepacificdesigncenter.com)

Master Class

Documenting nearly a century of style, N.Y.C.’s International Center of Photography unveils its "Year of Fashion" exhibition on January 16. The six-part series, dedicated to the influence of fashion photography, features work from legendary masters such as Edward Steichen and Richard Avedon, and present-day provocateurs like Juergen Teller and Cindy Sherman. (1/16/09-1/3/10; icp.org)

PUNK PERFECTION

Before Marc Jacobs and Karl Lagerfeld, Stephen Sprouse was wowing the fashion world with his glam-punk designs. The Stephen Sprouse Book (Rizzoli), out this month, captures his life and work in all its 1980s neon, DayGlo, graffitied glory, (rizzoliusa.com)

The Gangs All Here

All-American VIII, the eighth installment of the high-end literary-and-art journal, edited by Bruce Weber, includes chapters on Oatsie Charles, a favorite Washington, D.C., hostess and Newport socialite, Henry W. Kendall, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and Alpine photographer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam, and rodeo photographs taken by Weber. This treasure, published by Little Bear Press, is out now.

Light Up Your Lite

Cozy up next to the fire, light one of Marjorie Gubelmann's Vie Luxe candles, et voila, you’re transported to St. Barth’s. Each of the scented bougies in her signature line is evocative of a beloved destination—from Buenos Aires to Palm Beach to Saint-Moritz—or lifestyle. A swell life, indeed, (vieluxenyc.com)