On a cool, damp mid-June afternoon in Manhattan, just the other side of a morning filled with showers, I find myself chasing Lauren Santo Domingo through the wilds of Central Park, looking for rare birds.

“Our family, during COVID, got very into bird-watching,” says Santo Domingo, the Moda Operandi cofounder and, since 2023, the artistic director of Tiffany & Co.’s home collection. (She and her family aren’t alone in their avian fascination: Two thousand paper cranes took flight at Thom Browne’s fall 2025 show, while birds also accessorized Marni, Luar, and Jun Takahashi’s Undercover.)

“My son in particular got very good at identifying them—male and female and that kind of thing.”

As the park’s Ramble leads us into Tupelo Meadow—dominated by an enormous, ancient tupelo tree, one of the

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