Wear Your Heart on Your Feet

The signature of the Flour Shop bakery in SoHo — owned by Amirah Kassem and her husband, Ross Harrow — is sparkly sprinkle-strewn rainbow-striped confections, especially birthday cakes. Now Vans, a California footwear and apparel company, has taken the Flour Shop look as inspiration for its new line. Glittery footwear for all ages with rainbow…

Presidential Elections May Be Bad for Your Health

The stress of presidential elections may increase the incidence of heart attacks and strokes, researchers report. Scientists tracked hospitalizations for acute cardiovascular disease in the weeks before and after the 2016 presidential election among about three million adults who were enrolled in the Kaiser Permanente Southern California health care system. The study, in PNAS, found…

Madewell Launches New Athleisure Category

As if you needed another reason to love Madewell, the beloved brand whose denim offerings have become a mainstay in many closets—including famous ones, like Meghan Markle’s—here’s one more: Madewell athleisure. For the first time ever, Madewell is making its foray into the athleisure market with a collection aptly titled Make Weekends Longer. Madewell’s customers’…

Frenchette Opens a Bakery Nearby

Last year, Roger Gural closed his esteemed Arcade Bakery in the lobby of a TriBeCa office building. The space has now been taken over by Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson, the owners of the nearby restaurant Frenchette. Their head baker, Peter Edris, formerly at Bourke Street Bakery, and Frenchette’s pastry chef, Michelle Palazzo, monitor the…