Rethink Flip-Flops? Ways to Keep Your Feet Healthy This Summer
Podiatrists suggest examining your feet year-round and implementing a few other habits during warmer months.
Podiatrists suggest examining your feet year-round and implementing a few other habits during warmer months.
What to Cook This Memorial Day Weekend Good morning. It’s Memorial Day weekend already? Time’s a flat circle, a record spinning, always and forever returning to its start. Summer holidays, Labor Day, the rush of early fall — it’s all coming around faster and faster. Gone are those slow, languid, scary-boring days of the pandemic…
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “Bonkers About Beetles.” “Innumerable Insects.” “Bugs: A Pop-Up Book.” The volumes that line the shelves of the jewelry designer Daniela Villegas’s home in this part of greater Los Angeles underscore what is obvious to anyone who ventures inside: She is passionate about pests. Thousands of specimens — of the six, eight-…
VICENZA, Italy — Earlier this year, the Italian gold jeweler Fope introduced its new collection of Flex’it necklaces by throwing an extravagant party for about 300 guests at a 17th-century estate on the outskirts of this city in the Veneto region, a UNESCO World Heritage site about 50 miles west of Venice. To highlight the…
As the pared-back stylings of quiet luxury continue to dominate dressing, focus has returned to the face. And some jewelry designers are offering septum and lip creations to ensure the public’s gaze doesn’t stray. “We are in an age of less is more when it comes to dressing,” said Meg Strachan, founder and chief executive…
LONDON — The Moroccan-born jewelry designer Bernard Delettrez always had a fascination with stones and jewelry. It may even have been in his genes. “Always. Always, always, always, always,” he said during a video call from Rome, where he now resides. “When I was young, I was always in front of the Cartier windows, you…
“What I read about these media mogul families and corporations is that there’s a serious level of fandom in the room,” she said in an interview at the premiere. On the show, she added, “the ever-shifting tide of who you’re fastening your trust to and who you feel betrayed by is always surprising.” Camille Perri,…
This is a tale of two meals and two men named Lam. It begins with a joke and ends with a prison sentence. Two years ago, one of Vietnam’s most powerful officials ate a steak encrusted with 24-karat gold during a trip to London. It didn’t go over well at home — a one-party state…
All black, all the time: Black diamonds, black pearls, onyx, black spinels, obsidian and blackened gold are just some of the materials turning up recently in fine jewelry creations. And while some of the appeal may spill over from that enduring classic, the little black dress, for many, dark gems seem to match the goth…
SHIMA, Japan — It was raining hard, with blustery winds roiling the sea — unusual conditions on the spring day when I visited the Mikimoto Tatoku Pearl Farm in this coastal city on Japan’s main island of Honshu. But as the farm workers say, there is always strong wind right before the weather begins to…