What is the price of great, commercially celebrated beauty? What pain and loss accompany it? And what happens to a young girl turned into an icon before even hitting puberty? These key questions are addressed in “Pretty Baby,” a thoughtful and moving documentary about Brooke Shields that premiered on Hulu on April 3. Ms. Shields…
While on hiatus last spring from his job as a writer and director for “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” Mike Karnell went to Mercanteinfiera, a trade fair in Parma, Italy, where he had one mission: Find the lamps. There, he met an older Italian vendor who invited Mr. Karnell to visit his warehouses in Milan.…
Iconic Americana and Tommy Hilfiger are synonymous and neither goes out of style. To keep the look current, it’s all about modern tweaks to renew the throwback vibe, so it’s no surprise we’re obsessing over the new Tommy Hilfiger x Shawn Mendes collection. This collab of 28 items delivers fresh foundational pieces infused with TH’s…
One of the most intimate questions you can ask eBay power users is to show you their negotiations — the private DMs they exchange with sellers bargaining over the price of an item. But Alexis Novak humored me. The item was a spring 2018 dress from the French luxury brand Céline, then under the creative…
Coinciding with the anniversary of the Titanic sinking, on April 15, 1912, there will be a two-part virtual talk from the 92nd Street Y covering the ways of not just top-hatted and bejeweled first class passengers like the Astors and Guggenheims, but also the less fortunate huddled in steerage, and even the crew. Veronica Hinke,…
Passover lasts eight days, and you might attend one or even two Seders. But how many matzo breis will you fry? If your answer is just one, then you’ll probably go for a classic iteration of the matzo-and-egg dish or whichever tried-and-true version your friends and family adore. However, if there’s room in your life…
Times are changing for watch collectors — or rather, their tastes have been changing. In the past few years — a period of soaring watch prices, pandemic-related supply shortages and an explosion of watch content on social media — the Big Four of Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille dominated the market. And…
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Who: Mejuri and Luar What: Jewelry collaboration Where: Online at mejuri.com and luar.world What: The world of Mejuri is one of non-fussy fine jewelry for everyone, bringing the usually staid category to the masses. For the unfamiliar, Luar is the New York brand led by wunderkind Raul Lopez that shares a similar vision: democratizing fashion…
Two concurrent outbreaks of the Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola that can kill as many as 90 percent of the people it infects, are raising critical questions about the behavior of this mysterious bat-borne pathogen and global efforts to prepare for potential pandemics. Marburg, a hemorrhagic fever, is rare: Just a handful of…