Merry Christmas. I Got You a Tiny Cow.

Dear Santa, I’ve been so very good this year. Could you please bring me a miniature cow? I promise I’ll take excellent care of it. Please, please, pleaaaaaase! While it might sound ridiculous, miniature cows have become a much-requested holiday gift in recent years. “Just had one picked up this morning,” Allie Sine, a rancher…

How People Dress for the Holidays in NYC

Style outside Photographer Simbarashe Cha documents fashion on Fifth Avenue in December. Share full article By Simbarashe Cha Simbarashe Cha made these photographs and videos on the streets of New York City, and wrote this article. His visual column, Style Outside, explores street style around the world. Dec. 22, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ET card:1 of…

Old Friends Find New Love

Shortly after signing their prenuptial agreement the morning of Dec. 7 in Miami, Barbara Guggenheim and Alan Joel Patricof were, as usual, watching the clock. Not because they were counting the days until they were married — they are so in love, both said, that this was a given — but because that’s what their…

How to Have a Loretta Caponi Holiday

When Guido Conti Caponi goes to work each day at Loretta Caponi, where he is the company’s chief operating officer, he is fulfilling a grand family tradition. The fashion and lifestyle brand was founded by his grandmother in 1967, and he recalls being a young boy in 1992 when the Florence boutique first opened. “My…

Mall Culture Is Back, Baby

It finally happened: All over the spring 2024 runways, there were polos with popped collars, leggings, and, most of all, belts on every single thing, every single way, from Miu Miu to Ralph Lauren. Maybe you remember the heyday of this style. It’s so oddly specific not just of Y2K, but of early to mid-2000s…