In a midseries episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Larry David, the HBO show’s star and creator, greets his No. 1 frenemy, Susie, (Susie Essman), who has turned up at a fancy gathering wearing a top hat and a morning coat. He gives her a once-over, then announces, with all the finesse of a carnival barker,…
Ibuki Hibi Lee remembers waking up to the sounds of her mother’s paintbrush hitting the canvas in their small New York City apartment. After World War II, during which their family was incarcerated at an internment camp in Utah, they moved to New York City in 1945 so that Hibi Lee’s parents, Hisako and “George”…
A barefaced woman studies her reflection, trying on fabric bibs that could have been yanked from a production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” In a video posted on TikTok last month, she is draped in lustrous silver, faint pink, a deep green that recalls a jalapeño pepper. Standing behind her client as a…
If there is a word for people who behave like terriers, tucking themselves into cramped spaces that would drive others into fits, it probably has not been invented. But it would describe Liz Gilson. Born in France to American parents, Ms. Gilson spent several childhood years living in a stately home in England where she…
I name my houseplants after movie characters that die. That way, if they don’t survive, it’s less tragic and more like a plotline. This is all according to my Hinge profile. It’s also real, unlike profiles that embellish (“where’s my happy place? with you gurl”) or lie (“still figuring out my dating goals”). My plants…
The High Fashion Trendsetter Miu Miu Faded Unlined Suede Loafers The High Fashion Trendsetter Miu Miu Faded Unlined Suede Loafers This ugly-chic pair from Miu Miu defined the trend for spring/summer 2024 and comes pre-worn, so you don’t have to break them in. Sizes: EU 34-42 Materials: Leather, rubber Colors: Tan, White The School Uniform…
Gaetano Pesce, who for more than 60 years created eccentrically shaped, brightly colored furniture, art objects and, occasionally, buildings, remaining the enfant terrible of the design world even as he became its grand old man, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 84. The death, at a hospital, was caused by a stroke, his…
Ah, Los Angeles. Alluring and always sunny (much to Chloë Sevigny’s chagrin), the destination beloved for film has more recently attracted some of fashion’s heaviest hitters. Thom Browne, the king of East Coast prep and chairman of the CFDA is the latest to get in on the fun. The brand is expanding its footprint with…
Consider the humble cactus. A resident of this planet well before humans emerged, outliving both us and the elements, it’s playing nature’s ultimate version of the long game. For Adrián López Velarde and Marte Cázarez Duarte, it also might be the spiky secret to solving fashion’s waste problem. After meeting while studying abroad in Taiwan—and…
Sometimes fashion just seems like “Groundhog Day” with better outfits. Designers vanish only to reappear suddenly (looking at you, Alessandro Michele.) Trends sputter out and abruptly are back. Skinny jeans were cool until everyone was wearing oversize drop-crotch khakis — everyone, that is, except that cadre of teen style-setters intent on bringing back 2000s-era jeggings…