Right after Halloween, Ashley Guerra started being inundated with invitations — for Friendsgiving, for holiday parties and for New Year’s Eve. “The holidays always feel a little chaotic,” said Ms. Guerra, 33, who lives in Dallas and works in product marketing for a tech company. “It’s more eating, more drinking, more late nights, more energy…
My life is pretty relaxing right now, but there’s a chilling period each day that derails all of my sleekest and sturdiest emotional trains, and that’s the dark corridor between 8:30 and 8:42 a.m., when my two daughters leave for high school. I would offer you details — sounds, mostly; terrifying sounds! — but your…
The Bergdorf blonde is now taking meetings at the Regency Hotel. Parvin Klein, the veteran colorist who perfected an iconic shade of blonde, has painted her last highlight at the Bergdorf Goodman department store salon. Though the salon space changed hands at least four times during Ms. Klein’s 36 years of employment — Sergio Valente,…
About four years ago, after the deadly shooting at a synagogue in Poway, Calif., in April 2019, Abby Adams and Sammy Gabbai started an Instagram account to share stories of Jewish solidarity. The account, Why I Wear My Star, featured posts containing people’s reasons for wearing Star of David jewelry and other Judaica. Ms. Adams…
More than 100 mourners streamed into the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan on Friday morning for the memorial service of Maryanne Trump Barry, a longtime federal judge and an older sister of Donald J. Trump. The former president was among those who attended. He arrived, along with his wife, Melania, and other family…
Since 1946, when the Nakata family established its factory specializing in clothing hangers, the handmade wooden product has not evolved much. But its fans wouldn’t want Nakata Hanger’s product to change. “The shape of the hanger is extremely important,” said Mark Cho, co-founder of the Armoury, a men’s wear retailer in Hong Kong and New…
She offered to bring fancy cheese, the kind that costs $35 per pound. I said a couple of supermarket slabs would be fine, for one-fourth the price. Four days later, she dumped me. Was it the cheese? Did the cheese represent something bigger? Or was the cheese just an innocent bystander? I had been through…
In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. For our latest column, we flew to Paris and met Sézane founder Morgane Sézalory at her dreamy apartment on the Left Bank, complete with a casual view of the Eiffel…
Style Outside Photographer Simbarashe Cha documents transitional style in the Japanese capital for The New York Times. Share full article Nov. 17, 2023, 10:30 a.m. ET card:1 of 10 Style Outside Simbarashe Cha Reporting from Japan Tokyo was unseasonably warm in early November, making for an eclectic mishmash of outfits. Clothes with oversized silhouettes, like…
It’s mid-November and you’re starting to think that you should be starting to think about your holiday shopping list. But the brands and the retailers behind the colorfully packaged sets of beauty products that are mainstays of seasonal shopping are way ahead of you. “We kind of joke that we’re never not talking about Christmas,”…