Courtesy, Rati Sahi Levesque 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. This month, we spoke with Rati Sahi Levesque, the president and chief operating officer of The RealReal, the trailblazing e-tail source for secondhand, luxury shopping. Along…
The Pasteur Institute, since opening in the 15th Arrondissement in Paris in the late 1880s, has been recognized for world-altering scientific discoveries. The institute, named for Louis Pasteur, the pioneering French scientist who founded it, has contributed to the production of vaccines for tetanus and the flu and was at the forefront of discovering the…
After Doris Kearns Goodwin’s husband died nearly six years ago, the couple’s home, a 19th-century farmhouse in Concord, Mass., no longer felt right. “We were there for 20 years,” said Ms. Kearns Goodwin, 81, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose new book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s,” will be published April…
Just what sort of shape is the luxury watch industry in? Globally, the sector has been stuttering as political and economic uncertainty persists (hasn’t it always?), while reports from the front line of luxury watch retail suggest that times are tougher now that the Covid-era bounce has bottomed out. And yet last year, Swiss watchmakers…
There will be all manner of watchmaking stories at the Watches and Wonders trade show this week — from heritage and throwback narratives to female-led ones — but HYT is hoping to add a comeback chapter. Known for its disruptive timekeeping technology that mixes liquid and mechanics, HYT — for Hydro Mechanical Horologists — burst…
Beating its own record for the world’s most complicated watch, Vacheron Constantin has unveiled the Berkley Grand Complication, a pocket watch that includes what the house described as the world’s first Chinese perpetual calendar. The watch — a commission that took three master watchmakers in the house’s Atelier Les Cabinotiers 11 years to plan and…
When Dianne Brill arrived at the Soho Grand Hotel for her 66th birthday party on Saturday night, she did so with the same sense of spectacle that made her an icon of Manhattan nightlife in the 1980s. People stopped and stared as she stepped out of a black S.U.V. Standing 6-foot-3 in white platform boots,…
If you’ve been coveting the chunky, retro-inspired gold earrings that Hailey Bieber has been rocking on Instagram lately, we have some great news: Not only are the styles she’s worn still in stock, but they can be yours for less than $115. The silhouettes in question all come from affordable LA-based jewelry brand Heaven Mayhem,…
Many companies, including fashion companies, may be going silent about their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the face of political change. The last round of major designer appointments may not have included a single creative director of color. But at least one group is doubling down on its commitment to broadening the style-talent pipeline.…
Bulgari has its world record back. On Monday, the Italian luxury house with the Swiss fine watchmaking division reclaimed the record for the world’s thinnest mechanical wristwatch. The Octo Finissimo Ultra Mark II is 1.7 millimeters thick, 0.05 millimeters thinner than Richard Mille’s 1.75 millimeter RM UP-01 Ferrari, which two years ago snatched the record…