Catriona Campbell Duncan and Sarah Gail Palmisano have no doubt that the popularity of the NPR game show “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” is well deserved. But they wouldn’t really know, even though their first date, in August 2018, was a live taping of the show in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Ms. Duncan and Ms.…
Meg is the Associate Fashion Commerce Editor at ELLE.com where she researches trends, tests products, and looks for answers to all your burning questions. She also co-writes a monthly column, Same Same But Different. Meg has previously written for Cosmopolitan and Town & Country. Her passions include travel, buffalo sauce, and sustainability. She will never…
Last Sunday, about 150 people gathered in Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan to buy, sell, trade and fawn over dolls known as Sonny Angels. The attendees — mostly in their 20s and mostly female — toted the dolls in clear plastic bags from the Japanese dollar store Daiso or spread them out on blankets…
We don’t have the exact number, but we’re pretty confident in saying that three years into the “new normal,” most of us are avoiding underwire bras at all costs. As the world shifted into a more prominent work-from-home culture, uncomfortable, tight undergarments lost their power over us. The trend of dressing more comfortably has led…
Georges Braque, in 1907, looked at his Spanish friend’s new painting, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” and felt “as if someone had drunk kerosene to spit fire.” Henri Matisse said he and his friendly rival from Málaga were “as different as the North Pole is from the South Pole.” Pablo Picasso has been getting artists talking since…
GLEAM TEAM Past, present, and future collide in a season filled with precious-metal finishes. N21 by Alessandro Dell’acqua pre-fall 2023.Courtesy of N21 Any silhouette—from a winged goddess to wired headphones—can transform when dipped in precious metal, alchemically turning the everyday into the eternal. Valdé Beauty did just that to the humble lipstick case, crafting its…
PORTLAND, Ore. — On Sunday, a line of fans had formed by 10:30 a.m. outside a sports bar waiting to watch March Madness. The bar goers, dressed in Patagonia fleeces, beanies and rain jackets, were undeterred by the rain that drenched them. When the doors opened 30 minutes later, they walked in to claim their…
When vials of Mielle Organics’ rosemary-mint hair oil started disappearing from store shelves this year, Black women who had come to rely on the product were appalled. Social media sleuths quickly found that in December, the influencer Alix Earle had shared with her nearly five million followers on TikTok that she had experienced “tremendous hair…
Mr. Roberts eschewed technology, which made him difficult to reach. “When we wanted to get ahold of him, we were instructed to fax his agent in London,” Mr. Remnick remembered. “Somehow it worked.” Mr. Roberts eventually did get a cellphone, but he rarely answered it. Upon leaving The New Yorker, Mr. Roberts returned to Vanity…
When Jay Shetty graduated from college, he was prepared for two different paths in life: to work in finance, or become a Hindu monk. After three years at an ashram, Jay returned home to London hoping to share his learning with the world. He had to relearn how to make small talk — and how…