Eight years ago, Angie Valentino, an award-winning makeup artist, moved from Milan — where she worked for brands like Fendi, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana and Philipp Plein — to New York. Since then, she has focused on private clients around the city, including Broadway and television performers. Ms. Valentino, 37, lives in Ridgewood, Queens. ITALIAN…
Beware Toxic Mary I’ve been at a perfectly OK job for the past nine months, but the environment is a little toxic. There are a few people who are rude and unkind, and there’s a culture of gossiping and complaining. I’ve become a target for one particularly grouchy and rude co-worker. Emails from “Mary” are rude…
Jenny Walton had coveted an Hermès bag for years before finally buying one last fall. “They’re never going to go out of style,” Ms. Walton, 33, offered as a reason she wanted to own one of the brand’s handbags, which can cost four, five, even six figures. Hermès’s bags include the Kelly and its more…
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Bernadette Carey Smith, who in the 1960s was one of the first Black women to be hired as a reporter at The New York Times and The Washington Post, died on Dec. 5 at an assisted living complex in Tuckahoe, N.Y. She was 83. Her nephew Scott Taylor said the cause was arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.…
(She received backlash that year, but for a different reason: In a rare public blunder, she posed for a photograph sitting on a “chair” by the Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard that depicted a Black woman in bondage. The image spurred outrage online, and Ms. Zhukova publicly apologized. ) Behind the scenes, Ms. Zhukova was expanding…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “The primacy of clothes.” That was Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ stated starting point for their fall 2023 menswear collection back in January. And it’s a sentiment that designers have been going back to recently, tired of chasing the concentric trend…
On a freezing January afternoon, the podcaster and influencer Eileen Kelly welcomed a reporter into her spacious Lower East Side loft. She was wearing her show’s merch — a sweatshirt emblazoned with the word “Prozac” (she also sells Wellbutrin and Lexapro versions). Glass vases on a nearby credenza held six dried bouquets, gifts from ex-boyfriends…
After their first date, the olive fell from his tree. Henry Carroll took this as a sign that he and the woman who had recently moved to Los Angeles were meant to be. In this week’s vulnerable and funny Modern Love essay, Mr. Carroll writes about the danger and delight of infatuation. [Like this newsletter?…
PARIS — Rick Owens, paramour of the strange and the so-called prince of the underground, can seem like he’s on another planet, but he may actually be the most relevant designer of the season. There he was, standing in the depths of the Palais de Tokyo, the contemporary art museum, wearing giant platform shoes and…