Are “going-out tops” — that Y2K wardrobe staple for party hopping — back? Moda Operandi, the luxury fashion retailer, held a 2000s-themed night to celebrate its ready-to-party Club Moda collection on Nov. 17 at the Palace in TriBeCa . Sienna Miller, Ziwe, LaQuan Smith and Lauren Santo Domingo were among those who danced to a…
American consumers’ spending on winter holidays including Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa has grown, rising from some $567.6 billion in 2012 to around $889.3 billion in 2021, according to data from the National Retail Federation, a trade group. Among the 93 percent of Americans that celebrate Christmas, according to a 2019 Gallup poll, a growing share…
Drawing a Line in the Sand I work in marketing, in a part of the industry that, in my experience, is overwhelmingly populated by white, able-bodied people, with men taking most of the starring roles. The endless microaggressions sometimes build up. Often, I work with my husband, who is a creative director. Recently, we…
Yuki Iozumi was fretting about how her shoulders might look in a wedding dress. “I feel like I look too muscular,” said the tiny-framed Ms. Iozumi, 20, relating how her friends had told her that practicing karate had changed her body. “I think it’s not so feminine.” Traditional femininity was her goal. Although Ms. Iozumi,…
Abiquiú, New Mexico Photography by Justin Kaneps At the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, a remote abbey beside the Chama River in northern New Mexico, some two dozen Benedictine monks begin their days in darkness. At 3:30 a.m. one Sunday this past winter, a bell summoned the monks to vigils, the night prayer. Under…
Ms. Khemsurov (a contributing editor to T: The New York Times Style Magazine) and Ms. Singer, who stumbled into design as journalists, met while working as editors at I.D., a trade magazine for the industrial design profession that folded in 2010. They began Sight Unseen as a two-person blog, writing and shooting their own material.…
Listen. I can be laid back when I have to be. I have been known to wait five or six hours before answering the occasional email. I have at times neglected to shake a towel vigorously before using it, risking unknown vermin latching onto my vulnerable, naked body. So when my husband and I decide…
Edward BerthelotGetty Images If you missed out on the mega Apple AirPods Prime Day deals, we’re here to tell you it’s your lucky day. Amazon has dropped the AirPods (2nd Generation) to just $79 as a Black Friday treat, and Best Buy has AirPods (3rd Generation) priced at $159.99. The deals tend to sell out…
You ready for some good news? DeMellier, a.k.a. designer Mireia Llusia-Lindh’s handbag line that’s loved by Meghan Markle and legions of fashionable people alike, is taking 20 percent off its entire site for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. And when I say entire site, I can also specifically attest that the swoon-worthy forest green top-handle…
Courtesy of brand Major shopping holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday aren’t just lucky breaks to help us check off our holiday gifting lists for less. It’s also the rare occasion when never-on-sale brands finally hold can’t-miss sales. Skims, famously founded by Kim Kardashian, keeps its sales to a few, which makes its Black…