When is a time capsule a treasure chest? When does a scrapbook read like a utopian syllabus? When is an art archive its own form of art? Answer: when the exhilarating exhibition “Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces” opens at the Museum of Modern Art this Sunday. The Manhattan gallery named Just Above Midtown debuted in…
Courtesy There’s no denying it: Here at ELLE, we love fashion—we’re a fashion magazine, after all. And we have a lot to say about it. From our favorite leather jackets for the season to the most comfortable pairs of high heels, we’re almost always talking shop(ping). Lately, though, we’ve been discussing one thing and one…
Barnard, the private women’s college in New York City, will begin offering abortion pills on campus next year, college officials announced Thursday. The decision, to take effect in September, signals how the nation’s colleges and universities are becoming another front in the nation’s pitched battle over abortion after the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe…
About half of the 14 contestants wore Americana garb: a shirt with a toile-esque pattern of bald eagles, red-white-and-blue camouflage, shortalls that looked like an American flag. Almost all wore wraparound sunglasses. Many sipped tallboy cans of beer as they shared tales of barbers, including one dramatic anecdote about a hairstylist being unreachable that morning…
In an October 2021 episode of his podcast, “Let’s Go! With Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray,” Mr. Brady was asked how he balanced his career with family life. “I think my wife has, you know, held down the house for a long time now,” Mr. Brady said. “And I think there’s things that…
STREET STYLE Fashion week’s young crowds are breathing life into dressing once again. Photographs and Text by Simbarashe Cha Outside Le Carreau du Temple in Paris, where the Valentino runway show was being held, I spotted a young woman named Solène, standing on a corner taking a puff on a cigarette. She was wearing a…
For the TikTok star Victoria Paris’s 1.5 million followers, her girlfriend is often a background feature in her videos, ever-present but never fully revealed. By intentionally choosing to conceal her, either by covering her face with objects, filming the back of her head, or posting only her hands, Ms. Paris has kept their relationship in…
After it was reported that a typical New York Fashion Week emits up to 48,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, there were calls for the fashion weeks in London, Milan, New York and Paris to rein in their harmful environmental impacts. The booming digital fashion industry, with its virtual runways and NFTs, promises to make…
PARIS — Phoebe Philo was supposed to be back by now. Or so her acolytes hoped. In June 2021, the designer announced her return to fashion, through her own new line, three years after stepping down as creative director of the French luxury house Céline. Since then, the fashion press and her superfans — two…
Ms. Abbott started skin cycling because her skin was irritated from retinoid use every other day, but about one month in, her facialist told her to take just one recovery night. Together, they created a new four-day cycle: exfoliate, night off, retinol, night off and repeat. Ms. Abbott said her skin is less red and…