PARIS — The thick, white fog rolled across the plaza of the Musée d’Art Moderne on a gorgeous sunny day like a scrim of cotton wadding, fuzzing the view, making it hard to see what was coming next. It was the Rick Owens show, but the clouding of reality seemed awfully familiar. The symbolism is…
A world defined by lockdowns and curfews meant that Gabriela Hearst’s debut show as Chloé creative director in March was a digital one. This week, however, on the sun-dappled banks of the Seine, the Uruguayan-born designer — who shows her namesake brand in New York — presented the Chloé spring 2022 collection to a live…
Some TikTok creators have become successful on the video platform by dancing, singing or performing everyday tasks. Miles Laflin has amassed 11 million followers by cleaning pools. Better known by his moniker, @thep00lguy, Mr. Laflin, a swimming pool engineer from Britain, posts short videos to his channel that take viewers through the often laborious process…
PARIS — On a recent sunny afternoon, a cluster of young women in short dresses and high boots crowded into a special elevator at Cheval Blanc, a new hotel in the La Samaritaine complex along the Seine, and were whisked up to the restaurant Le Tout-Paris. Reinvented as a Pop-inspired contemporary brasserie offering classics like…
Gucci celebrates an epic milestone this year: 100 years of being one of the world’s premier fashion labels. Founded in 1921 as a leather goods company specializing in luggage and handbags for elite Italian travelers, Gucci has undergone countless reinventions over the years—notably in the ’80s, when it became the go-to brand for musicians, especially…
Four years into our marriage, my husband found me on OkCupid. I had only joined the site to check out his profile. He had joined to find someone else. A friend helped me with the long sign-up process after we returned to my place from our weekly two-ounce glass of moscato at the Mission Inn…
Facebook’s global head of safety, Antigone Davis, faced harsh — and, briefly, existential — questioning on Capitol Hill on Thursday about Instagram’s effect on teenagers, addressing accusations that the app’s parent company, Facebook, had known for years that its photo-sharing app had caused mental and emotional harm. Members of the Senate’s consumer protection subcommittee rebuked…
Here’s the thing: I am a bag person, through and through. My husband has said that I’d rather eat cereal all the time in order to buy another bag as if it’s a bad thing. Numéro Neuf polene-paris.com $420.00 I’ve carried cheap bags, and I’ve carried really expensive bags, and you can always, always tell…
Mattresses are something people often prefer to shop, try, and select in person. But that’s not the route thousands of buyers on Amazon went for with Tuft & Needle, a mattress brand that has been recognized as one of the best online mattresses of 2021 by U.S. News and World Report. Original Mattress – Queen…
Thierry ChesnotGetty Images Raf Simons debuts its spring-summer 2022 runway collection live from Paris on Thursday September 30th at 4:30pm EST. View the Parisian brand’s ready-to-wear show from the comfort of your own home, below: Justine Carreon Justine Carreon is the market editor at ELLE.com covering fashion, Dutch ovens, and fashion again. This content is…