Marc Jacobs is no stranger to the MTV Video Music Awards. His designs have appeared on the red carpet on pop princesses Lady Gaga and Rita Ora and the designer famously teamed up with MTV to create a nostalgic collaboration ahead of the 2016 MTV VMAs. But this year, Marc Jacobs will be walking the…
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Now that the hotel industry has largely embraced bans on plastic straws, one major hotel group aims to eliminate the next set of plastic targets: mini bottles of shampoo, conditioner, lotion and the like. On Tuesday, July 30, IHG will announce it plans to replace all “bathroom miniatures” with bulk supplies across all of its…
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Following some design controversies in the past few years, Gucci has officially appointed Renée Tirado as the new leader of the diversity, equity, and inclusion division. For her first task, Tirado will create, develop, and implement a global strategy to not only help make Gucci’s workplace more inclusive (by helming the hiring process to develop…
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Living near oil and gas wells may increase a woman’s risk of having a baby with a congenital heart defect. Researchers writing in Environment International reported on 3,324 infants born in Colorado from 2005 to 2011, comparing 536 babies with heart defects to 2,860 controls matched for sex, maternal smoking, race and ethnicity. They correlated…
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Summer brings with it a certain set of rites and rituals — and everyone’s are personal and unique. For our summer-long ode to the season, T has invited writers to share their own. In this installment, Bryan Washington writes about enjoying a simple drink made of orange juice, beer and amaretto. One summer, I had…
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You’re reading In Her Words, where women rule the headlines. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Let me know what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com. “It’s a pretty dramatic shift.” — Alice Eagly, a social psychologist who analyzed public perceptions of women’s competence over 70 years I began writing this newsletter a…
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When their safe houses in Manila were no longer safe, the rebels took shelter at the airy bungalow of Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, a sugar planter’s daughter turned literature professor and food writer. It was the 1980s, and the Philippines was still in the grip of the strongman Ferdinand Marcos. In a later interview, Ms. Fernandez…
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In the beginning, there were inflatable waterfowl. Then came the doughnuts, the Pegasus floats and the novelty coffins. Children have drifted out to sea and across lakes on them. They have terrorized highways, carried by the wind. And last year, on Fish Lake in Chisago County, Minn., a group of four women stranded on a…
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Headliner Electric Lemon A number of the restaurants at Hudson Yards have views of the river, but none offer the sweep of this new 24th-floor terraced dining room. It’s part of the flagship restaurant in the new Equinox Hotel. Despite its name, which seems to nod to psychedelic, acid-dropping counterculture, it’s part of a clean-living…
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