PARIS — This should have been Sonia Rykiel’s moment. It was, after all, a brand founded by a woman half a century ago. A brand practically synonymous with female liberation and empowerment through clothes. A brand so embedded in the history of French women that a year ago Mayor Anne Hidalgo inaugurated the Allée Sonia…
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Forever 21, the California retailer that helped popularize fast fashion in the United States with its bustling stores and $5 tops, said on Sunday night that it would file for bankruptcy, a sign of the eroding power of shopping malls and the shifting tastes of young consumers. The private, family-held company capped months of speculation…
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PARIS — The Yellow Vests are back in France — albeit not quite in the same numbers as the social and economic inequality protesters once rallied. The world’s oldest travel company just closed in Britain, putting about 21,000 people out of work. There’s so much nervousness about a looming recession, the ’70s seem to be…
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Valentino will debut its Spring/Summer 2020 collection live from Paris on Sunday, September 29 at 11am EST. Catch the show here.
Hackers do not always target retail stores and banks; they also target hospitals. By doing so, they can obtain a significant amount of extremely sensitive information. New research examines the information that may leak during hospital data breaches. Recent research identifies what types of information hackers steal during a hospital data breach. Researchers from Michigan…
DetailsThe first empirical study on the connection between cats and their caregivers refutes felines’ chilly image. New research examines how cats form attachments. While the attachment that dogs form to their owners is obvious, the same is not always true of cats. Indeed, cats have a reputation for being independent, even indifferent, and people have…
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. PARIS — Jacques Chirac will be remembered by many people for his refusal to join the American war against Iraq in 2003 and his failure to revive a weak French economy. I remember him for…
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George Santiago Jr. and Dr. David Karl Dovnarsky were married Sept. 27 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Joey Tai, a member of the New York city clerk’s staff, officiated. Dr. Santiago (left), 59, is a higher-education consultant, and was until 2017 the president of TCI College of Technology, which was in Manhattan. He graduated from…
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Theresa Ann Incampo and John Dillard Taylor are to be married Sept. 29 at Bar Lurcat, a restaurant in Minneapolis. Richard J. Bresnahan, a friend of the groom’s family who became a Universal Life minister for the event, is to officiate. The couple met at Trinity College in Hartford, from which both graduated, she summa…
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Jennifer Anne Cuminale and Jamieson Ford Russell were married Sept. 28 at the First Congregational Church of Greenwich in Greenwich, Conn. The Rev. Patrick Collins, a United Church of Christ minister, performed the ceremony. Mrs. Russell, 32, is an associate vice president and the manager of public relations and communications at the Christie’s auction house…
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