Examining Museum Fashion Collections The Incredible Whiteness of the Museum Fashion Collection Getty Images (portraits), Nicholas Alan Cope (Pierre Balmain’s dress), via The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute (garments) In the small group of high-culture institutions that venerate the art of fashion, Black designers have been largely overlooked. Sept. 29, 2020 It would have…
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On Aug. 8, 1974, Lillian Brown, a longtime makeup artist for presidents, was urgently summoned to the White House, where she saw President Richard M. Nixon sobbing. Engulfed by the Watergate scandal, he was about to go on national television and announce that he was resigning. If he didn’t stop crying, she knew, his makeup…
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Brought to you by Frances Hannan, Ted Kim, Melissa Kirsch, Minju Pak, Sam Sifton, Jahaan Singh, Joel Stillman, Amy Zerba and the readers of the At Home newsletter. Inspired by Austin Kleon. Produced by Jaspal Riyait and Ruru Kuo. Illustrations by Ruru Kuo. If you kept a logbook in which, sticking to just the facts,…
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Maria Grazia Chiuri wants us to heal. The creative director reflected on moving through a world battling with COVID-19, and explored how fashion fits into our new reality. “We are traversing a period of crisis that is radically transforming behaviors, habits and rituals,” the brand stated in its press release. “Our spirits have changed, as…
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For fashion fans growing up in the ’90s, Helmut Lang was it. The New York–based Austrian designer was largely credited with defining the style of the decade. He emphasized minimalism by tapering his silhouettes and nixing the frills and embellishments that characterized the designs of his contemporaries. He pioneered the use of denim, metals, and…
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Headliner Vestry The original plan was to open a year ago, then construction delays and the pandemic altered that schedule. Now, Shaun Hergatt, the highly regarded Australian chef who has made a 20-year career of high-end cooking in New York, is finally opening his own restaurant. Because of pandemic restrictions, it won’t be exactly as…
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An unusual school year has started in earnest, and with it has come the return of digital proctoring programs. This is software that can lock down students’ computers, record their faces and scan their rooms, all with the intention to thwart cheating. These programs, with names like ProctorU and Proctorio, first raised alarms about privacy…
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There are many uncanny elements to life during the pandemic, though many of them (Zoom classes, FaceTime births, D.J. sets on Instagram Live) have become almost normal over the last six months. The virtual audience thing, however, is still a work in progress. Sports arenas and TV studios have tried to recreate the experience of…
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The risk of coronavirus transmission is lower for outdoor than for indoor dining in almost every case, and the safest course of all is staying at home. But if you do decide to eat inside a restaurant, try to go at an hour when it’s less crowded. Before you sit down, take a quick look…
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New Yorkers will be able to eat inside restaurants on Wednesday for the first time since March, and the word that best sums up my feelings about it is: Yikes! The thought of eating inside an actual dining room does not have me cowering under the covers the way it did six months ago, when…
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