I Can’t Believe It’s Butter!

ON A LATE spring evening in 1536, a dinner party was held in a garden in the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome. The festivities were presided over by Bartolomeo Scappi, a provocative chef who was known for comparing cooking to architecture, and for treating the tabletop as a stage for flamboyant displays that on this occasion…

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Jean-Luc Godard and ‘French Girl’ Style

If a single garment has inscribed itself on fashion’s collective memory, it may well be Jean Seberg’s jauntily striped Breton sweater, worn for her role as Patricia in the film “Breathless.” A boyish badge of disaffection, the look was so often reproduced that, as the designer Scott Sternberg observed, “it’s become its own cottage industry.” But the impact of that sweater, and of that 1960…

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What Did You Wear to That Wedding?

The New York Times is interested in sharing pictures of readers’s nontraditional wedding attire. Did you attend (or have) a wedding where the dress code called for “creative cocktail” or “desert chic?” We’d love to see your outfit. Around 2.5 million weddings are expected to take place this year, and many of them had been…

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