Sandy Liang hates Fashion Week. She hates the hype and the parties and the pressure, the murmurings about how so-and-so made an appearance at such-and-such. “But when my show is happening, I’m like, ‘This is all worth it,’” Ms. Liang said. Since the 28-year-old designer launched her namesake label and first collection five years ago,…
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Bottega Veneta will debut its Spring/Summer 2020 collection live from Milan on Thursday, September 19th at 12:30pm EST/ 6:30PM CET. Catch the show with your front row seat, here.
So, vaginal atrophy. What’s that about? I (very tentatively) asked my general practitioner about how the whole “vagina after menopause” thing works and she was basically “yeah, that’s right, it will atrophy.” So what can be done about it, if anything? Frankly, I’m a bit sad. — Shrinking Violet [Have a question about women’s health?…
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Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, even if you want them withheld. Letters may be edited. Tampons or Wine, the Eternal Dilemma I run a small but growing start-up and employ many young female employees. As is standard for the start-up world, we buy…
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Any conversation about travel to New Mexico seems to start with Santa Fe, the tourist-magnet about 60 miles up the road from Albuquerque, the state’s largest city. But Duke City (so called for its namesake, the Duke of Alburquerque, the early 18th-century Viceroy of New Spain) has been emerging from its neighbor’s shadow ever since…
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I am a woman who works at an all-boys high school with a predominantly male faculty and no senior female administrators. (I begin this way because I don’t think women at the school have any extra professionalism points to lose.) A female department head, who does excellent work, often wears pants that are so low-cut…
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Weeknights are a state of mind. More accurately, they are a state of fatigue. Whether it’s a Tuesday or a Saturday, sometimes all you want is an uninterrupted stretch of peace and quiet, maybe some leftovers and a chance to wear out the Netflix subscription. That, and a couple of glasses of decent wine. Wine…
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The New York street wear brand Bstroy’s new hoodies are unremarkable at first glance. They come in powder blue, a dark and worn gray, a muted red and a light green. Each one is stamped with collegiate-style block lettering featuring the name of one of four well-known American schools. They look like any other school…
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PARIS — Decades ago, banana plantations around Central America sprayed a powerful pesticide with a terrible side-effect: It sterilized workers on a massive scale. Thousands of victims have sought compensation ever since from the chemical companies that produced it. Now, some survivors and their families are suing three big chemical makers in France to recover…
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The fermented shrimp paste known in Thailand as kapi is notoriously funky, an exaggerated expression of just two ingredients: shrimp and salt. It is also an essential ingredient in the fried rice dish khao kluk kapi. At Boran in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, kapi-stained jasmine rice has a diverse cast of mix-ins. Palm sugar-stewed pork, juicy…
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