Thanks to Sex and the City‘s Carrie Bradshaw, tulle skirts were considered fashun, nearly every viewer craved a pair of Manolo Blahnik heels (or getting proposed to with blue satin pair), and slip dresses became a staple in every woman’s closet. Still, you can’t talk Carrie Bradshaw fashion without mentioning her Fendi Baguette handbag, the…
Whether it’s high school or haute couture, the new kids always spark buzz. It’s partly because it’s fun to be first—I knew that band before anyone cared; I wore that label before anyone knew—and partly because we’ve all been there, just starting out, wondering where we belong and whether our dreams are worth it. For…
Courtesy Dressing for fashion week in NYC in February is a crapshoot—snowing one day, 45 degrees the next. So ELLE’s fashion and beauty editors are attending the shows in style…with a dose of practicality. Executive digital director Leah Chernikoff sums it up like this: “I just want to be cozy.” Read on to find out…
Prabal Gurung, a New York-based fashion designer, was born in Singapore and raised in Nepal. He has also lived in India — both Delhi and Bombay — London and Australia. A life spent traveling to the far reaches of the globe has influenced not only his brand’s philosophy but its aesthetics as well. Mr. Gurung’s…
Fashion may be a sprawling global industry but in many ways it can feel a lot like a high school, with its own cliques, pecking order, hangouts — and cafeteria. For years, the last role has been played in Paris by L’Avenue, a brasserie on Avenue Montaigne cater-corner from Dior’s warren of dove gray salons…
Image A school official taking a pupil’s temperature as school reopened in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2014 amid an Ebola epidemic. Nigeria’s successful containment of the outbreak was a public health success.CreditAkintunde Akinleye/Reuters In so many domains, life is improving across the world. It doesn’t always feel that way. In surveys, Americans overwhelmingly believe that world…
I believe my mother thought that needing to medicate her own discomfort would be a kind of moral and physical weakness. This applied only to herself; if I told her that I was hurting, or that one of her grandchildren was in pain, she would have been anxious for something to help. She felt our…
Humans are not the only residents of the United States who are getting fatter every year. So, unsurprisingly, are our furry friends — the dogs and cats that share our lives and, too often, our tendency to overeat. Unlike their owners, however, the family dog or cat cannot open the refrigerator or gain access to…
The risk of developing obesity-related cancer is increasing in successive generations, along with increasing rates of obesity. Researchers studied the incidence of 30 of the most common cancers, including 12 that are obesity related, from 1995 to 2014 in people ages 25 to 84 — more than 14.6 million cases. The study is in Lancet…
A new study finds rates are increasing for six of 12 cancers related to obesity in younger adults in the United States, with steeper increases in progressively younger ages and successively younger generations. The study, appearing in The Lancet Public Health, also looked at rates for 18 cancers unrelated to obesity, and found rates increasing…