Alongside the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibit “Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving” which runs from Feb. 8 through May 12, there will be an elaborate Mexican menu with some specialties devised by consulting guest chefs at the museum’s restaurant, the Norm. The chef Saul Bolton and Great Performances (a catering and restaurant managing company), who run…
Well, that seems to have struck a nerve. The last Wine School assignment, in which I suggested that readers try three vastly popular, mass-produced bottles that are available in practically any supermarket or liquor store in the country, drew an emotional reaction like no other in the five years that we have been gathering monthly…
We now return you to your regular Wine School programming. No place is more famous for its nebbiolo wines than the Langhe in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, home to Barolo and Barbaresco. But the Langhe is far from the only place in which nebbiolo prospers. To the north, in the foothills of the…
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…