Earlier this month, as the state of Texas was about to ease its stay-at-home restrictions, Pam LeBlanc pulled her wedding dress out of a vacuum-sealed box, put it on for the first time in 21 years, poured herself a glass of prosecco, strapped on some heels, walked out of her house in Austin, and began…
I wish I could tell you that I’m sorry. I would start with an apology for that Saturday afternoon phone call, nearly a month ago. You answered on the first ring, anxious for news of your son. You had been there for every one of his hospital admissions for nearly four decades, since he was…
Welcome to At Home. Here’s an example of an email I used to get roughly four times a week before the pandemic, when my main job was running food and restaurant coverage for The Times and people went to restaurants all the time as if that was totally normal behavior, which it was. Hey, Sam:…
Scientists are already testing coronavirus vaccines in people, but the initial trials are designed to determine safety, not how well a vaccine works. The research published Wednesday offers insight into what a vaccine must do to be effective and how to measure that. “To me, this is convincing that a vaccine is possible,” said Dr.…
Liz Goldwyn for #MoschinoAtHome Goldwyn was one of the lucky people to get a special delivery of Moschino’s painterly spring 2020 collection from Jeremy Scott. As in, the designer himself dropped it off at her door, as he did with other subjects like artist Rosson Crow, letting each woman interpret the look in her own…
Good morning. Memorial Day’s just around the corner and a strange and desolate one it’ll be, with so many locked down. Some will gather safely to barbecue and grill, others unsafely, still more on the dangerous precipice between the two, celebrating both the start of summer and the lives lost in service to our nation.…
Across New York City, hospitals have moved into a new phase in their battle against the coronavirus. In the city that was hit hardest by the pandemic in the United States, the number of new patients and the daily death toll have dropped sharply. Many of the refrigerated trucks filled with bodies are gone. Doctors…
A Three-Bedroom Villa on a Hillside in Slovenia $908,000 (840,000 EUROS) This two-story, 2,350-square-foot house is tucked into a grassy hillside in Topol pri Medvodah, a quiet village just outside Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia. Built in 2013 on about a third of an acre, the three-bedroom, two-bathroom villa offers panoramic views of the…
With travel restrictions in place worldwide, we’ve launched a new series, The World Through a Lens, in which photojournalists help transport you, virtually, to some of our planet’s most beautiful and intriguing places. This week, Andy Isaacson shares a collection of photographs from the remote island of Tristan da Cunha. The six-by-six-mile volcanic island of…
Victor VIRGILEGetty Images Maybe our current all-sweatpants-all-the-time lifestyle has you dreaming of couture: the creampuff ballgowns, the intricate embroideries, the elaborate confetti-strewn finale. And few do that better than Schiaparelli. When Daniel Roseberry took over the house last year, he had big (shocking-pink) shoes to fill. Namely, those of the house’s founder Elsa Schiaparelli, who…