When masks are needed outdoors If you stop to have an extended conversation with someone who isn’t vaccinated, masks are recommended. Even outdoors, your risk of breathing someone else’s air increases the longer and closer you stand to them. One of the few documented cases of outdoor transmission happened in China early in the pandemic,…
In Taiwan, one of the few places in the world to offer marriage leave to couples heading to the altar, a bank employee wed his partner on April 6, 2020. They got divorced days later, on April 16. Then they remarried the following day. Another divorce and a third marriage followed on April 28 and…
New York Luxury Bridal Fashion Week, held virtually April 6-8, proved that weddings, no matter how small or nontraditional, will still go on and brides want their dresses. “With more intimate gatherings trending, bridal fashion has to become not only beautiful, but wearable,” said Georgina Chapman, creative director and a founder of Marchesa. Whether classic…
“I have three kids who are not vaccinated,” she said. “It’s really hard because they can’t have friends over for play dates, right? They just can’t. It’s not OK. So here I am doing it — that’s sort of frustrating for them.” Hosting a friend indoors is just one of “dozens of points of re-entry,”…
Here are five ways to get unstuck. As a psychologist, I often teach clients in my clinical practice the difference between pain and suffering. Pain on its own can be difficult. But it’s only when you don’t accept it that it turns into suffering. Of course, more than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, pain…
Coming Soon (53 Canal Street), founded by Fabiana Faria and Helena Barquet, used to be just half a block from its new larger outpost. Though silly-ware and specialty mirrors (Gaetano Pesce, $500) may feel a little overdone (“I do feel like I’m on Instagram,” a shopper noted inside the store), the sheer joy of immediate…
If Heron Preston’s designs tell a story, it’s one that emphasizes simplicity, authenticity, and self-expression above all. Known for his genre-bending collections steeped in internet culture, Heron Preston expertly embodies the soul of streetwear culture. Simplicity, authenticity, and self-expression have always been at the core of Calvin Klein’s DNA as well. So it makes sense…
My husband and I disagree about whether toy guns are appropriate for our kids and under what circumstances they may be used. Last weekend, our two young sons were given water guns as gifts, which they quickly put to use outdoors. They played with the toy guns as if they were real — shouting “Bang!”…
Is there anything more Hollywood than a TV talk show? Stars collide, seated in front of a live studio audience, laughing with a host they see intermittently every press tour. There’s something aspirational to it, this controlled interaction where the line between banter, friendship, and PR stunt is playfully blurred. Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele…
In the vast world of YouTube villains, there may be none as famous as Jake Paul. The 24-year-old Vine star turned vlogger has polarized viewers with videos of dangerous pranks and stunts (though he continues to bring in millions of views). He is a serial entrepreneur linked to several dubious and misleading business ventures (though…