Frances Stein, who was a fashion editor, a fashion muse and a designer for Halston and Calvin Klein before helping to revive the house of Chanel, died on June 6 at her apartment in Paris. She was 83. Her brother, Mark Patiky, confirmed the death but did not specify a cause. Halston praised her editorial…
Nearly a generation after the electronic postcard was introduced, digital greeting cards experienced an increase in demand last year as the pandemic isolated people from their social circles. With in-person interactions reduced and stores closed, people seeking to connect with family, friends and co-workers embraced e-cards, a gimmick that had a heyday in an earlier…
Cuando una nueva generación de jóvenes estrellas comenzó a captar audiencia en TikTok a fines de 2019 y principios de 2020, muchos tuvieron la esperanza de que esta vez sería diferente. Habían crecido viendo a los creadores de YouTube hablar con franqueza sobre estos problemas. “Nosotros, los creadores de la generación Z, hablamos mucho sobre…
Gerald Stratford’s big vegetables and ordinary life changed with a tweet. He posted two pictures of himself wearing a red T-shirt and matching pants held up by thick blue suspenders in May 2020. In the first photograph he’s standing and holding a giant bundle of rocket — or arugula as it’s called in the United…
Kat Briceno, 34, has been smoking marijuana for years but didn’t own a bong until 2017, when they converted an antique vase into a smoking device. (Mx. Briceno uses the pronouns they and them.) Mass-market bongs were just too ugly, “like a piece of hardware” or something you have to hide in the closet, Mx.…
The most time-honored beauty tips involve some degree of pain: Bite your lips until they redden, or scrub them with a toothbrush, or pinch your fingertips or cheeks. But to find the elusive shade that has come to be known as “my lips but better” — in theory undetectable from natural lip color, but typically…
I was not prepared for any of this. I thought it might happen one day, since my dad is young at heart and social. Still, when Kathryn broke the news about his confession, I blurted, “If Dad meets someone on Tinder, I hope Mom marries Paul Newman in heaven!” She always loved Paul Newman. If…
Canned tuna is high in protein, low in fat and by far the most popular shelf-stable seafood in the United States. It can also be mysterious, questionable and scandalous. As The Washington Post reported in late January, Subway — the world’s largest sandwich chain — is currently facing a class-action lawsuit in the state of…
Gucci is leaning deeper into decadent maximalism–and Mother Nature motifs—with the second entry in the brand’s High Jewelry collection, named Hortus Deliciarum, or “Garden of Delights.” And the Eve draped in such Biblical imagery is none other than actress Jodie Turner-Smith, whose turn in the 2019 film Queen & Slim propelled her into a starring…
Cardiac surgeons may be able to better plan operations and improve their surgical field view with the help of a robot. Controlled through a virtual reality parallel system as a digital twin, the robot can accurately image a patient through ultrasound without the hand cramping or radiation exposure that hinder human operators. The international research…