From biodegradable jeans to recycled gold jewelry, to a new luxury vision of upcycling from LVMH and a new take on fashion philanthropy from Chloé, fall 2021 holds some exciting new innovations for our wardrobes. Backpacks That Give Back Gabriela Hearst could hardly have picked a more glamorous venue for her Chloé debut than Paris…
Archive PhotosGetty Images Every ’90s kid with even a passing interest in fashion remembers where they were when Cher’s digital closet in Clueless made its onscreen cameo. Like a hoverboard for the Nordstrom Brass Plum set, this technological leap implanted fever dreams in all of us—of an ever-rotating, constantly trackable wardrobe, something a number of…
On a hot tennis court one afternoon in Houston, former magazine editor Francine Ballard found herself the center of her friends’ attention, though not for her racket skills. In her hand was a Lucite cube containing a QR code, which itself contained an original work of digital art that corresponded to a gold ring of…
Colin Anderson Productions pty ltdGetty Images If you described your car as a smart device, everyone but Elon Musk might look at you askance. But the modern car really is one, points out Ivan Poupyrev: “It has internet, a map, artificial intelligence, and people you can talk to.” Poupyrev, Google’s director of Engineering, Advanced Technology…
People are shopping like nobody’s business,” marvels Sherri McMullen. As the owner of McMullen, the buzzy Oakland, California, boutique, she would know. Her clients, she says, “are redoing their entire wardrobes.” Refrains she’s heard lately: “‘I don’t want anything in my closet’; ‘I want to redo everything’; ‘Everything’s too dark.’” (Bright colors and prints, she…
An advanced H.I.V. vaccine trial in Africa has been shut down after data showed the shots offered only limited protection against the virus, researchers announced on Tuesday. The vaccine, made by Johnson & Johnson, is one in a long line found to offer little defense against H.I.V., one of medicine’s most intractable adversaries. One candidate…
When Kathryn Gallagher was 11, the career demands of her father, the actor Peter Gallagher, forced the family to leave the Upper West Side of Manhattan for Los Angeles. A decade or so later, the demands of her own burgeoning career — specifically, a role in the 2015 Broadway revival of “Spring Awakening” — meant…
AUSTIN, Texas — It was early morning in the lobby of the Line Hotel, and everyone was eating migas. The migas, from a restaurant called Veracruz All Natural, have long been a fixation for the breakfast-taco-obsessed populace of Austin: scrambled eggs flecked with pico de gallo and freshly made tortilla chips that hang onto their…
Whether they work on or off Capitol Hill, Washingtonians tend to plan their summer schedules around that of Congress, meaning that during the weeks preceding the lawmakers’ return (this year beginning in mid-September), the nation’s capital is far less crowded than usual. For visitors, a largely empty city means the possibility of scoring reservations at…
“It’s Never Too Late” is a new series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms. Hear the one about the opera singer-turned farmer? There isn’t a punchline. There’s just the pre-dawn wake-up, and the baling, and the 150 heifers, and one with pink eye and the…