Courtesy of the designers; Getty Images Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Couture is planting its feet firmly in the past. For a few years, the medium has been advancing an argument for why it still makes sense in the 2020s; see: last season’s futuristic, sci-fi take…
WASHINGTON — More than 60 years after the approval of oral contraceptives revolutionized women’s sexual health, the Food and Drug Administration has received its first application for a birth control pill sold over the counter — just as the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has put access to contraception more squarely at…
In a new scam targeting restaurants, criminals are leaving negative ratings on restaurants’ Google pages as a bargaining chip to extort digital gift cards. Restaurateurs from San Francisco to New York, many from establishments with Michelin stars, said in recent days that they’ve received a blitz of one-star ratings on Google, with no description or…
The chef Kwame Onwuachi has transferred his taste for Pop-Art into an apron design that incorporates foods and New York City imagery for Tilit, a chef’s gear company. (There’s also a blunt, though censored, message to not label the wearer.) An avocado, a pretzel, a kettle grill, a taxi and more are pictured in a…
The Museum of Food and Drink has scheduled a session for children featuring Kalamata’s Kitchen, a program that explores food with books, games and other items. In the backyard of Local Roots NYC, a market and cafe, Joshua David Stein, a food writer, will tell stories about food; he will be joined by Sarah Thomas,…
Years ago serious cooks in the Hamptons had more limited resources than they do today. Nonetheless, there remain gaps and filling them is the mission of an airy new gastronomic boutique, L’Épicuriste in Bridgehampton, N.Y. A shopping list that includes Japanese Kewpie mayonnaise, ponzu with yuzu, truffled vegetables and sauces, Moroccan spices, French pâtes de…
Caffè Sicilia in Noto, a Baroque town in the hilly southeast corner of Sicily, has been a destination since it opened in 1892. Now owned by Corrado Assenza, the fourth generation of the founding family, it is a resource for some of Sicily’s most treasured confections. Corrado follows the longstanding tradition of preserving citrus peels…
A talent for speed tasting (and accurate spitting) is what you’ll need to get through more than 75 Burgundies, Champagnes and Rhône wines in two hours in a Brooklyn backyard. The marathon fund-raising tasting, on Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:30, is all to benefit the nonprofit Sommelier Scholarship Fund created by La Paulée, the wine…
The artist Yuki Matsuo, whose specialty is the intersection of food and design, has been hand-sewing stuffed fabric interpretations of various edibles, mostly meats, since 2005 for her company Yuki & Daughters. (She’s in something of a tradition: Think of the sculptor Claes Oldenburg and his giant soft BLT.) The Whitney Museum of American Art…
Since taking the creative director reins at Balmain in 2011, Olivier Rousteing has presented collection after collection that seamlessly melds the maison’s heritage with modern-day panache. Baroque embroideries, utilitarian influences, and military details are deftly infused into each season’s offerings, with colors, silhouettes, and styling evolving to mirror the trends and predict the cultural zeitgeist.…