An undated photograph of Africville.Credit…Library and Archives Canada Similar to the urban renewal policies of the 1950s and 60s in American cities, Halifax decided to relocate the residents of Africville in order to build commercial and industrial districts in the area. In 1964, the Halifax City Council voted to authorize the relocation of residents, though…
More than six months after one of the largest infant formula manufacturing plants in the United States issued a recall and was then shut down because of contamination concerns, a newborn staple remains in short supply. In parts of the country, parents and their families are scrambling to locate precious containers of formula for their…
For over a decade, Nika Booth had a secret. “I didn’t tell anyone, and it was eating me up,” she said. “I was even in serious relationships where I never said anything about it.” To make matters worse, her secret was getting bigger. “I felt like I was going crazy,” she said. “But I grew…
Just when you thought Burning Man was over, Joseph Altuzarra went ahead and brought desert-ready fashion to the runways of New York Fashion Week—tastefully, of course. For spring/summer 2023, the designer looked to Don Juan and Desert Solitaire, an ode to nature in southeastern Utah written by Edward Abbey, neatly wrapped in fabric and left…
I am delighted with the shift away from skinny jeans and tightfitting pants to looser styles. But I am stumped on what to wear on top with wide pants. Wearing a school uniform for 13 years has made me allergic to anything too stiff, but I also want to look professional. What is the best…
If you needed further proof that Elena Velez is one to watch, take a look at her spring collection, “YR002: IN GLASS,” shown on Saturday afternoon in a Chelsea warehouse to a crowd of editors and fans, including Julia Fox and her son Valentino. Both were dressed in bespoke looks made out of bioplastic latex—a…
Like Art Basel and Burning Man, New York Fashion Week has a tendency to take over an entire city—and its inhabitants’ Instagrams. Literally, you can’t turn a corner or scroll through your feed without being bombarded with extremely well-dressed people ready to stop traffic to pose for a photo. For that reason, we asked our…
I walked around my new garden, and it didn’t seem like much. I tried to hear the sea but only felt the rain. I turned around and looked at the little house I’d bought with all my savings. Red bricks, one floor, plus a rotten and wind-beaten patio enclosure. I liked the look of the…
The dank streetscape under the cavernous arches of the Manhattan Bridge, where Brooklyn falls away into the Hudson and the B, D, N and Q trains rumble ominously overhead, is not, really, where most people imagine a glitzy fashion show to take place. But that’s where Day 2 of New York Fashion Week ended, with…
Fashion week got an early start, or at least the partying did. On Wednesday, the Couture Council of the Museum at FIT honored Maria Grazia Chiuri, the creative director of Dior, at its annual luncheon. Designers, fashion editors, buyers and other aesthetes attended the gathering at Lincoln Center, many in their best Dior. The night…