Courtesy of the Brands Giving gifts is a continuum: On the one end you have accessible little tokens of affection, which are touching and memorable in their own way. On the other end are the big moments, the ultra-special gifts that’ll make her entire year (or even years). These presents are investment pieces that often…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Even by fashion designer standards, Sander Lak is absurdly attuned to colors. Whether it’s the neon-soaked New York City in Taxi Driver (which he saw when he was way too young), or the jangly dissonance of Baskin Robbins’ hot pink and…
“Wait, are we in trouble?” asked Amanda Seyfried. Michael Kors was trying to get her onto the CFDA Awards’ iconic red carpet, which was really more of a silvery white, but we couldn’t stop talking about our workout songs (her: anything ’90s, me: the entire Dropout soundtrack, especially LCD Soundsystem) and kind of jammed up…
For a 70-minute Austrian symphony first performed more than a century ago, Mahler’s Fifth makes a surprisingly strong case for itself as the song of the season. No, Gustav Mahler didn’t occupy the top 10 spots in the Billboard Hot 100, as Taylor Swift did last week, and the piece’s lush fourth movement has yet…
From the top of the great pyramid of the ancient Maya city of Calakmul in the southern Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, you can see all the way to Guatemala. The jungle stretches out infinitely in every direction, an ocean of green punctuated only by the stepped pyramid peaks of two other Maya temples. When I…
With the holidays approaching, have you thought about how you’ll accommodate all of your guests when they come for dinner? If you’re expecting a big crowd, a small table with four chairs won’t cut it — unless you’re OK with asking people to stand while they eat. But, if you have enough space for a…
Are children being taught how to tell time? Neil Ferrier, a father of two, thought not, and that was why he created Blok Watches. Its first wristwatch, a 33-millimeter timepiece called the Blok 33 that was introduced in March, has a patent-pending rotating bezel engraved to indicate 5-, 10-, 15- and 30-minute blocks of time,…
In the spring of 2020, during the earliest and darkest months of the coronavirus pandemic, a group of clothing executives and designers began talking — tentatively — about upending some of the global fashion industry’s hidebound practices. Over several Zoom calls, they talked about ripping up the calendar that demands fall designs be presented in…