Can Balenciaga Break With Kanye?

Mr. Galliano is the former Dior designer who was fired after a drunken antisemitic rant in a Paris bar, and who was later subject to a court trial (in France, inciting racial hatred is a crime), fined and forced out of fashion until he had gone through rehabilitation and made years of amends. But therein…

The Fight for the Soul of Pilates

‘Around the Clock’ Last fall, Christina Gadar, a Pilates instructor in Sarasota, Fla., planned to post on Instagram a photo that showed her recreating Mr. Pilates’s “Around the Clock” flier. Because she knew of Mr. Gallagher’s disagreements with other Pilates instructors, she informed him of her plan in an email, she said. He replied that…

Need for Speed

After last week’s newsletter about soup, which generally takes longer to cook, I thought this week I’d focus exclusively on dishes that you can make in less than 30 minutes — and, in one case, less than 15. These are the recipes I need most right now, in the craziness of high fall and its…

You Can Now Shop Your Favorite Hotel

Courtesy of Hotel Il Pellicano The hotel lobby gift shop was once a catchall for eminently skippable souvenirs. But lately, travelers to some of the world’s most stylish destinations are coming home with something a cut above the standard souvenir T-shirt. “The age of the $40 Hawaiian shirt while staying in an $800-a-night room is…