TOKYO — Cooing, giggling and the patter of tiny feet mix with the sound of walkers and wheelchairs at a nursing home in southern Japan. In this graying nation, one home has been recruiting an unusual class of workers to enliven its residents’ days. These are “baby workers,” as the nursing home’s head calls them:…
Carol Schumacher, 56, who was raised in the remote community of Chilchinbeto in the Navajo Nation, has lost 42 family members to Covid-19 over the last two years. The dead included two brothers aged 55 and 54, and cousins as young as 18 and 19. Ms. Schumacher returned to the Navajo Nation from her home…
This article is part of a series examining Responsible Fashion, and innovative efforts to address issues facing the fashion industry. Bhaavya Goenka grew up watching trucks filled with discarded textiles from her parents’ garment factory in Jaipur, India, headed to nearby landfills. In 2017, inspired by that childhood memory, Ms. Goenka, 27, founded Iro Iro,…
Charlbi Dean, an actress and model who plays a lead role in the film satire “Triangle of Sadness,” which won the top award at the Cannes Film Festival this year and will be released in the fall, died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 32. The death, in a hospital, was confirmed by a representative…
It began with a spat over crudités. It has escalated, with one Senate hopeful openly mocking another’s health after a stroke. Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, has taunted his Democratic rival, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, about his stroke recovery, suddenly thrusting an issue both candidates had tiptoed around into a…
Matty Matheson has fed the world. Now he wants to dress it. “I love clothing,” Mr. Matheson said over Zoom on his phone sitting in the front seat of his truck, the only place the father of three could find a quiet spot to talk on a recent summer morning. “As a big dude, I…
The already grueling 2,600-mile hike now includes the added challenges of global warming, which can mean a lack of shade and exposure to smoke and fire. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Give this article By Rowan Moore…
Celebrities are good for a lot of things, including but definitely not limited to: scandals, love triangles, and Instagram thirst traps. But here at ELLE, one of our favorite things about A-listers is far and away their style. Whether we’re loving a look, drawing inspiration, or straight-up critiquing a bad sartorial choice (sorry, just being…
Soon after Robert Kime redecorated Clarence House, long the London home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother — or “Queen Mum” — for Prince Charles, a friend of hers came by to survey his work. “But I don’t understand what all the fuss is about!” she was quoted as saying in The Financial Times in…
The Wing, the women’s-only social club and co-working space that opened in New York in 2016, has been shut down by its parent company. For many professional women, the Wing, which grew to have locations in San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles, came to represent an empowerment movement following the election of Donald Trump. “With…