When a Bra Won’t Cut It

As Valerie Steele, the chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, said: “It was a shift in beauty ideals from a very voluptuous, high Victorian ideal, to a younger and slimmer ideal. What one fashion writer in around 1900 called ‘the shift from Venus to Diana.’” Tape, in that case, would…

Have a Pizza Party

Good morning. I’d wager I cook more than your average newspaper editor. I enjoy feeding my family and appreciate the break it offers me from thinking about facts and figures, stories and consequences. But, man, Wednesdays are difficult. The weekends seem so far away. There was the last one, already remembered in sepia tones, when…

Toy Stories at Chanel and Armani

PARIS — These days it’s hard to see any bright pink item of clothing and not think: “Barbie!” Images from the Greta Gerwig movie, currently filming with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling (among others), have become the social media dopamine hit of summer — rife with plastic-y postmodern perfection and a potential revisionist narrative for…