The fashion designer Carolina Herrera met the Spanish jeweler Luz Camino 20 years ago, through an agapanthus floral brooch. Ms. Herrera received the large sculpted metal bloom as a gift, and she said it led her to begin collecting work by the Madrid-based designer. “Whenever I wear one of Luz’s brooches on my lapel, it…
Ryan McCarty, the Cincinnati branch director for the employment agency Robert Half, was away from home for 13 hours a day before the pandemic, including evening events and his 45-minute commute. Now he works from home, which he said has enabled him to be there for his two toddlers for meals, doctor visits and milestones.…
In 1997, Jessica Yu won an Academy Award for her short documentary “Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien.” “What a thrill,” she said in her acceptance speech. “You know you’ve entered new territory when you realize that your outfit cost more than your film.” For lesser-known Oscar contenders entering the new territory Ms.…
When Yulia Navalnaya arrives at the Oscars on Sunday night, it will not be her first time on the red carpet. She was in London last month to collect a British Academy Film Award for “Navalny,” the Daniel Roher documentary that details events surrounding the near-fatal poisoning of her husband, the political dissident Alexei Navalny,…