On a frigid New York afternoon in February 1963, Bob Dylan posed with his girlfriend at the time, Suze Rotolo, for the portrait that would appear as the cover of his second album, “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.” He had chosen his rumpled clothes with care, Ms. Rotolo noted in her memoir. The outfit included one…
ELLE’s series Clothes of Our Lives decodes the sartorial choices made by powerful women, exploring how fashion can be used as a tool for communication. Below, in her own words, Olympic boxer and fashion model Ramla Ali shares the story behind her custom Off-White boxing robe—which she says gives her a confidence boost before a…
A good sequel can be hard to execute — see “Thor: The Dark World.” But the fervor with which you all wrote in requesting a follow-up to last month’s meal plan newsletter was so great that I had to take a crack at my own “The Godfather Part II.” So I made you (another!) meal…
Nell Mescal describes herself as “chronically online.” So chronically online that she regularly breaks one of the internet’s cardinal rules and searches for her own name on Twitter. It occasionally turns up some funny stuff. Like a tweet from January in which a stranger admitted to not knowing anything about Ms. Mescal’s brother, the actor…
“Not many people knew that I worked for her,” Ms. Rilling said. Relatively few know even now that she confected the delicately pleated gown, its colors intensifying from dusty pink to flame, that Mrs. Obama wore for the unveiling of her White House portrait. Joining forces with Meredith Koop, Mrs. Obama’s longtime stylist, Ms. Rilling…
This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity in design is changing the way the world looks. Victor Glemaud, a 45-year-old Haitian-born designer of statement knitwear, has busied himself with patterns for nearly his entire career. But only after introducing his first home goods for the textiles…
Sexually transmitted infections have soared in recent years in the United States, prompting an urgent search for solutions. New research suggests that a widely available antibiotic, taken after sex, may help stem the tide. A single dose of doxycycline taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex dramatically cuts the risk of a bacterial S.T.I., studies…
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This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity in design is changing the way the world looks. Calling attention to commonplace accessories, humdrum crafts, misplaced masterpieces and blithe inequities is a focus of much contemporary design scholarship. We see it on a global scale in several new…
This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity in design is changing the way the world looks. In 2020, Jomo Tariku, a furniture designer who was born in Kenya and raised in Ethiopia and who had a second career as a data scientist with the World Bank,…