At the Park Hyatt hotel in Paris, Narae Kim combines the Nashi pear she grew up eating in Dangjin, South Korea, and the Williams pear often used in eau de vie into an eye-catching dessert: a fan of Williams wedges, some marinated in jasmine tea and others cooked in bergamot oil, alongside quenelles of pear-and-cassava…
There’s something about Louis Vuitton and bridges. The brand memorably hosted its cruise 2018 show in Kyoto, at the wondrous Miho Museum, with models emerging from the mountains to walk down a suspension bridge, and now, in 2023, it decamped to Seoul to use the city’s Jamsugyo Bridge as its backdrop. Maybe it’s the way…
Sorry! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! We didn’t expect everyone to get this right: While Mr. Lagerfeld innovated wildly in some areas, he demonstrated remarkable consistency in others, as shown by these looks, taken from four decades of Chanel collections. From left, Chanel ready-to-wear collections for spring 1988, spring 1998, fall 2008 and…
Who: What Goes Around Comes Around What: Karl Lagerfeld retrospective Where: Online at amazon.com; view more at whatgoesaroundnyc.com and in-store at WGACA in New York City Why: Ahead of the first Monday in May, a.k.a. the Met Gala, the vintage purveyors at What Goes Around Comes Around are paying tribute to the night’s theme by…
The News Mental health-related visits to emergency rooms by children, teenagers and young adults soared from 2011 to 2020, according to a report published on Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The sharpest increase was for suicide-related visits, which rose fivefold. The findings indicated an “urgent” need for expanded crisis services, according…
The definition of scampi is slippery. Is it a type of shrimp? A classic shrimp dish? Or is it a garlicky, lemony, winy sauce that’s so delicious it would work magic on anything? It’s all of the above! But Hetty McKinnon makes an irresistible case for that last option with a fantastic new vegetarian take:…
Islamic Rome: Grand showpiece and quiet struggles The Islamic presence in Italy dates to the eighth century, but it wasn’t until 1995 that the officially recognized Great Mosque of Rome opened in Parioli, a neighborhood that’s a short hop by taxi from the Borghese Gallery. The mosque, the largest in Europe, is a gleaming, low-slung…
There are several paintings scattered around Pablo Barba’s studio, at the end of a far-flung industrial block in Long Island City, Queens. One is of a young woman in a short floral dress gazing wistfully, even tragically, at the plumber fixing her kitchen sink. In another, a different woman, in a pink nightgown, stands at…
Hablar dos idiomas proporciona la envidiable capacidad de hacer amigos en lugares insólitos. Un nuevo estudio sugiere que el bilingüismo puede tener otra ventaja: mejorar la memoria en la vejez. Tras estudiar a cientos de pacientes de edad avanzada, unos investigadores alemanes descubrieron que quienes decían utilizar dos idiomas a diario desde temprana edad obtenían…
As I enter the job market, I am reconsidering the staple of the white sneaker. I love the comfort and universality of my white Converse and Air Force 1’s, but is it time to ditch their deceptively high-maintenance nature in favor of something more official? If I wear sneakers, will people take me seriously? —…