Slava Zaitsev, an effervescent and enduring Soviet-era fashion designer, once called the “Red Dior” by the Western press, whose over-the-top theatrical creations and persona made him a go-to couturier at home, died on April 30 in Shchyolkovo, Russia. He was 85. His longtime friend Tatiana Sorokko, a Russian-born model and journalist, said his death, in…
CHICAGO — Moments before 10 a.m., a security guard thanked the crowd for being cooperative. When the clock struck the hour, it became clear why: The doors of the Marriott Chicago O’Hare conference center opened, and hundreds of attendees, a majority of whom were over the age of 60, bee-lined as fast as they could…
To many people on the internet, the actress Toni Collette is known simply as “mother.” Ms. Collette has played more than her share of mothers throughout her career: a matriarch with dissociative identity disorder on the TV show “United States of Tara”; a miniatures artist whose family is haunted after the death of her own…
As hungry Italians at the Festival for the Fava Bean lined up in a field in the Roman countryside to order fava and pecorino cheese, fava and porchetta, cream of fava on top of pasta or simply brown bags loaded with fresh fava, the manager of an adjacent garden spoke of the witch-fingered legume with…
Indian weddings can be elaborate occasions, often lasting several days. But a break from tradition because of the Covid-19 pandemic meant that intimate or at-home nuptials became the norm for many. Now, the grand Indian wedding is not just back, it’s bigger than ever for the couples with the means to host extravagant affairs. In…
Who Cares About Being Cringe? The effect of all this information is felt everywhere from drop-off to play dates, with millennials taking parenting seriously in a way that might elicit eye rolls from older generations. Bridget Shirvell, 37, of Mystic, Conn., was at a birthday party with her daughter when another child was having a…
Ruby Warrington has never wanted children. Not while she was growing up in England and not later in her life, a commitment that was tested by an unplanned and rare pregnancy — she was using an IUD at the time — when she was 23, shortly after she graduated from the London School of Fashion.…
No soy tan engreída como para creer que todos los hombres se dejarán seducir por mi personalidad triunfadora, pero me temo que quienes se dejan seducir ya han descartado la atracción como algo imposible: ¿cómo puede una persona discapacitada ser objeto de deseo? La gente parece tener dos preocupaciones principales a la hora de salir…