Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “Wow, look. You’re there!” That was what Julien Dossena told himself when he found himself inside one of the most impressive archives in French fashion history, namely that of Jean Paul Gaultier. The designer first became aware of Gaultier as a…
The task facing anyone designing a garden: “We’re predicting the future — we’re seeing what’s not there.” That’s how Ethan Kauffman, the director (and lead soothsayer) of Stoneleigh, a public garden that opened five years ago on a historic estate in Villanova, Pa., puts it. The thing is, garden-makers also have to see what is…
The author and influencer Christina Najjar — known to her more than two million social media followers as Tinx — spent eight formative years in the Bay Area of Northern California, attending Stanford University, where she majored in English, and working in San Francisco for the Gap, Poshmark and other companies. During her time in…
It was 6 a.m. — 2 a.m. to my raddled East Coast brain — and my husband, daughter and I were staggering through customs in the Ponta Delgada Airport, on the island of São Miguel, the largest of the nine islands that make up Portugal’s Azores archipelago. Despite the fog inside my head, my energy…
When I cook for myself, the only real guideline I follow is the pursuit of flavor — everything else is a suggestion. And sometimes, particularly with a cuisine I’m not too familiar with, this means following a recipe to the letter. But more often than not, pleasure is the goal, which means steamed cabbage and…