The Best Workouts to Get Moving in 2023, So Far
Halfway through 2023, find the exercise that will help you finish the year strong — no matter your fitness level.
Emily Oberg Wants Sporty & Rich to Be the Next Goop
There was once an Instagram account called Sporty & Rich. For a time, it served no commercial purpose. It was more of a brain tickle of pleasing images: a mood board of supermodels, interiors and advertisements, mostly from the 1980s and 1990s. It posted vintage Range Rovers and Rolexes and Ralph Lauren — an affluent…
How a ‘Swole Woman’ Lifted Her Way to a New Outlook and Online Influence
More Than Likes is a series about social media personalities who are trying to do positive things for their communities. The video begins with an instructor and a barbell, like so many others on Instagram. But then, as Casey Johnston, the instructor, dead-lifts the barbell — 45 pounds, plus 160 more pounds’ worth of weights…
Gucci C.E.O. to Exit Amid Leadership Shake-Up at Kering
For years, Marco Bizzarri was one of the most well-known and respected executives in the global luxury business. Bald and boldly suited, he was the architect behind the meteoric success of Gucci, the largest fashion brand in the stable owned by the French group Kering, which also includes Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta and Saint Laurent. But…
Spanx’s Viral Faux Leather Leggings Are $30 Off Right Now
It’s no secret that we here at ELLE.com love leather pants. Walk around the office on any given day and you’re likely to see at least one of us wearing leather bottoms of some variety. Similarly to how Aritzia’s Melina pants has owned the faux leather trouser market, no faux leather legging is quite as…
Restaurant Review: The $29 Hot Dog at Mischa Is Obnoxious. It’s Also Lovable.
New Yorkers have talked about the $29 hot dog at Mischa more than any other new dish this year. It may be better known than Mischa itself, which opened in Midtown in April with an American theme that Alex Stupak, the chef and an owner, interprets freely and with a big pinch of Eastern Europe…
Alligator Pear Brings Tempura Gator Bites and New Orleans Cooking to Chelsea
Headliner Alligator Pear Though given a popular name for avocado, this New Orleans restaurant, bar and event space is not serving any for now. “I haven’t yet figured out how I want to prepare it, maybe blackened, but it is coming,” said Dominick Lee, the executive chef and a New Orleans native. But tempura alligator…
Exploring the Restaurants of Greenpoint’s Little Tokyo
Exploring the restaurants of Greenpoint’s Little Tokyo This is me resisting the urge to use the “a [BLANK] grows in Brooklyn” cliché. I’ll say, instead, that there’s something afoot in Greenpoint, Brooklyn: a spate of Japanese restaurants and businesses that opened in the past few years in an industrial section of the neighborhood. I’m not…
Tiny Modern Love Stories: ‘Her Smooth Leg Brushing Mine’
An Admittedly American Girl 1969. Me, an American girl wanting a Girl Scouts pen pal merit badge. She, a Scottish boarding-school girl, required by a teacher to get a “pen friend.” Both age 10. I requested a French boy. Liz requested “anything but an American girl.” Clearly fate knew better. Our lives share striking similarities.…
Summer Fashion Inspired By Eric Rohmer’s Films
She’s rolling in the grass dressed in sunflower yellow, kissing a man about whom she’s passionately ambivalent (“Boyfriends and Girlfriends,” 1987). She’s strolling through the countryside in a fleecy blue sweater, having no fun at all (“The Green Ray,” 1986). She’s lounging on a beach in a red bikini and ivory bucket hat, about to…