Whatever you think you know about plastic, unthink it. Because if shoe brand Melissa is any indication, plastic might not be the environmental enemy we think it is. There’s a lot of talk about the fashion industry’s environmental impact and which of its practices are the most damaging amid the climate crisis. Optimists daydream about…
Something sheer, sexy, and cozy this way comes. Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty line is launching its brand new Sheer X lingerie collection this Tuesday, which Rihanna designed herself with summer and everyday comfort in mind. “I always like to bring a fresh take to lingerie in a way that feels authentic to Savage X Fenty,…
PABLO, Mont. — In the mountain streams of southern British Columbia and northern Montana, a rugged part of the world, fish with misshapen skulls and twisted spines have been caught over the years. Many scientists attribute the malformed creatures and declines in certain fish populations to five enormous open-pit coal mines that interrupt this wild…
Last month, Emma, Duchess of Rutland sat in her drawing room and weighed the pros and cons of living over the shop. Specifically, Belvoir Castle, a stately and splendid pile perched on a wooded hilltop in the English countryside with more than 356 rooms and soaring neo-Gothic towers and turrets. It has been the site…
The experimental midcentury-modern architecture of the Hamptons has long been a source of fascination to many in the design world — including Timothy Godbold, an interior designer based in Southampton, N.Y. So in the fall of 2019, when he noticed an unusual modernist house in town listed for sale, he was intrigued. More intriguing still:…
If you listen to local radio stations in much of rural America, you may hear a host bantering with a caller in search of help installing an oil pump in a Chevy engine. Another caller may be trying to trade a few bales of hay for a wheelchair lift. Perhaps even a burial plot for…
For many of the ambitious young people who circled Andy Warhol, the enigmatic pop artist opened otherwise inaccessible doors but also cast an inescapable shadow. Last month the photographer Paige Powell, a longtime close pal of Warhol’s, put a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting from her collection up for sale at Art Basel. Powell, who returned to…
Gerwig brims with references and influences, many of which she marshaled to make the movie “authentically artificial,” with everything “fake, but really fake” — make-believe and yet tangible, tactile, like playing with an actual toy. She called Peter Weir, the director of “The Truman Show,” to ask how to “execute something that’s both artificial and…
The Pile and Ploce Gates, the two entrances into Dubrovnik’s Old Town, once had drawbridges that lifted during the overnight hours, forcing visitors wanting to enter to wait outside its stone walls until morning. The bridges no longer lift, yet the bottlenecks of morning visitors remain. This compact, seaside city in Croatia has drawn millions…
If your hair is thinning during particularly tense times, experts have thoughts on what might be going on.