Mexico does not have a long history with ice cream. The country’s first versions of the dessert were akin to snow cones, made from ice that was harvested from the summits of the country’s volcanoes and transported via donkeys and mules to urban areas. With a dash of salt and fruit mixed in, these “raspados”…
Over the weekend, as Paris Fashion Week entered its final days, a colleague on one of the rough wood benches that is today’s equivalent of the gold ballroom chairs of the past leaned over and huffed, “But where’s the politics? Does no one care about what’s happening to women around the world?” It was a…
These days, narrative theater — the kind that involves characters and stories and spinning out entire fantasy scenarios that require costumes — has largely fallen out of fashion. Or fashion weeks, to be specific. Left behind as relics of a more self-indulgent, lawless (less corporate, depending on your point of view) time when the artistes…