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…
Every late September, when the style mavens descend on Paris for fashion week, they envision enjoying buttery post-show croissants and the occasional pack of Vogue cigarettes savored guilt-free at after-parties. But this season, it’s a bit different: Paris is infested with bedbugs. Videos shared on social media show bedbugs crawling over seats of the Paris…
It’s usually not a good sign when video of a senior government official singing goes viral on social media, where the crowds are as tough as they come. But when Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken picked up a black Fender guitar at a State Department event on Wednesday night and joined a band for…
The best time of year is upon us. It’s the season for candy corn, slasher flicks, and letting cobwebs pass as decor (when really, you just need to dust). If you haven’t sorted out your Halloweekend outfits yet, don’t fret. We have lots of cute costume ideas here at ELLE, but I’m here to break…
Yes, you can get a Reuben in lots of New York delicatessens and sandwich shops. Zingerman’s Deli, the long-established Jewish food emporium in Ann Arbor, Mich., is renowned for its version and will be bringing them to New York to the Olly Olly Market in Chelsea on Saturday. The classic Reuben and a pickle, along…
Next time I attend Paris Fashion Week, remind me to take a page from Madelyn Cline’s book and do it with the same laid-back enjoyment that the actress emanated ahead of Rabanne’s spring/summer 2024 show. “The environment is best described as chaotic good,” she tells me from her Paris hotel room, where she’s preening and…
Climate change is warming up the spring, lengthening the summer, and drying out soil and vegetation, leading to more frequent, destructive wildfires. This year alone, wildfires have left at least 98 dead on Maui, forced mass evacuations from several Greek islands, and raged across Canada, forcing an entire city to evacuate and fouling the air…
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who together identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. Their work enabled potent Covid vaccines to be made in less than a year, averting tens of millions of deaths and helping the world recover from the worst pandemic in…
I love mattar paneer (the traditional Indian dish of peas and paneer in spiced, creamy tomato gravy), but I don’t love the break-out-the-blender hassle of puréeing the sautéed onions, tomatoes and cashews that you’ll find in most recipes. Sadly, that one step has usually been enough to knock the dish out of my low-effort weeknight…