Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Stepping into the Musée des Arts Décoratifs’ exhibit “Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses,” you might be forgiven for thinking you’d stumbled upon the museum’s natural history wing by mistake. Yes, there are mannequins in van Herpen’s designs, but there’s also…
Après-ski attire can best be described as cozy, but that doesn’t keep the street style-savvy on the mountain from looking their best. Case in point: Kendall Jenner, who gave the wintry aesthetic her own personal twist at the opening night of FWRD’s new pop-up shop in Aspen, Colorado over the weekend. The model, who walked…
Farfetch, the beleaguered luxury e-commerce platform that has spent months teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, found its white knight: The retailer said Monday that Coupang, described as South Korea’s answer to Amazon, would acquire it for $500 million. Farfetch, which is based in London, was once feted as the most dominant force in luxury…
In this week’s New York Times, Dan Pelosi (a.k.a. @grossypelosi) writes about the Feast of the Seven Fishes, that multicourse seafood dinner served in Italian American households on Christmas Eve. The classic menu serves up seven different fishes in seven different dishes, but Mr. Pelosi has recalculated the math to subtract the drama that making…
A marinara-stained kitchen timer ticks as Donna Berzatto choreographs a complex dance of dishes around limited oven space. “I need you to remember to put the Rockefellers in, and take out the artichokes, which leaves an open oven,” she commands her son Carmy. “I need you to put the branzino on the top and let…
When the New York Yankees introduced Juan Soto to the news media last week after a blockbuster trade with San Diego, their new slugger was already in midseason form. His cheeks were smooth and his hair was short. Not even a curl poked out from beneath his brand-new Yankees cap. That’s not always a given…
Later in 2020, Ms. Lavelle also complained to the board, describing how she had been traumatized by her daughter’s tongue-tie release. The lactation board, which reports its disciplinary decisions, has not taken action against Ms. Henstrom. A spokeswoman for the board, Susan Brayshaw, declined to comment on the complaints, citing a policy of confidentiality. “Some…
In Strasbourg, France, throughout the holiday season, Santa-capped teddy bears festoon a restaurant’s facade. Stuffed polar bears adorn another. In a Yuletide arms race, buildings are affixed with giant, gift-wrapped packages, glittering white deer and oversize gingerbread men. Turning the central medieval quarter into a Christmas maze, curtains of lights glow above cobblestone lanes lined…
I was invited to an ugly Christmas sweater party, but the sweaters always struck me as waste of money and bad for the environment. And I don’t own one. Am I allowed to sit this dress code out, or does that make me a Grinch? — Tom, Kansas City, Mo. It may be time to…
It’s an increasingly common scenario faced by new mothers across the country: A lactation consultant examines their newborn and suggests that cutting a “tongue-tie” may ease their difficulty breastfeeding. The quick procedure, known as a tongue-tie release, involves a dentist or doctor snipping a tight band of tissue connecting the tongue to the bottom of…