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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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.…
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…
The fashion schedule is traveling at a breakneck pace, and the recent resort 2024 collections are no different. Several destination shows had the style set traipsing around the globe to take in the latest from brands that are bound to inspire a winter getaway sooner than later. If you’re keen to get your holiday plans…