Hanging out: It’s a loose social dynamic in which people spend unstructured time together with no set agenda. (Did you need a reminder? Has it been a minute?) The shortage of idle hangs in our culture is what inspired Sheila Liming, an Edith Wharton scholar, writing professor, professional bagpipe player and devoted socializer, to write…
About one-fourth of respondents in Gallup’s poll said they put off care last year for what they considered a “serious” condition. When Margaret Bell, 71, found that her cancer had returned four years ago, she hesitated to resume her chemotherapy because she could not afford it, and higher prices have made it even harder. She…
By Tilly Macalister-Smith Since starting her brand Completedworks in 2013, the British jeweler Anna Jewsbury has sold her signature organic forms and asymmetrical earrings online and through retailers like Dover Street Market and Bergdorf Goodman. But she wanted to have more direct interactions with her customers and, as of January, she’s created a space for…
Michelle Pfeiffer When: February 6 Where: The global premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in L.A. Wearing: Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello Why: If paper beats rock, and rock beats scissors, Catwoman definitely beats ants and wasps. Just saying.
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Minimalism. Stealth wealth. Capsule wardrobes. All part of the less-is-more ethos that has, over the past few seasons, elbowed maximalism out of the way like a dawdling tourist. (And with the news that Phoebe Philo, the master of the form, is…
When Ivy Berubes, 22, orders a Shirley Temple at the Sarapes Mexican Restaurant bar, they make it for her even though it’s not on the menu. The menu also doesn’t list “The Tommy Bowl” — a deconstructed burrito — but Tommy Agramonte, 20, gets to order it; after all, it is named after him. Sade…
The store aims to capture the same qualities of Khaite’s clothing: sleek, self-assured, a little gothic-romantic. And, in spite of Ms. Holstein’s protests, cool. Building a Mystery “Have you ever seen ‘Friends With Money’?” Ms. Holstein asked. Her film references run deep. She was sitting on a black leather sofa, overseeing fittings for her runway…
The store aims to capture the same qualities of Khaite’s clothing: sleek, self-assured, a little gothic-romantic. And, in spite of Ms. Holstein’s protests, cool. Building a Mystery “Have you ever seen ‘Friends With Money’?” Ms. Holstein asked. Her film references run deep. She was sitting on a black leather sofa, overseeing fittings for her runway…
What does it mean to be a human symbol, of sex or anything else? The death of Raquel Welch at 82 invites us to think about what happens to our sex symbols when they age. What is, after all, the cultural longevity of the bombshell, the femme fatale? We tend to assume that they relinquish…
Raquel Welch rose to prominence with the B-movie epic “One Million Years B.C.,” a film in which early human beings are seen battling a menagerie of creatures, including triceratops, brontosaurus and wild boars. The shoot gave her something of a rude awakening. As Ms. Welch recalled in her 2010 memoir, “Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage,” she…