Center Ring at the Fashion Circus

Tucked away on a side street behind Père-Lachaise, the largest cemetery in Paris and perhaps the most visited necropolis in the world, Colm Dillane, a.k.a. KidSuper, stood at the cyclonic center of a studio strewed with clothes, bags, shoes and props and crammed with models, stylists, photographers, videographers, the designer’s parents and the rapper Lil…

A Fantastic Borani Banjan Recipe for Eggplant Fans

It recently dawned on me that a significant portion of my favorite, most-repeated New York Times Cooking recipes rely on eggplant. There’s Kay Chun’s eggplant dal and eggplant adobo, Alexa Weibel’s eggplant caponata pasta and this trio of stunners from Eric Kim: gochujang-glazed eggplant, bulgogi eggplant, eggplant Parm. These recipes take this very dependable vegetable…

Mi padre no podía admitir que estaba herido

[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] Nací en un mundo lleno de enfado. Mis primeras lecciones de niño consistieron en comprender y evitar los detonadores invisibles que impregnaban nuestro hogar. Mi madre se enojaba a menudo con mi padre. Mi hermano, disgustado por la separación de nuestros padres —y por mi presencia, después de…

Kevin Kwan’s Art Deco Heirloom

Kevin Kwan used to do some of his best napping in jewelry stores. This was decades before Mr. Kwan, 50, wrote his new novel “Lies and Weddings”; before the three books in his “Crazy Rich Asians” trilogy became best-sellers; before it was announced that Jon M. Chu, the director of the “Crazy Rich Asians” movie,…