Julia Noni ELLE’s crew road-tripped out to Mojave, California, to bring you the best of the season in one of America’s most stunning landscapes. Spring 2024 brings with it a crisp array of staples that play with proportions—the workwear-style jacket, the oversize shirt, the relaxed trouser—in sun-bleached tones to match the Mojave Desert setting. From…
Cass Bird Top, $2,995, bra, $445, Dolce & Gabbana. ELLE takes fashion onto the field, styling the hyper-girly runway looks for a romp in the park. Models Taylor Hill, Mayowa Nicholas, Sylvia Anderson, Heather Kemesky, and Divine Mugisha suit up in soft pastels and celebrate the return of ruffles, channeling the ultrafeminine energy that will…
You would be hard pressed to find a New Yorker unfamiliar with the name Veselka. The pierogi and borscht eatery, established in 1954 by a Ukrainian émigré, is a staple of the East Village, where its genial diner atmosphere — overseen by Jason Birchard, the founder’s grandson — draws everyone from university students to seasoned…
Autocracy may be much in the news, and increasingly in vogue depending on the electorate, but as Milan Fashion Week began, democracy was in the air. At least so it was at Diesel where, in a preview, the designer Glenn Martens was touting “transparency without censorship.” Sounds pointed, but what he meant was tearing down…
Ricky Valero walked into a mostly empty showing of “Madame Web” with a bucket of popcorn and an open mind. He had some idea of what he was getting into. The movie, which stars Dakota Johnson as a clairvoyant character from the Spider-Man comics, has been gleefully panned in the week since its release. The…
At Michelle Bonnice and Colton Flores’s wedding in Austin, Texas, in September, guests were given custom menus with a thank-you note from the couple; drank espresso martinis from an ice luge with the letters “M” and “C” carved into its side; and left with party favors of koozies featuring an illustration of their dog. It…
We asked a nutrition professor and dietitian how she keeps up healthy habits without stressing about food.
The pull of fashion mythology — the current obsession with Dior-era John Galliano or the Apple TV+ mini-series “The New Look” — suggests we are at peak nostalgia. It makes one wonder why someone hasn’t done a book or a documentary on Romeo Gigli. His story has all the ingredients of a blockbuster mini-series. His…
An escalation of the war in Gaza could lead to the deaths of 85,000 Palestinians from injuries and disease over the next six months, in the worst of three situations that prominent epidemiologists have modeled in an effort to understand the potential future death toll of the conflict. These fatalities would be in addition to…
The Alabama Supreme Court has opened a new front in the legal debate over when human life begins. Embryos created and stored in a medical facility must be considered children under the state’s law governing harmful death, the court ruled. Friday’s ruling was cheered by anti-abortion activists nationwide, who have long argued that life begins…