The last few years have fundamentally changed Americans’ relationship with restaurants. As the pandemic made diners more aware of the long hours and low pay built into the business, many began tipping more, donating to employee funds and lobbying elected officials for worker protections. Now that awareness has translated into legislation that could reshape restaurants…
As fashion month comes to a close, it’s out with the old styles and in with the new fashion trends for fall. I took careful notes on what you can expect for major fall 2024 bag trends, and I’m sharing them all here. With regard to accessories, it was a fun season of showings. At…
I won’t pretend to have influenced Greta Gerwig. If Greta Gerwig is aware of my existence, it’s likely because I’ve written about her record-breaking blockbuster Barbie, or about the Hollywood ecosystem that made Barbie such an outlier. I never expected us to have the same penchants for clothing as we do cinema. And yet it’s…
Brent Neale Winston, the founder and designer of Brent Neale, a fine jewelry brand in New York, posted an image on Instagram last fall to show off a custom project: an 18-karat gold heart pendant based on a drawing by a 9-year-old, commissioned by an uncle for the child’s mother. “I threw it up on…
If the 20th century could claim an It girl, she probably would be Marlene Dietrich: movie star, nightclub chanteuse, fashion and jewelry icon, and a German celebrity who supposedly told Hitler to get lost. Born in 1901, she went from obscure Berlin chorus girl to international star in the 1920s and ’30s, shaking up the…
Awards season is prime time for brands to reveal showstopping creations, and the British Academy Film Awards last month certainly provided a stage for the new Cartier Libre Polymorph collection, jeweled timepieces and accessories themed around movement and transformability. Paul Mescal, a supporting actor nominee for “All of Us Strangers,” accented his look with a…
Romaric André, now widely known in the watch world as seconde/seconde/, went to the 2019 Baselworld trade fair to sell his first customized vintage watches. But while others exhibited their luxury wares in plush booths designed to dazzle, Mr. André spent his time opening and closing the lid of a cardboard box. “It looked weird,”…
For more than two decades, Yeana Ahn, a co-founder of a lifestyle publicity company in New York City, has worn the same watch every day: a 36-millimeter Rolex Datejust in stainless steel and 14-karat gold with an Oyster bracelet. Strictly speaking, however, it isn’t her watch. It belongs to her husband, James Ahn, who received…
Take a back seat, polished gold. Your shiny and reflective surface has been looking a bit too brash recently as the matte, low-key look of brushed gold has been catching everyone’s eye. At the high jewelry presentations in January in Paris, for example, Chaumet used brushed gold to great effect in Un Air de Chaumet,…
A group of influencers are on a private jet to Bora Bora. They sip Veuve Clicquot, sample caviar and dance in their seats to Fergie’s “Glamorous.” Welcome to Trippin’ with Tarte, a promotional extravaganza sponsored by the beauty brand Tarte Cosmetics, a company known for regularly inviting social media influencers on lavish trips. For those…