Outwardly, this season’s New York Fashion Week shows followed a familiar playbook. Marc Jacobs showed his collection before the week technically began. The official schedule ran for six days (albeit with fewer events) and it played the hits: Carolina Herrera, Michael Kors, Tory Burch. All of this brought a calm to a week that can…
When Ann Maddox agreed to become the personal assistant for a Bravo reality TV star in December 2020, she thought she would be organizing closets and running errands while building out her acting résumé. Three years later, that gig has evolved into her being the primary mediator between a couple at the heart of one…
Thom Browne is not one to shy away from an operatic fashion show. His dreamscapes involve great clothes, of course, but also reach into the heart of the audience, creating experiences that are part theater, part runway, and totally Thom. This season, the designer used “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe as the backdrop for…
The stomach cancer study was shot through with suspicious data. Identical constellations of cells were said to depict separate experiments on wholly different biological lineages. Photos of tumor-stricken mice, used to show that a drug reduced cancer growth, had been featured in two previous papers describing other treatments. Problems with the study were severe enough…
It was 6 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, and the employees of the Ikea in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn had done what they could to make the Swedish furniture emporium feel more like a romantic hot spot and less like, well, an Ikea. Slinky jazz played over the cafeteria speakers. Rose petals were scattered…
We know it’s a bit odd to ascribe an emotion to a dish, but chicken teriyaki is happy. It’s iconically salty-sweet, shiny and glossy, with the most tender cut of chicken (boneless, skinless thighs) made even more succulent. This five-star recipe from Sujan Shrestha, adapted by John T. Edge, is particularly bright and cheerful, the…
The research The study, led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, looked at the experience of more than 6,000 patients in the months after the federal government began allowing abortion pills to be mailed, from April 2021 to January 2022. The patients used one of three telemedicine abortion organizations — Hey Jane,…
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“Powerful, timeless, and effortless,” this is how Naomi Campbell describes new BOSS capsule collection. They are just as attributable to the supermodel herself. Appearing on her first ELLE cover a month before her 16th birthday in 1986, Campbell is the original super, as inimitable as she is iconic. Nearly four decades from that career-propelling shoot,…
Some skin care products can offer some benefits, but they may not live up to their brightening claims.