Meet the Costume Designers of ‘Sing 2’

What should an animated elephant, anthropomorphized as a shy teenage girl with a crush on an ice-cream vendor, wear onstage while she performs Aretha Franklin’s “I Say a Little Prayer” in front of said vendor? This was the kind of question facing Laura and Kate Mulleavy, better known for designing the fashion brand Rodarte, three…

How Can I Channel My Inner 1930s Movie Star?

Around Christmas and New Year’s, my husband and I enjoy watching films from the 1930s and ’40s. I always admire the women’s glamorous loungewear, especially Myrna Loy as Nora Charles in the “Thin Man” movies. But every place I look for loungewear, the offerings are either decidedly un-glam jersey garments, or more luxe looking satin…