One of the most certifiably stunning women in the world has graciously agreed to beam her radiant, white-clad self from sunny Monaco into a Zoom room with me, a poorly-lit writer bobbing helplessly against a starry stock background intended to approximate the grandeur of a lunar eclipse. “I like your astral projection,” she says warmly.…
This feature was created in partnership with the CFDA. How do you speak about a pan-Latin community of fashion designers that spans continents and cultures, from Latin America to the United States? With an awareness of nuance—and an overwhelming sense of joy, pride, and celebration of journeys hard won. Pioneers such as Adolfo, Oscar de…
Even to someone intimately acquainted with the genus Echinacea, many of the latest coneflowers elicit a double take. Some are nearly unrecognizable; others represent a dramatic divergence from those that nature made. It is the wild ones that Kelly Kindscher, an ethnobotanist and professor of environmental studies at the University of Kansas, has made the…
“Supply is tighter than what people might be used to, and demand, particularly in America, is extraordinary,” Mr. Lussier said. “There will be some pressure on pricing, and in certain categories, retailers will have to work harder to find the diamonds they want.” Shruti Chhajer Ranka, the creative head of Shruti Sushma, a luxury jeweler…
Hardly a day goes by now without some new promotional photo or online reference to the “Sex and the City” reboot so, as Carrie Bradshaw herself would say, “I couldn’t help but wonder: What will be the new Carrie necklace?” For those of you who don’t remember — or were too young for the original…
As Melanie Grant watched political unrest and a racial reckoning unfold through 2020, she felt a sense of despair and powerlessness. As a writer, art director and stylist at The Economist for 15 years, she felt a special concern, noting, “Everyone in the media was asking themselves what they could do.” For Ms. Grant, a…
Raise your hand if you’ve ever pulled your skin taut across your face after glancing at yourself in a mirror — or worse, in the little Zoom box — just to see what you’d look like. Congratulations: You just got an at-home face-lift. For a few seconds, anyway. According to a report from the American…
An intriguing new study shows how exercise may bolster brain health. The study was in mice, but it found that a hormone produced by muscles during exercise can cross into the brain and enhance the health and function of neurons, improving thinking and memory in both healthy animals and those with a rodent version of…
Along with lavish screenings of new films starring Oscar winners like Penélope Cruz and Olivia Colman, the 2021 Venice Film Festival will feature a different type of premiere: the debut of Cartier as a new main sponsor. The festival “has elegance. It has exclusivity. It has glamour,” said Arnaud Carrez, Cartier’s chief marketing officer. “And that’s exactly what…
When I visited my Auntie Sulu in India, she cooked three meals a day and wrote out the plan for each one on a sheet of paper that she kept by the phone in her apartment. The idea of such a plan suggests a certain rigidity, but no, this was a shared, living document. It…