The shift to New York City spring follows a familiar pattern: skittishly unpredictable weather leading to uncertain modes of dress. But with the rise in temperature, the style of the city often blooms along with it. It’s marvelous to behold; discarding heavy wools for lighter cottons, short skirts and even shorter sleeves. One of the…
More fun, less drudgery. That’s my goal for the summer — and specifically for my summer cooking. In my dreams, I’m whisking together a vinaigrette in a seaside cottage with a big breezy kitchen and a farm stand down the road (think Diane Keaton’s place in “Something’s Gotta Give”). While that’s not the reality for…
For years, Elena Colombo loved the live-work studio she shared with her partner, Mark Lavelle, in an industrial section of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. She had a workshop and office where she could tinker, and was near the artisans and vendors that her company, FireFeatures, needed to make large-scale fire bowls and sculptures. As her business…
HIIT routines are typically both high intensity and high impact. But you can still get the hard work while being easy on your body.
One overcast Sunday morning, Benjamin Talley Smith, an apple-cheeked 45-year-old with a thing for a Canadian tuxedo, was at the Rose Bowl flea market in Los Angeles shopping for jeans. He was wearing jeans — a beat-up pair of Levi’s and an equally worn Levi’s jeans jacket — and rooting through piles of jeans. He…
[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] A mediados de marzo, Reebok organizó su cumbre anual de la marca para unos 500 socios comerciales en el Artists for Humanity EpiCenter, un espacio para eventos de Boston donde Todd Krinsky, el director ejecutivo de la empresa, reveló un secreto. Krinsky le dijo a su audiencia que…
My family and I have just returned from a weekend in rural Pennsylvania, where we spend every Memorial Day weekend hanging out with good friends, eating enormous platters of grilled meat and veggies, and enjoying the mixed choir of tree frogs and bullfrogs that populate the lake. More reliably than any calendar, that throaty, flirty…
Made for Adventure Teva Hurricane XLT Ampsole Sandals Cons Hard to dress up Mark my words: This will be the summer of Tevas. Functional and lightweight, these sandals are a must-have if you plan on being out and about this season. The brand also wins at color and pattern options that bring a sense of…
Do you believe neons are to be avoided? I love bright colors, but I’m worried about trending into “wacky” territory as I get older. How do you know when enough is too much? — Susie, San Francisco Neon, those blindingly bright colors otherwise associated with traffic cones, sports stars and Las Vegas lights, has been…
These days “cottagecore,” the term for a popular aesthetic in recent years, may bring to mind several things. The early pandemic, say, when cottagecore started to spread rapidly on social media. Or the flouncy dresses, floral motifs, delicate décor and countryside settings that largely defined the aesthetic. Less often has the fairy-tale look been associated…