She offered to bring fancy cheese, the kind that costs $35 per pound. I said a couple of supermarket slabs would be fine, for one-fourth the price. Four days later, she dumped me. Was it the cheese? Did the cheese represent something bigger? Or was the cheese just an innocent bystander? I had been through…
First, an announcement: In a few weeks, I’ll devote Where to Eat to answering questions from readers, especially those of you who will be visiting New York City in December. Want a good spot to refuel along Fifth Avenue in Midtown, which will be off-limits to cars the first three Sundays in December? How about…
In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. For our latest column, we flew to Paris and met Sézane founder Morgane Sézalory at her dreamy apartment on the Left Bank, complete with a casual view of the Eiffel…
Good morning. I figure you’ve got your turkey recipe sorted by now. (You oughta. Thanksgiving is in less than a week!) Kim Severson’s recipe for dry-brined turkey is the choice for nine out of 10 sharpies I’ve spoken with, though if you’d like something new, I’d still love to make the argument for this marvelous…
Style Outside Photographer Simbarashe Cha documents transitional style in the Japanese capital for The New York Times. Share full article Nov. 17, 2023, 10:30 a.m. ET card:1 of 10 Style Outside Simbarashe Cha Reporting from Japan Tokyo was unseasonably warm in early November, making for an eclectic mishmash of outfits. Clothes with oversized silhouettes, like…
It’s mid-November and you’re starting to think that you should be starting to think about your holiday shopping list. But the brands and the retailers behind the colorfully packaged sets of beauty products that are mainstays of seasonal shopping are way ahead of you. “We kind of joke that we’re never not talking about Christmas,”…
A gift without wrapping is like a cake without frosting — and where’s the fun in that? Yet the waste associated with hard-to-recycle wrapping paper means that, for many people, only reusable materials will do. You don’t need to tell that to the Japanese. Centuries ago, they elevated the practice of wrapping gifts using fabric,…
On a recent fall afternoon in her sunny studio in London’s Belgravia neighborhood, the luxury board game artist and designer Alexandra Llewellyn lifted the polished eucalyptus wood tray that serves as a lid to one of her latest backgammon sets. Printed on the calf leather playing board inside was a tongue-in-cheek winter scene: a polar…
Watch brands and collectors are both enjoying a bit of matchy-matchy action right now as his-and-her looks in timepieces are turning up everywhere. Piaget plans to celebrate the coming Chinese New Year with a special collection of eight high jewelry and métiers d’art watches — four masculine and four feminine — scheduled to be released…
Does your phone really need a strap? Or perhaps you do — at least that is what some of the reviews on the String Ting website say. “Makes me happy every time I see it,” one buyer wrote, of the Heavenly Sky, a phone strap featuring blue beads mixed with miniature puffy white clouds. And:…