For many people, a marriage proposal involves months of planning, ring shopping, and of course, creating the perfect moment for that ultimate surprise. But when the coronavirus started to spread globally, followed by stay-at-home guidelines and closures of restaurants and public spaces, plans to propose in exotic locales or fancy restaurants came to a screeching…
Yoursa Attia It’s either day 67 or 687 of living in quarantine, so we could use a pick-me-up right about now. Luckily, Reformation—the editor-approved brand for flattering dresses, denim and everyday basics—just announced a rare site-wide 30 percent off sale. It may be some time before you’re able to get that Instagram shot outside of…
As prime tomato-transplanting time arrives this month up north — once the danger of frost has passed — you may be in search of seedlings. Or maybe you started your tomatoes from seed, or have young plants (homegrown or store-bought) already in the ground, or in a big pot on your balcony. Whatever stage of…
Lena Olin isn’t one for acting on impulse. “I normally will say, ‘I have to think it over, I have to think it through,’” said the Swedish-born actor, 65, whose film credits include “The Reader,” “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “Enemies, a Love Story” and the title role in “The Artist’s Wife,” due out this…
Lena Olin isn’t one for acting on impulse. “I normally will say, ‘I have to think it over, I have to think it through,’” said the Swedish-born actor, 65, whose film credits include “The Reader,” “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “Enemies, a Love Story” and the title role in “The Artist’s Wife,” due out this…
DESIGNER D.I.Y. SERIES Image As part of our Designer D.I.Y. series, Ms. Rocha shows how to make an old pair of socks pop in a crafty, colorful way. May 12, 2020 At a time when everyone is isolated at home, nervous about spending money and without an occasion to dress up, what can we do…
With travel restrictions in place worldwide, we’ve launched a new series, The World Through a Lens, in which photojournalists help transport you, virtually, to some of our planet’s most beautiful and intriguing places. This week, Susan Wright shares a collection of photographs from a saffron harvest in the Abruzzo region of Italy. A few years…
The coronavirus pandemic has placed any number of demands on our homes, which now serve as makeshift offices, art studios, gyms, workshops, classrooms and storage lockers. And urban apartments — where all of those functions are often squeezed into a space-constrained envelope — face the biggest challenges of all. Those of us quarantined in a…
Paula Sutton is the latest luminary of cottagecore, a corner of the internet immersed in transcendent scenes of rural life. On Instagram, where she posts as @hillhousevintage, the 50-year-old influencer chronicles the pleasures of entertaining, decorating and gardening from her home in rural Norfolk, England. Now, with many people stuck in less-photogenic surroundings and glued…
As we learn more about children and Covid-19, new research is reshaping some of our thinking. It continues to be true that children, as a group, have been relatively spared, but there is evidence that some may become very sick, and we are beginning to learn more about who may be most at risk, and…