Wedding accessories are often the unsung accents that play a pivotal role in enhancing a look. Cynthia Smith, a wedding stylist and owner of Cynthia Cook Brides in San Francisco Bay, believes that “accessories provide an opportunity for today’s bride to break the typically traditional mold by adding personality, sentimentality or a risqué quality all…
A handful of new lounges opened by credit card issuers, including Capital One and American Express, have recently landed in airports across the United States, promising posh spots of refuge for select travelers awaiting their flights. At La Guardia Airport, caviar service will be available for pre-order. At Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, travelers can get…
Art of Craft is a series about craftspeople whose work rises to the level of art. On a summer day in 2018, Blanka Amezkua arrived in San Salvador Huixcolotla. The southeastern Mexican town is best known as the birthplace of papel picado — intricately cut, colorful tissue-paper banners popular at Mexican festivities — and Amezkua…
Un golfista con una modesta barriga sonríe mientras admira un gran golpe inicial. Un atractivo hombre de mediana edad y pelo canoso, en un elegante traje, disfruta una copa de vino mientras una hermosa mujer lo mira a los ojos. Un padre de familia barbudo prepara los alimentos para sus hijos en una cocina bañada…
LAGOS, Nigeria — For the past decade, Nigeria’s best-known ambassadors have, arguably, been its musicians: Burna Boy, WizKid, Davido, Tiwa Savage Asake and Tems, who have popularized Afrobeats beyond West Africa. At a moment when music, literature, visual art and food from across the African continent continue to gain global popularity, fashion designers, particularly those…
Theda Hammel is under no delusion that Covid is box-office gold. “I don’t think it’s going to draw people in, the idea of dwelling on that time,” she said last week at the Soho Grand Hotel in Manhattan, sipping an herbal tea on a leather couch. “But I think it has value as a little…
There were cherry blossoms. There were silk and glass butterflies. There were toasts. There was an entree inspired by a California roll and a performance by Paul Simon. But before that, there was the photo op, and the fashion. On Wednesday evening, as the Bidens hosted Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan and his wife,…
Regardless of what Us Weekly says, celebrities are not just like us. One had only to see the workout video Lenny Kravitz posted on Tuesday to know that. First, there was Mr. Kravitz’s outfit: a plum-colored muscle tank, complete with leather pants, black boots and his signature sunglasses. Then there was the exercise itself, which…
Washington Square Park is known for its lively atmosphere and eclectic characters. That was no different on Wednesday, when hundreds of Muslims filled the park to attend a morning prayer gathering for Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. People celebrate Eid by getting dressed to the nines,…
The diabetes drug has become a phenomenon, and “Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic!” — a takeoff of the Pilot song “Magic” — has played a big part in its story.