On the last day of New York Fashion Week, we were basically running on coffee and fumes. Thankfully, beautiful clothing, live music, and french fries at Matthew Adams Dolan got us through. Michael Kors Sean ZanniGetty Images Yalitza Aparicio was the star of this season’s front row, which took in a show infused with American…
Sixty-six years ago today, Jacqueline Bouvier floated down the aisle of a Newport, Rhode Island, church in ivory silk-taffeta to wed her handsome then-junior senator fiancé John F. Kennedy. The portrait-neckline gown, with its full bouffant skirt, has been indelibly etched in sartorial history as one of the most iconic wedding-day looks of all time,…
My husband and I separated last spring. It was ugly and featured lots of screaming and yelling, some of it in public places. One afternoon, at our son’s middle school, we were arguing about who was supposed to pick him up that day. My son got involved, and I grabbed him — admittedly, roughly —…
Every September, the glitterati descend upon New York, London, Milan and Paris for fashion month in a swarm of stilettos. Like death and taxes, the circus of Fashion Week is inevitable, and often inaccessible unless you’re watching Instagram. Luckily, so is the accompanying release of glossy new fashion titles and beautiful, weight-lifter-worthy coffee table accessories…
Don’t expect a platter of herring and bialys. But prepare to be hungry anyway at the new “Russ & Daughters: An Appetizing Story” exhibition produced by the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. The exhibition, which is free and opens to the public on Friday, aims to teach visitors…
Burgundy is glorious. Everybody knows it. And that is a problem. Over the last 20 years, prices for Burgundy, both reds and whites, have rocketed upward as growing demand for the wines has far outrun the supply. Financial trackers might quibble as to whether Bordeaux or Burgundies are the better investments, but ordinary consumers who…
LOS ANGELES — A few days after I visited Demi Moore in her home high above Beverly Hills, her daughter Tallulah Willis told me, “My mom was not raised, she was forged.” But the woman who greeted me from atop a staircase, in the boxy residence she calls her “peaceful Zen treehouse,” and asked if…
ImageThrough the dirty lens of history: Caroline Calloway, left, and Natalie Beach. CreditNatalie Beach In its top left corner, Instagram invites you to share “your story.” The platform’s savviest users log on not to share what’s happening with them spontaneously, but to create the story of themselves. Natalie Beach, a writer who helped her college friend…
Since 2004, the Modern Love column has brought personal essays about relationships, written by our readers, to the pages of The New York Times. Now eight of these stories have served as the inspiration for episodes of Amazon’s “Modern Love,” a TV series from The New York Times and Prime Video that will drop worldwide…
You are likely either to know at least two or otherwise none of the following things about Misha Nonoo: 1. She is a clothing designer. 2. She is a part of that sliver of society whose members constitute what is known as “society”: that is, people whose personal milestones are often honored by private performances…