Olivia Rodrigo’s new album Guts is dropping in three, two, one (September 8 if you want to get specific) and we’re here for a fit check. You know the pic: Olivia’s lying on a purple floor with “GUTS” spelled out in rings on her fingers, wearing a lavender bra and black slip dress. And if…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Picture it: Sicily. Your beaded wrap skirt jangles gently in the breeze, your Aperol Spritz held aloft on a heavily bangled arm. Your look encompasses both animal prints and florals. Congratulations: you’re having a hot Cavalli summer. Recently on Instagram, Parade…
The most sweltering part of summer is the time to reach for the coolest of cool produce — the cucumber, of course. Long prized for their thirst-quenching, sweat-stanching properties, cucumbers are a hot-weather balm all over the world, making their way into chilled soups, fresh salads and juicy sauces, or simply eaten out of hand,…
In the wake of Covid, travel insurance sales have spiked with the rebound in travel as people seek to protect their investments against flight delays and cancellations, extreme weather events and the persistence of the virus. But travel insurance is complicated with a range of benefits, inclusions and prices. Here’s what you need to know…
Alice Kahn Ladas, a psychologist and psychotherapist whose best-selling 1982 book, “The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality,” created a tipping point for female sensual autonomy by introducing ways for women to experience greater sexual pleasure, died on July 29 at her home in Santa Fe, N.M. She was 102. Her daughter…
Here’s another crowd-pleaser of a recipe starring something yellow: Millie Peartree’s Southern fried corn, which cooks up glossy and fragrant, dotted with bits of roasted red pepper and crisp nuggets of bacon. The bacon makes this hearty enough to serve as a light main course, perhaps paired with Samin Nosrat’s salad-e Shirazi, a Persian cucumber,…
Claire Stern is the Digital Director of ELLE.com. Previously, she was Deputy Editor of ELLE.com. Her interests include fashion, food, travel, music, Peloton, and The Hills—not necessarily in that order. She used to have a Harriet the Spy notebook and isn’t ashamed to admit it.
I spent a few thousand dollars on cosmetic medical treatments — Botox and fillers — at a spa. The injections were performed by the dermatologist who owns the facility. I am frightened of needles and was nervous about the procedure. Afterward, I was a little out of it — maybe because of my nervousness or…
“I’m wearing the dresses. I’m wearing the shoes. I’m wearing the funny schoolgirl uniforms, which I’m too old to wear, but it’s not stopping me,” Ms. Sugihara said. Ms. Liang, who grew up in Queens, is part of a tradition of female designers subverting ultrafeminine clothes. Anna Sui, who made baby-doll dresses grungy in the…
In 2022, when Mark Ronson, the Grammy- and Oscar-winning D.J., songwriter and super-producer, became a brand ambassador for the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet (A.P.), there was an element of kismet to the partnership. “I know about A.P. through music,” Mr. Ronson recalled last month on a phone call from his home in New York City.…