Glossier Gets a Makeover

On a Saturday afternoon in late January, a stretch of North Sixth Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn looked as if the internet had physically manifested itself. Direct-to-consumer brands like Everlane, Brooklinen, Interior Define, Parachute Home and Gorjana are interspersed here between the giants: Nike, H&M, Patagonia and Lululemon. Only Glossier, purveyor of youthful…

Thom Browne: The Prince of New York

There is currently a class about the designer Thom Browne being taught not, as one might expect, at Parsons or the Fashion Institute of Technology or even Central Saint Martins, but at the University of Notre Dame. And not by a business professor, or an art professor, but by a philosophy professor. A philosophy professor?…

How to Make Crispy Chicken Skin

As juicy and succulent as the meat of properly roasted chicken may be, I’m really in it for the bronzed bits of skin curling at the edges of the bird. Salty, crispy and slicked with schmaltz, chicken skin is at its best when it’s been seasoned with garlic and salt, then left to sit uncovered…

Read Your Way Through São Paulo

There’s also Megafauna, in the historic center of São Paulo, on the ground floor of the city’s most emblematic residential building — the snaking, Modernist housing block called Edifício Copan. The building itself is well worth visiting: It was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the architect who also designed the country’s capital, Brasília, and the United…

The 25 Essential Dishes to Eat in Paris

There is perhaps no Zoom meeting less satisfying than one scheduled on a cold weekday morning to talk about food — specifically, the food that one ought to eat in Paris. We couldn’t gather in a great restaurant, for the people assembled were chefs and writers spread across continents, some racing from their kitchens, others…

The 25 Essential Dishes to Eat in Paris

There is perhaps no Zoom meeting less satisfying than one scheduled on a cold weekday morning to talk about food — specifically, the food that one ought to eat in Paris. We couldn’t gather in a great restaurant, for the people assembled were chefs and writers spread across continents, some racing from their kitchens, others…