As a teen, TikTok creates stress in my life. When I hang out with friends, they often ask if I want to make a TikTok with them. I never suggest it, but it nearly always comes up. I want to be nice and say yes, but then I worry that other friends will see the…
On the second night of the Republican National Convention, Melania Trump came dressed for battle. She strode alone down the white-pillared colonnade of the White House on the long walk to the podium in an olive green skirt suit with broad shoulders and a military edge, exactingly tailored, caught at the waist with a wide…
The best jewelry investments are timeless pieces that make us feel good. Beginning today, Aurate is having a sale that raises us one better: splurges that also do good. In honor of Women’s Equality Day—a holiday that is unfortunately, but unsurprisingly lesser-known—Aurate is holding a sale now through August 31 where shoppers can take 15%…
We spend a lot of our days chatting with each other about things we see online, trying to make sense of it all. This week in the Styles newsletter, Wait …, our reporter Taylor Lorenz talked to the manager of BOA Steakhouse, the Los Angeles restaurant that has attracted Gen Z influencers and their fans.…
The photo in a recent newsletter from Katherine Tracey, a garden designer in Massachusetts, filled me with longing, and not a small amount of regret. Why didn’t I think to fill my pots with succulents as she did — plants like Echeveria, Senecio, Sempervivum and even certain Sedum that deliver a long show with relatively…
I was reading Michael Smith’s chronicle of designing the Obama White House, feeling serene, marinating in a luxurious world of wine-colored swatches and embossed mohair velvet and carpet border details desperately in need of tweaking. Suddenly, I was confronted with violence. Beneath a black-and-white picture of Jacqueline Kennedy looking at the blueprints for her White…
When Kamala Harris stepped onto the stage in a high school gym in Delaware earlier this month, after Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced that he had chosen her as his running mate, she sought to define herself as many things — a senator, a Black woman, an Indian woman, a prosecutor. But her most important…
Mr. Greene’s videos have become so ubiquitous on the teen internet that they’re now a meme. Hundreds of young people on TikTok have posted Hollywood Fix parody videos, and YouTubers like Emma Chamberlain have referenced the Hollywood Fix in their videos. People often parrot Mr. Greene’s signature catch phrase — “The fans wanna know!” —…
Hundreds of thousands of sweaty, athleisure-clad national park visitors have entered the park gift shop after a hike and immediately gravitated toward one particular display: the vintage-looking magnets, postcards and posters with the park’s name in blocky lettering, its best-known vista or features rendered in simple contours and pastels. The style, which has become shorthand…
Astrid StawiarzGetty Images The year is 2012. You put on your dip dye Dries Van Noten jeans (or the knock-offs you got at Zara), Isabel Marant wedge sneakers, swing a Rocco bag over your torn shoulder because it weighs 72 pounds, and you plug your headphones in to Channel Orange. It was a time when…