“Lena Horne paved the way,” said Tina Knowles-Lawson. “She moved the movement forward for black women.” Ms. Knowles-Lawson was at Town Hall last Friday for its first Lena Horne Prize ceremony, which honored her daughter Solange Knowles for her social activism. The festivities began at the Steinway & Sons piano showroom, before moving down the…
On a rainy Thursday afternoon, in a plush pink conference room in Manhattan, a group of colleagues formed a meditation circle. As they sat in their own silence, sirens and traffic wailed below. “Bathe in the joy of truly loving yourself,” a former Tibetan Buddhist monk advised them. Over the course of an hour, the…
PARIS — That the final day of Paris Fashion Week was also a Mardi Noir — a Black Tuesday, with massed demonstrators marching furiously across the Place de la Concorde to the National Assembly to protest pension reform — seemed inevitable. Of course there would be revolt. There have been fires, plague, floods. How else…
When Martha Rose Ormerod, an engineering student from Wales, travels by air, she has a ritual. As soon as she is seated in her tiny economy-class seat, she sets out to personalize the space. Ms. Ormerod, 29, arranges a blanket and pillow, and the other essentials — “water bottle, book, lip balm and moisturizer” —…
PARIS — When the last model stepped off the runway at Louis Vuitton and the fall 2020 shows drew to a close this week, it was clear that diversity on the catwalks had become a genuine reality and not just a seasonal trend — at least as far as race was concerned. But in show…
We are sorry to inform you, but your bank account is about to take a hit: The Outnet’s semi-annual sale is here. There are currently 92 pages of designer goods ranging from Fendi sunglasses for only a hundred bucks to that Chloé crossbody discounted at 75% off. Don’t feel overwhelmed though, because we narrowed it…
Recently Maryellen Stewart, a freelance copywriter for luxury brands, was window-shopping in SoHo when she noticed a large sign in a restaurant window advertising a “curated” menu. “I hate the word,” she said. “It’s everywhere.” In Midtown, the designer Christian Siriano has opened the Curated NYC, a boutique selling women’s wear and decorative objects. Michigan…
One of best moments of a long, hectic day often comes at the very end, when you fall into bed, pull up the covers and drop off to sleep. Unless, of course, your bedroom is an uninviting mess. A poorly chosen paint color you would rather forget, an uncomfortable rug underfoot and the glare of…
The wall behind Sierra Palantino’s bed is covered with photographs: a bushel of coral- and pearl-colored roses; a bouquet of ruby and pink Mylar balloons; a close-up of a neon sign that says, “all the feels.” In thousands of bedrooms around the world, the same pictures are arranged in a neat collage. Collage kits, as…
PARIS — The Kanye West fashion revival tour was announced the day before it began, and came with an invitation containing rattlesnake eggs and dried sage. It kicked off Sunday morning in the peeling 19th-century environs of the Bouffes du Nord theater (formerly home of Peter Brook’s International Center for Theater Research) with a rousing…