PARIS — Forget Avenue Montaigne. The Les Halles neighborhood — the area in the First Arrondissement once nicknamed “the Belly of Paris” for its sprawling food market — is about to become a magnet for French fashion. In April, La Samaritaine, once one of the oldest department stores in the city, is to reopen as…
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[Sign up here to receive Love Letter, a weekly newsletter about relationship highs, lows and woes, in your inbox every Friday.] Life imitates art in this week’s Modern Love essay, as Nancy Meyers, a screenwriter and director known for romantic comedies about divorced women (“It’s Complicated,” “Something’s Gotta Give”), finds herself on a three-hour drive…
ImageCredit…Brian Rea Once I turned 69, if anyone asked me my age — not that anyone ever did, but if I offered it up in conversation — I always said, “I’m almost 70.” I went straight from 68 to “almost 70,” as if 69 didn’t amount to anything other than the year before being a…
Name: Ruslan Baginskiy Age: 30 Hometown: Lviv, Ukraine Now Lives: With his mother in Kyiv, Ukraine, while his two-bedroom apartment undergoes renovation. Claim to Fame: Mr. Baginskiy is a luxury hatmaker for today’s “It” girls and Instagram stars, best known for his hard-brimmed baker boy caps in wool felts, nubby tweeds and other handcrafted materials.…
If there was a Mount Rushmore for Virgil Abloh’s most coveted and adored sneaker collaborations, the Off-White x Air Jordan 1 sneaker (released in 2017) would be featured—a sneaker that currently costs upwards $3,000 on re-seller sites. That alone would be a tough act to follow, but Abloh’s love affair with Air Jordan is nowhere…
One of the latest of Midtown Manhattan’s snazzy new skyscrapers, 53 West 53, a sculptural tower adjoining the newly renovated Museum of Modern Art, opened its doors in February to several more residents. The slim, 82-story condominium at 53 West 53rd Street, designed by the renowned French architect Jean Nouvel, had more than a dozen…
3. Maison Cleo Run by a french mother-daughter duo, Maison Cleo uses reclaimed fabrics for their relaxed and vintage-inspired designs. Only open on Wednesdays, producing extremely limited runs, their e-shop provides all the information from fabric costs, to time spent making, for completely transparent pricing. Oh, and you get a scrunchie with every order. maisoncleo.com
PARIS — Deep in the bowels of the Palais de Tokyo, a building dedicated to modern art, down a back stairway strafed with graffiti and through many a wandering hall, Rick Owens was leaning against a wall on Thursday afternoon, considering doom. “It’s a doomy moment,” he said, “in a doomy era. We’ve all been…
The Amman fashion designer Nafsika Skourti could have started her clothing line anywhere. Her Paris Fashion Week debut six years ago won over buyers from around the world. But Ms. Skourti, 32, and her sister, Stephanie, 30, headquartered their company in their hometown in 2014 “to teach Arab hands to create clothing with international appeal,”…