Steve GranitzGetty Images Selena Gomez kicked off her 2020 relaxing in Hawaii with her friends, and it’s clear now why she needed a bit of a breather. On Friday, her new album, Rare released to much fanfare, and Gomez seemed to spend a lot of last night celebrating that. She got up this morning and…
MONTREAL — Some have suggested they could become king and queen of Canada. Tim Hortons, the quintessentially Canadian coffee chain, offered them “free coffee for life.” Others recommended Ottawa, the nation’s sleepy capital, as a possible home, noting that, if they squinted hard enough, they could pretend the Parliament buildings were palaces. Prince Harry and…
Raghavendra Rathore, the Indian designer known for his ability to translate his country’s traditional men’s wear for a global elite, was on top of a mountain in his native state of Rajasthan when his phone rang. Ermenegildo Zegna, the Italian men’s wear and manufacturing behemoth, wanted to purchase a minority stake in the business. “You…
In 2006, Google bought YouTube for more than $1 billion, Apple was preparing to announce the first iPhone, and the American housing bubble began to deflate. Claire Stapleton, then a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, faced the same question over and over: What did she plan to do with that English degree? She flirted,…
And, in this week’s Modern Love essay, Wayne Scott reflects on the complexity of his open marriage when he and his son make a trip to the hospital — where his wife’s boyfriend is recovering from a motorcycle accident. Some couples avoid conflict, while others tackle their issues … in the shower? After nine years…
Ilana Glazer’s first stand-up special, now streaming on Amazon Prime, has a provocatively unfunny title: “The Planet Is Burning.” But that dark, deadpan phrase also captures something of the millennial ethos that Glazer, 32, and her comedy partner Abbi Jacobson demonstrated in their Comedy Central show “Broad City”: In times of personal and political chaos,…
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know that Valentine’s Day gets a bad rap. It’s a greeting card holiday designed to make singles feel bad, but it’s also an opportunity to shamelessly wear hearts, sequins, and red all at the same damn time. What’s not to love? We rounded up thirteen looks that give in to V-day…
Remember your grandmother’s avocado-green kitchen? It could soon be yours. Or maybe it’ll be pink, mauve, emerald green or buttercup. Anything but white, because the revolt against the white kitchen has begun. Last November, the cover of Elle Decor featured a Steven Gambrel-designed kitchen awash in a shiny turquoise — even the ceiling gleamed like…
MILAN — James Bond has an unexpected weapon in the forthcoming espionage flick, “No Time to Die.” Corduroy. What? The famously slick Tom Ford tuxedo-clad super spy invented by Ian Fleming now wearing the fuddy-duddy fabric most often associated with 1970s literature professors? Yes, if the trailer for the April release, directed by Cary Joji…
Wrapped in furs, dripping with diamonds and with her blond hair perfectly coifed, Faith Hope Consolo cut a glamorous figure in the flashy, late 20th-century world of New York City real estate. Ms. Consolo was born into the business, benefiting from her father’s legacy as a real estate executive. Emboldened professionally by her mother, a…