In Africa, 892 rhinos were poached for their horns in 2018, down from a high of 1,349 killed in 2015. The decline in deaths is encouraging, but conservationists agree that poaching still poses a dire threat to Africa’s rhino population, which hovers around 24,500 animals. Now, in the hopes of driving down the value of…
On Monday morning LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury company, announced it had proposed to — and been accepted by — Tiffany & Company, the American jeweler made famous by its blue boxes, Truman Capote and Audrey Hepburn. The man behind the largest-ever deal in luxury: Bernard Arnault, founder, chairman and largest…
Donaldson CollectionGetty Images Iconic jewelry label Tiffany and Co. has officially joined the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton family after a bidding war that culminated in the luxury goods group acquiring the jeweler for a whopping $16.2 billion. According to WWD, LVMH latest move marks the group’s biggest purchase to date. LVMH’s acquisition of the…
Celebrity culture, in the first decade of this century, took the form of a kind of misogynistic death cult. Somewhere in Hollywood, Lindsay Lohan was falling out of an S.U.V. Tara Reid was falling out of a club nearby. It was open season on drunk girls. Flashbulbs alighted on their smeared mascara and slackened jaws.…
One of music’s final big nights of the year, the American Music Awards, are beginning. And the stars have brought out their best red carpet statement fashion as the holiday season begins. Here, what everyone, from Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez to Lil Nas X and Lizzo, wore on the red carpet, updated as they…
Twenty years ago, an opinion writer for The New York Times described Colombia as a country dominated by “drug killings, paramilitary massacres, guerrilla kidnappings, death squad murders and street crime.” Five years before that, a 1994 Washington Post article grappled with the question of whether people would want to visit war-torn Croatia. “Only the more…
ImageContestants at Rashaad Newsome’s Champion Art Ball in PhiladelphiaCredit…Christopher Lee for The New York Times PHILADELPHIA — “Tonight you are in a blended world,” said M.C. Jack Mizrahi, a ballroom veteran and historian, at the Champion Art Ball. “We’re going to take art, we’re going to take vogue, we’re going to take ballroom, and we’re…
If you run into Roger Federer on your way to board a plane, do not be surprised if he looks you up and down, or mostly down. That’s because Mr. Federer has something of a sneaker fixation. The Swiss tennis champion is not an “obsessive,” he said (slightly hard to believe about someone who has…
Pumpkin pie, apple pie (above), pecan pie, sweet potato pie. We have all the classic Thanksgiving pies, but, if you’re looking for something a little different, may we suggest brandied pumpkin pie, apple ombré pie, chocolate pecan pie or sweet potato casserole pie. Or if tradition be damned in your house this year, make a…
The Look Marching band is a team of its own. Photographs by Jessica Lehrman Text by Arit John Produced by Eve Lyons ImageCollege marching bands start practicing in the preseason, just like the football teams they play alongside.Credit…Jessica Lehrman for The New York Times You know that classic high school movie scene in which the…