ImageShannon O’Connor’s OK BOOMER hoodie.Credit…via Shannon O’Connor In a viral audio clip on TikTok, a white-haired man in a baseball cap and polo shirt declares, “The millennials and Generation Z have the Peter Pan syndrome, they don’t ever want to grow up.” Thousands of teens have responded through remixed reaction videos and art projects with…
Our travel tips column has shown you how to pack (edit ruthlessly, use packing cubes) and how to take vacation photos (remember to take advantage of the golden hour). But which outfits both travel effortlessly and make for enviable posts on social media? The answer combines color coordination, personal style, destination mindfulness and knowing what…
Salvjiia is a beautiful fright. The Instagram persona of Lilith Morris, she is posed in a recent post as a mutant, her eyes dark pits, her wheat-colored hair cascading to the floor, her torso fused with the fur-covered legs of a deer. Salvjiia, 19, is part of a subculture of self-created oddities proliferating online and,…
“The sun always shines on Beverly Hills, but not on everyone,” Camille Grammer says in the opening line of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” which premiered on Bravo in 2010. For the majority of its first nine seasons, the reality show shined its light on a certain type of woman: rich, opinionated and white.…
Rummaging through racks of clothes at your local thrift shop requires stamina, a good eye, and a whole lot of patience—a few skills this online shopping connoisseur could use some help with. Plus, I have really bad allergies so sifting through dusty boxes doesn’t exactly sound like a fun time. But do I really need…
It’s a truism that, in fashion, everything old is new again. But how, exactly, are we supposed to incorporate elements of bygone styles without accidentally lurching into a kind of clumsy costume? This was the concern of the wildly popular women’s magazine The Lady’s Book in 1830, which advised readers that when “attempting to engraft…
For the past couple of years, I’ve been seeing a trend among the online community of sous-vide cooking enthusiasts: rubbing meat with mayonnaise before searing it. A parallel trend has also been hitting the grilled cheese forums (there’s a message board for everything), where folks are slathering their bread with mayonnaise before griddling, insisting that…
The official start to awards season came on Sunday, October 27 when Hollywood gathered to hand out honorary Oscars to the likes of Geena Davis and filmmaker David Lynch. Here, a roundup of the evening’s best red carpet looks, from Dakota Johnson in bridalesque Brandon Maxwell to Jennifer Lopez in a golden Reem Acra gown.
According to a recent poll, 31 percent of ELLE.com readers wear sneakers with damn near anything. But that number is set to rise: The sneaker industry is predicted to make $95.14 billion dollars by 2025, outranking every other division in fashion. And business is so good that StockX, one of the top resale sites for…
In the early 1990s, Joost Elffers, a successful Dutch book packager, met an American expatriate living in Amsterdam named Gary Goldschneider. Mr. Goldschneider was a brilliant but scattered polymath who completed his studies at Yale medical school but never practiced medicine and later became a concert pianist. He once played all 32 of Beethoven’s sonatas…