ImageBurberry, spring 2020CreditTom Jamieson for The New York Times LONDON — What does it mean to be British? What does that look like? There’s really no way around these questions for anyone in the United Kingdom right now; anyone existing in the shadow of the maybe-final-the-P.M.-swears-it-is-so Brexit deadline of Oct. 31. They overshadow everything else,…
Because marriage is an ever-evolving experience, we constantly shift, change, love harder, love less and, in some cases, start over. In It’s No Secret, a new feature, The Times highlights couples who share thoughts about commitment and what they have learned about themselves and each other along the way. Who Cokie Boggs Roberts, 73, and…
When Ariel Coleman, 28, quit her last job, as a project manager in the corporate office of a bank, it wasn’t because her new employer offered her a raise, a different role or more seniority. “The work-life balance is just much better,” she said. At her new company, Omfgco, a branding and design firm in…
On his first day working at the University of Phoenix, Eric Shapiro found out the good news: He had tested red-yellow. To the layperson this doesn’t mean much. But to those well-versed in the psychology of Dr. Taylor Hartman’s “Color Code,” as all employees of the University of Phoenix’s enrollment office were required to be,…
It’s a lucky thing that the playwright Theresa Rebeck is so at home with drama. Otherwise, she would have had zero patience with the theatrics involved in wrangling the brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, that her family has occupied for the past 18 years. “Previously, a crazy man lived here,” said Ms. Rebeck, 61, who…
They came to Brooklyn from as far away as California, dressed in cutoff shorts, sequins and cowboy hats. It was September 1980 — the last days of disco — and Donna Summer thumped on a boombox in Prospect Park. There, 800 people had gathered to compete in what was billed as the first roller-skating marathon…
When one hears “the ’90s are back,” it’s generally not the 1890s. But Simone Rocha took us there with her Spring 2020 collection, which married gauzy gowns and encrusted pearl headbands with lace shorts, organza pants, and some very sharp pajama bottoms. EstropGetty Images Both a gender bend and an allusion to antique porcelain dolls,…
Each fall season, turtlenecks, bomber jackets, and scarves get all the love, but the hoodie is the true star of the autumn season. The now fashion-approved hoodie is no longer relegated to loungewear, athleisure-wear, doing laundry-wear or Sunday scaries-wear—it’s fashun and should be treated as such. Dress it up with a leopard midi skirt, trousers…
In ELLE.com’s 60 Second Style, we spend one minute proving that a single item can be majorly versatile with some unexpected how-to-wear tips. You’ve seen us style a white button down shirt and detail how to wear red boots. Now, fashion director Nikki Ogunnaike demonstrates how to get away with packing just one pair of…
London Fashion Week is fully in the swing of things, with Burberry presenting its first ever carbon neutral show today. On Instagram, the brand shared “we have offset our impacts, such as the flights of guests traveling to London specifically for the show and the build and production of the event, through VSC-certified REDD+ projects…