When Melanie Simon. an aesthetician in Los Angeles, arrives to give facials to clients like Jennifer Aniston and Margot Robbie, she wears heels and looks as if she is attending whatever event she is prepping them for. When she leaves, three hours later, her makeup is melting; her long curly hair is in a topknot;…
The spring-summer couture season is upon is, and Paris is burning with feathered eye masks at Giambattista Vallii, space-age Mesozoic gowns courtesy of Iris Van Herpen’s signature aesthetic, and Bella Hadid in a ’50s prom dress thanks to Alexandre Vauthier. Plus, it’s not couture season without a few wedding dresses, and Chanel’s version veers more…
ImageCredit…Eric Ryan Anderson for The New York Times Steve Gorman played drums in the Black Crowes from 1987 to 2001. Then again from 2005 to 2014. Jan. 20, 2020 I wanted to be in a band. And I wanted that band to be great. And I wanted that feeling you have when you know you’re…
NAHMA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — It was only Saturday morning, and already the problems were piling up for Iliana Regan here in the rainy woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Ms. Regan is a 40-year-old chef from Indiana with a Michelin star who last summer published “Burn the Place,” perhaps the definitive Midwest drunken-lesbian food memoir. On…
ImageCredit…Photo Illustration by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Marianne Williamson joined the presidential campaign in January 2019. One year later she left it. Jan. 20, 2020 There’s a difference between form and content. Forms change, but content doesn’t. As long as you’re focused on content then you’re more emotionally and psychologically able to let form…
ImageCredit…Photo Illustration by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Cameron Carling, 38, left to pursue a dream life in Costa Rica. Then he ditched that, too. Interview by Alex Williams Jan. 20, 2020 I moved to New York in 2007 from Los Angeles, where I had been living after college at U.C.L.A. You show up in…
When guests arrived at Dior’s spring-summer 2020 couture show held at the Musee Rodin in Paris, France on Monday they were greeted by banners posing such huge questions as “Would God be a feminist?” and “What if women ruled the world?” American artist Judy Chicago, whose The Dinner Party remains one of the most profound…
PARIS — After the Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld died last February at age 85, a rumor began to circulate: He had left his fortune, and a large part of his worldly goods, to his Birman cat, Choupette. The estate hasn’t been settled yet, and Mr. Lagerfeld’s team remains mum on the subject. But the public’s…
Deepika Padukone, one of the highest-paid and best-known actresses in Bollywood, can afford to choose her roles carefully and with purpose. With her newest film — the first she has produced — she chose to make a statement about acid attacks in India. “Chhapaak,” which was released on Jan. 10 in India and select cities…
PARIS — A few decades ago, around the time she unveiled her breakthrough work “The Dinner Party” and formulated her animating question “What if Women Ruled the World?,” the artist Judy Chicago made a maquette of an enormous sculpture she wanted to build. Entitled “The Female Divine,” it would be a reclining corpulent nude, reveling…