Image Bloom and grow: The hands of Carmen Garcia, assembling flowers.CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times The showroom and factory of M & S Schmalberg is in a soot-gray building in Manhattan’s garment district, seven stories above a street-level women’s apparel wholesaler called Belma Fashions. On a recent morning, the firm’s 61-year-old president, Warren…
Netflix’s Stranger Things is easily one of our favorite TV obsessions and anything that brings us just a bit closer to Hawkins ahead of the upcoming Independence Day release is sure to put the biggest smile on our faces. H&M is kicking off the countdown to season three with a Stranger Things-themed collection starring Hawkins’…
We are thrilled to introduce our website, NYT Parenting. Our goal is to provide a trove of evidence-based, useful guidance to parents and people who are thinking about becoming parents. We’ll roll out a host of new guides every day over the next few months and provide you with the latest news and essays you’ll…
It’s been 36 hours since Cardi B appeared at the Met Gala in essentially a couture vagina, and she’s already flashing to another iconic look. This one’s lilac and slick, and unlike her Thom Browne couture piece, you can actually buy it starting tonight. The ‘fit comes from her second Fashion Nova collection, which launched…
Image Pat Velasquez, a bathroom attendant at the “21” Club in Manhattan. CreditAmy Lombard for The New York Times On a recent Wednesday evening the small, tranquil four-stall bathroom at the “21” Club in Manhattan was free of patrons. Still, Pat Velasquez, 72, dressed in a black blazer and matching pants, and black and white printed…
The Met Gala. It always takes place during the first Monday in May. It’s always fashion’s most-celebrated fête. And this year, it was all about doing the most. Janet Mock — author, activist, and the first trans woman of color to write and direct an episode of television with FX’s Pose — attended for the…
Homes Made to Order The San Francisco designer Yves Béhar has been using 3-D printing technology since the 1990s. So he’s not as surprised as perhaps the rest of us would be to learn that soon you’ll be able to 3-D print not only a house but an entire village. Mr. Béhar’s firm, Fuseproject, teamed…
In January, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, N.Y.C.E.D.C., announced it would turn over operations of New York’s design week organization, NYCxDesign, to Sandow in 2020 through a multiyear, renewable contract. Sandow, a media company and consultancy, owns the design magazines Interior Design, Luxe Interiors + Design, and Galerie, and the materials research library,…
It’s no secret that so-called PoMo revival — a rebound in taste for the audaciously Postmodern — is raging in the world of Western design. You might find these pieces dotting the trendy boutiques of the Lower East Side, or in the accessories assortment of hip brands like Hay. But for a certain sect of…
Each May, hundreds of events — trade shows, exhibitions, product introductions and panel discussions — are hosted as part of NYCxDesign, a festival of all things related to architecture as well as furniture, product, fashion, interior and graphic design, and more. Here are highlights of the seventh edition. Early May “Aldo Bakker: Slow Motion” at…