Every shoe collection needs a pair of black booties; they’re a simple staple that go a long way with what’s already in your closet. The key is finding a style that’s versatile (to match jeans one day and a dress the next) and, even more importantly has contoured arch support to make them comfortable enough…
In a black crop top and leggings, padding around her house during a wardrobe fitting, Nicki Minaj is supremely disarming. She extends a hand, clarifies the spelling of your name, and offers everyone water—she presents herself as a very low-key host. You might think, “Did I really just meet the Nicki Minaj?” To see her…
There’s nothing like wrapping yourself in a warm, fuzzy blanket only to realize you left the popcorn in the microwave. And so you’re forced to press pause on the movie, de-blanket, and bolt to the kitchen and back because you need to return to your comfy cocoon—stat. Seriously, ugh. Enter: The Comfy, the part-sweatshirt, part-blanket,…
In 1969, Donald Fisher was a 40-year-old real estate professional who had a big problem finding Levi’s that fit him properly. His solution became the Gap. Fisher and his wife, Doris, opened the first location of the retail chain on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco, a short walk from the state university campus. For three…
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…