In the 1800s, consumption was the name of a terrible, yet weirdly chic, wasting disease later known as tuberculosis, glamorized in both society and the arts. “I should like to die from consumption,” the romantic poet Byron reportedly said. The novelist George Sand said of her lover, the composer Frédéric Chopin, that he “coughs with…
In his orthographically freewheeling 2017 best seller “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too,” the author-illustrator Jonny Sun explores the melancholia of life on Earth as seen through the eyes of an extraterrestrial. The inquisitive outsider, an alter ego birthed on Mr. Sun’s Twitter account, stumbles through heart-melting highs and lip-quivering lows, meeting such…
Teresa Mendoza of “La Reina del Sur” is not an average telenovela character. She drinks, swears and smokes weed. She sleeps with multiple men and fights back when they try to dominate her. And throughout the course of the show’s wildly successful first season, which aired on the Spanish-language network Telemundo in 2011, Teresa goes…
HOLLYWOOD — Tom Ford has come early to rearrange the furniture. He thinks that the already stylish room in the hottest new private club in town, the San Vicente Bungalows, could be even more captivating. So a team of eight club staffers gets busy under his direction, pulling a potted plant from the terrace for…
Maureen Dowd: You don’t pop Molly, you rock Tom Ford. Tom Ford: (Laughs) Jay-Z’s song called “Tom Ford.” I had to go on a rap translator online to actually understand the lyrics. I always loved that disco song with the lyric “Halston, Gucci, Fiorucci.” I’m such a lucky person. It’s a wild thing seeing 60,000…
“It’s not as scary as I thought it was going to be, as far as graveyards,” said Juice WRLD, the 20-year-old rapper from Chicago. He was visiting Green-Wood cemetery, the 478-acre burial ground in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. It was a bright and gusty April afternoon, but the spirits guided him correctly: The…
Apr 19, 2019 When someone’s e-signature reads “digital style director,” you know they know their stuff. Being a skilled shopper and outfit-putter-together is part of the job for ELLE.com’s Nikki Ogunnaike, and amongst all the season-specific pieces you’ll see her wearing to fashion weeks around the globe, a few favorites pop up time and time…
Alert: Mother’s Day is officially twenty-three days away. And for moms to be, this day is especially important. The ones you know have probably already prepared with lamaze classes and a library’s worth of parenting books, spoil her in a different way before the baby arrives. In this round up of gifts she needs, you’ll…
The fate of the soaring, palatial and utterly impractical Dime Savings Bank in Downtown Brooklyn was inevitable. The 16,750-square-foot, 40-foot-tall chamber, with seven kinds of marble flooring, a vaulted-tile dome and Corinthian columns, closed in 2016, a victim of automated tellers and digital payments. Its last full-time tenant, Chase Bank, moved into a squat storefront…
“The beautiful thing about Bergen is it doesn’t matter what time of year that you get here, there’s always something charming and quaint about it,” said T-Michael, a designer, tailor and worldly aesthete who has resided in this rainy Norwegian city for more than two decades. Nestled amid the snowcapped mountains and glacial fjords of…