What better way to commemorate Women’s History Month, in March, than by taking a trip for women, led by women? As an another motivation to book such a getaway, International Women’s Day falls on March 8. The popularity of such trips seem to have increased since the #MeToo movement. Annette Youngbauer, a travel agent from…
PARIS — So there we were, up early on a Sunday morning as the fashion season entered its final few days, caravaning out yet again to an echoing space in the banlieues of Paris, entering a room scented by the nausea-inducing aroma of freshly laid tar and cast in a blood-red glow, assaulted by strobe…
The Valentino fall/winter 2019 show is about to begin. Catch all the action, from start to finish, below. Justine Carreon Justine Carreon is the market editor at ELLE.com covering fashion, Dutch ovens, and fashion again.
PARIS — On Saturday in Paris the barricades went up at the foot of the Champs-Élysées, as they have every weekend since November, in anticipation of the marching of the “Yellow Vests” and their economic protest. The stretch of avenues from the Tuileries through the Place de la Concorde and the Élysée Palace to the…
Image Ronan, left, and Erwan Bouroullec, with a model of the fountains they have designed for the traffic circle on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.CreditJulien Mignot for The New York Times PARIS — When the colorful, fantastical fountains by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle were unveiled in 1983 beside the Georges Pompidou Center, many…
PARIS — After holding immersive Tommy Now extravaganzas from New York to Los Angeles, London and Shanghai, Tommy Hilfiger rolled into Paris on Saturday night to be host of a runway show in the global capital of fashion for the first time in his five-decade career. “We have taken our see-now, buy-now show concept all…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. It is hard for me to imagine my father, a career litigator, boasting to his colleagues in Toronto that his son writes about pants. “I’m not sure what my father tells people I do,” I’ll…
It’s easy to be cynical about a celebrity fashion project with a giant clothing brand. From the astronomical budget and relentless branding to the crush of people backstage, the whole thing can feel like a heart emoji replaced an actual heart. Enter Zendaya, an American Sweetheart for Gen Z, with her doll-perfect features and her…
Released in 2002, “The Ring” furnished us with a fresh and memorably horrifying rendition of the folkloric vengeful ghost. In that film, Samara, a demonic orphan drowned in a well by her tormented adoptive mother, rose from the dead, via VHS tape, to terrorize the living. The particulars of the story are less important than…
It’s the financial riddle of the 30-something years. How does anyone, even those with a stable, upwardly mobile job, let alone a family, afford to live in places like New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco or Washington, D. C.? The answer: Many are bankrolled, to varying degrees, by their parents. Hold the…