Image Sugar rush: A fake-cake and cookie fantasia fills one of Bergdorf Goodman’s windows.CreditJackie Molloy for The New York Times David Hoey, the senior director of visual presentation at Bergdorf Goodman, was sitting in his “war room” the other day when his cellphone rang. Mr. Hoey begged a visitor’s pardon; the phrase “little crisis” was…
Courtesy Dressing to the nines is not exactly a Thanksgiving Day priority, but that doesn’t mean you should default to overstretched leggings and a baggy T-shirt you found in your parents’ garage. Accommodate your growing food baby without sacrificing style by wearing wrap dresses in dizzy prints, cozy oversized sweaters, and other pieces that let…
Around this time last year, I gave up jeans for 10 days. TL;DR: I was sick of wearing the same three pairs every week and, frankly, was in a bit of an outfit rut. So I posted an Instagram that I’d be giving up jeans until further notice and lasted for just over a week.…
It started with “An Inconvenient Truth.” In 2006, Gregg Renfrew watched the Al Gore documentary on climate change, and became convinced that her next business would be one that introduced cleaner, less environmentally damaging products to the market. Ms. Renfrew, who grew up in New York City and its suburbs, had already had a successful…
Seven years ago I lost 60 pounds, but recently I’ve struggled with gaining it back. I’m not alone in my weight struggles. Nor am I alone in the eating disorder I have wrestled with for the last 40 years. It’s the most common eating disorder, according to a meta analysis in the Annals of Internal…
The “33 hour” sale at Dunham’s begins the morning after Thanksgiving and lasts through Monday, when the local schools are closed for deer-hunting season. There are no giant sales on flat-screen televisions or stockpiles of the hottest holiday toy. The big draw is the hot chocolate and the chance to win a $100 gift card.…
Last fall, just a few days into my trip to the Shetland Islands, the Scottish subarctic archipelago across the sea from Norway, I found myself on the top of a cliff face, peering through the fog at a huge rock in the northern Atlantic Ocean. The rock was topped with a spike of white: the…
El Espace is a column dedicated to news and culture relevant to Latinx communities. Expect politics, arts, analysis, personal essays and more. ¿Lo mejor? It’ll be in Spanish and English, so you can forward it to your tía, your primo Lalo or anyone else (read: everyone). The paradox of working in media is that even…
Visitors to Old Havana usually come to the neighborhood to take in its faded beauty, the vintage cars cruising cobbled streets and the colonial buildings dating back to the city’s Spanish roots in the 16th and 17th centuries. This photogenic neighborhood, a Unesco World Heritage site, isn’t typically thought of as a shopping destination. But…
Ellen Jovin was settling in at a collapsible table she’d set up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan last month when two little boys of around 4 and 5 approached her. “What’s a gerund?” one of them asked. Charmed, Ms. Jovin explained that a gerund is a verb that has become a noun after…