In the 1950s, women across the country wore practical, button-down housedresses with tight waists and deep pockets. In the ’80s, shoulder pads were a symbol of power in the workplace, but also up and down supermarket aisles. In the aughts, moms (and their daughters) wore a whole lot of Juicy Couture velour sweatsuits. For years,…
PARIS — “We all started off envisioning ourselves as a boy band,” Heron Preston said. He, Virgil Abloh and Matthew Williams: They were young, hungry and marketing-savvy, working behind the scenes — for Kanye, for Nike — and ricocheting around the periphery of fashion and music in the hazy days of the 2010s. Under the…
PARIS — Morning in the Givenchy couture salons on Avenue George V. The herringbone floors have been laid with enough baby’s breath to fill out all the bouquets in Manhattan, though the sprays have been liberally spritzed with Givenchy fragrance; baby’s breath itself doesn’t smell of much. Clare Waight Keller, Givenchy’s artistic director, has haute…
On Saturday, Henri Bendel, the department store whose brown and white stripes once defined the concept of the boutique as a carnival of gewgaws and glamour, will shut its doors for the last time. It has been a slow farewell, 24 stores blinking out like fireflies since the start of the year, culminating with the…
New Yorkers have recently become accustomed to Australians’ bringing their flat whites and foodways to the city, particularly at cafes. Jason Scott, a Sydney transplant, has a different idea: He’s going to bring America to New York. Mr. Scott, 44, plans to open Gran Tivoli, an Italian restaurant, in NoLIta, in February. Peppi’s Cellar, his…
Do one thing, do it well and do it affordably. That seems to be the thought behind the boutique studio boom that has given us Drybar for hairstyling, SoulCycle for indoor cycling, Skin Laundry for laser treatments, MNDFL for meditation. And now we have WTHN — dropping vowels is not just for tech start-ups these…
Kiki Layne, breakout star of Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk, may just be getting started in her film career, but it feels like she’s already a pro. With a critically-acclaimed film under her belt, the 27-year old has quickly turned into a darling of the fashion industry and a red carpet fixture. Luxury…
In Dalston, a dynamic pocket of East London, an edgy arts scene blooms amid repurposed factories, side streets sprinkled with tiny shops, tucked-away public gardens and colorful outdoor markets catering to longtime Afro-Caribbean and Turkish communities. Cool kids and chess-playing old-timers commune over thick Ethiopian espresso at Kaffa Coffee, a neighborhood institution. Fashion statements abound:…
SYDNEY, Australia — It was a young penguin colony, and all but one of the couples were pretty bad parents. They would get distracted from their nests, go for a swim or play, and so neglected eggs were getting cold, likely never to hatch. This was normal for inexperienced penguins, and the aquarium managers didn’t…
Most Important Photo Ever Neither of us wanted to be at our high school reunion. I was worried I would have to retell the story of my high school sweetheart’s death to pancreatic cancer over and over. He was recently separated after years of being in an unhappy marriage. We didn’t know each other in…