The look In Alaska and other areas of the circumpolar north, women have been working in the last decade to revitalize a tattooing tradition. Photographs and Text by Ash Adams Produced by Eve Lyons Sept. 29, 2018 Grete Chythlook dreamed of the tattoo before she had ever seen one in person: a few fine lines…
When she returned to Chattanooga two years later, she reluctantly enrolled at her father’s university, but by then her worldview was too wide. Restless, she transferred to Georgia State University, where she was less interested in class than in the burgeoning drag scene in Atlanta, which she called “the mecca of the gay South.” There,…
LONDON — When Chidera Eggerue was 14, she went for a bra fitting and realized that her breasts looked nothing like those of the model on the packaging. She began to believe there was something wrong with her body. As a teenager she even started saving up to have plastic surgery. She was saving up…
PARIS — On Friday night in Paris, as the moon rose over the gold dome of Napoleon’s tomb in Les Invalides and a giant black box specially constructed in its backyard loomed in the shadows, Hedi Slimane, the much-admired, much-decried designer who left Yves Saint Laurent in 2016 and whose ghost had been haunting fashion…
Kylie Jenner just took her lipstick obsession to the next level. The Kylie Cosmetics founder and lip kit queen lent support to another cult-favorite beauty brand, Anastasia Beverly Hills, when she attended the brand’s event at LA night club Delilah last night. For the event, Kylie wore a skin-tight mini dress with lace-up heels, accessorizing…
You build on the rubble of the past. That’s the way it goes. But at Courrèges, it was unusually literal. The first showing for the latest reinvention of the storied label, whose past looms large over all of fashion, took place at its historic Paris shop, whose emptiness seemed slightly creepy, all concrete and glass.…
Train your body, and your brain Dr. Tracey J. Shors, a neuroscience and psychology professor at Rutgers University who has been studying the female brain and stress for 30 years, stumbled on meditation only about 10 years ago after a friend recommended it. “I thought it was about relaxing, but I was wrong,” she said.…
He arrived on the pop culture landscape of the 1970s with the subtlety of a mushroom cloud, serving as the globally recognized face of punk rock, as well as its id. John Lydon — then known as Johnny Rotten, the lead singer of the British band the Sex Pistols — did not just espouse anarchy,…
What’s your Abercrombie association? Everyone born between 1980 and 1995 tends to have a strong one. Whether it was a label you lusted over, wore with uniform regularity, or didn’t quite get the fuss about, it was a cornerstone of many of our mall-trolling high school years. (And oh, the smell! ‘Fierce’ is divisive, but…
STREET STYLE The photographer Gabriela Portilho examines personal style as a statement of identity, culture and strength on the streets of São Paulo, Brazil. Photographs and Text by Gabriela Portilho Produced by Elizabeth Bristow Sept. 28, 2018