“The things that we interact with every day are the things that should get the most thought in terms of design,” said Joe Doucet, a New York product designer. Serving utensils, for example: They might not be the center of attention when the big platter of meat and potatoes arrives at the table, but try…
Image From left, Adesuwa Onyenokwe, Chioma Onwutalobi, Betty Irabor and Tewa Onasanya.CreditFom left, Yagazie Emezi for The New York Times, Lauren Fleishman for The New York Times, Yagazie Emezi for The New York Times, Sophia Spring for The New York Times It’s not easy running a fashion magazine in Nigeria. Printing presses are few, and…
Achieving supermodel status is no easy feat and surely doesn’t happen overnight. Just look at Kendall Jenner’s glow up from doe-eyed tween on her family’s popular E! series Keeping Up With the Kardashians to catwalk darling, strutting in shows from fashion’s upper echelon of talent like Versace, Marc Jacobs, Chanel, Balmain, and more. And with…
Image Ambika Conroy at her store, Ambika Boutique, in downtown Mountain Dale, N.Y.CreditNathaniel Brooks for The New York Times MOUNTAIN DALE, N.Y. — When Butch Resnick was growing up in this small working-class hamlet in the town of Fallsburg, he never imagined that decades later, he would be standing in the town’s former grocery store,…
The Look In the city’s outlying areas, Latino teenagers are shaping a new music scene. Photographs by Daniel Jack Lyons Text by Cenan Pirani Produced by Eve Lyons Image Molly Diaz, 18, a show organizer in Los Angeles. She is part of a generation of young Latinos driving the punk music scene in the city’s…
At a recent gala benefit for the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Agnes Gund accepted an award for her achievements in philanthropy and did something fairly unusual among people in her social set: She barely spoke about herself. Instead, Ms. Gund used her six minutes at the lectern to praise the museum for its contributions…
PARIS — A few days before Paris St.-Germain traveled to Liverpool in September to begin its latest quest to win the Champions League, Dani Alves and Kylian Mbappé stood on a stage in a starkly lit room in the basement of the Parc des Princes. In front of them, a crowd of dozens of journalists,…
LOS ANGELES — A two-hour prime-time special on ABC. Cupcakes the size of cars at Disneyland Paris. Collaborations with a dozen fashion designers, including Marc Jacobs. More than 30 books, including one from Taschen so big it comes with a carrying handle. Small and subtle are not the Walt Disney Company’s style. But a new…
Pharrell Williams has a lot on his plate right now—from opening his Miami eatery Swan and Bar Bevy (a partnership wit nightlife tycoon David Grutman) to making sure Donald Trump never plays “Happy” at another one of his rallies again. But even in the midst of all this, Pharrell isn’t too busy to lend his…
Proven by yours truly, a beautiful scarf can be worn as a top, a bag, and more. But if the Spring 2019 runways are any indication, scarves are heading north. Classic Versace prints were tied around the head like a pirate, Kate Spade New York premiered vintage-inspired bandanas that are destined to be worn while…