For nearly 40 years, the novelist Bret Easton Ellis has been chronicling noirish debauchery in best-selling books such as “American Psycho” and “Less Than Zero.” This week, his partner, Todd Michael Schultz, was arrested at the fancy Los Angeles condominium building where the couple lives, and was charged with burglary, according to Abraham Bedoyan, a…
Joe Louis Dudley, who expanded a kitchen-table business that he started with his wife at the time into one of the largest Black-owned hair care companies in the Southeast, and who founded schools that trained tens of thousands of cosmetologists, died on Feb. 8 at his home in Kernersville, N.C., a suburb of Winston-Salem, He…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Benefit is right around the corner, and this year’s theme has finally been announced. The dress code for the 2024 Met Gala is “The Garden of Time,” celebrating the institute’s new exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” According to Vogue, “The exhibit will feature approximately 250 rare items…
Sephora made headlines this week after a video went viral showing three girls wearing apparent blackface at one of the chain’s Boston locations. The company said in a statement to the news media that it had asked the shoppers to “leave the premises,” adding, “Under no circumstance is this type of behavior tolerated at Sephora.”…
Maybe you noticed it on runways at New York Fashion Week. Maybe you glimpsed it on the heads of some “Swans.” Or maybe you saw it at the Grammy Awards, on Miley Cyrus, who paired all five of her outfits with a leonine mane. Big hair, it seems, is back. Models in the recent Marc…
Little by little over the last few years, “A Year on Earth With Mr. Hell,” a self-published, sex-heavy memoir by an unknown author, has become a word-of-mouth hit among artists and writers. The novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby called it “gripping.” The critic Greil Marcus described it as “the most graphically effective sex writing I’ve…
Is your living room drab? Is your bedroom a bit blah? How about your bathroom? Could it use a touch of panache? Try adding something red. At least that’s the theory held by Taylor Migliazzo Simon. Ms. Migliazzo Simon, a designer in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, made the case for her notion in a…
“Girl power, basically,” said Hillary Taymour, the designer of Collina Strada, backstage before her show at the start of New York Fashion Week. She wasn’t talking about bows and whistles; she was talking about the state of women in the world. “I wanted to make a wardrobe to take on anything,” Ms. Taymour said, standing…
Wallpaper is a powerful design tool that can transform a room. You start with a white box and end up with what feels like an entirely different space, wrapped in an intricate floral design or a bold geometric pattern. But which one: Intricate or bold? Floral or geometric? With so many colors and patterns available,…
More than two years into our marriage, we still have date nights nearly every night. This irks my friends and family when I ignore their calls as I buzz around the house, lighting candles and cooking dinner. Around 7 p.m., my husband and I sink into the couch cushions, plates in hand, to watch a…