Claire Stern is the Digital Director of ELLE.com. Previously, she was Deputy Editor of ELLE.com. Her interests include fashion, food, travel, music, Peloton, and The Hills—not necessarily in that order. She used to have a Harriet the Spy notebook and isn’t ashamed to admit it.
I spent a few thousand dollars on cosmetic medical treatments — Botox and fillers — at a spa. The injections were performed by the dermatologist who owns the facility. I am frightened of needles and was nervous about the procedure. Afterward, I was a little out of it — maybe because of my nervousness or…
“I’m wearing the dresses. I’m wearing the shoes. I’m wearing the funny schoolgirl uniforms, which I’m too old to wear, but it’s not stopping me,” Ms. Sugihara said. Ms. Liang, who grew up in Queens, is part of a tradition of female designers subverting ultrafeminine clothes. Anna Sui, who made baby-doll dresses grungy in the…
In 2022, when Mark Ronson, the Grammy- and Oscar-winning D.J., songwriter and super-producer, became a brand ambassador for the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet (A.P.), there was an element of kismet to the partnership. “I know about A.P. through music,” Mr. Ronson recalled last month on a phone call from his home in New York City.…
“At times I get up in the middle of the night and stop all the clocks. All of them,” an aging princess sings in “Der Rosenkavalier,” Richard Strauss’s sprawling opera of love, devotion and loss. And time is fleeting, the character explains to her young lover: It “courses between you and me — silent, as…
The men behind Jurmo Watches say their clients often fall into one of two categories: those who know exactly what they want, and those who have little or no idea and need some direction. That is because the Finnish brand, founded in 2017 by Martin Kalland and Kim von Gerich, produces mechanical timepieces that can…
There are watch pendants and watch brooches and watch rings, but Rihanna apparently had a different idea: a watch choker. So the Barbadian singer, actress and businesswoman turned to Jacob Arabo of Jacob & Co., the New York City jeweler and watchmaker who has created other pieces for her over the past 10 years. (Remember…
Greubel Forsey has made inroads into the 10-year plan that Antonio Calce announced in early 2021, shortly after he became chief executive of the independent watch brand founded by Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey. New models are being introduced, production strategically increased and distribution refocused on a handful of flagship stores. But fans have also…
The lack of a rotor generally allows manual-wind movements — and, ultimately, their exterior cases — to be smaller, which suits the current trend for small watches. While watch fans are known to call the 40-millimeter size “Goldilocks” because it is neither too big nor too small, several models introduced this year were in the…
If you want to gauge the effect of a planting design, try letting a 5-year-old loose around it. Then watch his body language. Chances are, the local insects will confirm the child’s findings, gravitating toward abundance and exuberance, as the child did. As these two distinct but discerning live-audience samples concur, more is better: more…