Valentine’s Day is upon us again. It’s a time of candlelit dinners, heart-shaped candy boxes from the drugstore and (depending on your relationship status) watching old romantic comedies while you drink wine by yourself. It’s a great celebration. But where did it come from? And why do we care about it so much? People have…
How to show a heart — the universal symbol of love — has shifted on the internet over the years, driven by new technology. By Sheera Frenkel Sheera Frenkel, who reports on social media from San Francisco, watched dozens of videos on how to make <3 shapes for this article. Feb. 14, 2023 Take your…
Three years into a pandemic, plenty of luxury houses are ready for us to get back to business. This season’s runways are no longer far removed from the classroom or the conference room. Academic prep style is back, albeit with an edge. Elevated capsule wardrobes—what some might call “real-world clothes”—are inherently chic. This New York…
LOS ANGELES — This beige 1985 Chevy cargo van has been around the block. When the artist Ruben Ochoa was young, his parents used it for selling tortillas on a route north of San Diego. As a graduate student in the early ’00s, he used it to commute from Los Angeles to Irvine. And during…
New York Fashion Week has taken over the concrete jungle, which means traffic jams, crowds of people, throngs of photographers and, most importantly, some of the best street style of the year, even in the dead of winter. From see-through tops to denim corsets and race car-inspired jackets, trends abound for the fall 2023 season…
Follow our live updates of the Super Bowl between Philadelphia and Kansas City. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — They called the party “Homecoming,” and for a certain kind of guest — most at home in V.I.P. areas at fizzy nightspots — it was exactly that. On the Friday night of Super Bowl LVII weekend, the h.wood Group,…
On Sunday night, the most watched fashion show of New York Fashion Week took place — in Arizona. I am speaking, of course, of Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show, a 13-minute extravaganza of crimson and a pregnancy reveal in the form of workwear, puffers and a breastplate that will probably set maternity trends for the…
The designer Stella Jean has often cut a solitary figure. Since her debut at Milan Fashion Week in 2013, and with support from Giorgio Armani, the Haitian-Italian designer remains the only Black member of the National Chamber of Italian Fashion. She has often used her platform to address the need for better representation and financial…
Public figures may have a tougher time connecting with audiences when they become so famous and wealthy that they lose touch with everyday experiences, he added. An out-of-touch star is rarely likable, especially at a time when fans have grown accustomed to joining their favorite entertainers on social media as they document a date night…
Follow our live updates of the Super Bowl between Philadelphia and Kansas City. Stars — they’re nothing like us. Except some of them, like many of us, will tune in this weekend to watch the Kansas City Chiefs face the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. (You can find all of our coverage of the…