Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Last week, I found myself awake in the wee morning hours, anxiously Googling things like “what to wear to cover a movie premiere” and “red carpet question ideas.” Katie Van Syckle, a senior staff editor…
Isabel Spooner-Harvey used to make latkes from scratch: grating the potatoes, wringing out their water, frying them over a hot stove. The effort was gratifying. But then she had three children in three years, followed by a separation from her husband. For the stay-at-home mother in Madison, Wis., the need to make the holidays special…
Courtesy Immensely important yet often overlooked, a good wallet has the potential to take on a major role both in your closet and your daily life. You’re probably well accustomed to thinking about your wallet in a broad sense, like “How much cash do I have on me?” or the ever-stressful “Where did I put…
Courtesy of retailer Over the past few years, leggings have gone from being the go-to clothing item for all things fitness to the everyday staple in everyone’s closet. Whether you’re hitting the gym or the grocery store, leggings rank high on the list of socially acceptable things to wear. And when top-quality leggings go on…
Zoey Grossman + Design Leah Romero As one of the most influential models of the past several years, Paloma Elsesser knows a thing or two about fashion, taste, and the finer things in life. Walking the runways of fashion week(s), starring in campaigns from Victoria’s Secret to Vans, and boasting countless editorial shoots can do…
Move over blow-up snowmen. This year, hollow plastic light-up figures are making a comeback and giving those inflatable fabric ornaments — the type with the fan inside — a run for their money. The vintage-looking plastic lawn ornaments called blow molds are made by inflating melted plastic inside a die, in much the same way…
It could have gone badly wrong. The optics of Chanel, one of the most haute of all European haute luxury brands, parachuting into Africa, a continent where they have no stores and no meaningful business, with a bells and whistles one-off fashion show, could have smacked, loudly, of colonialism. Especially because it was the first…
Ms. Miller said her experiences with racism were not the same today. “I’m currently surrounded by a community of social justice folks who are all about equity and inclusion and anti-racist practice,” she said. “I’m fortunate and do not have the same experience of other sisters who work for mostly white boards and trustees. Many…
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The process of shaping thick disks of clay into dinner plates takes seconds using a roller tool, a machine on which revolving hunks of clay are pressed into symmetrical circles one by one. After the plates are pressed and travel through a dryer, the edges are deftly hand trimmed as they spin…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. “The big center crop is known as makua,” Miki’ala Pua’a-Freitas, the owner of a taro farm in Hawaii, told me. Makua is a term for “parent” in Hawaiian culture. “All the offshoots, those are called…