Name: Midori Francis Age: 28 Hometown: Rumson, N.J. Now Lives: In a two-bedroom apartment on the West Side of Los Angeles, which she moved into last summer. Claim to Fame: Ms. Francis is a queer Asian American actress who starred in “The Sex Lives of College Girls” on HBO and “Dash & Lily,” a young…
PARIS — The cavernous Stade Jean-Bouin, the rugby arena in the 16th Arrondissement, was heaving late Wednesday night. Around 7,000 people were munching French fries, clutching drinks, waving their phones in the air and otherwise waiting for the third Balmain Festival to begin. Backstage, reached through a maze of hallways, the designer Olivier Rousteing was…
They were standing in a Walmart parking lot when William’s wife turned to him and asked, “Are you gay?” Those three words catalyzed the end of their marriage, and the end of a 22-year partnership filled with many joys and rituals, including the haircuts William’s wife gave him. But those words were also an opportunity…
The fashion glitterati has made its final sartorial pit stop in Paris. The French capital always promises a bevy of street style stars, from editors to influencers and models off-duty that embrace the real marathon that is Paris Fashion Week. From the stars outside the Dior show to the positively flawless fall layering, we’re taking…
LONDON — Burberry has named Daniel Lee as its new chief creative officer. After months of speculation, the news came less than 48 hours after a runway show from the Italian designer Riccardo Tisci — a collection that proved to be his swan song with the British luxury house. The appointment, announced Wednesday, marks the…
My wife and I own a small house with a large backyard. My mother-in-law, 63, asked if she could use her small nest egg to build her forever home on it. (We can’t subdivide our lot, but we can build a guesthouse.) We agreed. She’s a terrific grandmother to our toddler, and the move would…
Pajaki quickly became the common thread in her work, tying her longtime interest in folk art with her desire to promote her Polish heritage. She spent time traveling to different Polish villages to meet artists, some of whom had experience making pajaki, and they imparted their knowledge and tricks. Learning to make pajaki has been…
PARIS — Deciphering the language of public dress, especially dress worn by the powerful and the popular, has become a form of competitive sport these days, practiced in the arenas of Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. “The Message of So-and-So’s Outfit” is so common a descriptor when it comes to the images consumed en masse, it…
“My real estate agent insisted we go look at this small hotel in Athens — which, of course, we’d never heard of,” said Ms. Ballinger, who lives in Mount Kisco, N.Y. “Athens is a perfect combination of old and new. You have people who have lived here for five or six generations, and you have…
During the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, some of us mastered bread-baking (if we could get our hands on flour) or devoted ourselves to nurturing some new mail-order houseplant. Charley Eiseman set the bar a bit higher, as he always does. In 2020, he decided to keep count of certain creatures living within the…