PARIS — Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are not the only people thinking about extraterrestrial exploration. The promise of alternate dimensions has long captured a chunk of the fashion imagination — none more so than that of the designer Paco Rabanne, who died last month at age 88. Julien Dossena has been carrying on that…
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On Thursday evening, more than 1,000 writers, presenters and guests gathered for the PEN America Literary Awards at Town Hall near Times Square. Just before 6 p.m., the staff set up a small red carpet area for what has been called the Oscars for books. Slowly, luminaries from the worlds of literature and entertainment — Susan…
Eight years ago, Angie Valentino, an award-winning makeup artist, moved from Milan — where she worked for brands like Fendi, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana and Philipp Plein — to New York. Since then, she has focused on private clients around the city, including Broadway and television performers. Ms. Valentino, 37, lives in Ridgewood, Queens. ITALIAN…
Beware Toxic Mary I’ve been at a perfectly OK job for the past nine months, but the environment is a little toxic. There are a few people who are rude and unkind, and there’s a culture of gossiping and complaining. I’ve become a target for one particularly grouchy and rude co-worker. Emails from “Mary” are rude…
Jenny Walton had coveted an Hermès bag for years before finally buying one last fall. “They’re never going to go out of style,” Ms. Walton, 33, offered as a reason she wanted to own one of the brand’s handbags, which can cost four, five, even six figures. Hermès’s bags include the Kelly and its more…
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Bernadette Carey Smith, who in the 1960s was one of the first Black women to be hired as a reporter at The New York Times and The Washington Post, died on Dec. 5 at an assisted living complex in Tuckahoe, N.Y. She was 83. Her nephew Scott Taylor said the cause was arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.…
(She received backlash that year, but for a different reason: In a rare public blunder, she posed for a photograph sitting on a “chair” by the Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard that depicted a Black woman in bondage. The image spurred outrage online, and Ms. Zhukova publicly apologized. ) Behind the scenes, Ms. Zhukova was expanding…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “The primacy of clothes.” That was Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ stated starting point for their fall 2023 menswear collection back in January. And it’s a sentiment that designers have been going back to recently, tired of chasing the concentric trend…