Mark Peckmezian As we finally swap our cozy knits for giant puffers, hats, and gloves, our minds tend to turn toward the mountains. From Aspen to Courchevel to Stowe, snowy escapes provide a chance to hit the slopes, drink hot chocolate, or just sit fireside with that book you still haven’t gotten around to reading.…
This article is part of a series examining Responsible Fashion, and innovative efforts to address issues facing the fashion industry. Who gets to decide what is green or greenwashing? Is it a good thing that more celebrities and reality stars are embracing pre-loved clothing? How much should governments step in when it comes to sustainability?…
I have successfully resisted knee-high boots for years. I rode out the last cycle when they were in fashion, about 15 years ago, when everybody was tucking their skinny jeans into them. I knew that look wasn’t for me. In the last months, though, I’ve wanted something to wear under skirts or dresses that wasn’t…
You’re no doubt familiar with the feeling of walking into a New Year’s Eve party and confronting a very particular temporal melancholy: the sensation that you and everyone there are doomed to repeat such an arbitrary occasion for the rest of our lives. My parents had their own solution to this annual dilemma. They are…
After bidding the holiday season adieu, we’ve entered the Twilight Zone-like period between Christmas and New Year’s. A series of days where sweatpants are worn with pride, work inboxes are gleefully ignored, and leftovers are consumed like nothing else in your fridge exists. It’s also the period where glorious post-holiday sales return, the top-billing star…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Nearly every big change in how we eat starts as a fad, which is really just a shared moment among a subset of diners or cooks that gains traction. Some fads fade away slowly, like wine coolers…
On a recent winter evening, Cat Fitzpatrick and Kay Gabriel were trying to decide how the former would introduce the latter, who was about to read from her new novel, “A Queen in Bucks County.” Ms. Fitzpatrick mentioned that the book had made her cackle on the PATH train. Making other trans women “crack up…
Ah, yes. The time has come to look forward to the new year. In fashion, that means taking a look at the best 2023 fashion trends to come. I know, I know; with the way the trend cycle is going, it’s getting tough to keep up. Not to worry—you’ve come to the right place. We…
Complaining about cramped quarters is common practice for most people who live in apartments. But sometimes you don’t have to move to find a little extra space. That’s what Lauren and Michael Stein discovered. In 2012, they paid $895,000 for a two-bedroom co-op apartment in Midtown Manhattan that a previous owner had already expanded, by…
“It’s extra Christmas!” Ellington said. “Last year, I got a dragon thing and my brother got a Nerf gun.” Kite Bernroider, 9, who lives in Vienna, said he can tell Kwanzaa is coming when his mother, Chanda Rule, a jazz vocalist, starts singing a Kwanzaa song. Ms. Rule, who is Black and married to an…