Macle. Maccle. Maacle. Mackle. Little wonder few people know what this particular type of diamond is; even the experts don’t agree on how to spell it. Over the many centuries and countries where macles have been used, the spellings differ, and that continues today, between companies and sometimes, even within them. But they do agree…
LONDON — With the Tiffany & Company flagship store in New York undergoing an extensive (and delayed) remodeling, Christopher Young, the person responsible for overseeing the company’s archive, saw an opportunity in all the disruption. It was a chance, he said, to share more than 400 pieces from its collection with the public — not…
PARIS — After a year of exceptional growth at Chanel, the company’s global chief financial officer, Philippe Blondiaux, said in a recent interview with a news site, the Business of Fashion, that Chanel would open an unspecified number of exclusive V.I.P. stores in Asia next year to supplement its existing global network of 250 boutiques.…
PARIS — A woman wears a long thermometer on a hook hanging from her ear, her chin upturned and eyes gently closed, in a photograph taken by the artist Man Ray around 1920, not long after the influenza pandemic of 1918. One hundred years later, another woman hangs on her ear a negative Covid-19 rapid…
I’ve noticed that sneakers with dresses are becoming a thing. But I can’t figure out how to match them up. Long dresses with flat sneakers or platforms? What about colors? Can I finally ditch my dressy flats for good? — Yael, Bronx, New York Given that Serena Williams wore sneakers with her Versace gown at…
Summer is here, officially. There are signs: There’s the solstice of course, and the L.G.B.T. Pride March. But there are more subtle markers around the city: conviviality on fire escapes; weekends that are thinner with locals and thicker with tourists; and no one wears a thing. This last ritual was challenged on June 23 as…
Roger Katz said that his father and brother formed a balanced partnership. “My father was a manufacturing genius; he knew where to make product and source materials,” he said in a phone interview. “But he had no concept of marketing. My brother knew how to create a brand and a presence.” But he said they…
Norma McCorvey, the Jane Roe at the center of Roe v. Wade, was an imperfect plaintiff. When she undertook Roe as a young single woman in Dallas, she gave no thought to the fight for reproductive rights. She was barely getting by as a waitress, had twice given birth to children placed for adoption, and…
When I first read Mark Jason Williams’s essay in the Modern Love submission inbox, I laughed, sighed and nodded. His essay, “A Bet She Couldn’t Resist,” skillfully captures the well-intentioned but often overbearing love that mothers have for their children. His essay also captures the urgent need that children have to be seen and accepted…
And when Dr. Katz lost his job, Ms. Gold promptly published an essay about their relationship in Common Sense, the newsletter run by Bari Weiss, a former writer and editor for the opinion department of The New York Times. (“My alma mater is not the school I once loved,” went part of the headline. “But…