David Roffe, 70, swirled pink wisps of sugar floss onto sticks, thrusting pink clouds of cotton candy into the hands of young, stylish partygoers. By day, Mr. Roffe, a stout, 5-foot-2-inch retiree, lives in the Rockaways. But last Thursday night, at the first Old Jewish Men Fall Ball, an intergenerational mixer held at Congregation Beth…
Bonnie Gross, a production coordinator from New York City, waited over six hours struggling with the Ticketmaster website. When she finally got the chance to purchase tickets, inventory was scarce. “I get to page where I can buy tickets and there are no seats available. There is one seat available,” Gross, 28, said. “It was…
Manfred Thierry Mugler, the boundary-pushing French couturier whose glamazons and fembots helped define fashion in the 1980s and ’90s and who died earlier this year, famously hated retrospectives. “In the museum world, everyone knew he was against the idea,” said Thierry-Maxime Loriot, the curator at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the institution that finally…
This article is part of a series examining Responsible Fashion, and innovative efforts to address issues facing the fashion industry. Lately, one word has cropped up again and again in conversations about fashion and climate change: degrowth. What does it mean? Jason Hickel, an economic anthropologist and proponent of the movement, has written that degrowth…
Closets overflowing with Hermès, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton will always signal a high fashion pedigree—but lately, there’s one piece that’s become even more of a cult status symbol, with an endearing subversive twist: the baseball cap. The accessory certainly isn’t new, but its presence has expanded in the fashion world, and to boot, more and…
As for me, I kept hearing the lyrics to a Simon and Garfunkel song in my head: “So, I’ll continue to continue to pretend, my life will never end, and flowers never bend, with the rainfall.” It was my soundtrack. Josh failed one course of chemo and began a more targeted one. His graphs showed…
A new column for people whose fantasy life involves a lot of shopping. Every holiday season I buy multiple Advent calendars. I’m not so moved by counting down to Christmas as I am excited by the idea of getting a present every day. (If there were 365-day versions, I absolutely would want that.) Making coffee…
Edward Berthelot In the fall, I am without a doubt a leather jacket type of girl. But when the winter months roll in, and I’m in need of some heavier layers, it’s a chic shearling coat that takes center stage. Not only are these bad boys unparalleled in keeping you cozy (like, wrapped-in-a-blanket kind of…
Sarah Pontillo’s mother let her skip school to buy Taylor Swift tickets. The plan was for Ms. Pontillo, who is a high school junior, to attend her first two classes on Tuesday morning, after which her mom, Ida Pearce, would pick her up and bring her home just in time to log onto Ticketmaster to…
It is hard to imagine an art world without Larry Gagosian in it. The mega dealer, who started in the 1970s by selling posters on the street, represents some of the most important artists of our time (Cy Twombly, Helen Frankenthaler, Richard Prince), but has also come to symbolize — and set the tone —…