“We’ve seen this association between hair straighteners and breast, ovarian and now uterine cancer — it’s been a consistent finding among hormonally driven female reproductive cancers,” Dr. White said. The researchers did not gather information about the brands or the ingredients in the hair products used by study participants. But they noted in the paper…
Courtesy of Nordstrom To the avid shopper, there’s nothing more well-received than a surprise sale. Perhaps it’s the thrill of scoring must-have items for up to half the retail price or the chance to pick up a couple of fashionable gifts for your loved ones ahead of the holiday season that make a surprise sale…
“The idea of my work is to decolonize,” Ms. Ogisi said. “To be colonized is to be barricaded, to be controlled, to not be free; so I do that with textures, gravity, mass, density, lighting, everything possible, to open everybody’s mind to a better and freer world.” For her spring-summer 2022 collection, “Green Water, Blue…
It was a crisp and sparkling fall morning in London, and within the Black Chapel designed by the artist Theaster Gates for the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park, a show was underway. Art world luminaries like Michael Craig-Martin, Eva Rothschild, Rana Begum and Hans Ulricht Obrist surveyed striking sculptural ensembles in shades of amethyst, coral,…
I have a dear friend who has been exploring and expanding her style. She will show up to dinner wearing a suit with a bow but without a shirt and with a huge hat, which gets in other diners’ way. She also loves to wear things that make a lot of noise while walking. Everyone…
SAN MARINO, Calif. — Ralph Lauren’s strength — the thing that has kept the all-American company going for 55 years — is world building. Or, rather, worlds building. Each brand under the company’s umbrella represents a different aesthetic universe: a Western saloon (Double RL), the Hamptons social circuit (Purple Label), an old collegiate quad buzzing…
Fashion brands celebrated big anniversaries. Louis Vuitton celebrated the bicentennial birthday of its founder with an exhibition of 200 trunks reimagined by 200 collaborators. The traveling show, at 660 Madison Avenue until the end of the year, held an opening party on Thursday. Bulgari, the Italian jewelry house, celebrated 50 years in America with an…
One might be hard pressed to recall which film took home best picture at the 2001 Academy Awards. But what Björk wore to the ceremony may evoke a different response. The singer, who was nominated for best original song for “I’ve Seen It All,” from Lars von Trier’s film “Dancer in the Dark,” in which…
Micah y yo volvimos a hablar otra vez por FaceTime. Primero mes con mes, luego cada semana. Antes de mi regreso, nos dejamos de hablar por tres días en busca de sabiduría. Casi me desmayo en el aeropuerto de Lisboa. No importaba. Ambos obtuvimos nuestra respuesta, y esa respuesta fue no. No teníamos un “por…
The rules of style often dictate restraint, but based on the winter 2022 fashion trends, there were no such inhibitions. Even the jewelry at the fall/winter 2022 fashion shows went toe-to-toe with blocky shoulder pads, oversized jackets, sparkly tops, clashing prints, and blinding neon fabrics, almost out-competing the clothes for attention. But the metals and…