Courtesy / Design Leah Romero With the ongoing conversation about the future of fashion influencers, it’s hard not to think of the first wave of mid-2000s bloggers who came and went. Tina Chen Craig, on the other hand, stayed. Craig is one of that generation’s few survivors, and today, she provides the rubric for what…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. “It feels like 2007 again,” Mark Hunter, the photographer known as The Cobrasnake, tells me. It’s the second time during our conversation that he’s uttered those exact words, but his enthusiasm is understandable. “Indie sleaze,” AKA the sweaty, Four Loko-assisted excess…
Collages of posters, magazine clippings, and Polaroids that often plastered the walls of teenage bedrooms in the aughts hinted at what the younger generation deemed “cool” at the time—most likely, XYZ celebrity, band, movie, artist, or designer. Today, a cohort of digitally-savvy users replicate that very same level of obsession on Instagram via finstas, fan…
My brother and I were close as kids. We’d drifted some by the time I came out as a lesbian in college. Now, we mainly see each other at our parents’ house. Still, my brother has met my wife (of three years) and our toddler son several times. He and his wife just had a…
On the evening of the Met Gala, at a corner table at Mr. Chow on the Upper East Side, Fiona Stiles, the makeup artist who did Gabrielle Union’s makeup for the gala, sat with Hung Vanngo, who did the makeup for Julianne Moore and Laura Harrier, and Elle Gerstein, Blake Lively’s nail artist. They were…
In the 63 years since Madame Paulette, a luxury cleaner and tailoring service, opened in New York, its list of clients has grown to include Madonna, Serena Williams, Martha Stewart, Kylie Jenner and Anna Wintour. Though no boldfaced names attended a grand opening party at its new West 57th Street home on April 30, the…
Great spots to eat near the Whitney include Pastis, Cookshop, Chelsea Market, the reborn Barbuto and the lesser known Mary Lane (99 Bank Street), a breezy, West Village bistro with outdoor seating. Owned by Blackfoot Hospitality, it is open for lunch, brunch, happy hour and dinner (closed Mondays). Morsels of Jonah crab drift in puréed…
Catherine Howe and Patrick Walsh had postponed their nuptials three times before they finally wed on April 17. By then, they had already traveled to their dream honeymoon destination, Greece, where they spent two weeks in September. They had also accumulated plenty of furnishings for their apartment in Queens, where they had been living for…
Courtesy / Design Leah Romero “There was definitely stuff that I liked from Jessica Day’s wardrobe, but it’s not stuff I would wear now,” Zooey Deschanel tells ELLE.com over the phone. With the overwhelming return of the “twee” aesthetic, the reigning queen of saccharine silhouettes and dainty accessories spoke about its return, but she’s reluctant…
Marcus Leatherdale, who made classical portraits of Manhattan’s demimonde in the 1980s — Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Sydney Biddle Barrows, otherwise known as the Mayflower Madam, all made their way to his Lower East Side studio — died on April 22 at his home in the state of Jharkhand, India. He was 69. The…