“People love to play with something they would never be able to wear in the real world,” Ms. Shapovalova said. “Play” being the operative word. Right now, the metaverse is both a place where you can be recognizably you, as you are (sort of) IRL, and a place where you can be transformed into the…
Kin is part of a flourishing “functional beverage” category, often branded with gradient, pastel colors, 1970s nostalgia logos and no alcohol. Poppi, Ruby, Superfrau, Dune Glow Remedy, Droplet, Brighter, Evexia Kafe, Sunwink and De Soi, co-founded by Katy Perry, assert that their seltzers, juices and tonics can heal you from the inside out with prebiotics,…
At 83, Arne Glimcher has already had unusual longevity as a top art dealer, with more than six decades in the business. But he is still expanding his reach. Glimcher, the founder and chairman of Pace Gallery, plans to establish a new space in TriBeCa, to open in September, called Gallery 125 Newbury, named after…
Welcome. I keep forgetting how I know things. With so much of life transpiring through screens — Zoom calls, group texts, long articles saved to read later, Netflix series half-paid-attention-to while scrolling through Instagram — I’ll find myself recalling a fact or a story, unable to identify the source of the information. Did this dimly…
Yousra Attia In a perfect world, we’d snap our fingers and the perfect bra would be there at our fingertips. While that illusion feels best saved for our dreams, shopping for bras in this day and age is easier than years prior. With some companies specializing in creating lingerie for a certain clientele, for small…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. What you need to know about André Leon Talley is that he contained multitudes. He was as comfortable front row at a couture show as he was on the couch at Watch What Happens Live, as at home in the white-hot…
André Leon Talley, the larger-than-life fashion editor who shattered his industry’s glass ceiling when he went from the Jim Crow South to the front rows of Paris couture, parlaying his encyclopedic knowledge of fashion history and his quick wit into roles as author, public speaker, television personality and curator, died on Tuesday. He was 73.…
FLORENCE, Italy — Radical queer energy is eternal. For millenniums it has endured suppression, oppression, legal, religious and moral sanction, torture, witch hunts, pogroms, a holocaust, caricature and stereotype and several plagues. Yet it survives and thrives in all its subversive glory, surfacing in the most unlikely of places. Take, for example, Anna Konda. This…
Craig BarrittGetty Images Renowned fashion journalist and editor André Leon Talley has died at age 73 in New York. The news was confirmed on Talley’s Instagram account, via a heartfelt tribute to the legendary fashion journalist that detailed his life and career. It read: “Mr. Talley was the larger-than-life, longtime creative director at Vogue during…
But family life was not the walk on the beach portrayed in the famous Robert Capa photograph of Ms. Gilot traipsing on the sand at Golfe-Juan in the South of France, Picasso screening her with a colossal parasol. In darker moments, he was given to parading in front of her a string of would-be rivals,…