PARIS — For years the Chanel show was the biggest, most famous, most showy show in Paris. Guests would throng the steps of the Grand Palais, where it was traditionally held, decked out in their double-C finery (bags and boots and brooches), seeding selfies like ginkgo trees across their Instagram feeds. It would be impossible…
Courtesy Hot take: a good beach cover-up is better than a swimsuit. Hear us out. Whether you choose a classic kaftan or an on-trend mini skirt, a cover-up is an essential item that acts as the workhorse of the poolside selfie. The cover-up is to summer what the trench coat is to fall. It’s all…
Megan Thee Stallion, meet Pieter Mulier. Mulier’s excellent first collection at Alaïa—the house founded by Azzedine Alaïa, which literally defined body-con dressing—comes at a time when Hot Girl Style is being made newly relevant by a generation of stars who weren’t alive when the beloved Tunisia-born designer set up shop in the Marais neighborhood of…
Courtesy of Dior Since the devastating effects of the pandemic, the fashion industry responded responsibly, eschewing the fashion calendar, opting for virtual presentations, or hibernating altogether (only to surprise us with an IRL show). But as the world reopens, so do the runways. Couture fall-winter 2022 marks the first return of fashion week as a…
How to Fix a Booboo One night in the bath, my 3-year-old accidentally stabbed me in the face with a toy unicorn. Shocked, I yelled out, causing him to cry. I hastily wrapped him in his favorite green towel. “Can I kiss it better?” I said. He shook his head. My wife removed his shrieking…
PARIS — “It’s like a school reunion, no?” said Carine Roitfeld, the French fashion editor, flicking her veil of hair off her black-lined eyes and glancing around at the Dior show on Monday. The gang was back, in a specially constructed box, as always, in the gardens of the Musée Rodin, as attendees who had…
“It’s Never Too Late” is a new series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms. Vijaya Srivastava’s first 68 years had been resolutely land-based. She walked the Berkeley Hills in the San Francisco Bay Area, spent time with her young grandchildren, volunteered at the library. None…
More perhaps than most, Megan Abbott knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men (and women, too). This explains Ms. Abbott’s ability to conjure the perfect bad guy — ahem, a contractor — in her latest crime novel, the ballet-centric thriller, “The Turnout,” which will be published Aug. 3. Let the record show that…
Pearls have been a fashion favorite for a couple of years now, fueled by online images of Harry Styles, Pharrell Williams, Dua Lipa and others draped in the gems. Pearl earrings, bracelets, brooches, necklaces, headbands, even ankle bracelets are all in demand, but the real stand out is Vivienne Westwood’s three-strand pearl choker. It has…
Mr. Keyloun added: “Everyone’s on the street now. I almost forget what the winter was like.” In recent weeks, he has been out in the neighborhood more, and his list of favorite spots is growing — Café Integral, Spring Lounge, Café Habana — but it was 218 Restaurant, his local Chinese food spot on Grand…