A methodical approach to dating, an open-mindedness about baseball and a mutual appreciation for a wager. These were a few of the elements that led Petra Schaefer and Bruce Hunsaker to fall in love. In 2015, Ms. Schaefer, recently divorced for a second time and having consulted a dating coach, decided that finding love again…
Name: Flora Collins Age: 28 Hometown: Upper East Side Currently Lives: In a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Claim to Fame: Ms. Collins’s first novel, “Nanny Dearest,” a psychological thriller loosely based on an unsettling “babysitter situation that my family had when I was a child,” was highlighted by Vogue as one of “the best…
In the 1970s, Ms. Pyun said, a Western-style track suit would have indicated that the wearer had some level of education, or lived in a major metropolitan area, where other Western clothing styles, including denim and miniskirts, began to replace more modest, traditional styles of dress. “With a school or company logo,” she said, a…
Most people spend their 20s living with roommates. A few cobble together enough to buy a starter home. Petra Ecclestone isn’t like most people. In 2011, when she was 22, the London-born Formula One racing heiress bought one of the largest houses in the United States — Spelling Manor in Los Angeles — for $85…
Amber Amos It’s been almost 24 hours since Zendaya was named Fashion Icon at the 2021 CFDA Awards, and Law Roach is still on a high. “I think it’ll sink in within a day or two,” he tells ELLE.com over the phone. As the actress’s longtime stylist and image architect, the pressure was on Roach…
Last September, when Remy Barnwell, 26, started dating Ben Podnar, who is white, she was hesitant to wear her hair in its natural state. As a Black woman, she was uncertain of how he would respond to her tightly coiled strands. On her first date with Mr. Podnar, Ms. Barnwell, a tax attorney in Washington,…
Fashion is not clothes — or, at least, it is not merely clothes. Such was the implicit message of Wednesday night’s CFDA awards, also known as fashion’s Oscars. Long delayed by a pandemic-enforced hiatus, the event was held at the Pool and the Grill in the Seagram Building, one of New York City’s architectural jewels.…
Many mornings, in Los Angeles, Darrell Jones’s girlfriend helps him curl his hair. Running a flat iron over small sections that have been sprayed with heat protectant, she creates small ringlets, pinning them to his head to set. For a brief moment, he looks like he’s gearing up to be the envy of the 1930s.…
Tullio M. PugliaGetty Images The discussion in fashion regarding minimalism versus maximalism is an age-old debate. Do you Marie Kondo your silhouette or live for obtuse luxury? Not even 20 years ago, the fashion industry had a firmer chokehold on defining these choices. In 2021, our sartorial worldview became more democratized, but minimalism is not…
CHICAGO — At the entrance of “Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.” the striking, flag-planting new Barbara Kruger retrospective (and elaboration) at the Art Institute of Chicago, you’re greeted with one of the artist’s videos, installed like a blockade. It’s of an image being assembled like a jigsaw puzzle, clacking loudly with…