Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Maxine Bédat swears she began with a fairly modest aim: to tell the life story of a pair of jeans, from a humble cotton plant nestled in the soil to the flares hanging in your closet—and even extending into their potential…
What’s on your menu these days? I’ve found returning to restaurants exciting and also a bit of a shock to the system. After many months subsisting on home-cooked soups and sourdough, I’ve become unaccustomed to the variety and richness of restaurant offerings and find myself craving simplicity, recipes whose ingredients are known to me, that…
Paula Weinstein can’t remember the last movie she watched in a theater. “Oh, golly,” Weinstein, the chief content officer of Tribeca Enterprises and an organizer of the 20th Tribeca Festival, said in a video call last week. “I don’t remember — it’s so gone from my head.” The 12-day festival, often held in April, was…
If you’re going to make one addition to your wardrobe this season, make it a print. From polka dots to stripes, every pattern offers a world of styling possibilities. DOT MATRIX Giambattista Valli Courtesy of Giambattista Valli Courtesy Outfit 1 Adianna Dress Baum Und Pferdgarten baumundpferdgarten.com $229.00 Agnes Hat Gigi Burris gigiburris.com $435.00 Brooks Sunglasses…
The reveal of the first Yeezy Gap jacket on June 8, a year after the partnership between Kanye West and the beleaguered maker of American basics was announced, went pretty much as expected. First came the crazed excitement, the release of all that pent-up expectation: OMG! OMG! The future is finally here. And on Kanye’s…
Beginner Varieties and How to Grow Them In the northern half of the United States, the ideal time to sow radicchio in flats is from mid-June through the first third of July or thereabouts, Mr. Campbell said. Then it can be transplanted into the garden in July and early August. But how to get started,…
It seems fairly unlikely that when Irwin Shaw wrote “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,” his classic paean to “a million wonderful women, all over the city,” drifting along the pavement as warm breezes tugged at their hems, he could have envisioned a day when those “girls” would as likely be men. Sexist and dated…
One of the more unexpected side effects of the pandemic was to forever alter our relationships with personal protective equipment; to make medical garments, at least in the mask sense, a new accessory of self-expression and a part of almost every wardrobe. And every designer’s arsenal. Now that relationship is entering a new phase. Josie…
Location. Location. Location. So goes the real estate mantra. To which Ms. Flower responds: Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? “Whenever I’m looking for an apartment, I’m never concerned where it is, because I’m either working from home or working in a studio,” she said. “I prefer certain areas of New York, of course,” added…
When a fresh crop of young stars began building audiences on TikTok in late 2019 and early 2020, many were hopeful that this time would be different. They’d grown up watching YouTubers speak frankly about these issues. “When it comes to Gen Z creators, we talk so much about mental health and caring for yourself,”…