“Black is the renaissance of culture,” says Marcus Paul, one of the five Black creatives tapped by Sam Lobban, Nordstrom SVP Designer and New Concepts. Nordstrom honors Black culture and Black History Month through their newest pop-up shop, Concept 012: Black_Space. New Concepts is a platform that demonstrates Nordstrom’s commitment to bringing upcoming designers to…
The parallel between fast cars and high fashion is self-evident. Both modes operate in a luxury world that is sometimes unattainable, always aspirational, and downright sexy. LaQuan Smith lives in this world. But it wasn’t always like that. “Nothing was given to me on a silver platter,” Smith, 31, told ELLE. “I had hustle to…
My son and his fiancée are getting married in September. We’re all excited! The problem: We created two guest lists, one of close friends and relatives who will definitely be invited and another of those we would like to include, but who won’t receive invitations until we have a better sense of acceptance numbers. Unfortunately,…
The last time anyone celebrated Valentine’s Day, most of the world was carrying on as in any other year: Couples met at movie theaters, bars were full of dates and restaurants were brimming with lovers sharing candlelit dinners. Twelve months later, the year’s most celebrated date night looks drastically different in the shadow of a…
The venues had been booked, the flowers selected, outfits tailored, menus tasted and playlists curated. But as the coronavirus ravaged the world last year and travel shut down, many couples who had planned destination weddings were forced to postpone their nuptials. Now, almost a year later, with new variants emerging and with travel restrictions still…
It’s hard to remember now, but it was during the fall ready-to-wear shows last February that the fashion world first became aware of the coronavirus, even before it had been declared a global pandemic. At New York Fashion Week the ripple effects began when some models and designers were quarantined in China. By the time…
The Latest in a History of Misunderstandings Here’s how it works: A company makes an ad, or creates a shop, and submits it to Facebook for approval, an automated process. (If it’s a storefront, the products can also arrive via a feed, and each one must comply with Facebook rules.) If the system flags a…
Courtesy of What’s not to love about heart-shaped jewelry? When it comes to Valentine’s Day, we suggest leaning into the sickly sweet holiday, so opt for 14k hearts by Tiffany & Co., Anita Ko’s red rubies, and dangling rosebud earrings by Of Rare Origin, a brand backed by Oprah (our eternal Valentine). Celebrate the holiday…
Has it really been a decade since “Bridesmaids” upended comedy moviemaking? That 2011 film, which was written by Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo and starred Wiig as a woman whose life is thrown into disarray by the wedding of her best friend (Maya Rudolph), was a riotous success: While putting its female ensemble at the…
Welcome. I’ve been absorbed in tales of other people’s lives this week: a Times Magazine feature about the Princeton professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who sees classics as complicit in systemic injustice and is “advocating reforms that would ‘explode the canon’ and ‘overhaul the discipline from nuts to bolts.’” The Times documentary “Framing Britney,” about Britney…