Retailer White elephant gift exchanges are a fun and exciting approach to gift giving during the holidays. The entire event creates light-hearted drama full of revenge and suspense about what everyone’s going to walk home with. There are plot twists and turns where one round you could have the most coveted beauty gift of the…
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Edward BerthelotGetty Images Every time Black Friday rolls around (it’s on Nov. 25 this year!), Amazon is one of the first places most of us head to fill up our carts. That’s because it has some of the most competitive deals around on basically everything our editors have been eyeing for months—including TikTok-viral goodies that…
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Jellied cranberry sauce is one of the easiest things to prepare on Thanksgiving. It slides onto the serving plate, retaining its cylindrical shape — and even some of the can grooves. Slice it along the rings and you have perfect circles of tart jelly to serve alongside traditional American fixings. The sauce is “that same…
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In 2017, after working for the designer Vera Wang for three years, Danielle Frankel debuted her own atelier line of wedding apparel, with a focus on hand-sewn garments and a discerning eye for draping and intricate details. She quickly became a sought-after label, dressing celebrities like Zoë Kravitz, Julia Garner and Alexandra Daddario for their…
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Courtesy of Reformation Reformation is one of our favorite brands here at ELLE. Sustainable and chic staples are always in season—especially when they’re on sale, which is why Reformation’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday savings event is so exciting. From Wednesday, Nov. 23 through Cyber Monday, Nov. 28, shoppers can save 25 percent, sitewide. Go…
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The trash bags seemingly contained a treasure trove. Comme des Garçons, Maison Margiela, Helmut Lang and Jean Paul Gaultier were all names on the tags of the clothes stuffed inside. The 10 black plastic bags had arrived in September at a 500,000-square-foot building in Perth Amboy, N.J., where the RealReal, the luxury resale marketplace, operates…
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Here’s a Thanksgiving confession. During the first year of the pandemic, when our little family of three celebrated the holiday with no flock of relatives to feed, we replaced the usual 12-pound turkey with a diminutive roast duck. I posted this on my Instagram and got a blizzard of positive responses. There are, of course,…
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Two weekends. Two weddings. Two seats of power. Two first families: one former, one current, both hoping, it seems likely, to be future as well. And so two nonpolitical events that, nevertheless, came framed in the mythmaking of politics. When Tiffany Trump wed Michael Boulos at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 12, and Naomi Biden wed Peter…
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BARCELONA, Spain — Even in dark Gucci sunglasses, Héctor Bellerín couldn’t walk the few blocks from his apartment to the parking garage where he kept his battery-powered Cupra Born without causing a scene. Most of the swarming fans held their composure; one young woman trembled as she asked the professional soccer player for a picture.…
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Few women on earth embody the title of “icon” quite as naturally as Naomi Campbell. The iconic supermodel got her start in the industry over 30 years ago, and quickly rose through the ranks to international success. She’s used her platform for good ever since, through various philanthropic efforts, including highlighting the often-overlooked talent of…
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