This article is part of a series examining Responsible Fashion, and innovative efforts to address issues facing the fashion industry. Lately, one word has cropped up again and again in conversations about fashion and climate change: degrowth. What does it mean? Jason Hickel, an economic anthropologist and proponent of the movement, has written that degrowth…
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My brother is hosting us for Thanksgiving in Los Angeles, right at the edge of the San Gabriel mountains, and it’ll be a team effort, but I’m in charge of the cooking. This means I can’t put it off any longer: It’s time to think things through and really get organized! I’m definitely looking to…
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Feeding a family is no joke. That one doesn’t eat raw tomatoes, this one hates chicken (unless it’s in nugget form) and that one over there won’t touch anything green. It’s improbable, if not impossible, to please everyone all at once, so instead of trying to address every little preference with one finished dish, opt…
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The artist Nan Goldin didn’t think she was worthy enough for the director Laura Poitras to make a documentary about her. Poitras had won an Academy Award in 2015 for “Citizenfour,” about Edward Snowden, and had been placed on a federal watch list after her 2006 Iraq war film “My Country, My Country.” Goldin recalled…
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Closets overflowing with Hermès, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton will always signal a high fashion pedigree—but lately, there’s one piece that’s become even more of a cult status symbol, with an endearing subversive twist: the baseball cap. The accessory certainly isn’t new, but its presence has expanded in the fashion world, and to boot, more and…
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As for me, I kept hearing the lyrics to a Simon and Garfunkel song in my head: “So, I’ll continue to continue to pretend, my life will never end, and flowers never bend, with the rainfall.” It was my soundtrack. Josh failed one course of chemo and began a more targeted one. His graphs showed…
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A new column for people whose fantasy life involves a lot of shopping. Every holiday season I buy multiple Advent calendars. I’m not so moved by counting down to Christmas as I am excited by the idea of getting a present every day. (If there were 365-day versions, I absolutely would want that.) Making coffee…
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Edward Berthelot In the fall, I am without a doubt a leather jacket type of girl. But when the winter months roll in, and I’m in need of some heavier layers, it’s a chic shearling coat that takes center stage. Not only are these bad boys unparalleled in keeping you cozy (like, wrapped-in-a-blanket kind of…
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Sarah Pontillo’s mother let her skip school to buy Taylor Swift tickets. The plan was for Ms. Pontillo, who is a high school junior, to attend her first two classes on Tuesday morning, after which her mom, Ida Pearce, would pick her up and bring her home just in time to log onto Ticketmaster to…
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