“Dramatic” and “absurd” were the words Natasha Hunt Lee, a 25-year-old musician in Los Angeles, had in mind while booking three D.J.s, a tattoo artist and a Disney princess bouncy castle for her album-release party this month. Also integral to her planning process was one not-quite-a-word: Partiful. It’s the name of a new event-invitation service…
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There was a storm here over the weekend — rumbles of thunder and thick, gray skies, a soaking wet garden in the morning. It’s cooled down a little too, and all I want now is soft and cozy food. You know, stews packed with beans and greens, dumplings and noodles in hot broths, all kinds…
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It’s never too early for soup season. Whether you’re enjoying some crisp autumn air or you’re just cranking up the air conditioning and wearing a sweater as a form of cosplay, fall is nigh. It officially begins on Sept. 22. If you want to swap out a few of those quick weeknight salads for some…
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New York Fashion Week ended, much as it had begun, with a blinding dose of déjà vu. “I feel like I’m in a time machine,” said a guest, lounging on one of the white banquettes at the Tom Ford show, ogling Madonna in black satin. The show was being held downtown on Vesey Street, but…
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By Kaela Myers It may be fashion week, but you won’t find the collection Christopher John Rogers launched yesterday on any runway. Instead, the designer has lent his eye for color and print to Orior, the Irish design studio and furniture manufacturer. “I’ve always loved creating work that toes the line between ostentatious and pragmatic,”…
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Christopher Horne Lori Harvey isn’t a regular model, she’s a cool model. Case in point: the budding entrepreneur eats French toast while getting glammed up for a fashion show. “I will always make time for a quick bite before getting dressed,” she says. It’s a refreshing thing to hear during New York Fashion Week, when…
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It Bags were over in 2008, or so declared trend pieces in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. In the face of the biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression, the very notion of those symbols of turn-of-the-century conspicuous consumption—the Fendi Baguettes, the Chloé Paddingtons, the Dior Saddles, and many others that cost…
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“New York Woman” — three small words that tell a big story. A story I hoped to embody, but might never get the chance. The words were embroidered on a T-shirt I saw at Out of the Closet, the secondhand store in the Boerum Hill neighborhood in Brooklyn last week but opted not to buy…
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ON A LATE spring evening in 1536, a dinner party was held in a garden in the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome. The festivities were presided over by Bartolomeo Scappi, a provocative chef who was known for comparing cooking to architecture, and for treating the tabletop as a stage for flamboyant displays that on this occasion…
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When April Lavalle and Alex Boniello started planning their upcoming October wedding, one of the first things they decided on was the dress code. Rather than request their guests don more traditional formal or black-tie clothing, the couple opted for the less common, and purposefully vague, “cocktail creative.” They communicated their unusual option to their…
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