When it comes to fashion campaigns, few are more iconic than Calvin Klein. For decades, being handpicked to rock jeans and underwear has stood for much more than simply showing a little skin: it’s a sign of transcending a moment and becoming a bonafide cultural icon. For its fall campaign, the brand whittled its tried-and-true…
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MEMPHIS — Moneybagg Yo — Bagg to his friends — doesn’t get back to his Memphis hometown as much as he’d like anymore, so when he returned one Friday in July, he was primed for the occasion. His top, shorts and sneakers: Louis Vuitton. His chains and earrings: weighty and bright. His nails: freshly buffed…
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This article is part of the Our City series, about how urban communities around the country use public and communal spaces to celebrate and spend time together. Roy and Ida White’s offspring squeezed under the white canopy at Randalls Island Park, where three of New York’s boroughs meet, and smiled for the camera. Behind them…
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It’s still yacht season in the Mediterranean, a favorite time of year for paparazzi and close readers of David Geffen’s Instagram. On any given sun-and-Champagne-drenched day, one might see Elon Musk frolicking shirtless on Ari Emanuel’s yacht, or Drake spotted aboard a $660-thousand-per-week superyacht in Saint-Tropez. But this year, things are a little different. Fewer…
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Now for August’s biggest closed sales. The apartment that sold for $53.4 million at Aman New York Residences in the Crown Building takes up the entire 21st floor and was marketed as the Vana Penthouse. The unit, measuring 6,253 square feet, has four bedrooms, five full bathrooms and a powder room. The anonymous buyer used…
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When Papa Johns debuts a menu item that evokes the top of one of its pizzas, scraped into a tray and presented as a meal, is it time to rethink our embrace of bowl culture? Have bowl meals — the food fad we’ve come to know and love (or know and hate) — finally reached…
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Mike Taylor Jr., knew he wanted to get to know Celeste Northern better when they first met at a Detroit Pistons home game in December 2017 while both visited family for the holidays. He wasn’t necessarily looking for a girlfriend, though. He mostly wanted to find new friends. Mr. Taylor had relocated to New York…
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I think I have a condition where I think I have a condition. I have to go to the hospital, or the doctor’s office, or on Google, more than most. This is why when I rang my husband at work one morning to tell him that I had shattered my kneecap, he suggested a rest…
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When Nicholas William Baldo and Viktoria Angela Cupay started dating, their biggest concern was that they lived hundreds of miles apart: he in San Francisco, and she in Beach Park, Ill., about an hour from Chicago. A year later, both were in the same city, but confronting a different complication, one that affected Ms. Cupay’s…
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Mitchell Jay Karp’s marriage proposal to Barry Katz was not a simple affair. There were opera singers, a silver rose and a tremendous amount of planning. “Here’s the most amazing thing,” Mr. Karp said. “I have the biggest mouth of anyone I know and told absolutely no one about this except my therapist. There are…
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