Can Labor Activists Be Style Icons?

Getty Images; Sanders: Damian Dovarganes/AP Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. John Elward drives a UPS truck and has been a Teamster for 18 years. He’s also a burgeoning fashion influencer of sorts. On his Twitter account @UnionDrip, Elward has been chronicling the style highlights of labor…

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The Business of Making ‘Pleasure’

When Ninja Thyberg, the screenwriter and director of the porn industry drama “Pleasure,” was a teenager, everything about pornography ticked her off. “Women were these sex dolls used to satisfy men,” she told me, sitting beside her star, Sofia Kappel, in an apartment in Chinatown in Manhattan. In the early 2000s, in her native Sweden,…

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Riffing on a Classic Roman Pasta

Good morning. Pasta alla gricia is one of the all-stars of the Roman pasta canon, a simple preparation with guanciale, Pecorino Romano and black pepper. But if you don’t have guanciale (and don’t have a few days to prepare your own), you might make salami pasta alla gricia (above) instead. There’s something delightful about how…

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The Man Behind Zero Bond

But those days are over. Now 47 and married to Allie Rizzo, a Wilhelmina model, with a 4-year-old son, Henry, he not only runs one of the city’s hardest-to-join social clubs (some, he said, have attempted five-figure bribes), he was recently appointed by the mayor to one of the city’s most influential and coveted social…

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