Now that I’m finished having children and my size is stable, I would like to invest in a quality capsule wardrobe, one that works every day and can easily be dressed up for the occasional work presentation or meeting. Here’s my problem: I am stuck in a millennial sense of fashion — tight jeans, a…
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For years, the “made in” label has been shorthand for certain stereotypes. Quality in craftsmanship, in materials, in taste if it’s “Made in Italy” or “Made in France.” Mass labor, mass markets and mass counterfeits is it’s “Made in China” or “Made in Bangladesh.” Whether these labels are based in reality or simply emanations of…
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Food and love go hand in hand. For Valentine’s Day, we’re exploring this fiery connection in all stages of a relationship, from a first date to living together to breaking up. When Leah Voskuil recently met friends for pizza and pasta at Leo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, she had “what can only be described as war…
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No bigger than chickpeas and blanketed with tangy yogurt and sizzling spiced butter, the manti were so good they could be inhaled by the dozen. My partner, Barry, and I devoured these lamb-filled Turkish dumplings, shaped into cute tufted shells, at Hatice Anne Ev Yemekleri, a homey spot in Istanbul’s Kuzguncuk neighborhood. “There are so…
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Daniella Kallmeyer has been putting women in suits since the debut of her Kallmeyer label in 2012. It has taken that long for the rest of the fashion world to fall in love with them. “We’ve been doing this from Day 1,” said Ms. Kallmeyer, who has been designing clothes for 15 years. “Just let…
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Food and love go hand in hand. For Valentine’s Day, we’re exploring this fiery connection in all stages of a relationship, from a first date to living together to breaking up. When it comes to a first date, Jess Felton refuses to go for drinks, grab a coffee or take a walk. It’s either dinner…
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By almost any measure, Khaite, the women’s wear label founded in 2016 by Catherine Holstein, is one of the great recent success stories of American fashion — if not the great success story. The brand has been in existence for less than a decade, but Ms. Holstein has already been twice named designer of the…
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Steve Ostrow, the founder of the Continental Baths — an extravagant gay men’s sex club and performance space that flourished at the turn of the 1970s in the basement of the Ansonia Hotel, a Beaux-Arts landmark on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and launched the careers of Bette Midler and Barry Manilow — died on Feb.…
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Finding the time to prepare nutritious meals can be a real challenge when you’re juggling family, work, and school commitments. This leaves little time for cooking complex meals. Quick meal preparation is made possible by clever planning and inventive thinking. Dinners turn out to be delicious and nourishing. We’ll cover seven quick and simple dinner…
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