Karl Lagerfeld, one of the most influential fashion designers to shape the industry, has died at 85. Prolific in every sense of the word, Lagerfeld designed for three brands—Chanel, Fendi and his namesake label—branching out into photography and hospitality. If every person has one detail that unlocks their mythology, for Karl Lagerfeld it was the…
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Michael DiGuilmi didn’t want a standard black tuxedo when he married Neil Thein inside the Eiffel Suite at Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris last November. “When I was thinking of some edgier types of tuxedos, I didn’t want the look to be like I was going to a cocktail party,” said Mr. DiGuilmi, 53, a…
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When I heard Chicano culture had spread to Japan, I wanted to see it for myself. Who knew the culture I grew up with had a home so far from California?CreditCreditWalter Thompson Hernandez/The New York Times I grew up in southeast Los Angeles, the son of an African-American father and Mexican mother, and the concept…
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Despite gridlocked traffic and huge houses, the East End of Long Island is still farm country, as it has been for centuries, with fields of corn, seasonal produce stands and, more recently, wineries. But cheesemakers are in short supply, so the fine cheeses that Art Ludlow and his sons, Peter and John, produce at Mecox…
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For the first time, Michelin has issued a compilation of restaurants according to cuisine. A guide to Cantonese restaurants in Asia, Europe and the United States has just been published. Written in English and Simplified Chinese, it’s organized by cities in the three regions and features 291 restaurants, four of which (all in Asia) have…
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Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria in NoHo has a new executive chef, Preston Madson, who was at Barbuto and Freeman’s. And he has taken a new approach to focaccia. Working with Marco Riggi — a purveyor of some ancient strains of triticum wheat in Caltanissetta, Sicily — the restaurant is importing stone-ground organic timilia flour,…
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“I saw you.” I swallowed hard and looked up at my therapist. I began a rapid mental inventory of where I’d been in the week since our last meeting. Had I done anything incriminating? I finally licked my dry lips and asked, “Where?” “At spin class,” she said, calmly. Spinning was something that she had…
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When Bianca Garcia and Alaia Kleiner, two twenty-somethings living in Chicago, went to a friend’s birthday party a few months ago, they were greeted by a line of about 15 women clamoring for one thing: tooth gems. “People were having, like, their entire mouth covered,” Ms. Garcia said. Tooth gems are exactly what they sound…
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