In an airy conference room high above Manhattan, the designer Sagi Haviv explained the difficulties of creating an elegant logo for the United States’ semiquincentennial. The first problem was 18 letters long. “It is a very difficult word,” Mr. Haviv said, veering gracefully around the pileup of prefixes that Congress chose to describe the 250th…
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Dale Arden Chong is the Senior Fashion Commerce Editor at ELLE.com. Previously, she was an editor at MensHealth.com and has written for Who What Wear, GLAMOUR, The Coveteur, and more. She loves fashion, food, and art, among other things—but her greatest love is K-pop idol V of BTS.
In 2021, her donations paid for materials to create 50 beehives and monitor their construction, giving miners in the rural community of Weasua, Liberia, an alternate means of earning an income; and in 2022, the money funded the construction of a public toilet in that village. That year, she also joined the organization’s founder and…
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Almost exactly a year after setting off a flurry of public opprobrium with a holiday ad campaign that pictured children clutching what looked like B.D.S.M. teddy bears amid other adult paraphernalia — a snowballing crisis that took the company by surprise and sent sales into a nosedive — Balenciaga brought its fall 2024 show to…
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Traumatic brain injuries have left more than five million Americans permanently disabled. They have trouble focusing on even simple tasks and often have to quit jobs or drop out of school. A study published on Monday has offered them a glimpse of hope. Five people with moderate to severe brain injuries had electrodes implanted in…
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I was sure I had plenty of time to prepare for the holidays as I flipped to the last page of my daughter’s corgi calendar — only to be confronted by a puppy in a Santa hat. “Ready or not, here I come,” he seemed to yap, tail wagging in the falling snow. There’s no…
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A Devotional Design Diamonds, however, were not part of what some jewelry experts say was the earliest version of the style: a long piece of fabric, with a hole in the middle so it could be pulled over the head, worn by monks in the Middle Ages to protect their robes at work. Eventually it…
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Up or Down? Even as the horseshoe’s popularity continues, so does the debate on its proper orientation: To ensure good luck, should the open ends point up or down? Opinion is decidedly divided. According to Rebecca Selva, chief creative officer at the New York jeweler Fred Leighton, both directions are lucky. (The company always has…
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The jewelry that Hilda and Sonia Cachi have been making for decades reflects centuries of history and tradition in their native Peru. The sisters — they are two of seven sisters, in fact, all of whom are silversmiths — say they draw inspiration from their Indigenous and Spanish heritage while also embracing more contemporary designs.…
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