Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. In August, Julia Jacobs visited a Mediterranean-style mansion in Agoura Hills, Calif., the backdrop of “The Golden Bachelor.” The show is a spinoff of the popular “Bachelor” reality TV franchise, with a surprising twist: Participants…
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“We didn’t just want to make a crystal bra,” Ms. Engelbert said. She had worn Skims during her pregnancies and knew Ms. Kardashian in a vague way through fashion. She originally contacted her about two years ago, and they officially embarked on the project six months later, largely over group text. Ms. Kardashian calls them…
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“We didn’t just want to make a crystal bra,” Ms. Engelbert said. She had worn Skims during her pregnancies and knew Ms. Kardashian in a vague way through fashion. She originally contacted her about two years ago, and they officially embarked on the project six months later, largely over group text. Ms. Kardashian calls them…
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It’s not clear how many takes it took to get that “fo’ shiz, fo’ shiz” just right in the recording studio. But however many it was, the actress Michelle Williams landed on a line reading that has resonated on social media. The quotation in question is part of her five-and-a-half-hour audiobook narration of Britney Spears’s…
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On Tuesday night, inside Heidi Klum’s Halloween party at the nightclub Marquee in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, guests mixed, mingled and, in an attempt to converse over the din of the thumping music, pressed their faces together and shouted into each other’s ears. Earlier in the evening, Ms. Klum revealed her highly anticipated costume:…
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Stepping into the courtyard of Bombera, the acclaimed Mexican restaurant in Oakland, Calif., always feels like arriving at a party. Papel picado in marigold orange and saffron yellow flutters overhead, seemingly waving guests into the space, an airy former firehouse. But the restaurant reaches its full splendor in the fall, when the dining room is…
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. The red carpet has been a barren place for fashion observers lately. As the SAG-AFTRA strike continues, actors have been absent from step-and-repeats (with the exception of those who’ve received waivers to promote their projects). While the norm has long been…
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The number of American babies who died before their first birthdays rose last year, significantly increasing the nation’s infant mortality rate for the first time in two decades, according to provisional figures released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics. The spike is a somber manifestation of the state of maternal and child health…
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Of all 112 products included in Oprah’s Favorite Things List 2023, there’s one item, in particular, I will not shut up about: the purple Telfar Shopping Bag, which you can buy on Amazon, of all places. As a longtime Telfar shopper, I can guarantee this viral handbag won’t stay in stock for long, so I…
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