Ashley Kozich, 30, who works for a community foundation and lives in Fort Lauderdale, has a group chat with her eight best friends she met as a student at the University of Mississippi. In the last year a lot of them have had babies, so they now highlight the most recently born as the group…
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La última vez que Victoria’s Secret celebró un desfile de moda fue en 2018. Durante más de 20 años, el espectáculo había sido un evento anual, un exótico desfile de chicas sensuales en tanga, como Barbie a través de la lente de Paul Verhoeven. Emitido en más de 100 países para millones de espectadores, se…
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It’s a grail of contemporary horticulture, a subject of inquiry for scientists and landscape designers alike: how to reinvent the estimated 40 million acres of lawn in the United States, shifting the emphasis toward native plants. The promise? Less environmental damage and more biodiversity. Because traditional lawn care is, at its essence, a perpetual fight…
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This past spring, Andrew Gori, 40, and Ambre Kelly, 44, the founders of the Spring/Break Art Show — a fair for emerging and midcareer artists — decided to pull together a last-minute, salon-style pop-up in New York’s NoLIta based on what their “alums had available in their studios right at that moment,” Gori says. As…
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I started cooking soba noodles long before I experienced the real deal. (I say this with a pinch of salt — or soy? — because I am not a food purist. I don’t believe there’s an ultimate way to cook anything.) But I discovered this only recently, when reminding myself of a gastronomic tour of…
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Aventurine is a name used for variations of the minerals quartz and feldspar. More frequently, it is also used to refer to a type of glass said to have been created by chance. The story goes that a Venetian artisan mistakenly mixed copper shavings into molten glass, producing what a German diplomat described in a…
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One of the co-founders of a new iPhone app, William Rohr, better known in the watch world as William Massena, said he became involved in the project to “put the watch world under your fingertips.” The Watch Space, which was released in August, is an English-language aggregation of watch content created by Mr. Massena, a…
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Mr. Fleming, who was raised in Alexandria, Va., is the first watch collector in his family. (His father is a partner in a venture capital firm; his mother, an accountant, is retired; and he has two younger brothers.) And initially, his own array was pretty limited: As he became interested in watches, he bought a…
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With numerous horological innovations to its name since its founding in 1775, Breguet has crafted timepieces that are often included in displays on the history of watchmaking. But the watchmaker’s links with English society are the focus of “Abraham-Louis Breguet: The English Connection,” an exhibition at the Clockmakers’ Museum, which is housed in the Science…
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“The belle epoque of watch design.” That’s how Roni Madhvani describes the postwar years of 1945-65, the years when most of the highly designed, time-only watches in his collection were produced. The collection has developed quite a reputation among watch fans, with almost 50,000 Instagram followers drawn to his images of timepieces by brands including…
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