Before the pandemic, I went into an office five days a week and, supposedly, ate five lunches, most of them schlepped from home. I say supposedly because what those meals actually looked like is lost to lockdown-induced amnesia, replaced in my mind by a cacophony of trending TikTok sounds and a jumble of sourdough discard…
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Mary Quant, the British designer who revolutionized fashion and epitomized the style of the Swinging Sixties, a playful, youthful ethos that sprang from the streets, not a Paris atelier, died on Thursday at her home in Surrey, in southern England. Known as the mother of the miniskirt, she was 93. Her family announced the death…
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Outside the Nederlander Theater last Saturday night, hundreds of eager ticket holders lined up for the new Broadway musical “Shucked.” What exactly was the plot of the show? Few in the crowd seemed sure. “I just know it is about corn,” said Roe Woolf, who was visiting from Nashville. Apparently, that was enough of a…
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Mary Quant was one of the best-known designers of the Swinging Sixties, a creative and commercial trailblazer who put London fashion on the world map. Synonymous with defining styles of the era, including the miniskirt and hot pants, her colorful and unashamedly sexy clothes for a drastically changing world were adored as much by celebrities…
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WASHINGTON — President Biden proposed on Thursday an expansion of health care coverage to nearly 600,000 young immigrants who are covered by a program that protects them from deportation. The plan would allow those covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, to sign up for health insurance through Medicaid or the Affordable…
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For the past several years, Ms. Jones has been developing one central philosophy: Because Black women have historically been concentrated in low-paid caregiving jobs, which are often excluded from labor laws and benefits like Social Security, they have accumulated less wealth and experienced worse health outcomes. Furthermore, Ms. Jones argues, helping Black women — through…
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By Lindsey Tramuta The creative director Ramdane Touhami, co-founder of the beauty brand Officine Universelle Buly, is venturing into the literary world with his new Parisian bookstore, La Pharmacie des Âmes. Translating to “the pharmacy of souls,” the shop occupies a former 19th-century pharmacy — with all the original cabinetry preserved — in the Seventh…
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If you’re set on giving your wardrobe a summer refresh ahead of the season, allow me to give you a hand…bag. There are a lot of ways to give your closet an update, but when in doubt, you certainly can’t go wrong with a chic accessory. And, trust me, the biggest summer 2023 bag trends…
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Suddenly, everyone is wearing itty-bitty underwear in lieu of the pants that once were. At least on the runways. For fall 2023, Miu Miu sent out brainy, librarian-chic models wearing a collection that mused on normcore, plus a slew of final looks wholeheartedly devoted to beaded, sequined briefs worn bare or layered on top of…
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