Courtesy of Chanel / Kristen White Pharrell Williams founded Black Ambition, an equity-focused initiative that aims to level the uneven playing fields across industries and shine a light on Black and Latinx students and entrepreneurs from historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. Taking its support to new heights, the nonprofit organization has teamed up…
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The first major black-tie gala of the not quite post-pandemic era took place June 3, when the New York Botanical Garden held a spring fund-raiser. Organizers did not decide to hold the gala until late April, shortly after the installation of Yayoi Kusama’s “Cosmic Nature,” but they nevertheless managed to sell all 300 of the…
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Friends came by to visit last weekend, and my three-year-old announced that we had “a fabulous pineapple” for the occasion. I don’t know where she got the phrase “fabulous pineapple,” but it was true: The pineapple, which I bought to garnish piña coladas, was fabulous. There was plenty left over for making dishes like the…
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Federal officials are reviewing nearly 800 cases of rare heart problems following immunization with the coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, according to data presented at a vaccine safety meeting on Thursday. Not all of the cases are likely to be verified or related to vaccines, and experts believe the benefits of immunization far…
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Of all the things to get excited about as grilling season kicks in — the crisp-edged pork butt, the herb-rubbed lamb legs, all those resplendent peppers and eggplants and burgers galore — humble chicken thighs fall to the bottom of the list. It’s not because chicken thighs are inherently less delicious than burgers and lamb.…
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Courtesy Forget summer, it’s sale season, the most important time of the year. Our favorite retailers like Nordstrom, Mytheresa, and Net-a-Porter are slashing prices on designer goods all month long, and next up is Shopbop, our go-to site for everything from Madewell to vintage Chanel. But the retailer is doing us one better: Shopbop is…
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Matty Bovan presented his first solo catwalk show at London Fashion Week in 2018. One of Britain’s most colorful fashion stars, with distinctive rainbow streaks in his hair, he is known for his bold palettes and intricate knits. This week, Mr. Bovan won the 2021 International Woolmark Prize and the Karl Lagerfeld Award for Innovation,…
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Vaccinated travelers may soon be able to travel to Hawaii without testing or quarantining, some eight months after the state instituted its stern Safe Travels program. In recent days, David Ige, Hawaii’s governor, has issued a series of guidelines regarding travel and other aspects of further reopening the state, which has had the strictest entry…
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For the last 15 months, many American offices sat essentially empty. Conference rooms and cubicles went unused, elevators uncalled, files untouched. Whiteboards became time capsules. Succulents had to fend for themselves. But over the coming weeks, many of these workplaces will creak slowly back to life. By September, roughly half of Manhattan’s one million office…
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