How to Dress a Rock Star

Before the women became fashion designer and muse, they connected over relationships of a different sort. “We would talk about cute boys,” Christian Joy said of her early conversations with a young Karen Orzolek, the frontwoman of the rock band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who is now known simply as Karen O. This weekend, the…

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Many Flags but No Ivanka

This time around there was no escalator to carry him down, like Zeus descending from the heavens. There was an adoring crowd, though. There was some family, though not all of it. And there were flags — lots of flags! A veritable army of flags stood sentry below the crystal chandeliers of the Mar-a-Lago ballroom,…

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Dressing Wakanda

The immersive Afrofuturist vision that defined the 2018 film “Black Panther” — the one that connected African history to utopian technology, the one that seeped out onto red carpets, inspired hundreds of Halloween outfits and put a spotlight on the importance of costume design as a vehicle for centering overlooked aesthetic legacies in the pop…

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How to Read the Tree Leaves

What’s going on out there — and why? Some version of that is the perennial question on any inquisitive gardener’s mind. Fall provides plenty of dramatic subject matter along those lines, beyond the changing leaves. What is it exactly that gives the foliage of deciduous trees the signal to let go (except in the case…

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