This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity in design is changing the way the world looks. People with a history of moving between worlds bring a unique perspective to designing for the home. Teresa Rivera, 30, grew up in New York’s Dominican diaspora but now lives…
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Designers know what they’re getting when they work with Isamaya Ffrench, the makeup artist and founder of the makeup line Isamaya — and it’s never “French girl” beauty or “no-makeup makeup,” fashion week clichés for designers who prefer that beauty silently accessorize their clothes with invisible makeup and non-hairstyles. In February, Ms. Ffrench spent days…
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One of the main reasons I became a fashion editor was my fascination with personal style: clothes as a medium for self-expression. The first way we get to know someone (even before speaking to them) is simply by looking at their outfit. We often communicate who we are with our wardrobes—which can make developing your…
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By Gisela Williams Lately in Berlin, the city’s fine-dining chefs have been catering more to a local crowd. Take Vadim Otto Ursus, a native of the city whose jewel box of a restaurant, Otto, has been winning accolades for its sophisticated seasonal fare, such as wild boar tartare and grilled local mushrooms served with koji…
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Angel’s Share, a downtown cocktail bar that closed last year and is considered a pioneer of the craft-cocktail renaissance in New York, will reopen across town. Erina Yoshida, the daughter of Tony Yoshida, the restaurateur who opened Angel’s Share in a second-floor room on Stuyvesant Street in 1993, has found a new space for the…
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“A lot of people who work in the wedding industry just continue carrying on a narrative because that’s what they know and what they were taught,” said Mx. Blattel of Modern Rebel. David Green, 36, and Ryan Schwartz, 37, did not have wedding parties for their summer camp-themed wedding because they felt they “create unnecessary…
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Locker-Room Consultation Chelmowski was beginning to worry that he was never going to figure it out. Early one morning, at his usual spin class, he found himself on a bike next to an old friend, George Morris, who was a neurologist specializing in seizure disorders. Could these weird episodes be seizures? They weren’t like any…
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The online health insurance marketplace for members of Congress and Washington, D.C., residents was subjected to a hack that compromised the personal identifying information of potentially thousands of lawmakers, their spouses, dependents and employees, according to a letter from House leaders informing their colleagues about the breach and a memo from the Senate’s top security…
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The online health insurance marketplace for members of Congress and Washington, D.C., residents was subjected to a hack that compromised the personal identifying information of potentially thousands of lawmakers, their spouses, dependents and employees, according to a letter from House leaders informing their colleagues about the breach and a memo from the Senate’s top security…
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