The first time Alison Brooke Zhuk encountered Jay Phillip Parker, in 2004, he was a disembodied voice on a speaker phone in a Miami conference room, ready to close a deal. At the time, Ms. Zhuk and her husband were buying a house in Miami Beach; Mr. Parker, a real estate lawyer, was the attorney…
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Chelsea Anais Wilson was on her way to meet her cousins at a magic show at Illusions Bar & Theater in downtown Baltimore in May 2019 when her phone ran out of juice. “I was using my phone as a GPS,” said Ms. Wilson, 31, who walked through a bustling Preakness Stakes Week event with…
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Unions that represent workers at JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines are divided on the proposed merger of the two companies, with one union throwing its support behind the deal and another asking federal officials to block it. In a letter on Thursday, the Transport Workers Union, which represents 6,800 JetBlue flight attendants, asked Attorney General…
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Dress, boots, Dior. Helmet, Eric Javits, $6,500. Bracelet, Paco Rabanne.Adrienne Raquel Shirt, $1,425, skirt, $945, Dolce& Gabbana. Earrings, W.Rosado.Adrienne Raquel Top, $735, shorts, $445, Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini. Boots, Marni, $1,590.Adrienne Raquel Dress, Valentino, $4,200. Head scarf, Bora Aksu, $100. Sunglasses, CÉLIAvalverde, $106. Adrienne Raquel Sweater, $2,340, skirt, $1,830, skort, $1,750, handbag, $2,500, slingbacks, Prada.Adrienne…
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Earlier this month at the Grammys, Pharrell Williams hit the red carpet in a striking look: an Ernest W. Baker quilted red leather tracksuit under a faux fur jacket, pointy black boots and diamond-rimmed teardrop-shaped glasses by Tiffany. It was both rigid and a little sleazy, speedy and yet unhurried. More crucially, it felt like…
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The style at London Fashion Week tends to lean more punk than it does in other cities. For that, thanks are in part owed to Vivienne Westwood, the late British designer whose decades of bucking convention on the runway advanced a trend of individualism in the streets. Seeing how that individualistic spirit influences the way…
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Oat, soy and almond drinks can keep the word milk in their names, the Food and Drug Administration proposed this week, in an effort to end a long-running battle between the powerful dairy industry and the plant-based upstarts that have been changing the way Americans consume cereal and flavor their coffee. Most consumers, the agency…
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But cultural norms may be further ahead of the state’s legislature. “Buying real fur is not part of the conversation, to be honest,” said Vanessa Shokrian, a wardrobe and editorial stylist in Los Angeles. “People are not dying for it. I think faux fur has become an industry because of it.” Though, as the recent…
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