After graduating from Columbia University, she completed stints as an analyst at an investment bank and a public-school teacher before earning a Ph.D. in history at Stanford University. Around the time she was defending her doctoral thesis, she became a Lululemon ambassador. The thesis became the basis of her first book, “Classroom Wars: Language, Sex…
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Its Navitimer B01 Chronograph 43 Boeing 747 ($9,400) featured a cream-colored dial, black subdials, and red and white details, echoing the colors used on the original 747. “I like these kinds of cockpit-in-a-plane references in a watch,” Alessandra Cianchetta, the Italian architect, designer, urbanist and artist who now is teaching at the Yale School of…
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Anne Hathaway is back at it again, proving she’s red carpet (in addition to Genovian, of course) royalty. At Versace’s Fall/Winter 2023 show in Los Angeles, the actress delivered a killer all-black ensemble. The outfit: a Versace crocodile-effect minidress, sheer tights, sky-high platform boots and sunglasses, and sparkling Bulgari jewelry. The dominatrix-style set would do…
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The Bright Side is a series about how optimism works in our minds and affects the world around us. Samantha Rae Garcia held her restaurant job in Midland, Texas, for four years before deciding last year that she could no longer tolerate her boss’s criticism. Ms. Garcia, a psychology major at the University of Texas…
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Buddha Lo was in real trouble. Yes, the reigning champion of “Top Chef” approached the first Quickfire Challenge of the reality television show’s 20th season, which premiered Thursday, with skill and swagger. But he had cream when he needed butter. Could Mr. Lo successfully churn one ingredient from the other well enough to cook turbot?…
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Hailey Bieber presumably has access to every piece of designer clothing she could possibly want. Yet when given the opportunity to flex her design skills, she skipped the sequins and ball gowns and instead dreamed up double-breasted overcoats, long-sleeve tees, and pleated trousers. Her capsule collection with Wardrobe.NYC came about because even she felt like…
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“Versace is always the dream,” says Dua Lipa. She is sitting on the roof of a parking garage in Los Angeles, surrounded by a thrumming crowd of fashion editors bleary from the Paris runways, stylists taking a break from their A-list clients for the upcoming Oscars, and K-Pop princes in popsicle-colored suits. Elton John zips…
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Twenty stuffed animals lay ominously shoulder-to-shoulder on their bellies in a perfect circle on the floor. My 11-year-old daughter, Mary, sat in the middle, as though performing some esoteric ritual. I was used to such tableaus. Mary’s stuffed animals were more than things she held at night. They were patients in her veterinary practice, students…
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It is worth noting that the Turners’ house is also listed on Airbnb, as are all Evolve properties. During the Caldor fire, Airbnb activated its Extenuating Circumstances policy, which “takes precedence over the reservation’s cancellation policy,” and allowed for refunds or credit for certain reservations during the Caldor fire. Or so they told the news…
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“Believe it or not, your next home could be in a dentist’s office,” a popular shelter magazine declared, referring to underused New York City commercial buildings that were being turned into apartments. The year was 1979, and the magazine was Apartment Life, a monthly dedicated to young Americans who had moved out of their college…
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