PARIS — Emily’s not in Paris any more. Her Disneyfied, funfair version of French style, the kind that created its own mini culture war, has been banished by the names — Dior, Saint Laurent —- that once defined the term. You want that mythic thing known as French chic; that chimera that answers the Quixotian…
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PARIS — Was 1997 a watershed year for modern fashion? Next week, at the Palais Galliera museum, a new blockbuster exhibition will make the case that the year was both a high point of 1990s fashion — a current focus of nostalgia — and the gateway to the millennium. With dozens of looks, the show…
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Homegrown tastes of the tropics slumber in Marianne Willburn’s freezer — even now, when it’s almost as cold outside as it is in the suspended animation of that icy, dark compartment. And in the heat of peak growing season, the ginger, turmeric or lemongrass that she stashes to enliven a warming wintertime curry make themselves…
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My father was an exacting eater and suspicious of certain ingredients. (Cilantro above all he despised.) But I don’t think he ever inspected the label on that Lea & Perrins bottle, which would have revealed to him the presence of fermented glutamate-rich anchovies, a food that in no other form was allowed to cross the…
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Flying to Tanzania for her honeymoon on Ethiopian Airlines in November, Amanda Meeks was ready to celebrate. So, when an email arrived inviting her to bid on business class seats for the leg of the journey between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, she jumped on it, getting two seats for the less-than-three-hour…
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Nicole Kidman, 1997 “Ask anyone for the best jewelry red carpet moments in Oscar history and Nicole Kidman wearing chartreuse Galliano and Indian Moghul jewelry in 1997 will top the list. Always. Martin Katz, whose jewelry showcases some of the world’s most exceptional stones, was working with vintage jewelry a lot at that time. He…
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DJ Khaled Khaled is another celeb with a ladder for their tall AF closet. But unlike Christina and J.Lo, Khaled’s is just for his sneakers. The DJ built his sneaker collection their own room, he told Complex, featuring every kind of casual footwear imaginable: Jordans, Yeezys, Jay Z-signed Reeboks, and his signature “Bless Up” slides.…
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Wearing pieces from a brand to its runway show has long been a custom of fashion week. But in Milan, perhaps more than in any other city, this trend is more noticeable — and when you go inside shows, you can better observe the trickle-down (and trickle-up) relationship between clothes worn on the street and…
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