Fashion
The State of Kate
Prince Harry’s blockbuster memoir, “Spare,” has dragged the royal family back into international focus with details at once banal and intriguing. Kate Middleton, as she is still sometimes known to those of us who remember her before her royal marriage, figures in the memoir and the Netflix documentary “Harry & Meghan” as a sketch of […]
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Lisa Marie Presley, a Life in Pictures
Celebrity, tabloid fodder, would-be rock star, nepo baby — who went on to have her own movie star, nepo baby (Riley Keough) — Lisa Marie Presley packed so much of our collective cultural id into her tiny frame over her 54 years that it was hard to know who she was beneath it all. She […]
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Detroit Barber on the Rise!
Watching Choochcutz, or Kendrick Mora on his license, is like watching a master at work. He is DaVinci. Kobe, Amadeus of hair. Although he has been cutting hair for just five years, he is already a prodigy and can style several popular faces like: Lil Baby, Stephen Curry, The Alchemist, The Entire Detroit Pistons team […]
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Please, God, Help Me Stop Missing Her
I was scrolling through psychotherapy memes on Instagram a few years ago when Hannah popped up in my friend requests. We each had new last names and new looks. I had decided that since I had to wear wigs anyway (as an ultra-Orthodox Jew), they may as well be blond instead of my natural dull […]
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A Stranger Filmed Her on the Train. TikTok Users Decided She Had Monkeypox.
Lilly Simon, a 33-year-old in Brooklyn, does not have monkeypox. She does have neurofibromatosis type 1, a genetic condition that causes tumors to grow at her nerve endings. Those tumors were filmed surreptitiously by a TikTok user while Ms. Simon was riding the subway on a Thursday in late July during her commute. In the […]
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Terrifying and Terrific Skull Jewelry
Why do we love skulls so much? Alright, it might be wrong to call this emotion ‘love’ but the image of the dead head surely engages attention. For a good reason or not is another question. Still, you can’t deny that skull images are pervasive in popular culture as well thought the centuries before the […]
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On the Set of ‘Law & Order: SVU,’ an Unscripted Meet-Cute
She worked with a teacher from the center to better understand her past relationships, warts and all. Afterward, “I decided that, unless it was a relationship where there’s a higher purpose and benefits to the world, I didn’t want to engage in it,” said Ms. Saraf, who grew up in Israel and Switzerland before moving […]
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Not Just Any Bag
This article is part of a series examining Responsible Fashion, and innovative efforts to address issues facing the fashion industry. “Plastic is not going anywhere anytime soon,” said Alex Dabagh, who started the company Anybag, its name a play on the ubiquity of plastic bags and an ode to his hometown, New York City, two […]
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Dimes Square Gets the Hotel It Deserves
“I won’t tell you the molding story, but there’s a lot to the molding,” Andrew Rifkin said, standing inside a room in Nine Orchard, the new hotel on Canal Street between Orchard and Allen Streets. Mr. Rifkin is also proud of the custom ceramic toilet paper holders (“You need a place to put your iPhone […]
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