How a Pandemic Is Inspiring the Use of Fine China Everyday

More dining at home has led some people to seek out fancier tableware that makes everyday meals feel far more celebratory.Fine china — the delicate, sometimes fussy tableware long associated with wedding registries and your grandmother’s cabinet — has found a new, more relaxed place at the table.Whether ...
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Remembering Grace Mirabella and Her Inventive Magazine

Her namesake glossy challenged the expectations of what a fashion publication could be. Her former collaborators recall how it, and Ms. Mirabella, shaped them.One day in 1989, Paul Sinclaire was directing a photo shoot in Los Angeles when he got a call from Grace Mirabella. After having been ...
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Nino Cerruti Gave Elegance a Good Name

The Italian designer is credited with having pioneered Italian ready-to-wear. He was also the most elegant man many people ever met.Elegance, Nino Cerruti once said, got on his nerves. It was the sort of remark you can afford to toss off when you are easily the most elegant ...
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Third Time She Left Me’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.A Girl Again“Hello, little girl!” That is how my father starts every phone call. Even though I expect it, his greeting still makes me chuckle. I’m not sure if he meant to imitate Archie Bunker from ...
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The Magic of Birdwatching in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park

For the teenage sons of an obsessed birder, a father’s bird-watching habit had become nerdy — until some bold jays in an Ontario park turned dubious adolescents into giggly boys.Something had drawn a crowd of bundled-up onlookers to a snowy spot just off the main road that runs ...
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Dog-Sledding in Southern Maine's Winter Wonderland

Traversing a frozen lake with a team of dogs is an escapist dream in the winter wonderland of Southern Maine. Just remember the brake — and no Instagram selfies.Our dog-sledding guide — the guy with the icicle’d beard — had already released three sets of dog teams hauling ...
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Who Gets to Ski?

When Tim Pham learned to ski in the 1980s, the sport seemed simpler. He would go to quiet resorts in Northern California like Sugar Bowl, where he would show up any time of day, buy a $35 lift pass, and ski without facing lines or crowds.“I could just ...
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Adrien Brody Returns to His First Love: Painting

The actor creates a skull painting at a borrowed artist’s studio in Brooklyn.The aqua slapped onto the canvas first. Then white, cobalt and cotton candy pink. Yellow blurted on with a rude noise, followed by red and black. This was on a frigid morning in a borrowed art ...
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Opening Ceremony Fashion: Best and Worst

Opening Ceremony Fashion: Best and WorstVanessa FriedmanWatching the Olympics from New YorkJames Hill for The New York TimesThe parade of nations in the Winter Olympics is really the parade of puffers. Unlike the Summer Games, cold weather means less room for fashion. Still, some countries tried their best ...
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Renate Reinsve on 'The Worst Person in the World' and New Fame

At a dinner during the Cannes Film Festival in July, Renate Reinsve found herself so nervous in the company of famous actors that she spent the evening chatting with their bodyguards instead. When a photographer who had been taking pictures of Timothée Chalamet appeared near the group, she ...
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Loving Him More When He Walks Out the Door

A daily reminder of mortality can be more gift than burden.Six weeks after we married, my husband got a phone call from his mother, and we rushed to the hospital. His aunt Lona lay in the intensive care unit after a bad headache at breakfast turned out to ...
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On Paper, They Were All Wrong. But in Time, Just Right.

Edgar Alonzo wanted to settle down and raise children when he met Beatriz Rivera, who was in the midst of a divorce and already had a grown child.Edgar Alonzo was moving in for a cheek-to-cheek moment with Beatriz Rivera when he got his first indication that they weren’t ...
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Art School Looked Like a Lot of Fun In the ’90s

A homage to a predigital era has popped up, as a crowdsourced art project that lives, paradoxically, on Instagram. To Matthew Atkatz, the college snapshots he kept in shoe boxes in his closet for years raised a koan-like question: “If they are sitting in a box,” Mr. Atkatz, ...
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Art School Looked Like a Lot of Fun In the ’90s

A homage to a predigital era has popped up, as a crowdsourced art project that lives, paradoxically, on Instagram. To Matthew Atkatz, the college snapshots he kept in shoe boxes in his closet for years raised a koan-like question: “If they are sitting in a box,” Mr. Atkatz, ...
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