Brands seem determined to make the most of the bounce in luxury spending that they have anticipated since Beijing ended its zero-Covid policy.After three years of conducting business in Asia virtually — via video calls, digital conferences, even holograms — Swiss watch executives have travel on the brain.“I ...
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The options for building a solid collection of timepieces are almost limitless, but choices from these categories would be a good start.Watches have evolved well beyond their primary utilitarian purpose of telling time, and even beyond their role as indicators of style and status. Now they are about ...
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A one-man family business still produces watch straps and other small leather items. But the number of such companies has been declining sharply in Italy.MILAN — Inside a nondescript condominium in Portello, a former industrial area northwest of the city center, a worn leather bag filled with samples ...
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Shiv goes for comfort, the “4chan Swede” makes a call and Kerry’s pink dress is tragically unable to carry the day.Season 4 of “Succession,” the HBO series about the very rich, utterly venal, entirely power- hungry (and compulsively watchable) Roy family is underway — and we can’t stop ...
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LOS ANGELES — One pleasingly bitter, gently botanical, sort-of purple nonalcoholic cocktail in, and I was just happy to be caught in the gravitational pull of the Ruby Fruit.What could be better on a rainy weeknight than chatting with friends and strangers squished at the bar, snacking on ...
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The Bright Side is a series about how optimism works in our minds and affects the world around us.On March 20, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network released its annual World Happiness Report, which rates well-being in countries around the world. For the sixth year in a ...
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About a year ago, a literary salon sprang to life in a run-down townhouse in the West Village of Manhattan. Dozens of young writers, critics, artists, theater actors and filmmakers started going there almost nightly to drink, smoke, talk, dance and argue, much like their bohemian predecessors in ...
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The club promoter and Los Angeles scenester is now making his own music, under his own record label.Name: Zack BiaAge: 26Hometown: ManhattanNow Lives: In a three-bedroom apartment in West Hollywood, Calif.Claim to Fame: Zack Bia, whose legal name is Zack Bialobos, is a D.J., musician and influencer who ...
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An official in Wales was called out for knitting in a virtual meeting, setting off an debate over etiquette. Experts say the fine-motor movement activates the parts of the brain used for focus.Is it rude to knit at work?Recently, a county councilor in Wales was accused by a ...
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At the second annual 90s Con, aging millennials traveled from across the United States to connect with the stars of their youth.HARTFORD, CONN. — The stars were out at 9:30 a.m. in the Connecticut Convention Center.The top floor of the sprawling complex looked like the pages of a ...
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Caitlin Reichel and Kristy Graziano met at a holiday party in Orlando, Fla., in 2016, but it would take three more years to become a couple.Caitlin Skye Reichel was doing handstands at a corporate holiday party in Orlando, Fla., the first time Kristy Marie Graziano laid eyes on ...
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Everything was going great until I told him to dump his kerosene lamp for an LED.My boyfriend and I had been dating for six months when we had the biggest fight of our relationship over the carbon footprint of a kerosene lamp. We had finished dinner in the ...
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Everything was going great until I told him to dump his kerosene lamp for an LED.My boyfriend and I had been dating for six months when we had the biggest fight of our relationship over the carbon footprint of a kerosene lamp. We had finished dinner in the ...
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Over his 15-year career, the artist and creative director Ryder Ripps has built websites for the likes of Kanye West, who is now known as Ye, and Kenzo, designed album covers for musicians such as Grimes and Pop Smoke, and shown his work in respected New York galleries ...
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