Aria Hughes likes to stay close to her home in Harlem, where she’ll enjoy an Ethiopian lunch, a park bench and maybe a matinee.“I always knew that I wanted to write about fashion,” said Aria Hughes, the editorial creative director of Complex, a global youth entertainment network that ...
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The 2023 Academy Awards carpet’s champagne hue — a break with a 62-year tradition of the bright red rug — is the latest arrival rug to opt for a colorful palette.There are some fundamental truths in the world: The sky is blue. The grass is green. The Oscars ...
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LOS ANGELES — There was a moment during Versace’s runway show, held on the rooftop of a parking garage that had been glammed beyond recognition, as if the building itself had been Facetuned, that felt like attending service at a fashion megachurch.The spoken words from Prince and the ...
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A quintessential New York artist prepares for the ultimate red carpet.In the late 1970s, the photographer Nan Goldin began documenting hedonism and bohemia in New York City, chronicling the downtown lives of her friends and lovers with raw intimacy. Those images became a time capsule of a grittier ...
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As in fashion, design and cars, watches from the brands Breitling, Grand Seiko, TAG Heuer and Omega are revisiting the glamorous decade.“The 1960s is something unique,” said Eugenia Paulicelli, founder and director of the Fashion Studies Program at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. “It ...
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The life of a scholar used to be simpler, with success or failure whittled down to an easy dictum: “Publish or perish.”Today it’s more like publish and podcast or perish.“The definition of ‘public intellectual’ has really changed, and I’m proud to be a part of that,” Natalia Mehlman ...
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Even when it leads to heartbreak.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 ...
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Tracking the history of moviedom’s biggest night, a new book examines the glamour, societal changes and bloopers embodied in 95 years of step-and-repeat.In a curious way, the Oscars are the culture’s yearbook. For nearly a century, the class heroes have annually paraded in front of the cameras for ...
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How Delia Barry, the octogenarian who knitted Colin Farrell’s cozy “Banshees of Inisherin” sweaters, became an internet star.When I first contacted Delia Barry, she asked to be called back later. It was a Wednesday afternoon in Greystones, Ireland, where she lives, and she was playing bingo. “It’s just ...
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How Delia Barry, the octogenarian who knitted Colin Farrell’s cozy “Banshees of Inisherin” sweaters, became an internet star.When I first contacted Delia Barry, she asked to be called back later. It was a Wednesday afternoon in Greystones, Ireland, where she lives, and she was playing bingo. “It’s just ...
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Nora Achmaoui and Khalid Alherani met on Instagram. One month later, they started a TikTok account that now has 1.3 million followers.Nora Achmaoui made the first move on Khalid Alherani in September 2021 in typical Gen Z fashion: She liked two of his pictures on Instagram after finding ...
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Khushboo Chaudhary and Param Gupta, who met in New York, chose to cancel their 300-person wedding in favor of an intimate celebration.Khushboo Chaudhary was just stopping by a friend’s party in the East Village in March 2019 when she spotted Param Gupta, the man she had been talking ...
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Including frog clogs, denim scraps, robot dogs and scented dresses.Fashion weeks have been happening around the world for almost two straight months. They started with the men’s wear shows in January, which were followed by the couture shows, which were followed by the four consecutive fashion weeks in ...
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A new ad campaign for the fashion brand Céline reveals the 81-year-old troubadour’s hidden talent.On a frigid New York afternoon in February 1963, Bob Dylan posed with his girlfriend at the time, Suze Rotolo, for the portrait that would appear as the cover of his second album, “The ...
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