Four female horological experts tell us. (Spoiler: Not one of them was wearing a watch specifically designed for women.)For centuries, the high-end watch industry has been controlled by men, and the buyers of high-end watches predominantly have been male. But that has been changing gradually, with female buyers, ...
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Carole Forestier-Kasapi’s first projects for the Swiss brand, including a solar energy movement, are being introduced this year.LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, Switzerland — No one expected in 2020 that Carole Forestier-Kasapi, who has dozens of horology patents on her résumé, would leave a 15-year career at Cartier to become the ...
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SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Mexico — Every Monday morning Daniel Vázquez unlocks the door to the clock tower on the central square of this postcard-perfect city and climbs a ladderlike series of wooden steps, 50 in all, to wind a French mechanical clock that has marked the passage ...
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A Thai jewelry designer customizes vintage timekeepers while honoring their imperfections.LONDON — The jewelry designer Patcharavipa Bodiratnangkura and Kenzi Harleman, her professional and personal partner, may not wear watches themselves, but that doesn’t keep them from customizing vintage pieces.Pat, as the 31-year-old calls herself, has always loved adding ...
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Dior, Chopard, Bulgari and Ralph Lauren are among the brands that recently introduced small watches in the fashionable shade.All (or mostly) black watches have been around, famously making their mark when Hublot introduced the Big Bang All Black model in 2006. The black ceramic timepiece was 44.5 millimeters, ...
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The house’s creations for the Mexican star María Félix, like her double baby croc necklace and La Doña watches, are part of an exhibition opening in Mexico City.Of all the women who have made dramatic entrances at Cartier, María Félix, one of Mexico’s most famous actresses, may have ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.‘Is Love Weird?’Every month, my mother, father, sister and I would drive out to the Mojave Desert in California to see Grandma Sparkly. As a child, I loved her big kisses, warm hugs and small house ...
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As shown at Louis Vuitton, Loewe and Hermès. The idea has nothing to do with tech, and everything to do with good clothes.PARIS — Like many people, Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director of Louis Vuitton women’s wear, started really traveling again last year — for work, for fun ...
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Nobody loves ice more than Americans. It’s a running joke, a quirk of the national personality: Iced drinks are as American as rock ‘n’ roll, pickup trucks and to-go cups.Way back in 1895, Mark Twain wrote that ice had become so inextricably linked with the United States that ...
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Some classics, some new, some destination vintage boutiques worth checking out if you’re lucky to be in France.Paris is a city of easy pleasures. Wine, cheese, croissants. What’s not to love? Isn’t that what Netflix built the popularity of the très unrealistic “Emily in Paris” on? Except the ...
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Some classics, some new, some destination vintage boutiques worth checking out if you’re lucky to be in France.Paris is a city of easy pleasures. Wine, cheese, croissants. What’s not to love? Isn’t that what Netflix built the popularity of the très unrealistic “Emily in Paris” on? Except the ...
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Known first as a provocative Instagram influencer and sex blogger, Eileen Kelly is now equally frank about her mental health struggles.On a freezing January afternoon, the podcaster and influencer Eileen Kelly welcomed a reporter into her spacious Lower East Side loft. She was wearing her show’s merch — ...
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Rick Owens has become one of the greatest designers in Paris by building his own world. Construction continues at Givenchy while, at Schiaparelli, Daniel Roseberry lays a new ready-to-wear foundation.PARIS — Rick Owens, paramour of the strange and the so-called prince of the underground, can seem like he’s ...
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Ariana Rueda and Nicolas Norena were friends in college. Five years later, they reconnected one fateful night in Madrid.When Ariana Rueda and Nicolas Norena met in the summer of 2013 at Florida International University in Miami, they became fast friends, but nothing more. If there was any spark, ...
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