Fashion week encourages excess: more events, more images and more pressure to become a different character every few hours. Yet the looks I remember most are rarely those assembled simply to be noticed. They are the ones that belong to where they are going. For New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2027, I approached getting dressed […]
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There is always an element of fantasy to fashion week. It is built into the setting: the transformed rooms, the compressed schedules, the promise that for a few minutes an entirely new world can be made convincing. But this season, the most resonant dreams were not exercises in escape. They were calls to participate. Across […]
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Frederick Anderson’s My Garden Party celebrated 250 years of America through immigrant stories, folk memory, florals, sensual craft and a white finale that opened the door to renewal.
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A long weekend can disappear surprisingly quickly. By the time we decide what to do with it, Friday evening has been lost to indecision, Saturday to errands and Monday has already begun to feel like the night before work. Three days technically passed, but somehow none of them felt particularly different from an ordinary weekend […]
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One noteworthy opening, a few reliable favorites, and an across-the-street surprise that stole the show. Before fashion week takes over the calendar entirely, here’s where I ate, drank, and lingered this past month—a mix of reopenings, reliable favorites, and one across-the-street surprise that stole the show. Consider this your before-the-rush eating list. The Noteworthy Opening: […]
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Why does summer seem to end before the weather says it should? From Halloween displays in August to fall wardrobes arriving while we’re still swimming, a case for slowing down, dressing for the weather and letting September be its own season.
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