As hotbeds of political subversion go, Disneyland has never struck me as particularly high on the list. But a funny thing happened when I visited the amusement park in December.
The red carpet at the Golden Globes wasn’t supposed to be about fashion today. Instead, the spotlight was on the #TimesUp campaign, which some 300 women in Hollywood launched to raise awareness—and funding—for blue-collar women who have suffered sexual harassment and discrimination. They asked that women (and men) show their solidarity on the red carpet by wearing black, instead of the usual array of jewel tones, dazzling metallics, princess pastels, and blazing reds and yellows.
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WWD confirmed this morning that Phoebe Philo, the British designer at the helm of Céline, will depart the label after presenting her final collection, for Fall 2018, in March. While the game of designer musical chairs between fashion labels has become commonplace, Philo’s exit after a decade marks the end of an era at the LVMH-owned fashion house, and for the world of women’s fashion overall.
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My first holiday season in New York, I lived in a single-room apartment and shared a bathroom with the other people who lived on my hallway. The apartment came furnished with a Murphy bed, a hotplate, and a bookshelf—to which I added a string of twinkle lights (there was no room for a tree). This makes it sound like Manhattan of 100 years ago, but it was only 2003, at the beginning of what I still remember as the coldest winter of my life.
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In January of 2015, three friends—design writers and curators, the sorts of women who wear cool cover-ups, interesting sunglasses, and hats that have never been unevenly squashed inside a suitcase—went to the beach together in Malibu.
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This week, much of the world (myself included) mocked Melania Trump’s dystopian Christmas aesthetic. Some noted that her White House decorations, which include a dark hallway lined with spotlit branches, looked an awful lot like the “stick labyrinth” at the end of True Detective. Others wondered whether the first lady’s inspiration board included the White Witch from Narnia and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. Melania Trump’s director of communications, Stephanie Grisham, even summed up the effect in a single, perfect tweet:
US first lady Melania Trump is in the Christmas spirit, as she has extensively documented on social media.
The Codex Quetzalecatzin, a manuscript dating back to the late 1500s, sounds like an artifact from an Indiana Jones movie. Essentially an ancient map of an area including present-day Mexico City and Puebla, it was created during a period when both Spanish colonizers and indigenous people were using maps to lay claim to their land.
A Swedish power plant that aims to eliminate the use of fossil fuels by 2020 has taken to burning recycled wood and garbage—including clothes from H&M’s central warehouse, as first reported on Swedish public television.
According to a new law signed by Russian president Vladimir Putin on Saturday (Nov. 26), the Russian government now has the power to label media outlets that receive funding from outside Russia as “foreign agents.”
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The bar at Gaskins, a cozy tavern in the upstate New York hamlet of Germantown, is a pretty perfect place for autumn drinking. That’s where I discovered the Sharky: a rye-based cocktail made bracingly crisp with apple cider and a generous squeeze of lemon. The addition of your favorite amaro—Gaskins used Nardini—adds some bittersweet depth and sophistication.
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When it comes to admiring the trappings of other peoples’ lives—autumnal sweaters and doe-eyed dogs curled up on plush duvets, the deep suntans of exotic vacations, artfully arrayed homegrown tomatoes—there’s no medium quite like Instagram. Scrolling through can feel like catching glimpses through windows of the charmed, well-lit luxuries of other people’s lives—making one’s own feel lacking in comparison.
RIP landlines. ☎️ I bought this pink princess phone with visions of cradling it on my shoulder chatting while I cooked, just like my mom used to do. But landlines are expensive now, and I couldn’t justify the extra monthly bill in a new apartment, so I sold it at a stoop sale. I still think about it sometimes.
