As Elle Woods, Miss Piggy, and Julia Roberts’ character in Steel Magnolias all knew, pink is a signature color, best worn in large quantities with loads of confidence.
It’s not easy to stand out on the Oscars red carpet, where the powers of designers, stylists, makeup artists, and hair stylists combine to help Hollywood A-listers dress for attention.
On Wednesday (Feb. 20), in New York City, Meghan Markle had a baby shower. Serena Williams co-hosted and, according to the Cut, guests including Amal Clooney and Gayle King enjoyed flower-arranging lessons and desserts by chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten in a penthouse suite at the Mark Hotel that has four fireplaces and generally goes for about $75,000 a night. There may also have been a specially delivered orange tree and a live harpist.
Alex Mill is designed for the age of Marie Kondo. The newly relaunched fashion brand includes what might be classified as basics—a simple tee, a worker’s jacket, flat-front chinos—but they’re also created to be joy-sparking.
A little over a decade ago for Halloween, I dressed as Karl Lagerfeld. I wore straight-legged black jeans and a close-fitting black jacket, looped a cream jersey scarf around my neck, and shook a great deal of baby powder in my low, backswept ponytail. I wore pale powdered makeup with bronzer and black sunglasses on top, and tried to keep a straight face.
On Tuesday night (Feb.12) in New York City, neither snow nor slush, sleet nor rain stopped the parka-clad and cool-sneakered fans of young designer Christopher John Rogers from attending his second ever presentation at New York Fashion Week.
In fashion, it’s said that three is a trend—let’s hope that’s where this one stops.
Okay, so someone has gotten ahold of some compromising photos of you, and is attempting to blackmail you. What do you do?
Before we had Goop, we had Oprah.
Roger Stone is making the most of his day in court. The Trump confidante/political trickster appeared for his arraignment on Tuesday (Jan. 29), where he pleaded not guilty to charges of false statements, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Scotts Miracle-Gro, the maker of home, lawn, and garden-care goods that traces its roots back to the 19th century, blamed disappointing quarterly earnings on the volatility of the cannabis market, on which it is increasingly dependent.
How did we even describe things before the Fyre Festival?
As you’ve probably heard, the prolific style blogger Roger Stone was arrested at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida this morning by FBI agents in ballistic vests.
Since California legalized recreational cannabis in January 2018, pot enthusiasts in posh sections of Los Angeles can sleep easily with a few drops of CBD oil under the tongue. They can stroll into dispensaries such as MedMen, the chain touted as the “Apple store of weed,” which recently reported quarterly revenues of $20 million. On Venice Boulevard, shiny sedans toting surfboards drive past posters for Dosist vape pens and billboards for delivery services such as Eaze, a San Francisco-based startup that has raised some $52 million in venture capital.
For many consumers in US states where cannabis is legal, consumption of the plant sits squarely in the realm of luxury. In Los Angeles, for example, there are dispensaries where store associates wielding iPads assist customers in finding just the flower, tincture, topical, or edible to strike their fancies or ease their ailments. High-end shoppers have access to beautifully labelled jars and pre-rolled joints of organically grown buds, Sativa extracts in rose gold-tone vaporizers, and sugar-dusted CBD-enhanced gum-drops in Hermès-worthy boxes.
France’s data-privacy watchdog, known as the CNIL, slapped Google with a €50 million ($56.8 million) fine on Monday (Jan. 21), claiming the US tech giant was in breach of Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was designed to protect consumers’ rights to privacy and anonymity when it comes to the data they share with businesses.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers are among the many employees of the US federal government who are not being paid during the partial government shutdown, which is now in its 31st day and has long since become the longest government shutdown in US history.
California senator Kamala Harris has officially announced she’s running for president in 2020. After an extended period of speculation, and weeks of avoiding the question during media appearances promoting her new memoir, Harris confirmed her candidacy Monday morning (Jan. 21) on Good Morning America.
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The Minneapolis headquarters of On Being—Krista Tippett’s podcast that brought spirituality to National Public Radio, and has since evolved into its own media organization and metaphysical think tank—sounds like a gentle, pleasant, almost heavenly place to work. Certainly not the sort of place where employees have thermostat wars. A New York Magazine profile of Tippett notes that the office space has “lots of soft places to sit, many with sheepskins strewn over chairs,” a library with a rolling ladder, and tea served to visitors on a porcelain tray, accompanied by caramel cookies.
Although diamonds are graded for their clarity, the stories behind the stones can be maddeningly opaque. For many consumers, a diamond engagement ring is the most expensive accessory they’ve ever purchased—and one that’s heavy with totemic weight—so it stands to reason they would want to know its origins, especially if they’re the sort who pay extra for fair-trade coffee, organically grown kale, or artisan-knit sweaters. Diamonds, after all, have a well-documented history of helping finance unspeakable violence in war-torn countries and lining the pockets of corrupt billionaires.
At last year’s Golden Globes, a memo had literally gone out to actors, telling them to wear black. This year, it looked like an unofficial message had spread among Hollywood’s stylists, agreeing on a very different look: sparkles. From If Beale Street Could Talk‘s Regina King in pink Alberta Ferretti and Roma‘s Yalitza Aparicio’s in silver Miu Miu, right down to Timothée Chalamet’s Louis Vuitton harness bib, actors at the 2019 Golden Globes shimmered, sparkled, and shone in a spectrum of beads, sequins, and rhinestones.
For the 2019 Golden Globes, Lady Gaga wore a strapless custom sky-blue Valentino gown with $5 million of Tiffany diamonds dangling from her neck, and capped it with a very Gaga touch: matching sky-blue hair.
We can look to the life of Jeanne Louise Calment—the Frenchwoman famous for surviving some 122 years until she passed away in 1997—for French-y lifestyle tips about enduring to a ripe old age: Ride a bicycle until you’re 100; marry someone who will pay your bills; eat two pounds of chocolate per week; rub olive oil onto your skin; indulge in the occasional glass of Port. But now, a new paper poses that Calment may have had another old-fashioned method for reaching an impressive age: just lie about it!
