July 26, 2017

Digital Artist Yung Jake Scores With Emoji Portraits

They flow ceaselessly through the text panels on our smartphones, these ubiquitous ideograms used to convey facts or feelings or perhaps nothing at all. They have […]
July 26, 2017

An Ode to Shopping Malls

One day in 2015, Dan Bell left his home in Baltimore and drove into the suburbs to visit the Owings Mills Mall. It was a trip […]
July 26, 2017

First Person: How an American in London Learned to Fear the ASBO

LONDON — Dogs cannot safely bark in this city. This troubling piece of information first came to my attention after I read an article in The […]
July 24, 2017

On the Runway: What is ‘Appropriate’ Work Dress? Readers Respond

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY The National Assembly of France decided last week, like earlier decisions in the House of Commons in Britain and the House […]
July 22, 2017

Is This the Woman Who Will Save Uber?

A little over a year before Bozoma Saint John became the first chief brand officer at Uber, the transportation company’s best hope to rehabilitate its tarnished […]
July 21, 2017

Open Thread: Open Thread: This Week in Style News

Each week, the Open Thread newsletter will offer a look from across The New York Times at the forces that shape the dress codes we share, […]
July 21, 2017

On the Runway: The Duchess of Cambridge and Family Refine the Art of Pantone Politics

Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY The second European outreach tour by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, which took place this week in Poland and Germany, […]
July 21, 2017

Alex, We’ll Take ‘To Have and to Hold’ for $1,000

The category is: “North Meets South.” And here’s the answer: The Canadian high school teacher and the middle school teacher from South Carolina who met as […]
July 21, 2017

Modern Love: The 12-Hour Goodbye That Started Everything

Modern Love By MIRIAM JOHNSON The first time he slept over was an accident. He came to watch a movie, which for me became an exercise […]
July 20, 2017

Kenneth Jay Lane, Jewelry Designer Who Made a Fortune Faking It, Dies at 85

Kenneth Jay Lane, the designer and bon vivant who built a global business from glittering acts of unabashed deception, producing fake and junk jewelry — or, […]