Growing up in the town of Republic in southwestern Pennsylvania, Matthew Yokobosky would visit the local tailor most days after school. “His name was Danny Mariotti, and I used to go and watch him sew,” he said.There were the Trevallini sisters, whom he liked to observe constructing jeweled ...
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Coming soon to the catwalks: a contractual diversity pledge already adopted by some in Hollywood.In 2018, the actress Frances McDormand gave an acerbic Oscars acceptance speech in which she celebrated “hooligans and anarchists” and “feminist mothers,” but also ended on a two-word suggestion to her Hollywood peers, with ...
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Coming soon to the catwalks: a contractual diversity pledge already adopted by some in Hollywood.In 2018, the actress Frances McDormand gave an acerbic Oscars acceptance speech in which she celebrated “hooligans and anarchists” and “feminist mothers,” but also ended on a two-word suggestion to her Hollywood peers, with ...
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The designer Humberto Leon talks about love and merch at Chifa, his family’s Los Angeles restaurant.A year ago, Humberto Leon opened a restaurant with his family on the northeast side of Los Angeles.It was a destination for fashion fans from the start, and not just because Mr. Leon ...
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The designer Humberto Leon talks about love and merch at Chifa, his family’s Los Angeles restaurant.A year ago, Humberto Leon opened a restaurant with his family on the northeast side of Los Angeles.It was a destination for fashion fans from the start, and not just because Mr. Leon ...
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One of a core group early on, he helped the company outfit a generation of working women, marketing its wares and working closely with department stores in the shopping-mall era.Jerome Chazen, an original partner in the Liz Claiborne company, which helped reshape how career women dress, died on ...
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More dining at home has led some people to seek out fancier tableware that makes everyday meals feel far more celebratory.Fine china — the delicate, sometimes fussy tableware long associated with wedding registries and your grandmother’s cabinet — has found a new, more relaxed place at the table.Whether ...
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Her namesake glossy challenged the expectations of what a fashion publication could be. Her former collaborators recall how it, and Ms. Mirabella, shaped them.One day in 1989, Paul Sinclaire was directing a photo shoot in Los Angeles when he got a call from Grace Mirabella. After having been ...
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The Italian designer is credited with having pioneered Italian ready-to-wear. He was also the most elegant man many people ever met.Elegance, Nino Cerruti once said, got on his nerves. It was the sort of remark you can afford to toss off when you are easily the most elegant ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.A Girl Again“Hello, little girl!” That is how my father starts every phone call. Even though I expect it, his greeting still makes me chuckle. I’m not sure if he meant to imitate Archie Bunker from ...
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For the teenage sons of an obsessed birder, a father’s bird-watching habit had become nerdy — until some bold jays in an Ontario park turned dubious adolescents into giggly boys.Something had drawn a crowd of bundled-up onlookers to a snowy spot just off the main road that runs ...
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Traversing a frozen lake with a team of dogs is an escapist dream in the winter wonderland of Southern Maine. Just remember the brake — and no Instagram selfies.Our dog-sledding guide — the guy with the icicle’d beard — had already released three sets of dog teams hauling ...
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When Tim Pham learned to ski in the 1980s, the sport seemed simpler. He would go to quiet resorts in Northern California like Sugar Bowl, where he would show up any time of day, buy a $35 lift pass, and ski without facing lines or crowds.“I could just ...
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The actor creates a skull painting at a borrowed artist’s studio in Brooklyn.The aqua slapped onto the canvas first. Then white, cobalt and cotton candy pink. Yellow blurted on with a rude noise, followed by red and black. This was on a frigid morning in a borrowed art ...
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