Some couples who have a foot in two cultures are taking their ceremonies into their own hands. (See: a playlist that blends Bad Bunny and Bollywood.)On a visit five years ago to the Delhi factory of the fashion house Seema Gujral, Aisha Rawji fell in love with a ...
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Paramount tried to make “Mean Girls” happen all over again for a new generation.Cady Heron, the protagonist of the 2004 comedy “Mean Girls,” was the new kid in town once again.This time she didn’t wander into an intimidating high school cafeteria full of cliques, but onto TikTok, where ...
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Paramount tried to make “Mean Girls” happen all over again for a new generation.Cady Heron, the protagonist of the 2004 comedy “Mean Girls,” was the new kid in town once again.This time she didn’t wander into an intimidating high school cafeteria full of cliques, but onto TikTok, where ...
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Paris is the latest city where the pests have caused a panic among travelers. Here’s how to keep bedbugs from coming home with you, wherever you go.The talk of Paris Fashion Week this year has been the little, brown bug — bedbugs. The pests have popped up in ...
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify‘Once you’re accustomed to hiding your past, you tend to keep hiding in all kinds of ways.’Brian ReaKhalid Abdulqaadir’s life was full of secrets. He started ...
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From spongy moth caterpillars to torrential rains, this garden season has been plagued by one challenge after another.The linen closet did not hold nearly enough sheets to blunt the vengeance of a late-May freeze that turned umbrella-like Astilboides leaves into alien life-forms.There was nothing in any cupboard — ...
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Jimmy Butler’s emo persona was as short-lived as it was spectacular. Regardless of his motivation, it kept the Miami Heat’s media day decidedly off-topic.Jimmy Butler, a forward for the Miami Heat, has never been concerned with what anyone expects of him. He blasts country music in the Heat’s ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Wishing Her WellTo the skinny girl with sad eyes wearing a peacoat in the summer in New York City: You reminded me of my college days, when I was broken, living in my head, watching other ...
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After the deal fell through, they couldn’t stop thinking about the apartment and those Manhattan views. Sometimes persistence pays off.Some people spend years looking for the right home. For New Yorkers Dan Mazzarini and Andy Grover, it took about 10 minutes.In the summer of 2019, after learning that ...
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At Maison Margiela, John Galliano tells an epic tale in clothes.These days, narrative theater — the kind that involves characters and stories and spinning out entire fantasy scenarios that require costumes — has largely fallen out of fashion.Or fashion weeks, to be specific. Left behind as relics of ...
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A viral video of Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken introduced Americans to the guitar geek hidden within.It’s usually not a good sign when video of a senior government official singing goes viral on social media, where the crowds are as tough as they come.But when Secretary of ...
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Football fans mingled with Swifties, on public transit, in the parking lot and at the game. Everyone was dressed for the occasion.It was a standing-room-only crowd gathered in the aisles of a New Jersey Transit train from New York’s Penn Station to New Jersey at 5 p.m. on ...
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A reader wonders why we rarely see smiles on the catwalk — and if that’s always been the case in fashion.Why do runway models always look miserable? They always look as if they would bite your head off if you spoke to them. What’s wrong with smiling? Did ...
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It’s time we expect more from our clothes. Assessing the options at Balenciaga, Loewe, Hermès and Comme des Garçons.Backstage after his autobiographical and quasi-retrospective Balenciaga show, Demna, the mononymic bearded creative director of the brand, was standing in a long hooded black coat like some sort of rebel ...
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