One recent Saturday morning at Steps on Broadway, a rehearsal studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, ballet dancers pirouetted to recordings of classical piano music while an instructor guided them.Some of the dancers were retired pros practicing at the barre. Others were weekend warriors indulging “Swan ...
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A year after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, four figures from the Kyiv fashion scene reflect on a year of personal and professional survival.It has been 12 months since Russia began a brutal invasion of Ukraine, forcing millions to flee the country and devastating the local economy, ...
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Alison Zhuk and Jay Parker first met during a real estate transaction. Years later, the housing market reunited them.The first time Alison Brooke Zhuk encountered Jay Phillip Parker, in 2004, he was a disembodied voice on a speaker phone in a Miami conference room, ready to close a ...
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He wanted children. I didn’t. What happened next was completely unexpected.When we found out the pregnancy was ectopic and life-threatening, my husband vowed to never ask me to have children again.It had been a 12-year negotiation. He wanted children; I didn’t. When we met in college, two foreign ...
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Why Louis Vuitton chose Mr. Williams as its new designer of men’s wear. It’s bigger than hip-hop.Earlier this month at the Grammys, Pharrell Williams hit the red carpet in a striking look: an Ernest W. Baker quilted red leather tracksuit under a faux fur jacket, pointy black boots ...
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Navigating fashion week with Haley Lu Richardson, who played Portia on “The White Lotus.”Here is one of several reasons that being famous is kind of weird: People like to surprise you everywhere and anywhere at all times.Haley Lu Richardson, who has been acting professionally since she was a ...
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The German provocateur’s opening in Los Angeles shows her choreographic skills and obsession with youthful nihilism. But when the performers leave, the emptiness remains.LOS ANGELES — As was preordained, the opening night of Anne Imhof’s “Emo” at Sprüth Magers, the German artist’s largest exhibition to date in the ...
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René Caovilla stilettos with the distinctive strap snaking up the ankle are celebrating 50 years of style.MILAN — Being the height of fashion for 50 years is quite a claim. Cleo, the fanciful shoe designed by the Venetian haute cobbler René Caovilla, with its sinuous strap coiling up ...
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The most eye-catching shows, the biggest parties and the newest talents to watch. Here is what turned heads in London this season.Simone Rocha, fall 2023.Ben BroomfieldDilara Findikoglu, fall 2023.Niklas Halle'N/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesLONDON — Farms aren’t normally a source of stylistic inspiration for the upper echelons of ...
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Every so often, a specific boot gets associated with a certain era. Will Blundstone’s Chelsea boots be the defining style of the early 2020s?Perhaps what recently happened to Jenn Stimple, a wardrobe stylist for TV and film, has also happened to you. Ms. Stimple said that after a ...
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Chris Evert made them famous, and their simple, elegant designs have stood the test of time.In 1978, while defending her three-year streak as the U.S. Open champion, Chris Evert lost her gold diamond bracelet in the middle of the match.“When I competed, I wanted to wear something that ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.A Note From a StrangerI sat crying in a Nashville emergency room, more than 9,000 miles from my Australian home. I was having a bad reaction to a medication. A gray-haired woman across the room looked ...
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But finding the right house wasn’t easy during the pandemic. Neither was renovating on a tight schedule.For Peter and Christy Tiboris, like so many others, the pandemic provided the push they needed to do something they’d long contemplated: leave Manhattan for the suburbs.Since marrying in 2013, the couple ...
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The CNN anchor should have known there is a fine line between showing some personality and things getting personal.Don Lemon, a co-host of “CNN This Morning,” is still off the air, four days after apologizing on Twitter and internally for describing Nikki Haley on the show last Thursday ...
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