At a Brooklyn club, fans of the Netflix series “Wednesday” showed off their takes on the pigtailed heroine’s signature moves in a midnight competition.On a Brooklyn street dotted with auto repair garages, a line of young women wearing black ruffled dresses, black chokers, little black backpacks and Doc ...
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The title robot — reminiscent of the loyal but messy straight women that gay men are protective of — is progress for a genre with a shameful history.When the new killer robot movie “M3gan” opened this month, it sold $30.2 million in tickets, right behind “Avatar: The Way ...
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Why would we even want her to?Madonna has once again infiltrated the pop culturesphere. The 64-year-old singer announced her 12th world tour — a spin across 40 cities and through four decades of hits entitled “Celebration” — via a five-minute black and white video that shows her hosting ...
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A reader eager to have a child before she turns 40 doesn’t know what to make of a new love interest’s silence when conversation turns to the future.I am a single woman in my late 30s. I am also a neurosurgeon, and my medical training ate up 15 ...
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The privately owned Swiss brand dominates the market by virtually every measure. Will it swallow up resales, too?There is a saying in the high-end watch trade that there are only two kinds of watchmakers: Rolex and everyone else.The privately owned, Geneva-based brand dominates the industry by virtually every ...
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Most of the durable wristwatch’s models — and a number of other electronic items — are made at Yamagata Casio.HIGASHINE, Japan — Yamagata Prefecture, in the north of Japan’s main island, Honshu, is known for its cherries. And when you disembark at the Sakuranbo-Higashine train station, they won’t ...
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Using humble materials, Gabe Lau, a Hong Kong artist, makes his own versions of high-end Swiss timepieces to have “a bit more fun.”HONG KONG — In a Starbucks in Kwun Tong, one of this city’s waterfront industrial districts, Gabe Lau pulled a small black box from his bag ...
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The sprawling metropolis has wealth and cachet, just what every brand desires.LOS ANGELES — When Alex Grinberg decided to open a second Cherry Creek Watch Company store, the location was obvious: Los Angeles.“It was a combination of factors,” Mr. Grinberg said. “The local client base is crucial. A ...
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Inspired by her grandmother’s travel timekeeper, Lisen Bage makes pieces that restore no-digital, distraction-free spaces for sleep.STOCKHOLM — Convinced that a bedroom should be a smartphone-free sanctuary, Lisen Bage set out to design the perfect alarm clock, one resembling the high-quality, collapsible travel model her grandmother kept at ...
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Coralie Charriol says competition helped to define her leadership style in the male-dominated industry.“Former ice racer” usually would not rank high on the résumé of a chief executive and creative director for a watch and jewelry brand. Yet for one — the Frenchwoman Coralie Charriol — it helped ...
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Can a beauty pageant become a seminar on global politics and commerce?Out of all beauty pageants, Miss Universe, which began in 1952, makes the boldest claim: that it can single out one person to represent an idealized vision of womanhood suitable for the entire world (or more grandly, ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.A Fitting NameWhen my friend Nancy brought four aspiring writers together, she said we needed a name. “Every successful writers’ group has one,” she insisted. But we hadn’t a single good idea. So, namelessly, we met ...
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Throughout history, clothes have maketh the con man.There is a scene at the beginning of “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” the 1999 film adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith book, in which Tom Ripley, the young man who becomes one of fiction’s greatest fakers, borrows a Princeton jacket from a ...
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André Leon Talley amassed piles of Louis Vuitton, Versace, Chanel and Fendi. Now it’s all about to go up for auction to benefit Black churches.André Leon Talley, the barrier-breaking Black fashion editor, was famous for his love of extravagant things and extravagant gestures. For striding through the world ...
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