The Academy Awards are back. But they may look a little different. It’s time for the stars to make their debuts — if they haven’t done it on social media already. Many of them are emerging from their homes, where they have ridden out the pandemic, to turn ...
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The working conditions of the so-called karigars, who make handicrafts for luxury brands, have long been an issue. Now many have no job at all.Saddam Sekh used to be a floor supervisor at a steamy Indian workshop in Mumbai that produced orders for an exporter working with some ...
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This week, watch a puppetry performance, break your Ramadan fast with a virtual open mic and iftar or listen to music from Yosmel Montejo and Vox Sambou.Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject ...
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The advocacy group for the over-50 set welcomes a mercurial generation that never wanted to grow up in the first place.The skateboarder, wearing a flannel shirt and black sneakers, glides a board plastered with stickers toward a kick-turn in a sun-dappled concrete bowl.The image might seem like the ...
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They’re at the Oscars, on film sets, at festivals and office buildings. Meet the new gatekeepers to gathering responsibly. Dr. Linda Dahl was pacing the alleyway off a sound stage at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Long Island City. It was 7 a.m. on a gray April morning, and ...
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For Parisians Rime Arodaky, a wedding gown designer, and Greg Finck, a photographer, picking a creative project gave them focus amid the many lockdowns in France.During the initial coronavirus lockdown last year, Rime Arodaky, a wedding gown designer, and Greg Finck, a wedding photographer, spent six weeks in ...
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For Parisians Rime Arodaky, a wedding gown designer, and Greg Finck, a photographer, picking a creative project gave them focus amid the many lockdowns in France.During the initial coronavirus lockdown last year, Rime Arodaky, a wedding gown designer, and Greg Finck, a wedding photographer, spent six weeks in ...
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A trend called “newtro” is cool in Seoul. The costumes in Minari, a film by Isaac Chung, include midcentury-style button-downs and slim dresses with straight, conservative lines. These looks from the 1970s and ’80s are part of a trend in present-day South Korea called “newtro” or new retro, ...
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Oscar prep and sustainable fashion.Welcome. It’s Oscar weekend, so if you’re the type to cram for the ceremony as if for a final exam, it’s time to cue up Minari or Nomadland or whichever contenders you missed. (The broadcast is Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern time, on ABC.) ...
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Augmented reality, 3-D printing and other advances are changing the jewelry business. Soon, they might help you become your own designer.From the Medicis to the House of Saud, it has always been possible for those with means to hire the most skilled artisans of the time to fashion ...
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Boryana Straubel, founder of Generation Collection, calls recycled gold a way to clean up electronic waste — and a canny investment.With economics and industrial engineering degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford, and a decade working at Tesla, the electric-car company where her husband was a ...
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My mind could rationalize polyamory, but my heart rebelled. I had been wandering the liquor store for some minutes when the clerk approached and asked if I needed help. I considered presenting my situation.“Hello,” I would say. “I’m wine shopping for dinner with my boyfriend and his two ...
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A look behind the scenes at life in the Team 10 house.In the vast world of YouTube villains, there may be none as famous as Jake Paul.The 24-year-old Vine star turned vlogger has polarized viewers with videos of dangerous pranks and stunts (though he continues to bring in ...
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The widow and inspiration of the provocative photographer Helmut Newton, she took pictures that were as tender as his were erotically charged.June Newton, the widow, muse and collaborator of Helmut Newton, the fashion photographer and provocateur known as “the King of Kink” for his erotically charged tableaux of ...
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