RUTH LA FERLA

April 17, 2020

Online Balls and Making Art

With the New York party scene on hiatus, here is how some patrons and society figures are spending their time and resources during the coronavirus pandemic. […]
April 16, 2020

A Frank Talk About Fat

The author of “This Is Big,” a history of Weight Watchers, comes to terms with a lifetime of dieting, a wavering self-image and the persistence of […]
March 26, 2020

You Are Your Safest Sex Partner. Betty Dodson Wants to Help.

What does it take to make Gwyneth Paltrow blush? Not much more, it turns out, than some explicit coaching on how to tone her pelvic floor. […]
March 26, 2020

You Are Your Safest Sex Partner. Betty Dodson Wants to Help.

What does it take to make Gwyneth Paltrow blush? Not much more, it turns out, than some explicit coaching on how to tone her pelvic floor. […]
February 7, 2020

Billy Porter’s Stylist Flips Fashion on Its Head

Billy Porter is likely to sweep onto the Oscars red carpet on Sunday night, dazzling in a mélange of gilded feathers and a bouffant skirt, a […]
January 28, 2020

Billie Eilish: Gen Z’s Outrageous Fashion Role Model

Mila Docheva faced down the camera, her contours camouflaged by an outsize hoodie raucously inscribed with neon graffiti. Her turnout, which she posted on Instagram, was […]
January 2, 2020

Frederick’s of Hollywood Goes From Racy to ‘Real’

The director calls action and the merriment unfolds as four young women sip drinks by the pool, cavort on downy beds, muse about their futures and […]
January 29, 2018

Naomi Alderman on the World That Yielded ‘The Power’

Advertisement “The Power,” Naomi Alderman’s recent work of speculative fiction, tackles a freighted question: What would happen in a conventional society if the roles of men […]
December 8, 2017

Why Is Fashion Having an Astral Moment?

If anyone can restore proper awe to the notion of space travel, Buzz Aldrin can. At 87, Mr. Aldrin, who made history in 1969 when he […]
November 18, 2017

Big Sonia: I’m Still Here

Advertisement Midway into “Big Sonia,” Sonia Warshawski, the outsize centerpiece of this poignant documentary, ushers viewers into her bedroom, lifts a pillow from the bed and […]