Advertising and Marketing

May 15, 2020

Is Marriage a Prize?

The Mrs. Files looks at history through a contemporary lens to see what the honorific “Mrs.” means to women and their identity. Growing up, my parents […]
April 27, 2020

Everyone Is Giving Away Cash on Instagram

On March 18, as states sent nonessential workers home and companies prepared to cut costs, the fitness influencer Paige Hathaway posted a message to her more […]
February 20, 2020

Sy Sperling, Founder of the Hair Club for Men (and Also a Client), Dies at 78

Sy Sperling, a businessman who helped bring the hair-loss industry into the mainstream with ubiquitous, self-effacing ads, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Boca Raton, […]
February 6, 2020

Kim Kardashian Has Learned Restraint

LOS ANGELES — When Kim Kardashian West says it, she’s not being funny. She doesn’t smile. She is professional and sincere, and that sincerity is worth […]
February 4, 2020

Miuccia Prada Will Be Getting Sensitivity Training

In December 2018, Chinyere Ezie, a civil rights lawyer, posted a picture on Twitter that seemed to encapsulate a year’s worth of racial and cultural faux […]
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 […]
November 3, 2019

Why Barbie, a Blimp and a Wienermobile Are Posting on Airbnb

It was a warm August evening in Evanston, Ill., just north of Chicago, when the Wienermobile rolled out the red carpet for a sleepover. Actually, the […]
February 2, 2018

Yesterday In Styles: Remind Me, Why Was It That We Ever Watched Infomercials?

Advertisement Print headline: “The Stepford Channel,” published here in October 1992. The story: It was the ’90s and suddenly David Letterman and Jay Leno found themselves […]
September 4, 2017

A Shopping Spree in Hong Kong: The Past and the Future

At a shopping mall here that caters to mainland Chinese tourists, Jayce Zhao veered into a Hublot boutique to inquire about a $24,275 watch that he […]
March 24, 2017

De Grisogono Offers You a ‘Botler’

Artificial intelligence is not something found every day in the jewelry and watch sectors — but then De Grisogono doesn’t consider itself to be one of […]