Lifestyle

72 Years After Its Debut, Blancpain Finally Perfected Its Pioneering Dive Watch
The new 38-mm references still look the part of the 1953 model: the sapphire bezel insert recalls vintage Bakelite types used in the mid-20th century, while the luminous sword-shaped...
Plan C Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Carolina Castiglioni reached back to childhood memories of villeggiatura at Forte dei Marmi—the manicured Tuscan beach haven she’s frequented since cradle days—to give Plan C’s new collection a breeze...
Plan C Spring 2026 Menswear Collection
Carolina Castiglioni reached back to childhood memories of villeggiatura at Forte dei Marmi—the manicured Tuscan beach haven she’s frequented since cradle days—to give Plan C’s new collection a breeze...
Pinstripes, Fast Cars, and Fine Jewels: How Damson Idris Arrived to the F1 Premiere in New York City
For Damson Idris, on the occasion of tonight's F1 premiere in New York City, arriving in a standard black car just wouldn’t do. Instead, the actor pulled up to...
Blumarine Resort 2026 Collection
David Koma is easing just fine into the Milanese work hard/weekend harder lifestyle that the city’s proximity to beaches, lakes, and mountains has turned into a sort of competitive...
Lauren Manoogian Resort 2026 Collection
Looking at Lauren Manoogian’s confident and accomplished resort collection, you’d never guess that the designer was pulled in two very different directions in its making. “I was thinking I...

World

Apocalypse No: “The Life of Chuck” Stumbles at the Finish Line
It’s impossible to discuss “The Life of Chuck” without revealing the ending, because that’s where the movie starts. It’s built backward, as is the Stephen King novella on which...
The Portland Bar That Screens Only Women’s Sports
When Jenny Nguyen was in her twenties, working as a chef in her home town of Portland, Oregon, she became a regular at pickup basketball games organized by a...
The Atomic Bombs’ Forgotten Korean Victims
Tanaka Terumi was thirteen years old when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, in August, 1945. The blast knocked him unconscious. After he came to, he...
So You Want to Be a Genius
Let’s say there’s another pandemic. This time, a lethal disease spreads through contact with other people’s fecal matter. Precision toilet cleaning becomes a matter of life and death. In...
Why Donald Trump Is Obsessed with William McKinley
Late in his life, McKinley reconsidered protectionism. He was reëlected in 1900, and by his second Administration he felt that the United States should greet globalization by entering foreign...
Cactus Wren Is Doing Its Own Thing
The space is bright and open, with high ceilings and large windows that highlight the eternally terrific people-watching of the Lower East Side. The mint corner location is the...