Lifestyle

Batsheva Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Instead of a runway show, Batsheva Hay decided to have people over for brunch at Jean’s on Lafayette. The restaurant was buzzing like on any other Sunday, with Oasis...
Diotima Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear Collection
It’s incredible to think that Rachel Scott launched Diotima a little over four years ago. Since then she has been named a runner-up at the 2023 edition of the...
Tory Burch Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Fashion’s gone vanilla. I stopped counting the shows that opened with an all-white look somewhere around the 12th this week. The instinct to simplify, to clean up the mess...
Adeam Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Hanako Maeda said her Spring 2026 collection was an exploration of contrast. “There’s a lot of juxtaposition between architectural tailoring versus something that feels romantic and soft, or the...
Nomia Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear Collection
Yara Flinn is often inspired by the outside world, but, she explained at her showroom, “it’s a little hard to be excited about designing right now, with the state...
Snow Xue Gao Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear Collection
As a business owner with a storefront on Bowery, designer Snow Xue Gao gets the pleasure of seeing what young, everyday women are wearing. These days, she says those...

World

Can You Really Live One Day at a Time?
This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I profiled a few years ago. Robinson has an ecological orientation, and “Aurora” is...
Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican Homecoming
In 2016, a sinuous remix of a track called “Diles” began pulsing its way through streaming services and night clubs. It featured a handful of Puerto Rican performers, but...
How Jane Birkin Handled the Problem of Beauty
In Agnès Varda’s film “Jane B. par Agnès V.,” from 1988, a nearly forty-year-old Jane Birkin, dressed in jeans, a white T-shirt, and a tweed blazer, her messy brown...
Maira Kalman’s “Stéphane Mallarmé with Shawl”
The artist Maira Kalman has always had an idiosyncratic approach to defining elegance, having co-authored a book titled “(un)Fashion,” and illustrated E. B. White’s “The Elements of Style.” For...
In Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, a Dynasty Comes Home
That’s meant to be remedied by Calder Gardens, a new institution taking shape in a half-buried berm on the Parkway, not far from that paternal fountain. The site joins...
A Tiny Cambodian Spot Packs an Outsized Punch
Bong (the name comes from a Khmer term of kinship and respect) is run by the Cambodian chef Chakriya Un, who was born in a Thai refugee camp and...