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What Ozempic Taught Me About Style and Self-Worth
Last summer, on work trips to Portland, Oregon, and New York, and in the fall, while visiting London and Paris, I went out of my way to meet up...
What Valentino Garavani Taught Men About Style
Like playing the drums or making small talk, personal style is one of those things that looks far easier than it is—especially when it’s done by a true master...
What “The Pitt” Taught Me About Being a Doctor
“The Pitt” easily could have felt like one long sequence of overstuffed, heavy-handed scenes. It’s a testament to the show’s artfulness that, most of the time, it doesn’t. Instead,...
What a Week on an Island, Eating Almost Nothing, Taught Me About Food, My Body, and My Mind
This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it...
How Giorgio Armani Taught Hollywood Players To Dress Like American Gigolos
He haunted the sons before he haunted the fathers. That’s how it seemed to me. When American Gigolo came out in 1980 the louche, voluptuous landscape it depicted—the Polo...
What Trail Running In Wyoming With Serious Pros Taught Me About Life, Endurance and Competition
The first run that my fellow visiting amateur Grace Cook (who runs seriously) and I did was difficult (for me at least); the altitude was stinging, and the conditions...
From the Archives: André Leon Talley on Two Women Who Taught Him How to Live
When I walked into her office, Mrs. Vreeland was eating her sparrowlike daily lunch: a small shot of Dewar's White Label Scotch and a tiny, tiny finger sandwich sent...