At 11:30 a.m. Sunday morning, with New York City under a heat advisory, a gaggle of sailing enthusiasts, dressed in polo shirts and summer dresses, boarded a ferry for Governors Island to watch towering F50 catamarans race along the skyline of Lower Manhattan and in front of the Statue of…
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Chanel Is at a Crossroad. Where Does It Go From Here?
Earlier this month Virginie Viard, the creative director of Chanel, the second largest luxury brand in the world by sales, left the house. She had been in her job for approximately five years, ever since the 2019 death of Karl Lagerfeld, her mentor and the brand’s former designer, with whom…
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How Short Is Too Short for a Skirt?
I love short skirts, but as a fit, professional woman, how short can I go? I am comfortable with two, maybe three, inches above the knee, but I fear dressing “too young” as the years go by. How will I know when I have gone over the line? — Ann,…
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How A Fashion Critic Mentally Catalogs Fashion Week Shows
If fashion is a storytelling business, it should follow that runway shows are narratives. Yet they can’t be. For starters, they lack a plot. True, designers can be relied upon to spiel about inspirations, travels or philosophies as a listener’s eyeballs roll back in his head. The truth is that…
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Hailey Bieber Fans Turn Out for Her Rhode Makeup Pop-Up
The line of Hailey Bieber fans snaked up Greene Street in Manhattan and wrapped around the block, but many were never going to get what they really wanted: a selfie with Ms. Bieber. “I love the Bieber family, Bieber franchise — I’m here for it!” exclaimed Haleigh Francis. Like hundreds…
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Big Pink Bird Makes Splash in the Hamptons
For the last few summers in East Hampton, N.Y., many people have gotten up early in hopes of glimpsing Jay-Z on one of his early morning walks amid the shingled mansions of moguls such as David Zaslav, David Geffen and Ron Perelman. But this season, the world’s most successful rapper…
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The Late-in-Life Lesbian Experience Blossoms Online
When Ms. Terpening came out in 2014, she said, some people she had known since childhood started to look at her askance. Online, however, she found more supportive communities, which, along with her family, helped her find her footing as a late-in-life lesbian. She is still legally married to her…
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Dries Van Noten Retires From Fashion With Final Paris Runway Show
“I tried to make things people would cherish,” Dries Van Noten said on Saturday evening, during a cocktail party and dinner preceding his final runway show. Mr. Van Noten held his first show in Paris back in 1991; now, at 66, he is stepping away from his namesake brand. His…
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Kevin Kwan’s Art Deco Heirloom
Kevin Kwan used to do some of his best napping in jewelry stores. This was decades before Mr. Kwan, 50, wrote his new novel “Lies and Weddings”; before the three books in his “Crazy Rich Asians” trilogy became best-sellers; before it was announced that Jon M. Chu, the director of…
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KidSuper and Cirque du Soleil Join Forces at His Paris Fashion Show
Tucked away on a side street behind Père-Lachaise, the largest cemetery in Paris and perhaps the most visited necropolis in the world, Colm Dillane, a.k.a. KidSuper, stood at the cyclonic center of a studio strewed with clothes, bags, shoes and props and crammed with models, stylists, photographers, videographers, the designer’s…