It’s not summer without a slip dress and ballerina flats, according to Tiana Marcano. What’s your essential summer purchase—and why do you love it? Slip dresses—they just scream romantic elegance! I recommend dresses from Jacoba Jane—they glide effortlessly against the body. Every summer, I also like to get my hands on a Victoria’s Secret slip … Read more
In Someone Spectacular, a new play by Domenica Feraud, something unnerving happens when six people convene for their weekly grief-counseling session: Beth, their therapist, just doesn’t show up. As 10 idle, nervy minutes turn into 20 and 30, the group—made up of Nelle (Alison Cimmet), who’s lost a sister; Jude (Delia Cunningham), who’s lost a … Read more
In London at the turn of the century, Alexander McQueen closed his spring 2001 ready-to-wear show wearing the simplest of outfits: faded denim with a navy and gray ringer tee. It was his most monumental show to date—a theatrical, boundary-pushing performance depicting the designer’s subversive ideas of beauty and his own complex emotional world. Kate … Read more
As a former dancer myself, Neeleman’s success on social media is unsurprising to me, merely following the script we all learned in the ballet studio. Her life is like one big ballet performance: She is a small, pretty, white, and likable star, descriptors that could just as easily apply to a famous trad wife as … Read more
Here’s why I was an apt guinea pig for a SkinCeuticals P-Tiox Serum review: I wear my heart on my sleeve and my feelings on my face. One plastic surgeon deemed me “expressive,” and my poker face is nonexistent, which is why I mostly play roulette. Over the years, this attribute has led to crows’ … Read more
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The fashion world has a long history of loving leopard. The print first made its way to prominence in the 1920s, championed by designers like Christian Dior and Lanvin, and has remained an important part of the fashion ether ever since. Throughout the years, we’ve seen leopard with a coquettish flair, à la Jackie Kennedy … Read more
Brass can be a welcome addition to interior design—or, for that matter, a party band—but it’s decidedly less charming in the hair. Enter the best blue shampoo. When brassiness appears, colored hair takes on unwanted warm hues, including orange or red tints to brown hair and yellow or gold in ashy blonde tresses. The best … Read more
Hungover with Leopolda Eating McDonald’s, 2022SIMON VERES © 2024 Faye Wei Wei, courtesy of Kandlhofer gallery. In her teens, Wei Wei’s teachers encouraged her to start using oil paint rather than the easier to work with acrylic. “We’d use Liquin, which is quite toxic, goopy stuff. My teacher called it marmalade,” she said of the … Read more
Now I’m curious—how does Irish press differ? Jackson: Irish press is really, really lovely. I’m obviously well used to it, but I think UK press is such a different landscape. Mamet: We had so many Irish outlets for our junket day, and it felt like the overall vibe was just excitement. It was like your … Read more
If you happen to find yourself at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum this summer, don’t be surprised if you see flocks of Swifties, dressed in their Eras tour costumes and wearing stacks upon stacks of friendship bracelets, rushing through the cavernous halls of the South Kensington institution. The reason? “Taylor Swift: Songbook Trail,” a new … Read more
