Magazine
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What Makes a Top Runway Model in 2024?
Yilan Hua is a leader in the pack of a new generation of Chinese supermodels, with ambitions that could take her beyond the runways.
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Don’t Just Get Dressed, Get Mad
Rei Kawakubo, Stella McCartney and Marine Serre make some noise and score some points.
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Clothes That Make You Feel Smart
Considering time, money and class at Balenciaga and Loewe.
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Do Designers Really Expect Us to Wear Those Ridiculous Clothes?
Our critic explains why runway shows feature outfits far more outlandish than the ones most of us actually wear.
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Kate Winslet Pushes Her Characters, and Herself, to the Edge
Kate Winslet was standing in front of a microphone, breathing hard.Sometimes she did it fast; sometimes she slowed it down. Sometimes the breathing sounded anxious; other times, it was clearly the gasping of someone who was winded. Before beginning a ...
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How Should You Respond to a Friend’s Appalling Post?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to address a friend’s incendiary social media activity.
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Why ‘Fetal Personhood’ Is Roiling the Right
An Alabama decision on I.V.F. has put an uncompromising principle on a collision course with political reality.
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Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?
At some point in the past few years, as if we didn’t have enough to worry about, everyone’s pants started to look wrong. For an improbably long time, the “right” pants — meaning those that conveyed some socially agreed-upon, base-line level of ...
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How to Grow Old Like Isabella Rossellini
If you go to Isabella Rossellini’s Instagram page — and I recommend you do — you will see the 71-year-old actress/director/model/farmer wearing a giant woolly hat and vest, beaming with joy in the sunshine at her farm on Long Island. Another photo ...
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Time to Pluck Around
In late January, when a friend emailed to alert me that her favorite brow person was doing a residency uptown not far from where I lived. I laughed. “I have no brows,” I responded. “I belong to the great Carolyn Bessette disappearing eyebrow ...