Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Style

Brandon Holley, the top editor at Lucky, says she has developed “a healthy sidelong glance at the fashion industry.”
Joshua Bright for The New York Times

Brandon Holley, the top editor at Lucky, says she has developed “a healthy sidelong glance at the fashion industry.”

Ms. Holley is in control at Lucky, where the Boho look, among other things, is being toppled.

Looking Back at American Fashion’s Coming-Out Party

African-American models helped win the style wars with France in 1973.

Critic’s Notebook

Pushing Fashion Boundaries in an Era Without Any

Photographers who are worried that fashion has nothing significant to say have turned to gender-bending and exotically erotic models as a way to express their creative powers.

Skin Deep

Graying Men Choosing the Touch-Up

Men who color their hair often keep some gray, balancing the look of experience with an impression of youth.

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Scene City: A Surprise Party for Massimo Vignelli

The graphic designer known for the 1972 New York City subway map, among other iconic designs, turned 80 on Monday.

Trading Up: White Dress Shirts

The white T-shirt’s gainfully employed big brother, the white dress shirt has for decades been the leader, color-wise, of the overall dress-shirt market.

Brian Stauffer

Even in a sexually liberal culture, the home is still usually off limits for affairs, and the marriage bed remains a sacred object.

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The Pragmatist

Preventing Heat From Sneaking Out of the House

Experts offer advice on how to plug drafts to conserve heat and lower bills.

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On Location

In a Berlin Factory, an Artist Expands Upward

Karin Sander added two stories to the building, creating space in which her life and work could blend.

Shopping With Rinat Aruh and Johan Liden

Coat Hooks

Rinat Aruh and Johan Liden, the founders of the design firm Aruliden, find coat racks that combine playful with practical.

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Shopping With Rinat Aruh and Johan Liden

The founders of Aruliden, a product design and marketing firm in Manhattan, went shopping in search of hooks and racks for outerwear.

Expanding Vertically in Berlin

Karin Sander, a conceptual artist, added two floors an old factory in Berlin to create a flexible living-and-working space.

Good Looks Versus Good Reads

Responses to “Selling a Book by Its Cover,” Jan. 6.

Kistler’s Sonoma vineyards now produce wines of finesse rather than power.
Craig Lee for The New York Times

Kistler’s Sonoma vineyards now produce wines of finesse rather than power.

Kistler Vineyards, known for chardonnays, has changed its style, striving for finesse and energy rather than power.

United Tastes

How the Microplane Grater Escaped the Garage

Designed to be mounted on a hacksaw frame and used by woodworkers, the rasp has become popular with home cooks for zesting citrus and grating hard cheeses.

The Temporary Vegetarian

Cabbage’s Sweet Side

Cabbage is often an unloved, homely vegetable. But those who can get past their initial aversion know it as one of winter’s quiet overachievers.

Ciano

Photos of the chef Shea Gallante’s new restaurant, which Sam Sifton reviews this week.

The Scoop iPhone App

An insider’s guide to New York, including The Top Shelf, where Pete Wells, the Dining editor, shares his current favorite bars.

Genevieve Sheehan and Troy Meyer

The couple by Bective Abbey.
Deirdre Brennan for The New York Times

The couple by Bective Abbey.

For this couple — both devoted fans of “Jeopardy!” — trivia is all relative.

Megan Argie and Mathew Cox

On their first meeting, the bridegroom gave the bride a birthday hug, which she did not mind at all.

Emily Rubinstein and Igor Zilberman

The bride is an epidemiologist, and the bridegroom is a neurologist.

Maria Harrold and Jeremy Serkin

A mutual love of music and scuba diving helped to bring the couple together.

Meredyth Isaac, Michael Romalis

The bride is a lawyer and the bridegroom is a physics professor at Princeton.

Sarah Kozlowski, Jeffrey Bartfeld

The bride is a third-year law student at the Newark campus of Rutgers University and the bridegroom is an assistant vice president in the New York office of HSBC.

Lindsay Speros, Henry Robbins

The bride and the bridegroom both graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kate Craven, Christopher Nealon

The bride is a speech language pathologist at a children’s hospital; the bridegroom is a manager of business development for a car manufacturer.

The latest issue of T makes its debut this weekend with offerings both ruminative and retail.

T Magazine

Just One Look | Donna Karan Pre-Fall Collection

The dresses, skirts and shirt that Donna Karan showed were as light and easy as they come in fabrics like cotton poplin and crushed viscose.

RISTRETTO

Ristretto | Gifted

The best present you can give a coffee lover is coffee beans. Sometimes the holidays are simple like that.

Speaking Volumes | Birch Books

For those on your list who like to wallow in the cultural riptides of a predigital age, the holiday catalog for Birch Books is manna from heaven.

T'S PICKS

A Very Foodie Christmas | T's Picks, Part One

The Moment's food and spirits columnists weigh in on what they'd like to give (and get) this season.

T Magazine

The Final Countdown, Part Two

Sharpen your razors, kick up your workout and drink your fermented tea: Jan. 1 is the first day of the rest of your life.

T Magazine

Shift Dressing | Veronica Beard Spring 2011

The sisters-in-law behind the brand Veronica Beard have come up with yet another popular wardrobe staple.

T Magazine

T’s Holiday Food Picks

The Moment's food and spirits columnists weigh in on what they'd like to give (and get) this season.

T Magazine

Notes From the Underground | Dynasty Handbag

The veteran performance artist Jibz Cameron lit up the stage as part of the latest installment of Shelly Mars's "Bulldyke Chronicles," a performance art variety show of sorts, at Dixon Place.

The Moment
T Magazine

Just One Look | Carolina Herrera Pre-Fall Collection

For Pre-Fall, Carolina Herrera took what might have been an ordinary skirt and sweater look and really made it sparkle.

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Wish List | Sara Moonves

The fashion editor, a native Californian, is dreaming of sun and surfboards and Eres string bikinis this season.

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Holiday Wish List | Ethel Park

The wish list of T's senior fashion editor is as balanced as her chakra: a little bit of everything, from water kettles to bomber jackets.

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Comrade, That Suit Is So Chanel

A new book, 10 years in the making, proves the concept of Soviet fashion is no longer an oxymoron.

T Magazine

Shipping News | Bota Bota

The world's first spa-on-a-boat has docked in Montreal's Old Port.

Chic Peek | Dior Store Reopens

Dior's sprawling 57th Street flagship has been given a glamorous face-lift by Peter Marino.

T Magazine

Growing Up Kardashian

Kim Kardashian discusses growing up in Beverly Hills in an audio excerpt from her latest book.

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