This Day At Bergdorfs story is my favorite kind of very New York story, total throwback
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Here’s the very weird story of how I ended up buying (and expensing!) what I believe to be a pair of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s used stilettos
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“My worth did not depend on being the editor in chief of InStyle.”
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Joan Didion auctioneer selling a pair of her soiled trash cans for $5500 just said “imagine the manuscripts that ended up in these”
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I often wondered what happens to clothes dropped in "recycling" bins at stores. , and I followed the trail -- through India and Ghana -- to discover that <1% of used clothing is recycled back into new clothes.
bloomberg.com/news/features/ via
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Shein is on track to generate revenue of $24 billion this year
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I still want to know about the probiotics (but NO ONE tell me)
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There are so many great lines in @jtes's profile of Staud (Mrs. Ari Emanuel). I'm cackling, wishing that my skin was "traumatized" (sounds bad but she looks great, so?) + that my husband could answer one of life's big questions: Can you OD on probiotics? nytimes.com/2022/10/27/sty
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- a word from Cher
- a nod to slutty Reformation dresses of old
- who Elon Musk hung out with at wedding
- their surprising personal art collection
- trauma
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Spent some time in L.A. with Staud, the designer and new Mrs. Ari Emanuel
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One man called pickleball players “the lantern flies of the sports world — an invasive species that takes over a natural ecosystem and destroys it.”
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The answer is apparently yes. The Kanye/Balenciaga relationship appears to be over. As per WWD: "Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist."
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I wanted to know more about how Shein shoppers think about the company and its controversies ..... so I asked some of them
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“Vintage dealers are a special sort of breed. You have to be obsessive." I got into the NITTY GRITTY of how archival fashion makes its way to the red carpet, from sourcing to restoration to styling, for .
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What does Elon Musk do when he's not working (or tweeting)? For the past few months, I've been trying to answer that question:
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Ye before his YZYSZN9 surprise show in Paris: “You can’t manage me. This is an unmanageable situation.”
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I’ve been blessed
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A lot of rumors about the fate of this designer’s job over the last year. I tried to untangle them:
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“You know, you could text Anna at 1 a.m. in the morning and you’re going to get an instant response”
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The modern American shopper: "They share screenshots of their staggering orders: a first-time shopper who paid $796 for 79 items; another who spent more than $2,800 on Shein over six months, with payments split up on Afterpay."
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I wanted to know more about how Shein shoppers think about the company and its controversies ..... so I asked some of them
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We know that Eric Adams loves a big night out, often 4x-5x a week. What we don't know is who pays for them.
A front page investigation by me + , with assist from
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you should read the Times NY endorsements for many reasons but especially for revealing that nobody knows how Plan B works... public service journalism
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"I have never chosen to share my memories or thoughts of that day...preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy."
Issey Miyake 1938-2022
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Here's my best answer to a very tricky question: What should you do with all the crap you clean out of your closet?
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My first story is out today and it's an intense one about privacy, consent, public health, and why, MY GOD, people on the internet need to stop trying to play diagnostician.
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Bishop Lamor Whitehead was robbed of a fortune in jewelry during a service at his makeshift church in Brooklyn last month, the armed heist caught on a livestream video.
After the robbery, the focus soon turned to him and his past run-ins with the law.
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From the Alabama reporter who was told her dress was too short to witness an execution last night:
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A close-up look at Yeezy Gap (with and !) that essentially started with the question: Why did it take them 18 months to put out two products?
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