“Elegant to the point of distraction,” was Oleg Cassini’s take on Jacqueline de Ribes. She was a woman whom the camera loved, with a beauty that sent people scrambling for the words to describe it.“Vicomtesse de Ribes carries her own mark of beauty—vital fascination, plus the long slender neck, high cheekbones, the...

Celebrity colorist Cass Kaeding describes ice beige blonde as having a “buttery, cool champagne undertone,”—and the top blonde shade we see next year. “It’s a mix of warm and cool tones but warmth without brassiness,” Kaeding tells Vogue. “The pinch of gold helps the blonde to look brighter, healthier, and more flattering...

You’ve done Champagne toasts and countdown kisses, but have you tried eating grapes on New Year’s Eve for good luck? In recent years, the tradition—which involves some iteration of eating exactly 12 grapes as the clock strikes midnight, often while crouched under a table—has become something of a viral sensation. Many TikTok...

Indulge me for a moment—I love watching the Times Square Ball Drop every New Year’s Eve.Before you assume I’ve gone completely mad, let me clarify that you won’t catch this New Yorker competing for an unobstructed view of the Manhattan madness. Not in this lifetime, anyway—and certainly not when over a million...

Tomorrow morning, New Yorkers across the five boroughs will be nursing their hangovers, mumbling bacon, egg, and cheese orders—and welcoming a new mayor. On New Year’s Eve, Zohran K. Mamdani will be sworn into office in the abandoned subway station beneath City Hall, a Gilded Age wonder with soaring vaulted ceilings, tiled...

Editor’s note: To mark the death of Jacqueline de Ribes, we are publishing the Jean Paul Gaultier show she inspired, Divine Jacqueline. This spring 1999 couture collection was presented in Paris on January 17, 1999.In 1999 Jean Paul Gaultier was one of the only French designers showing at couture, which had recently...

Featuring some of Wayuhi’s most personal and introspective songs to date, Bygoner centers on themes of self-reflection and vulnerability—often in the face of love or lust. “Bygoner was inspired by my side-ho era,” Wayuhi, who is Two-Spirit, says frankly. “I was falling for folks who were emotionally unavailable, so I had to...

In the spirit of transparency, you should know that I, personally, am not tired of orange wine. In fact, I’ll probably enjoy a splash of it after writing this. But in recent chatter with fellow wine folk (sommeliers, wine journalists, so on), it’s become clear that a fatigue toward skin-fermented styles is...

The new year may not quite be here yet, but Jetteke van Lexmond, cofounder of the Moonsisters, already knows that the transition between 2025 and 2026 is going to feel a bit easier than past years. “The energy between the two years is much more fluid than before,” van Lexmond, who has...

I’m generally not one to make New Year’s resolutions because I know I probably won’t keep them. Instead, I like to exceed my own expectations rather than failing to meet impossible standards.That said, I like to set fashion-oriented goals for myself. Sometimes it’s related to consumption, sometimes it’s about honing in on...