Getting organized is no easy task, but the best planners remain a timeless solution for staying on track—especially when being a professional has never been more overwhelming than in 2026. If you’re like me, the to-dos keep piling up, with Slack messages, emails, and meeting notes coming at you from...

How can you tell someone’s age? Is it A, their ability to find their way around anything more tech-y than sending an email and using a printer (guilty); B, whether or not they can recite all the lyrics to a Central Cee/Taylor Swift/Kool & the Gang song; or C, how...

Singer Madison McFerrin and celebrity trainer Jacy Cunningham are among the few lucky people to experience a whirlwind romance. The two met at DJ Jazzy Jeff’s Playlist Retreat in 2024, a multi-day event for artists to work on music and collaborate. “During the first evening studio session, I overheard Madison’s...

With its iconoclastic, shocking pink packaging, minimalist chic storefront, and tightly curated, unexpected selection, Climax Books stands out as a must-visit contemporary one-stop for print and visual media discovery. The New York outpost (a London shop came first) opened in 2024 and was founded by Isabella Burley, former editor-in-chief of...

On the first weekend of 2026, Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village set the tone for a purpose-driven, community-led year ahead as it opened its famed red doors for Autonomy in Focus, a fundraiser in support of the New York Abortion Access Fund. “This is the perfect way to...

It seems sometimes like we’re subject to every vagary of some reality-television executive’s imagination (Storage wars! Cake wars! Actual wars!) except the projects we actually want. To wit: Ashley French’s (née Tisdale) allegedly toxic, celebrity-studded mom group, about which the actress wrote a compelling (if somewhat vague) piece for The...

If your beauty cabinet is already full of Korean skincare or you faithfully follow a 10-step K-beauty routine, it may or may not surprise you to learn that Japanese skincare has a similar methodology—just with its own distinct philosophy and hero ingredients. Think less trend, more tradition.According to esthetician Emma...

He may be Parisian to the core, but Pierre Mahéo has one arguably un-French trait: even when the headlines are grim, he somehow still manages to see the glass as half-full. “You have to know when to stop listening to the news and focus on the task at hand,” he...

He may be Parisian to the core, but Pierre Mahéo has one arguably un-French trait: even when the headlines are grim, he somehow still manages to see the glass as half-full. “You have to know when to stop listening to the news and focus on the task at hand,” he...

Carolina Herrera’s Wes Gordon is in a practical mood for pre-fall. “It’s a season that’s really about embracing lifestyle and a complete wardrobe that speaks to both summer and fall,” he said at the brand’s Midtown headquarters. “So this collection is about the gardener—thinking about women like Bunny Mellon, Miranda...