When you lose a parent, grief becomes a quiet presence at every milestone. Happy occasions like birthdays, graduations, or a new home don’t feel quite like they should, each one ever so slightly tainted by the thought that someone so important is missing. I lost my mom when I was...

I headed to the Union Square farmers market. From Halal Pastures and Norwich Meadows Farm, I collected eight varieties, ranging from thumb-​size La Rattes to a breed developed by Stone Barns’ Dan Barber and Cornell University plant breeder and geneticist Walter De Jong called Upstate Abundance. Visiting from Spain, I...

The FIFA World Cup isn’t all fun and games: between the catchy anthems and actual displays of athletic prowess is also some very serious fashion.No, I’m not referring to the jerseys—although this year’s Nike-designed ones are admittedly pretty great—but to the wives and girlfriends (or, as we’ve come to lovingly...

As soon as Luca de Meo took on the CEO role at Kering in September, he was convinced that luxury’s next chapter should include a strong dialogue between cultures. With a particular emphasis on Europe and China, this quickly evolved into the idea of a creative residency to support Chinese...

Ours was a green card wedding. That was the bit. I wore white but not a dress. He wore black, but he only ever wears black. And it was less a wedding than an early dinner at an Uzbek restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, with 20-odd friends. We were in...

The partner slateThe most obvious way to ride the Knicks wave is as an official sponsor. This provides a direct line to the team, and a way to show up in the stadium in a way that other brands don’t have access to.Kith founder Ronnie Fieg bet early on his...

I sit in an arcade overrun with unaccompanied minors, setting up a private party for my grandmother’s 80th birthday. I arrange a tower of SusieCakes my diabetic family has no business eating and welcome aunties I haven’t seen in years. In a whisper, I ask my mother why we aren’t...

Has the time for a French pedicure revival arrived? Kylie Jenner surely thinks so. Earlier today, the beauty entrepreneur shared photos from a recent trip to Turks and Caicos—including a shot of her retro pedi.Unlike French manicures, which have long maintained their reputation as a nail art classic, French pedicures—defined...

Typically, when I come across a new term meant to describe some previously undefinable aspect of modern relationships, all I feel is exhaustion. But the new phenomenon of wildflowering is something a bit different: a dating trend that’s almost a riposte to the concept of dating trends in the first...

Two decades in, Monica Paolini and Sean Monahan are seasoned mariners of the sea of fashion. For resort, they steered their ship to Newburgh, New York, the location for their resort lookbook. “Because of being inspired by maritime workers and growing up in a river town upstate in the Hudson...