It is time, once again, for a conversation about men’s pants. And Prada is guiding that conversation. At its latest men’s runway show held here on Sunday, models wore trousers in one form and one form only: calf-tight. They were shrunken, squelched, suppressed. These pants were so narrow that they hugged the tops of the … Read more
“I can’t believe I’m making an Instagram reel to complain about this right now because normally when anything happens in the world, I go to TikTok,” the influencer James Charles said in a video late Saturday night. Mr. Charles, who has 20 million followers on Instagram, was reacting to the notification that users in the … Read more
Good morning. We’re 10 days out from Lunar New Year, and if I’m going to make good on my promise to serve Kenji López-Alt’s Cantonese-style steamed fish (above) alongside noodles and dumplings, I’m going to have to start practicing today. Here’s why. I’ve had the dish many times in restaurants. But I’ve never made it … Read more
It is easy for Alex Behr to gush about her son, Eli, whom she describes as a generous and thoughtful college junior who had a serious skateboarding phase. It is much harder for her to talk about his politics. Ms. Behr, 59, is a Democrat in Portland, Ore., who voted enthusiastically for Vice President Kamala … Read more
For the most part, presidential inaugurations are moments of communal pageantry. There is music and poetry. There are oaths to recite and vows to make. Everyone smiles for the cameras, and everyone dresses up — for the inauguration on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and later for a series of balls that have come … Read more
For a time, he and James Beard had operated a cooking school on the premises, but now Mr. Surmain envisioned a restaurant that, he proclaimed bombastically, would be the best in the world. At the suggestion of a pastry chef who had worked under Mr. Soltner, he dined at Chez Hansi. Mr. Surmain, impressed, brought … Read more
On Saturday, TikTok users in the United States scrolled through the app for what could be its final hours after the Supreme Court upheld a law that requires ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to sell the app by Sunday or otherwise face a ban. The mood was relatively somber, at least by TikTok’s typically unserious … Read more
Last June, at Ralph Lauren’s seasonal presentation in Milan, the crowd was younger, more looksmaxxed, more TikToky than usual. Then the house that Ralph built, at over 55 years in business, appeared to be leaning into an unforeseen popularity on TikTok, Gen Z’s app of choice. In recent years, users have held Ralph Lauren up … Read more
I married a man who doesn’t like chickpeas. This has been tricky to wrap my head around, given that, as a kid, I would eat canned chickpeas as a snack, drained and unadorned, admiring how each one looked like a tiny cartoon peach before popping it in my mouth. But marriage is about compromise and … Read more
For two years, they were a long-distance couple. In June 2022, to get her career off the ground, Ms. Hopfer accepted a job as a labor and delivery nurse in Pittsburgh. But “the goal was always to live together,” she said. M. Graham was then working as a medical assistant and taking community college classes. … Read more