From power snacks to power shoulders, Olympic silver medalist Jessica Springsteen (daughter of Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa) clears the bar with these favorites. Born to ride, indeed. Style File DAILY UNIFORM: Breeches and T-shirt! Or, on the rare occasion I’m not riding, I’m alternating between a leather jacket I […]
Category: Beauty
10 Cool Moms on Their Go-to Perfume
Perfume is a many-splendored thing. It is a gateway to armchair travel, a Proustian madeleine worn on the pulse points, an invisible means of getting dressed. This time of year, it also makes a worthwhile gift: for your own mother or the one you’re married to, or maybe someone who […]
Dôen and RMS Beauty Are Writing the Script for Effortless Summer Skin
“I’m all about the skin. Beautiful, refined, elegant-looking skin—not heavy-duty stuff all over the face,” says Rose-Marie Swift in her usual buoyant, no-nonsense tone. The silver-haired, red-lipped makeup artist has earned the right to tell it like it is. In her early days on set, supermodels like Gisele and Miranda […]
Vanessa Kirby Takes a Walk on the Wild Side
“There is something so primal about being a woman. Women create life,” Vanessa Kirby says, speaking on a recent evening from her home in London. She zooms out, as if taking in the astronaut view: “It’s like, the earth is called Mother Earth.” Kirby certainly can relate on a cinematic […]
Clint Smith Recalibrates With Head-Clearing Runs and Naptime R&B
“It Is Halloween Night and You Are Dressed as a Hot Dog” is one of those poems in Above Ground, Clint Smith’s luminous new collection, that plays like a home movie. We know the scene, or some equally winsome version of it, so we are primed for this glimpse into […]
Tamar Adler Powers Through Tennis Class and a Mountain of Homemade Breadcrumbs
A martini dirtied with the last of the caper juice. Egg salad sizzled into fried rice. Sauce for noodles born inside a scraped-out nut-butter jar. Sad greens sorted with a “bullish, unwavering practicality.” The encyclopedic array that Tamar Adler presents in The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A–Z, a follow-up to […]
Inside the Competitive and Cutthroat False-Eyelash Market
First there was kohl. That was ancient Egypt, where both men and women used malachite and kohl to darken their lashes, but it took until the 19th century to bottle mascara and start the false-lash trend. Back then, the French began sewing hairs onto their eyelids, and a Canadian in […]
Hari Nef Is This Moment’s New York Doll—Next Stop, ‘Barbie’
The pantheon of It girls isn’t driven by the mere spectacle of dressing up. “They simply do because they must,” Hari Nef says on a crisp Sunday in Lower Manhattan. “Whether it’s Edie or Parker or Chloë,” meaning Sedgwick, Posey, and Sevigny, “or Dianne Brill or RuPaul.” Eternal icons all—still, […]
A New Suite of Fragrances Puts a Waste-Not Ethos to the Test
“The idea is to create not just beauty, but the beauty of the 21st century,” says Nicolas Gerlier, the charismatic Frenchman behind La Bouche Rouge. The maison de haute beauté debuted its first lipsticks in 2017, pairing considered formulas with hand-stitched leather cases—instant heirlooms in pale blue and camel and […]
Mya-Rose Craig Recalibrates With Sunday Night Resets and Bird-Attuned Walks
“If I had to choose one bird as my mascot,” Mya-Rose Craig writes in her memoir Birdgirl, “it would be the Harpy Eagle: fearsome raptors, named for the harpies of Greek mythology (part woman, part bird, and utterly terrifying).” It is an unexpected pairing, to judge from the self-assured 20-year-old […]
Elliot Page Has a New Kind of Superpower in Mind
Elliot Page is dressed in a black hoodie and thick-rimmed glasses, his person scaled down to the three-inch window of a video-conference call. Such levels of mediation (sartorial, technological, PR) usually make for a somewhat inscrutable conversation, where the tangible human qualities are rendered as flat as the screen. (This […]
Shirley Kurata and the Rodarte Designers on Their Dreamiest Collaboration: A Bespoke Oscars Look With a Nod to Barbra Streisand
In the metaverse-hopping genre mashup Everything Everywhere All at Once—nowadays known as the movie that swept the 2023 Oscars, best picture included—an overwhelmed laundromat owner (Michelle Yeoh) finds herself pressed into duty during an elevator ride to an IRS appointment. The mission, she learns, is to save the world, and […]