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☆ For Maxine Hong Kingston, Age Is Just Time Going By
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | More About Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Below, the writer Maxine Hong Kingston explains, in her own words, what continues to motivate her. In a way, I don’t believe in old age. I hear people say, “this hurts” or “that hurts,” and they attribute that pain to old age. I don’t think about vanity much. I look in the mirror, and if I think, “I look young,” that’s good enough.” Instead of wearing lipstick or rouge, I darken my eyebrows.

Persons: Maxine Hong Kingston, It’s, ”, Phyllis Hoge, we’ve

☆ Teaching Kids to Count With Hermès Bags
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Are she and her co-author, Tilan Rajapakse, who together run the company Lil Spoiled Social Club, peddling questionable values to innocent tots? That could be one way of looking at it, Ms. Forster said. But, she added, “the response has been mainly positive.”The 1-2-3s book ($24) and the ABCs book ($20) are cheeky by design. As Mr. Rajapakse, also 25, said, “At the least, there’s the fun of hearing a child say, ‘G is for Gucci.’” Ms. Forster said the slim volumes, which share a lineage with others like “The Fashion Legends Alphabet,” have found an audience beyond parents and their children.

Persons: Tilan Rajapakse, Forster, Rajapakse, “, Gucci, ’ ” Ms Organizations: Social Club

☆ Linda Evangelista Revisits Old Scars
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Steven Meisel shot the supermodel Linda Evangelista for the September 2022 issue of British Vogue, she hid many of her features beneath a series of hats and scarves. Ms. Evangelista, 58, seems far less shy these days. In the magazine, Ms. Evangelista appears in photos by Cass Bird looking not much older than she did in the ’90s, when she bragged that she would not get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. “I try to love myself as I am,” she said in an interview with Claire Beermann, a writer and the style director at Zeit Magazin. (Ms. Evangelista declined to be interviewed for this article through a representative.)

Persons: Steven Meisel, Linda Evangelista, ”, Evangelista, Cass Bird, “, Claire Beermann Organizations: British Vogue, Vogue, Zeit Magazin Locations: British

☆ Old Hollywood Glamour at the Gap?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Monday Mr. Posen, 43, whose namesake brand ceased operations in 2019, was announced as the new creative director of Gap Inc. and the new chief creative officer of Old Navy. The designer known for pieces that evoke Golden Age Hollywood will “serve as cultural curator and creative partner,” Richard Dickson, the president and chief executive of Gap Inc., said in a news release. Nor is he the first star talent to be awarded a fancy title at Gap. Predecessors have included Patrick Robinson, who after a four-year stint was dismissed in 2011 and, more controversially, Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, whose Yeezy Gap partnership ended amid a scandal in 2022. And yet, the company still seems willing to bank on a “name” to help burnish its image.

Persons: Zac Posen, ” Richard Dickson, Posen’s, Patrick Robinson, Ye, West Organizations: Mr, Gap Inc, Old Navy, Target Locations: Posen

☆ Crafty WAG Inks N.F.L. Deal
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

You are who you know — a truism forcefully demonstrated this week when Kristin Juszczyk, who happens to be married to the San Francisco 49ers fullback, Kyle Juszczyk, signed a deal with the N.F.L. That agreement, previously reported by Sportico, came on the heels of Taylor Swift wearing one of Ms. Juszczyk’s puffer jackets to a Kansas City Chiefs game last month. On the jacket was 87, the number worn by her boyfriend, Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce. Brittany Mahomes, the wife of the Kansas City quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, has also worn a jacket by Ms. Juszczyk. With San Francisco and Kansas City facing off in Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11, Ms. Juszczyk, Ms. Mahomes and Ms.

Persons: Kristin Juszczyk, Kyle Juszczyk, Sportico, Taylor Swift, Juszczyk’s, Travis Kelce, Brittany Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes, Juszczyk, Mahomes, Swift Organizations: San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City, Francisco and Kansas City Locations: Kansas City, Francisco and Kansas

☆ Beverly Johnson, ‘the Model With the Big Mouth’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | More About Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

She was 18, new to New York, a tenderfoot in an industry said to eat its young. But Beverly Johnson was not short on brass. She had been quick in the early 1970s to sign with the formidable model agent Eileen Ford — and just as swift, at 19, to inform her, “I want to be on the cover of American Vogue.” When Ms. Ford asked her curtly, “Who do you think you are, Cleopatra?” Ms. Johnson was as curt with a comeback, murmuring, audibly enough, “That’s exactly who I think I am.”Ms. Johnson revisits that moment in “In Vogue,” her one-woman show set to open in Manhattan on Sunday. The play, largely derived from her 2015 memoir, “Beverly Johnson: The Face That Changed It All,” and written with the playwright Josh Ravetch, is by turns an upbeat and cautionary account of Ms. Johnson’s adventures — and hairy misadventures — in the mannequin trade. Onstage she tells of defying expectations and defecting to a competing modeling agency, despite the warnings of peers that such a move would amount to professional ruin.

Persons: Beverly Johnson, Eileen Ford —, “, Ford, ” Ms, Johnson, curt, Ms, ”, “ Beverly Johnson, Josh Ravetch Organizations: American Vogue Locations: New York, American, Manhattan

☆ What Leotard Can Compare to This?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As a boy of 8, Pari Dukovic would pick up his camera, a gift from his father, and explore his native Istanbul. He learned to station himself on the street corners, hoping for just the right light to show off the city at its most shimmering. He wore a jauntily striped T-shirt, his self-described uniform, which popped against the white seamless backdrop covering much of the floor-to-ceiling wall books of behind him. Mr. Dukovic, 39, moved to the United States in the early 2000s to pursue an undergraduate degree in art history and photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. After graduation, he decamped for New York, fascinated by the city’s multiplicity of subcultures, which he documented as a freelance photographer in deliberately grainy images.

Persons: Pari Dukovic, Mr, Dukovic, “ Organizations: Rochester Institute of Technology Locations: Istanbul, Hudson Yards, Manhattan, United States, New York

☆ Quil Lemons Wants to Be the Robert Mapplethorpe of His Community
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Growing up in South Philadelphia, Quil Lemons first trained his lens on family and friends, his photographs of cousins and neighbors snaring the art world’s attention. By the time he was 20, he was focusing on young Black men as the subjects of “Glitterboy,” a series that highlighted, as its title suggests, adolescents slathered in glitter and colorful grease. Lately, Mr. Lemons has expanded his range. “Quiladelphia,” his new group of highly provocative, radically intimate photographs, on view through Nov. 4 at the Hannah Traore Gallery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is billed as an exploration of Black manhood. Speaking by phone from his apartment in Brooklyn, Mr. Lemons, 26, said that his portraits, paradoxically raw and refined, were meant to dissolve calcified notions of Black masculinity, family, queerness, race and beauty.

Persons: Quil Lemons, “, Lemons, Hannah Traore Locations: South Philadelphia, Side, Manhattan, Brooklyn

☆ What Do Fashion and a United Nations Hunger Program Have in Common?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In video from the visit, Ms. Berry looked on as tidy rows of children filed into their village school, where they would be provided their single balanced meal of the day. The prospect of a hearty lunch encouraged their parents to send them to school, Ms. Berry said in the footage, even those parents who may have been reluctant. She was acting as an emissary for Watch Hunger Stop, an initiative organized by the designer Michael Kors in partnership with the United Nations World Food Program, to provide meals to schools in developing regions around the world. She and Ms. Berry have since appeared in online campaign imagery, on television, and in promotional videos for the program, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this month. Donations are solicited in stores and through a link on the Michael Kors website.

Persons: Halle Berry, Jinotega, Berry, Michael Kors, Kate Hudson, ” Mr, Kors Organizations: United Nations, Food, “ Locations: Nicaragua, Cambodia

☆ At 81, Martha Stewart Is the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Cover Star
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I had two months, basically, to make sure I felt good enough about the way I look. If I’d thought my waist was too big, or that I was too wobbly, I wouldn’t have done it. Also, I went to the tanning booth and had a very light spray tan, something I’ve never done. All these people were prodding me and talking about “the girls.” I have never called my breasts “the girls” in my life. It doesn’t have as much to do with blatant sex as with a self-assurance that started when I was a child.

Michel Gaubert first crossed paths with Karl Lagerfeld when he worked at a record store on the Champs-Élysée. “All his life Karl was obsessed with music,” he recalled. All his life Karl was obsessed with music. Then one day Eric came and asked if I wanted to work with the Karl Lagerfeld brand. Karl said Diane de Beauvau-Craon [a French princess and a pal of Mr. Lagerfeld’s] would call me.

☆ A Fire Hose of Offense, as Fluent in Controversy as He Was in Couture
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Karl Lagerfeld, the German-born fashion designer who is the subject of this year’s Met Gala, liked to court controversy, his achievements on the runway often outshone by offensive blunders and tone-deaf remarks. The set piece, sculpted from 240 tons of snow and ice reportedly sheared off a glacier in Sweden, was intended as a comment on global warming. As vividly inscribed on fashion’s consciousness was his spring 2015 Chanel show in Paris, staged as a feminist protest. But the joke seemed to be on the designer when, in 1994, he sent Claudia Schiffer down the runway in a Chanel dress embroidered with a sacred Muslim text, igniting an international controversy. Mr. Lagerfeld, who said at the time that he had no idea what the text meant, issued a rare apology.

☆ He Lets His Clothes Do the Peacocking for Him
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Ruth La Ferla | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His silence seems coy, especially since he did not deny rampant media speculation about his romance with the star. His cozy fantasy is but one expression of the protective shell he developed as a boy. “I went to a very sporty, conservative school,” said Mr. Cowan, who grew up near Cambridge in the British countryside, the son of scientists. “Growing up, I wanted to be an entomologist,” Mr. Cowan said. “I soon realized that you could create your own insects through fashion.”

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