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☆ Roses Are Red, Love Is True. Here’s Why This Bouquet Costs $72.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Stefanos Chen | Adrienne Grunwald | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To gather every last stem and ribbon, Mr. Patrikis is on the phone constantly, negotiating with 15 distributors to get the best deals. “If you don’t know how to buy from the wholesalers, the wholesalers are going to buy you,” he said. Mr. Patrikis prefers the Explorer variety of red roses, which he said tend to have larger blooms and stay fresh longer than some other varieties. The elevated prices put pressure on longtime florists like Mr. Patrikis, whose shop was one of five on his block around 2010. Ditmars Flower Shop is now the last one left.

Persons: Patrikis, ” Locations: New York City

☆ Shein Still Needs to Prove It’s a Bargain
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Jacky Wong | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A wide range of apparel at affordable prices has made Shein a sensation. Photo: Adrienne Grunwald for The Wall Street JournalBuilt-in-China online fashion company Shein has swept the world with its fast-to-market, hip designs. It now needs to show investors that its breakneck growth can convert into bigger profit, too. The company is probably looking for a valuation higher than the $66 billion implied by a fundraising round in May. That would put Shein’s market value comfortably above H&M ’s $27 billion but below Zara’s parent Inditex ’s $127 billion.

Persons: Adrienne Grunwald, Shein Organizations: Wall Locations: China, Singapore, U.S

☆ Fast-Fashion Giant Shein Files to Go Public
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Corrie Driebusch | Shen Lu | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A Shein pop-up shop in New York City. The company has become one of the largest fashion brands in the world. Photo: Adrienne Grunwald for The Wall Street JournalShein, the China-founded online fashion company that won over hundreds of millions of shoppers around the world, has confidentially filed to go public in the U.S. in what could be one of the biggest IPOs in years. Goldman Sachs , JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have been hired as lead underwriters on the offering, which could happen in 2024, people familiar with the matter said.

Persons: Adrienne Grunwald, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley Organizations: Wall, JPMorgan Locations: New York City, China, U.S

“Let’s light it up!” the actress Jennifer Lawrence said on Monday night as she helped to reveal the holiday windows and kick off the annual lights show at Saks Fifth Avenue. As is tradition, onlookers crammed behind barricades near 50th Street as performers — in this case from the Martha Graham Dance Company — flooded Fifth Avenue. Behind them, nearly 300,000 lights illuminated what is described as a “wheel of fortune” installation, which covered 10 stories of the Saks Fifth Avenue New York flagship facade. Ms. Lawrence, a longtime Dior ambassador, gathered alongside other actresses, including Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Zegler, Ashley Park, Alexandra Daddario, Lola Tung and Maya Hawke. They packed onto bleachers across the street for the show, which included fireworks launched from the roof of the department store.

Persons: Jennifer Lawrence, Martha Graham, Dior, Christian Dior’s, Ms, Lawrence, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Zegler, Ashley Park, Alexandra Daddario, Lola Tung, Maya Hawke Organizations: Saks Fifth, Martha Graham Dance Company, Saks, Avenue New Locations: Fifth, Avenue New York

Image This year’s women’s race was oddly slow until the last few miles. Tola had arrived in New York with questions about his fitness after he dropped out of the marathon at the world championships in Budapest this summer. When she made her marathon debut in New York last year, she went out fast before struggling to a sixth-place finish. “Sometimes,” Obiri said, “you learn from your mistakes.”She put those lessons to use in Boston earlier this year when she won her first world marathon major. By then, only Obiri, Gidey, Lokedi and two others — Viola Cheptoo, the runner-up in 2021, and Brigid Kosgei, a five-time world marathon major champion — were still in contention.

Persons: Hellen, Letesenbet Gidey, Gidey, Obiri, “, ”, Karsten Moran, Sharon Lokedi, ” Obiri, Tamirat Tola, Tola, Geoffrey Mutai’s, Jemal Yimer, Albert Korir, Peter Foley, ” Ritzenhein, Hellen Obiri, Uli Seit, Kellyn Taylor, — Viola Cheptoo, Brigid Kosgei, —, Ritzenhein Organizations: New York City Marathon, Boston Marathon, Boulder, Athletics Club, The New York Times, Shutterstock, Credit, Kenya Locations: Kenya, Ethiopia, Colo, New York, Budapest, Staten Island, Boulder, Boston, “ New York, Central Park, Gidey, Paris

It was hard to miss Mark Aaron Polger, Alexi Pappas and Masashi Kondo at the New York City Marathon on Sunday. With energy gels and bodega coffees in hand, the crowd made its way to Fort Wadsworth, where thousands of runners congregate each year before running the New York City Marathon. Speed demons wearing Nike Vaporflys and short-shorts mingled with casual runners wearing “Monsters, Inc.” onesies. That’s the record I’m going for. Running is therapeutic, even though I’m going to be running really, really slowly.

Persons: Mark Aaron Polger, Alexi Pappas, Masashi Kondo, ”, “, Adam Tjolle, Simon Waterhouse, Malina Roberts, we’ll, they’re, they’ve, Stephen Zachensky, Marlinda Francisco, Mika Shaw, Maansi Srivastava, It’s, I’ve Organizations: New York City Marathon, Nike, Inc, New York Times, York Locations: Fort Wadsworth, Edinburgh, Scotland, Newmarket, England, Brooklyn, York City, Tokyo, Berlin, New York, Westchester, N.Y, How’d, New York Times Tucson, Ariz, Ogden , Utah, Japan, Los Angeles, Manhattan

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Harrison set herself a goal of doing an unassisted pull-up before she turns 48 this month, and 10 by October. She has received dozens of supportive messages since she began posting about pull-ups in May 2022.

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☆ To Curb Drunk Driving, More States Consider .05 Limit on Blood Alcohol Level
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Jimmy Vielkind | Photographs Adrienne Grunwald For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ALBANY, N. Y.—Alisa McMorris totes a wagon filled with leaflets and a picture of her son Andrew, who was killed by a drunken driver in 2018, as she makes the rounds in the state capitol. The 49-year-old Long Island woman, a member of the advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is pressing legislators to pass a new state law that she says could decrease such tragedies: lowering the legal threshold for what constitutes driving under the influence of alcohol.

☆ Six Exercises to Get the Leg Strength of the Rockettes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Jen Murphy | Photographs Adrienne Grunwald For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It takes more than flexible hamstrings to perform the sky-high kicks of the Radio City Rockettes. Incredible balance and stamina, as well as core and lower-body strength, are required to execute approximately 200 kicks during each show, says Danelle Morgan , the Rockettes’ dance captain and assistant choreographer. “It’s our job to make it look easy,” she says. “But believe me, we train.”

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