Posts by Morgan Hills
Ronnie Fieg Teases New West Hollywood Restaurant Concept, Leans Further Into Hospitality
Kith founder Ronnie Fieg took to Instagram on Wednesday to announce some major moves in Los Angeles. In his post, Fieg wrote that a “very special experience” is coming to West Hollywood that will “evolve” the Ronnie’s restaurant and brand. Called “Ronnie’s Pronto,” the restaurant is aimed at becoming “your new favorite breakfast, coffee, matcha…
Read More“The Devil Wears Prada 2” Gives the Decline of Magazines the Glossy Treatment
In “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” the offices of the fashion magazine Runway have become a moderately kinder, gentler place. Two decades after we first met her, Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the indomitable editor-in-chief, still demands perfection from her staff, but her mid-meeting insults are more sniffy than withering, and even her sharpest glare no…
Read MoreWalmart’s Push for Fashion Democracy Comes to SoHo
Walmart Inc.’s push to democratize America’s closets is coming to SoHo on Wednesday. The discount retail giant will open a fashion pop-up at 210 Lafayette Street in the tony New York shopping district. The pop-up, which will be open until May 10, is the fourth time the retailer has opened a temporary shop in the…
Read MoreAn Expat Photographer Seduced by Mexican Ritual
Hurst didn’t become a writer, but he fashioned himself into the kind of character that a writer might wish they had imagined: an astute antiquarian, a swashbuckling adventurer, a pioneering tastemaker, a lover, and, periodically, a photographer. In typically defiant fashion, he also realized his father’s fears. His first serious photographic foray, undertaken in the…
Read MoreElana Drell Szyfer’s Opening Act
CEW honors the beauty industry’s top talent annually with its Achiever Awards. So, when it came time for longtime president Carlotta Jacobson to choose a successor, it was only natural she select from within those ranks. Enter Elana Drell Szyfer, the beauty executive who most recently helmed RéVive Skincare and became an Achiever in 2020.…
Read MoreA German Master’s Modernist Epic of Postwar Amnesia and Hypocrisy
Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and morally shattered country. Source link
Read MoreThe Sqirl Redemption Arc
A mixture of moral outrage and lockdown angst turned #JamGate into national news. Koslow’s second cookbook, “The Sqirl Jam Book,” was published less than two weeks after the photo went viral; at the end of a paragraph about how to store homemade jam, she’d written, “You’ll know to toss it when you see mold.” Though…
Read MoreDemna Revisits Palazzo Gucci
FLORENCE — Palazzo Gucci officially opens Monday, revisited through the lens of artistic director Demna and defining a new chapter for the storied building. Located within the historic Palazzo della Mercanzia, it is a landmark dating back to 1337 in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria, a few steps away from the Uffizi Gallery. The palazzo serves…
Read MoreKarolína Kurková’s Favorite Miami Hot Spots
As the fashion crowd gets ready for the Miami Grand Prix, supermodel Karolína Kurková sounds off on her favorite hot spots in the city she has called home for more than a decade. Yeliz the Studio Yeliz The Studio Courtesy of Yeliz The Studio “A great store in Coconut Grove to find eclectic and unique…
Read MoreHelen, Help Me: How to Recalibrate Your Kitchen
I think of myself as a good cook. I host dinner parties regularly, and I successfully tackle ambitious recipes. But for some reason I can’t for the life of me figure out baking. My cakes, breads, pastries, and cookies always come out dry and hard. I’m doing everything right, I think: I measure my ingredients…
Read MoreThe Death of Afrika Bambaataa and the Afterlife of Hip-Hop
The man who was called the “godfather of hip-hop,” and who took full license from that status, is dead. Afrika Bambaataa passed away in early April, reportedly of prostate cancer, at the age of sixty-eight. His legend is a split one: that of the street griot who molded the genre of the century from the…
Read MoreFrom the Archive: The Evolution of the Met Gala, From Society Supper to Global Spectacle
It’s been said that the best way to get a party started is to bring your friends. That’s exactly how the Met Gala, fashion’s most coveted invitation of the year, became fashion’s “party of the year.” The planning began in 1944, when Dorothy Shaver, then chairwoman of the Costume Institute’s event committee, along with Eleanor…
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