Posts by Morgan Hills
“The Audacity” Is a Brutal Silicon Valley Satire with an Agenda
Midway through my watch of the new tech-satire series “The Audacity,” I received an e-mail from Google that I had received many times before. My personal data had been found online, it said. This time, it was my phone number; previously, it had been more private information. The most I could do, it seemed, was…
Read MoreRiley Keough Gives Cannes’ Emerging Clear Shoe Trend a Wedge Twist in Alaïa
Riley Keough gave the clear shoe trend a more architectural Cannes read on Friday, arriving for the “Soudain” competition screening in Alaïa’s Invisible Thong Sandals. Riley Keough wearing Alaïa’s Invisible Thong Sandals at the competition screening red carpet of “Soudain” during the 79th Cannes Film Festival Cannes on Friday. Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images The…
Read MoreThe Generation That Will Always Be Too Young to Smoke
Like almost every smoker, I started when I was a child. Children aren’t supposed to smoke; it’s allegedly a part of the adult world, something you get inducted into once you turn eighteen. But everyone knows that the whole industry relies on kids. The younger the better; ideally, you’d go straight from the nipple to…
Read MoreBiking Outside the Lines in New York City
Thirty-nine years ago this summer, Ed Koch, the mayor of New York City, held a press conference on the steps of City Hall, where he declared a bicycle ban in midtown Manhattan. Beginning that August, cycling during weekday working hours on Fifth, Madison, and Park Avenues from Thirty-first to Fifty-ninth Streets would be prohibited. The…
Read MoreAnthropologie Promotes Anu Narayanan to Group President, Women’s, Home and Retail
Anu Narayanan has been promoted to global president, Anthropologie women’s, home and retail, expanding her leadership across global merchandising and retail stores for Anthropologie. Most recently she was president of women’s apparel, accessories, weddings and beauty at Anthropologie, which she became in 2023. Before that she was Anthropologie’s chief merchandising officer of apparel and accessories,…
Read MoreRostam Batmanglij Wanders to the Edges of American Sound
Other songs on “American Stories” are more personal. “Like a Spark” opens with a blues riff played on a nylon-string guitar, offset by the appearance of a saz, a long-necked Turkish lute that’s omnipresent in Middle Eastern music. The combination is dizzying, but lovely. “At some point, I started bringing in pedal steel, and that…
Read MoreJW Anderson’s Sneaker Collab With Diadora Is Finally Here
JW Anderson’s new footwear collaboration with Diadora is finally here. For the designer’s latest shoe collab, Anderson took on the Italian shoe brand’s Equipe trainer, which was originally created by Diadora in 1975 for elite athletes. Nearly 50 years later, this archival unisex style is reimagined in four bold colorways selected by designer Jonathan Anderson…
Read MoreLocal Media Is Thriving in E-mail Newsletters
When I first moved to Brooklyn, in 2010, a small, stapled, glossy print product became my guide to my new neighborhood of Bushwick and beyond. The L Magazine covered the hipster-ridden stretch of the L train into Williamsburg, listing happy-hour deals, chronicling restaurant openings, and reviewing art exhibitions. Given out for free in streetside orange…
Read MoreBurberry Names William Jackson Chair in Year of Revenue, Profit Growth
LONDON – Burberry ended its 2026 fiscal year on a high, restoring retail sales to growth and naming a new chair, William Jackson, founder and former CEO of Bridgepoint Group Plc, to replace Gerry Murphy when he retires later this year. In fiscal 2026, which ended on March 28, retail comparable store sales grew 2…
Read MoreThe Hollow Trickery of “The Wizard of the Kremlin”
Despite such philosophizing, “The Wizard of the Kremlin” can only superficially be called a movie of ideas; it’s a movie of strategies rather than of ideologies, of how power is used rather than why. Assayas takes a cynical and clichéd view regarding temptation and corruption, worldly rewards of security and pleasure, even ego and pride,…
Read MoreAmazon Broadens Ultra-Fast Delivery Footprint With ‘Amazon Now’ Launch
Amazon is launching its “ultra-fast” delivery service, Amazon Now, in dozens of U.S. cities, bringing household essentials groceries and more to the online shoppers’ door in 30 minutes or less. The e-commerce giant first unveiled pilot tests of the offering in the U.S. in its hometown of Seattle and Philadelphia in December, before later expanding…
Read MoreFoot Locker Declares ‘Hoops Lives Here’ in New Basketball-focused Spot
is making sure everyone knows it’s the place to shop for basketball. In a new year-round brand platform and campaign, the Dick’s Sporting Goods-owned sneaker retailer is telling consumers “Hoops Lives Here” with the aim to highlight how basketball shows up in everyday lives. At the center of the campaign is a 30-second spot featuring…
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