Posts by Morgan Hills
EXCLUSIVE: Cocokind Founder Priscilla Tsai and Beauty Creator Ava Lee Launch Mimitime at Target
Priscilla Tsai and Ava Lee are bringing a staple of Korean beauty and snacking culture to the U.S. mass market. The Cocokind founder and the beauty influencer behind Glow With Ava have teamed to launch Mimitime, a line of collagen-infused konjac jelly snacks. The brand will debut on mimitime.com on Saturday, followed by an exclusive…
Read MoreDenim Tears Honors André Leon Talley With Fall 2026 Collection
Denim Tears’ Fall/Winter 2026 collection pays homage to a pioneer in black fashion. On Friday, the TK-based brand will launch its Fall/Winter 2026 collection in collaboration with the André Leon Talley estate. Talley was the first black male creative director at American Vogue, and later its editor-at-large. While Talley was a fixture at fashion week…
Read MoreCritics’ Cult Classics: Hanif Abdurraqib on Camp Lo’s “Uptown Saturday Night”
Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. When it dropped in January of 1997, Camp Lo’s “Uptown Saturday Night” thrilled some listeners and confounded others. In the first in a series of Critics at Large interview episodes devoted to resurfacing beloved…
Read MoreWhat Plaintiffs Have Learned From Challenging Trump’s Tariffs
President Donald Trump’s forced labor tariffs, imposed July 24 under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, are the latest duties drawn up by an administration eager to reanimate what appears to be a flagging, or at least legally dubious, trade strategy. They won’t be the last. However, as the administration pivots to new…
Read MoreRyan Murphy “Glee”-ifies Bret Easton Ellis’s Thriller “The Shards”
Equally lethal are Bret’s writerly aspirations. His ability to spin stories about the Trawler means that he is destabilized by the crimes in a way that his classmates aren’t. The achievement of the book is that Ellis (the real one) encases us in Bret (the character)’s obsessively narrativizing consciousness, so that his feverish pursuit of…
Read MoreDua Lipa Flaunts Ferragamo’s New Croc Slingbacks at ‘One Night Only’ Premiere
Dua Lipa and Callum Turner had a couple-twinning shoe moment at the “One Night Only” premiere. The couple walked the red carpet and then attended the after party at The Crane Club in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood on Monday. Dua Lipa and Callum Turner GC Images To celebrate the Friday release of his new…
Read MoreOur Fauci Diaries, Ourselves
Joan Baez, yet another famous fan, emerges as one of the diary’s recurrent characters, and a kind of guiding spirit for this metamorphosis. She enters his orbit after a mutual friend informs Fauci that she is now “an accomplished portrait artist,” and that she has painted a portrait of him. Soon she is sending a…
Read MoreV&A Dundee Launches Scotland Fashion Now, Dovetails With the BFC’s Decentralize Vision
LONDON — V&A Dundee is debuting Scotland Fashion Now, a four-day annual program running from Sept. 3 to 6. It aims to position Scotland as a key pipeline of fashion talent and a test bed for the British Fashion Council’s latest decentralize vision, Fashion Britain, a national initiative designed to shift British fashion beyond London and…
Read MoreAn Uncompromising Belgian Novelist’s Afterlife as a BookTok Star
Harpman’s picture of stripped-down desolation has resonated with many social-media users, who have praised the book’s “haunting” story and likened it to “staring into a void.” There’s an incongruity to the fact that an austere twentieth-century work of dystopian science fiction, which was admired when it was released for its philosophical rigor and inward focus,…
Read MoreEric Drooker’s “Outside Art”
For the cover of the August 10, 2026, issue, the painter and graphic novelist Eric Drooker depicted the Guggenheim Museum as a cool clearing in a forest. “I grew up amid Manhattan’s monotonous grid and found the endless boxes, aligned along strict perpendiculars, overwhelming. As a child, the Guggenheim’s round form was my oasis,” Drooker…
Read MoreFabletics Teams With Ja’Marr Chase on New Line
Fabletics continues to expand its footprint in menswear. This week, at the Show & Tell trade show in Chicago, the California-based brand will debut Research & Development, a streetwear-inspired collection built in collaboration with Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase. The line is being billed as a performance collection created from cutting-edge materials and sporting…
Read MoreWhen “Get Lucky” Took Me Back to the Years of Disco
When I first heard “Get Lucky,” by Daft Punk, in the summer of 2013, I was completely, pleasantly disoriented by it. It was new and shiny, but at the same time it instantly threw me back to the late nineteen-seventies, when I was young and dancing was my creed, my drug, my exercise program, and…
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