Posts by Morgan Hills
How to decide between building in public and stealth (pros and cons)
You’ve got an idea you can’t stop thinking about. Part of you wants to share the journey, post weekly updates, and let the internet hold you accountable. Another part worries about being copied, being judged too early, or realizing publicly that the idea is not as strong as you hoped. Almost every early-stage founder reaches…
Read MoreA Minneapolis Winter Like No Other
Philip Cheung has covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine and last year’s fires in Los Angeles, where he lives. He also photographed the massive street protests that emerged in response to the surge of ICE agents in Los Angeles last June. In Minneapolis, he has captured local residents’ evolving resistance to the immigration agents in…
Read MoreCatherine O’Hara’s Unforgettable Delivery
In 1978, the actress Catherine O’Hara, then a twenty-four-year-old cast member on the cult Canadian sketch-comedy show “SCTV,” told a late-night interviewer that at times she felt underestimated as a performer. “It sounds like I’m complaining here,” she said. “But I think people don’t take comedy seriously enough.” She went on: “When I get sent…
Read MoreCynthia Erivo Goes Strapless for Critics’ Circle Film Awards
Cynthia Erivo elevated draped styling in a Balenciaga dress for the Critics’ Circle Film Awards in London on Sunday night. The “Wicked: For Good” star wore a strapless, chocolate brown gown with a formfitting silhouette and a bevy of fabric draping and ruching throughout the bodice and skirt. A flowing train added further drama to…
Read MoreThe Perennial Predicament of the Artist with an Office Job
In “The Copywriter,” by Daniel Poppick, a poet searches for meaning in the grindset. Source link
Read MoreHow the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News
St. Bride’s, situated in an alley just off Fleet Street, is known as the journalists’ church. Having weathered not a few disasters—the Great Fire of London, in 1666, the Luftwaffe in 1940—it now advertises itself as “A Space for Silence,” offering an hour of contemplation each weekday afternoon, yards from the world’s most famous newspaper…
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Olivia Palermo Dives Into Home With Perigold Collaboration
MILAN — Perigold, an online destination for upscale home and interior products, ventured into the fashion world with a collaboration with Olivia Palermo. On Monday, Perigold told WWD that as a part of the collaboration, the fashion influencer led the design of the interiors of her Manhattan home entirely through Perigold’s e-commerce platform, with support from Perigold Design Services.…
Read MoreMaesa Bets on Body Care With Ontu Launch
Maesa is going big on body. The brand incubator and contract manufacturer is betting on body care with the launch of Ontu, a body care brand launching at Target Corp. this weekend before rolling out to endcaps in March. Prices will range from $14.99 to $22.99. The incubator has found success with recent brands that…
Read MoreAddison Rae Channels Marilyn Monroe in Custom White Alaïa at the Grammys 2026
Addison Rae quite literally leaned into full movie star mode for her first Grammy nomination, channeling Marilyn Monroe in a custom white Alaïa dress on the 68th Grammy Awards red carpet in Los Angeles on Sunday night. The “Diet Pepsi” singer’s dress, a sleeveless white design, featured a sharply plunging, oval neckline that dropped to…
Read MoreWhat a “Melania” Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish
What did you make of the President and Melania? And what’s different about filming a movie in the White House or on Air Force One? Well, the film we were doing was actually a documentary. The organization was highly impressive because, on Inauguration Day, we had something like twelve crews all around town. Once they…
Read MoreNike’s Hit New Experimental Mind Sneakers Are Getting Even Weirder
Nike’s new science-backed Mind franchise is still relatively new, having released in only one colorway each for the Mind 001 mule and Mind 002 sneaker, respectively. With plenty more colorways on the horizon, a new teaser suggests that the viral footwear is only going to get even more experimental soon. Over the last few days,…
Read MoreLei Is a New Jewel of Chinatown
Doyers Street is a one-block strip in Chinatown that starts off perpendicular to the Bowery and then curves ninety degrees, like a lowercase “r,” to terminate against the bustle of Pell Street. A notorious battleground for gang fights in the early nineteen-hundreds, it has, in recent decades, scrubbed out the bloodstains and redefined itself as…
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