Visits: 25 Heist-out, a feisty publication that debuted last year, is working with the auction house on an “underground” sale (scheduled in a wine cellar). Frustration is often the impetus for starting a business, and that’s exactly what produced heist-out, …
Oprah Says She Is on a Weight Loss Drug and ‘Done With the Shaming’
Visits: 37 Ms. Winfrey has spent decades as a dominant figure in the country’s conversations about weight bias and dieting. In 1988, Oprah Winfrey tugged a red wagon filled with fat across the stage of her television show to represent …
George Wayne Is ‘Still Hustling’
Visits: 35 The lifestyle journalist George Wayne finds himself in an odd position. Because of money troubles, he says he takes out no more than $20 at a time from A.T.M.s. And yet he’s a regular at high-end restaurants like …
Many People Have Retired by 69. Not Carine Roitfeld.
Visits: 53 There are some people in fashion with such distinctive personal style trademarks that you can recognize them from their silhouettes. Karl Lagerfeld was one (remember the Diet Coke bottles?). Anna Wintour is another. And then, with her sky-high …
Vogue World Comes to London
Visits: 33 A starry night orchestrated by Anna Wintour kicked off the city’s fashion week. At Royal Theatre Drury Lane, a full house had taken their seats at the behest of the voice of God, who happened to be Sir …
Do Supermodels Age, or Just Get Airbrushed?
Visits: 42 The cover of Vogue’s September issue has ignited a new debate about beauty standards. Well, hello there, Linda, Christy, Naomi and Cindy, the O.G. supermodels; women for whom the term was created; creatures who became so famous that …
At 81, Martha Stewart Is the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Cover Star
Visits: 28 The domestic diva talks about shedding her inhibitions, and (most of) her clothes, for the cover shoot. It’s useless to try to pigeonhole Martha Stewart. Decorously entertaining homemaker-slash-lifestyle guru, television personality, publisher, canny entrepreneur-turned-white-collar criminal, Snoop Dogg’s unlikely …
Clothes for People Who Love Books
Visits: 21 Inside the packed Rachel Comey store on Crosby Street in SoHo on Thursday, the readings began about halfway through the evening. When the crowd applauded for the memoirist Vivian Gornick, who read from her book “Unfinished Business: Notes …
She’s Building a Little Jewish Magazine on Big Ideas
Visits: 17 After a rebellious youth and years spent on an unpublished novel, Arielle Angel, the editor of Jewish Currents, has carved out a role for herself as someone who questions entrenched ideas. On a nippy morning, Arielle Angel and …
Jule Campbell, 96, Dies; Architect of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Visits: 20 Be it objectification or celebration, the annual rite she created earned millions for the magazine and helped usher in the supermodel era. Jule Campbell, the mastermind of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the annual paean to cheesecake — …