For the most part, presidential inaugurations are moments of communal pageantry. There is music and poetry. There are oaths to recite and vows to make. Everyone smiles for the cameras, and everyone dresses up — for the inauguration on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and later for a series of balls that have come […]
In Topanga Canyon on Saturday morning, suspended midair from an electricity line, hung the smoldering top of a utility pole. The pole itself had burned away. Its remaining crosspieces resembled a crucifix on fire. By the time Bob Melet videotaped this eerie scene, firefighters had managed to halt the advance of flaring patches that elsewhere […]
Nathalie Joseph, left, and Christel Jean-Pierre were scouting locations for a photo shoot in Washington Square Park on a Saturday in December when they caught my eye with their layered head gear. Ms. Joseph, a 19-year-old model, had a black scarf draped over her camouflage baseball hat. Ms. Jean-Pierre, a 21-year-old model and aspiring director, […]
A pop of color punctuated a dashing assemblage of prints.
Jan. 13, 2025 The billowy ensembles of Lindy Reyes, left, and Andre Reyes drew my gaze as I passed the couple on Mulberry Street in Manhattan on a Saturday in late December. The Reyeses, who were visiting New York City from Singapore, were in a line of people waiting to enter the Aimé Leon Dore […]
It’s hard to pinpoint when things began to change around here but you might start with the arrival of Yolanda Hadid in 2017. Ms. Hadid, a onetime regular on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” bought a farm just outside New Hope, Pa., to be closer to her daughters, the models Gigi and Bella Hadid, […]
The Los Angeles-based photographer Chantal Anderson was backstage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, where she photographed Golden Globes winners for The Times. Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy Demi Moore, “The Substance” “I had a woman say to me, ‘Just know you will never be enough, but […]
In a chilly auditorium in Afghanistan, heaps of freshly mined green emeralds glowed under bright table lamps as bearded gemstone dealers inspected them for purity and quality. An auctioneer asked for bids on the first lot, which weighed 256 carats. With that, the Taliban’s weekly gemstone auction was underway. These sales, in the emerald-rich Panjshir […]
It wasn’t long after celebrities started arriving on the red carpet at the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday that one of the night’s biggest fashion trends came into focus: metallics. Those who wore them included Zendaya, who went with a coppery orange Louis Vuitton gown; Angelina Jolie, who chose a silvery Alexander McQueen […]
By some measures, awards season dressing has already been underway for weeks: Festival juries and film critics associations hand out trophies, and if stars deign to collect them in person, propriety usually demands that they be clothed. With social media, stars have a platform to show off their looks even when network TV cameras are […]
