Nothing Beats ’90s Supermodel Beauty. How to Update 5 Iconic Looks for 2024.

BACK IN THE 1990s, when fashion magazines were the size of phone books, the covers routinely featured four impossibly beautiful women who grew so famous, people around the world referred to them by their first names: Cindy, Naomi, Christy and Linda. With their larger-than-life fame (and big hair to match) this pioneering foursome transformed the […]

Step-by-Step Guide: How to Wear a Shawl Like a Runway Model, Not Your Nan

GIFTS AREN’T ALL you should be wrapping this season. If you’re remotely fashion-minded, now’s the time to swaddle yourself dramatically in oversize shawls and wraps. Stow away those wispy pashminas and grab one of the voluminous alternatives that billowed down fall runways, such as Michael Kors’s scarves, whose fringed ends practically tickled the ground.  Consider […]

How to Avoid Being Boring at 60

By Rob LaZebnik Nov. 23, 2023 9:00 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) When I recently turned 60, I realized with alarm that I was starting to see unmistakable signs from friends and colleagues that I was becoming—there’s no easy way to put this—boring. It was almost as if the same stories I had […]

How to Create a Soulful but Up-to-Date Kitchen

DON’T LET the exposed brick fool you. Until recently, this vibrant kitchen in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, was dingy, dull and stripped of original details—the victim of a hit-and-run renovation that removed every bit of character from the circa-1900 row house, says architect-designer Sarah Jacoby. The upshot? In 2022, when the new owners, an education administrator and […]