Youth

I don’t really know how to do my hair that well. I don’t blow dry it or anything like that. I just started seeing Dana Ionato at Sally Hershberger for my color...

These days, most special effects are created on computers. But in the 18th and 19th centuries, the automaton — an intricate mechanical device that could take the form of a preening silver...

Classic men’s suiting makes a fun pairing with sporty separates.

The American assemblage artist Betye Saar spent her childhood salvaging lost, discarded and forgotten things, like small glass beads, broken necklaces and scraps of colored paper left in trash bins or littering...

In February, the designer Meruert Tolegen made her New York Fashion Week debut in the midst of a winter storm. As snow fell outside the windows of her chosen venue, a former...

Toward the end of the night at Theodora, an elegant Mediterranean restaurant that opened in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood in February, diners at the polished concrete chef’s counter are often treated to...

The architect Philip Johnson’s Glass House, a rectangular glass-and-steel residence set on a grassy shelf above a wooded bluff in New Canaan, Conn., has epitomized a certain East Coast ideal of midcentury...

Anne Boleyn, the queen of England from 1533 until her execution in 1536, was famously depicted wearing a gold “B” on a strand of pearls around her neck, and the mystery of...

Southern California’s infamous Santa Ana winds were barreling through Los Angeles as Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson prepared to host a garden party to celebrate the May 7 release of their first...

I grew up vacationing in a beach town called Nags Head on the Outer Banks, the string of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. My parents did, too — they...