“Basically everyone at that level was using something because there was this collective realization of what it took to look a certain way,” he said.Mr. Boulet soon moved to Las Vegas to pursue a full-time career in fitness,...
When I saw Mindy Prugnaud out in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan on a Friday afternoon in February, I was compelled to say hello. I just had to learn more about her marvelous coat.Ms. Prugnaud, 56, had...
Paul Marchant, the chief executive of Primark, has resigned “with immediate effect” from his role leading the discount clothing retailer after an allegation about his behavior, the company announced Monday.Mr. Marchant, who joined Primark in 2009, left after...
On Tuesday, as news piled up about the Trump administration’s use of a Signal group chat to discuss military strikes, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, found himself facing the Senate Committee on Intelligence. He looked like a prep...
Gai Gherardi, a Los Angeles optician who with a partner attracted a celebrity clientele by pioneering the notion that eyeglass frames did not have to be dull but rather could be fashion statements of individuality, died on March...
Need a word to emphasize that intense feeling that comes from bearing witness to a beautiful, doll-like baby? Or a term to refer to the overwhelming urge to pinch or squeeze a golden retriever puppy?Try gigil (pronounced ghee-gill),...
Were it not for the fact that it was 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning and were it not for the blaring house music, one might have seen what was going on at HK Hall, an event space...
Misty Gonzales has been tending bar at T.J. Byrnes, an Irish pub in the financial district of Manhattan, for 13 years. For most of that time, she has served office workers, college students and city employees.Two years ago,...
She has been electrocuted, hatcheted, murdered by a doll with her soul trapped inside it. She has also notched up an epic kill count of her own, decapitating one victim with a nail file, eviscerating another and melting...
I’m curious how much clothing is marked up over cost. Does it really have to do with quality, or can a popular or fancy brand mark up more than average? And what does the threat of tariffs mean?...
