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And they are scared that bedbugs from the home of a former owner still call that $20 designer jacket or that fabulous $65 chair their castle. That explains why a puzzled-looking Elizabeth Borné was standing on East 23rd Street one afternoon last week. Should she risk the $325 couch with ...
Lanvin, one of the oldest Paris fashion houses, announced this day that it will do a collection this fall for H & M. “I have stated in the past that I would never do a mass-market collection,” Lanvin’s creative director Alber Elbaz stated in a statement, “but what intrigued me ...
Sean Claney TANNIS TOOHEY/TORONTO STAR Street Style Who: Sean Claney, 27, visual merchandiser at Holt Renfrew Where: Bloor St.
When a reporter asked Ms. Britton, the “Friday Nights Lights” actress, if she indeed felt like a princess, she swung around and smiled widely. “I do!” she said, and raised the frothy skirt over her head before faux-fainting on the sofa in a heap of giggles. But there were practical ...
Less documented was a similar fashion overhaul in China, which is now the subject of an exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of History. “The Evergreen Classic: Transformation of the Qipao,” showing until Sept. 13, is a beautifully presented, and sometimes humorous, display of 280 Chinese gowns created over the ...
Originally, the “seven-year itch” referred to an untreatable skin condition called scabies that lasted seven years. In 1952, the playwright George Axelrod appropriated the term for a Broadway play about a husband’s desire to stray. By the time Marilyn Monroe starred in the 1955 movie, the made-up notion that infidelity ...
That evening, I watched it putter around my apartment, sweeping and inhaling dust bunnies. When it gamely bumbled around bulky pieces of furniture, I dashed about, too, lifting the obstacles out of its way. After the Roomba completed its chaotic dance, I put it back into its case and patted ...
All I knew was that he looked like a young, fit Jeff Bridges, was a graduate student in landscape architecture at Cornell and liked weird seaweed crackers. Butterflies flapped in my stomach every time he approached my register. One morning he commented on the Count Basie album I was playing ...
AFTER a day by the surf in Daytona Beach, Fla., last year, Travis Erickson, 21, discovered that his cellphone had been either stolen or lost in the sand. He also discovered that he was stranded. Though there were plenty of pay phones and beachgoers willing to lend their cellphones, he ...
Tap water bottle Like gamblers who just cannot resist upping the ante, or mountain climbers compelled to conquer ever-higher peaks, the art of stylistic ...