Inside La Côte Basque, the Ultimate See-and-Seen Restaurant for New York City’s Ladies Who Lunched

Inside La Côte Basque, the Ultimate See-and-Seen Restaurant for New York City’s Ladies Who Lunched

In the first episode of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, Naomi Watts’s Babe Paley and Chloe Sevigny’s C. Z. Guest greet each other in front of a restaurant called La Côte Basque. They don’t remove their giant sunglasses as they kiss on the cheek—a protection against the flashbulb of a paparazzi’s camera capturing their arrival. … Read more

Abby Champion and Patrick Schwarzenegger Are Engaged After 7 Years of Dating

Abby Champion and Patrick Schwarzenegger Are Engaged After 7 Years of Dating

Congratulations are in order for Abby Champion and Patrick Schwarzenegger. Today, the longtime couple announced their engagement via Instagram. They each shared a series of photographs from their beach proposal. The first was a close-up of them embracing on the beach, with Champion’s engagement ring front and center. Another showed them kissing in front of … Read more

Sloe Motion: For Author Lottie Hazell, an Annual Gin-Making Ritual Guarantees Glad Tidings

Sloe Motion: For Author Lottie Hazell, an Annual Gin-Making Ritual Guarantees Glad Tidings

The season, for me, starts in October. It is secretive, this beginning, as the rest of the world continues about its usual, autumnal business: school runs, talks of daylight savings, soup. I, meanwhile, am watching for the first sign of Christmas, looking for it on lichened branches. Sloe berries, purpled and clustered on blackthorn, their … Read more

How to Make a Wreath in 5 Simple Steps

How to Make a Wreath in 5 Simple Steps

Let’s be real: For many of us, wreath-making doesn’t come naturally. The holiday season is already stressful, from figuring out your Christmas decor to the myriad of events filling up your calendar through the new year. But before you shake your head at this easy DIY project, just think: Wouldn’t a wreath covered in bows … Read more

How to Wear Your Wedding and Engagement Ring With Style

How to Wear Your Wedding and Engagement Ring With Style

One key question recurs regarding matrimonial bling: how to wear both your wedding and engagement ring? Which goes on first: the engagement ring or the wedding band? Do you wear both on the same finger? Do you have to wear both? It’s entirely your call. Wedding traditions have their place, but as with all things … Read more

How Poor Things’ Production Designers Brought Its Freaky, Fantastical World to Life

How Poor Things’ Production Designers Brought Its Freaky, Fantastical World to Life

In Poor Things, Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest (out December 8), Emma Stone is a baby. To be specific: Emma Stone plays Bella Baxter, an unhappily married woman who throws herself off a London bridge only to be resurrected by a demented surgeon (Willem Dafoe) who replaces her brain with that of her unborn child. … Read more

Babel Loft Is a New Brooklyn Community Destination Where You Can Stay All Day

Babel Loft Is a New Brooklyn Community Destination Where You Can Stay All Day

Since it first opened in 2015, the Ode to Babel bar has been a cherished fixture in the heart of Brooklyn, as well as a testament to the power of Black-owned businesses within New York City. For the Babel community, the bar served as a place to freely and safely dwell amongst friends (or strangers … Read more

Paris Hilton Announces the Birth of Her Second Child—And Her Very Unusual Name

Paris Hilton Announces the Birth of Her Second Child—And Her Very Unusual Name

It turns out Paris Hilton had an extra reason to be grateful this Thanksgiving. Yesterday, the DJ and heiress shared the news via an Instagram post that she had welcomed a second child with her husband Carter Reum, following the birth of their first child, Phoenix Barron, in January of this year. Posting a picture … Read more

SoHo’s Roman and Williams Store Now Has an Intimate Speakeasy Bar

SoHo’s Roman and Williams Store Now Has an Intimate Speakeasy Bar

The other stunning showpiece at the bar is the collection of glassware, which Alesch and Standefer spent years researching while stocking their store. Through the years, staff had received requests from customers to try out the expensive glassware in the same way they can the dishes at La Mercerie, but at the restaurant, it was … Read more