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Lagos is where Adebayo Oke-Lawal of Orange Culture shares his most intimate stories, and this season was no different. Kicking off the city’s fashion week with his pre-fall 2027 collection, Oke-Lawal wanted his guests to be introspective and self-appreciating. “I want people to personally connect to the story,” he said.Our immersion into the show began while walking into the venue; draping from the ceiling were large sheets of fabric with quotes like “I was never outside of love” and “even here I am held.” “It’s an opportunity to fall in love with yourself,” he explained.The collection, titled The In Between,…
For his spring collection, LA-based designer John Elliott pondered what, exactly, he could bring to his customers that was new. Over the course of 15 years, he’s established a casual, cut-and-sew business built around denim, T-shirts, and sweats, plus styles that come from either workwear or military backgrounds. He thought he could differentiate through fabric development, which led him to Japan, where his co-founder is based. “This is what we do best,” he said. “Getting to the yarn level and experimenting.”These explorations led him down a wormhole. What he came back with was pigment-coated ripstop, which he used to make…
Even egg retrieval can be risky for women with MBC. The process may require delaying treatment, which carries risks. The high hormone levels involved in ovarian stimulation have also been a concern, though there are new techniques to reduce that risk. In addition to needing to remain on treatment continuously and indefinitely, additional complicating factors that women diagnosed with MBC face include difficult ethical questions around becoming a parent while living with a terminal illness (although women with MBC are living longer thanks to ongoing improvements in treatment).Options for preserving fertility with metastatic breast cancerNew targeted therapies and molecular testing…
Everyone has their own seasonal markers — outside of the literal seasonal markers of the equinoxes and solstices, that is. For some, it’s Memorial Day and Labor Day; for others, it’s Fall Back and Spring Forward; for me, it’s the Hair Color Indicator. It’s a straightforward enough metric: When the weather cools off, so do the hair colors (for the most part). Take, for example, Serena Williams, who just swapped her buttery blonde for a near-platinum shade I could perhaps best describe as “iced Vanilla latte.”Williams wore the chilly color to the first-annual Airbnb Gala, held Oct. 28 in Los…
We can always rely on our fave A-listers to champion an It-accessory—whether it’s a Gucci bag or a two-tone Chanel pump, acquiring the latest must-have is practically a prerequisite for life in the spotlight. This week, Katie Holmes delivered something of a style coup, stepping out wearing not one, but two trending accessories.Running errands in New York in a cozy autumn combination of denim, knit and leather courtesy of Banana Republic & Zankov, she added Toteme’s T-Lock Handle bag and The Row’s ruched leather loafers.Michael SimonAs for her shoes, those ruched loafers put her in a flat fan club that…
As Alyssa made her entrance, guests held white parasols that, viewed from above, transformed the lawn into a sea of white circles. “It felt like a garden party in the clouds,” Erik says.“Looking at all the smiling, teary-eyed faces of people we love from various chapters of our lives was absolutely surreal and deeply comforting,” Alyssa remembers. “And to see Erik waiting for me at the end of the aisle filled my heart with immeasurable joy. I’ll remember this moment forever.”After exchanging vows, the newlyweds slipped away for their first Champagne toast as husband and wife. Then, they hopped onto…
It wasn’t without its challenges: Afualo changed wedding planners six weeks out from her wedding date. “I ended up hiring The Gay Agenda, which is the name of their company; they’re Oahu-based, and I love them to death,” she says. “We would’ve died without them. They took on our wedding six weeks out, and then I changed my venue a week after that. It was the most stressful six weeks ever, ever, ever, ever in my life, but it ended up working out beautifully.”In lieu of gifts, Afualo and Tanuvasa asked guests to make donations instead. “I, quite frankly, don’t…
Perched on the northern shoreline of Isla Navarino in Chilean Tierra del Fuego, the 150-room lodge—which finally opened its doors earlier this month—is now officially the southernmost hotel on Earth. Named for the sleek, resilient seabird that nests along these subpolar cliffs (and situated right along the 55th parallel south), the property’s goal is to upend the prelude to polar travel completely. Rather than treating the tip of South America as a holding pen, Silversea has reimagined it as an alluring and deeply atmospheric destination in its own right.Photo: Michel VerdureThe project began taking shape in late 2018, when Conrad…
There’s no place like home… except for maybe a five-star hotel. Sure, you might be far from the bed that practically molded to your body or the slippers you’ve worn for years, but 1,200-thread-count sheets and a plush robe go a long way in making up for that. And while even checked luggage often forces one to pick and choose when it comes to their travel skin care and beauty routines, at the world’s finest hotels, you’ll often find washes and creams that aren’t just adequate substitutes for your tried-and-true products, but surpass them — offerings that are so luxe,…
Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity couples who give us hope for our own romantic futures as we try to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds.Given the staggering number of unintentionally viral moments we’ve gotten from Dakota Johnson over the years—from limegate to her diva-off with Ellen DeGeneres—maybe it’s only natural that her dating life has become a matter of national interest. But honestly, who could do anything but gawk enviously at Johnson and her rumored current beau, musician Machine Gun Kelly,…