The New York Times

At Play in the Realm of Political Animals

For The New York Times, I’ve contributed to the Styles sections, regularly writing the Skin Deep column, and the City section. The picture at above is from At Play in the Realm of Political Animals.

City Section

A Sideways Strategy for a Flawed Chess Board
October 27th, 2010

On a recent Saturday, Jean Manas and his son, Mateos Haile-Manas, were playing chess on one of the three public tables on the East River promenade, a raised platform on the Upper East Side between the water and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive. There were plenty of distractions — the strong October wind, the traffic [...]

Aperitif + Beer + Cocktails = Tipsy
March 24th, 2010

These girls drank their way through the alphabet.

Thursday Styles

Don’t Take Down the Holiday Lights Around Your Eyes
January 10th, 2012

HOLIDAY parties are over, but brilliantly bejeweled and glittering eye makeup has been lingering on, an easy way to alleviate the January blahs. “Embellished and dramatic makeup just feels right at this moment,” said Rachel Goodwin, a celebrity makeup artist for Chanel. “It’s like a science fiction movie, a Stanley Kubrick thing.” Or maybe it’s [...]

A Little Confection Behind the Ear
December 8th, 2011

TWENTY years ago, when a roomful of perfumers smelled the sweet scent Thierry Mugler Angel for the first time, most of them were crinkling their noses in disgust. “They said: ‘What is this thing? It’s not a perfume. It’s a flavor. It’s awful,’ ” said Pierre Aulas, now the olfactive artistic director of Thierry Mugler, who [...]

Lining Up to the Barre
May 15th, 2011

EVEN if you never intend to dance onstage at Lincoln Center, like Natalie Portman’s character in “Black Swan,” you probably want to look as if you do (minus, of course, her stab wound). Women have long coveted sinewy arms, high and tight derrières, lean legs and a regal posture. Now, in search of this shape, [...]

A Bright Spring Trend Puts Tails Amid the Tresses
April 25th, 2011

THE first time Stacey Gersten had feathers put in her hair — while vacationing in Austin, Tex., at the same kind of street-side stand from which you might buy homemade brownies — she panicked. “I thought they were so beautiful,” said Ms. Gersten, 27, a casting director who lives in New York. “Then I thought, [...]

Makeup From Japan to Your Mailbox
February 3rd, 2011

YOUNG women in Japan have long used makeup to transform themselves into plastic dolls or anime princesses come to life. Brands homegrown there, like Mellish and Dolly Wink, make the spidery fake eyelashes, doe-eyed contact lenses and eyelid tape that help them with this metamorphosis. But the many Western women who have recently started seeking [...]

Batter Up: Eyelashes Enjoy a Spike
January 8th, 2011

LIKE hemlines and cocktails, facial features go in and out of fashion, and right now, eyelashes are where it’s at. Five years ago, we may have wanted a plump, pillowy Angelina Jolie mouth, suffering through stinging lip glosses and shots of collagen for it. But these days the focus has shifted to a fat, feathery eye [...]

Beauty House Calls in the Wee Hours
November 17th, 2010

NEWSPAPER deliverers show up on your doorstep at dawn. At that hour, the woman you pay to spray you with a fake tan usually would not. But recently Tamar Vezirian of Gotham Glow arrived at a client’s apartment in Murray Hill in Manhattan to bronze her before a vacation. “She had to leave at 6 [...]

Every Finger Tells a Story
October 18th, 2010

THREE years ago, Sharmadean Reid, a London nail salon owner, was watching the American Music Awards when she saw Beyoncé Knowles with a manicure that made her nails look as if they’d been plated with gold. “I paused the television,” she said. “I was like, ‘What is on her nails?’ Gimme now.” What was on [...]

Older Audience for Child’s Bracelet Is Not a Stretch
August 10th, 2010

It wasn’t until some elementary schools banned Silly Bandz, those colorful plastic bracelets that are the latest fad among the pencil-box set, that Ramona Sidlo, who is 30, wanted them for herself. “I thought, ‘This is nuts that a rubber band is causing so much hype,’” she said. “If kids are going crazy over these, [...]

Sunday Styles

Where Fashion Gazes at Itself
September 14th, 2011

WHEN Rich Tong, the fashion director at Tumblr, the popular blogging platform, learned that the model Coco Rocha had started using it, he e-mailed her to say hello. She later dropped by Tumblr’s Gramercy Park offices in New York, where Mr. Tong introduced her to Jamie Beck, a fashion photographer with her own Tumblr blog, [...]

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