Ten years ago, Nancy Twine was a 27-year-old vice-president at Goldman Sachs. She was making excellent money, but she was bored. Her older brother, meanwhile, was following his entrepreneurial dream of building a digital media agency. “I said to him, ‘Chauncy, I need to get out of finance. Can I please work for you?’” Twine […]
Angie Cruz’s latest novel, Dominicana, is inspired by her mother’s life. As a girl in the Dominican Republic, Cruz’s mother was married off to a man twice her age so that her family could immigrate to the United States. In the novel, Cruz imagines her mother’s experience. Set in the 1960s, the book follows 15-year-old […]
After two weeks of deadline drama, Barneys New York’s future has been assured. Its next chapter will find its stores closed and new ones open — in its former competitor, Saks Fifth Avenue. Authentic Brands Group, the licensing company that partnered with B. Riley Financial to bid on the IP and assets of the bankrupt […]
In a new lawsuit, former Juul vice-president Siddharth Breja alleges that the company, which has recently come under fire for marketing its addictive product to teens, knowingly sold one million contaminated vape juice pods to customers earlier this year. Breja also says he was wrongfully fired one week after raising concerns about the contaminated pods, […]
Click:Bussmann 170M6892D 1100A 690V Fuses I’m trying to be better. I cut my screen time by 20 percent, I’ve developed empathy for subway pole leaners, and I’ve gotten over my hatred of mushrooms. Plus, I’ve finally found a “natural” foundation that I actually like. As a beauty editor, one of the biggest questions I get […]
There’s a certain brand of laughter permeating events right now. Once confined to boardrooms and back rooms, it beams forth from tablet, phone, and television screens — during pressers, talk shows, and cable-news interviews — more mockery than mirth, a jesting contempt that isn’t necessarily always manifest but that we know is there even when […]
Deciem, the beloved “abnormal beauty company” best known for its millennial-friendly skin-care line the Ordinary, is living up to its tagline and doing something truly unusual this year: boycotting Black Friday. On Friday afternoon, the company announced on Instagram that it will be having a mass blackout on November 29, meaning all Deciem stores, as […]
Based on anecdotal evidence gleaned from finally leaving my apartment in the evenings over the past week, I remain confused as to when Halloween is and, moreover, when it is not. Last night, a Wednesday and technically October 30, I was genuinely scared multiple times on the subway platform as I did not expect to […]
On All Hallows Eve, the streets were filled with the joyous angst of thousands of elder millennials celebrating My Chemical Romance. Yes, MCR, — the pop emocore band that inspired me personally to try and turn a pair of pink-and-green Chuck Taylors black with a single Sharpie in 2004 with the song “It’s Not a […]
Lilly Singh and I are crammed into a small dressing room at the West Hollywood soundstage of NBC’s A Little Late With Lilly Singh, where the newly minted late-night host is pitching me on the benefits of practical footwear. “Everything about me changes when I’m wearing heels versus sneakers,” she explains, pulling out a pair […]