Mikalah Harp’s weekly Whole Foods run starts in the produce section, dutifully winds through the store and ends with the best part. On a shelf at the far end of the store is her favorite treat: Olipop’s grape-flavored “prebiotic” soda. This category of beverage, which appeared seemingly everywhere almost overnight, …
Hong Kong is a difficult place to run an independent bookshop. Rents are high and space is limited, but navigating the law has also become harder in recent years. China imposed a strict national security law on Hong Kong in 2020, and the government has also begun enforcing a dormant, …
Paris is a place for revolutions: the sci-fi fantasies of Cardin and Courrèges, Jean Paul Gaultier’s skirts pour homme and the inflated gothic rituals of Rick Owens. All wild, memorable and museum-worthy. But it may be Agnès Troublé who has changed what we wear today, more so than any fierce …
When Abe Lange lived in the East Village of Manhattan, he would sometimes take his breakfast in Tompkins Square Park, wearing his favorite zip-up hoodie. You might say it had seen better days: The black jersey had faded to a charcoal ombré, and large portions of the front and sleeves …
A few weeks before the Manhattan Vintage Show opened this month, its owner, Amy Abrams, was predicting a “fur-a-palooza,” with vendors fielding an uptick in demand for fur. “It’s happening now,” she said. The racks of fox, mink and Mongolian at booths, including the Igala NYC and the Jennie Walker …
When Joe Kudla talks about the Vuori customer — the loyal, die-hard consumer of the company he founded a decade ago — Jimmy Spencer is exactly the kind of person he has in mind. “Oh, I’m Mr. Vuori,” said Mr. Spencer, 41, a Californian who works in sports media and …
The town of Honor, in northern Michigan, doesn’t have too many places to shop for food. The only grocery store in town is Honor Family Market, one of a shrinking number of independent grocers left in the United States. Because it’s the only market in town, it has an outsize …
In the robustly expanding realm of artist-brand collaborations, Sky Gellatly, at 44, has operated as a best-kept secret. Style and art world insiders may credit him as a canny go-between for artists and fashion brands keen to exploit potentially lucrative partnerships. But he has, up to now, stayed mostly under …
