Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city. What’s making our luxury list this week? A super-cool Yankees collab, yet another buzzy Korean restaurant, and … Read more
More like a designer dud. Balenciaga is being mocked for selling an exorbitantly-priced multicolored tank top — reminiscent of the casual, early-2000s style that continues to haunt millennial fashionistas. The design combines several materials sewed together to give the illusion of multiple tank tops with lace trim stacked on top of one another — pink, … Read more
She got her wedding bells rung with this shocking mishap. A San Francisco Bay Area woman was shocked when the bridal store she bought a wedding gown from shuttered with no notice or fulfillment of her order. Akila Yejide Mwongozi, who worked three jobs to afford her wedding, bought her nuptial attire last year from … Read more
A war is being waged on an obscure facial feature: the nasolabial fold. Celebrities and influencers are aggressively employing PhotoShop, Facetune, plastic surgery and cosmetic dermatology to vanquish the common “smile lines” that run from the side of the nose down the side of the mouth. Fans are eagerly joining the fight against what was once … Read more
Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city. What’s making our luxury list this week? The UES gets another dose of Danny Meyer deliciousness, a … Read more
They find it berry inappropriate. For leaving a bad taste in parents’ mouths — offering a sexually “suggestive” shirt to kids — fast-fashion retailer Zara has not only issued an apology but also removed the tart top from its racks. “Personally, I’m disgusted,” Laura Wilson, 32, a TikTok tastemaker and mother of two from London, said of … Read more
Spanx founder Sara Blakely thinks she has the next must-have accessory for women on the go: a pair of high-heeled sneakers. Blakely — who used $5,000 in savings to launch a line of undergarments that became a billion-dollar empire — posted an Instagram message this week teasing a “luxury hybrid stiletto” and “hy-heel sneaker,” saying … Read more
Perhaps the popularity of the vampire facial isn’t immortal after all. Rather than just slathering their faces with their own blood, beauty chasers are injecting it into their faces with a syringe to reap the supposed benefits of rejuvenation and a youthful-looking complexion. The injections of PRF, or platelet-rich fibrin, are lauded as being more … Read more
The cat’s out of the bag: liquid winged eyeliner is outdated. Despite becoming the hallmark look of Taylor Swift and Adele, the sharp, jet-black swipe of liquid liner has been declared archaic by the likes of Gen Z. “OK, can one of the young people let me know, are we still doing winged liquid liner? … Read more
Julianne Hough is making another pivot, which is something the Emmy-winning choreographer, dancer and co-host of “Dancing with the Stars” knows all about. After dipping her well-pointed toes into the acting world (from “Footloose” and the movie adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ book, “Safe Haven,” to her Broadway turn in “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass … Read more
Their facials are out of this world. Raquel New York — a trendy Tribeca skincare studio beloved among boldfacers — is making waves in the beauty world for combining high-end aesthetics with astrology. Founded by Raquel Medina-Cleghorn, whose fans include Jennifer Lawrence, Emily Ratajkowski and Claire Danes, the pampering parlor housed in a sixth-floor loft on Walker … Read more
Shania Addington was 18 when she got her first tattoo. A decade later, the Gen Z bride-to-be wants out of the relationship. The 28-year-old had formerly meaningful quotes inked on both her forearm and back — a decision she now seriously regrets, saying they made her “feel like a book.” So much so, the Arizonan … Read more
A steady diet of weight loss TikToks may be quite harmful to mental health, a new study finds. Spending a lot of time on the social media platform — especially watching pro-anorexia content — could damage a young woman’s self esteem and increase her risk of disordered eating, according to research out of Charles Sturt … Read more
Nailed it! The 2024 Paris Olympics have provided plenty of fashion moments, from leotards to shoes, but sometimes it’s the little things that really help give athletes the confidence to nail it at the competitions — like a manicure. Competitors, including track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson and Olympic gold medalists Jordan Chiles and Suni … Read more
It was a roll of the dye. A UK man has issued a warning after a botched hair coloration left him looking like the animated movie character “Megamind.” “I didn’t look like myself at all. It was massive,” Ryan Briggs, 27, told Kennedy News Agency of the dye job gone awry. The Lancashire native said … Read more
Does zit really do the trick? It’s simple — no one wants a pimple. But rather than burning through the typical anti-blemish treatments, such as applying skincare creams or taking meds, smooth-to-the-touch wannabes are letting UV rays singe away their blistering lumps and bumps. Wenthold and others online have popularized the sunburning movement and its alleged skin … Read more
A new Miss USA has been crowned. After months of turmoil in the pageant universe, Miss Michigan Alma Cooper was announced the winner on Sunday, Aug. 4 at the annual pageant at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. The 22-year-old US Army officer will go on to represent the United States in the 2024 Miss … Read more
Women are sick of stilettos. Women may have developed flatter feet as a result of laidback style trends necessitated by pandemic lockdowns — during which many of us spent an unprecedented amount of our time scooting around our homes in bedroom slippers and flip-flops. New research by footwear retailer Kurt Geiger in the UK shows … Read more
White women are less confident about their bodies than women from other cultures, according to a new study. Researchers found Western women also experience greater media pressure to be thin than black Nigerian and Chinese women of all ages. The study, conducted by Durham University psychologists, looked at the impacts of age and socio-cultural pressures … Read more
Here’s one fad that never gets old. A cohort of health-conscious celebrities — notorious for indulging in bizarre skincare regimes and the latest weight loss cure-alls — have found a new love in the form of the anti-aging supplement NAD+. An acronym for the enzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, NAD+ plays a vital role in metabolism, DNA … Read more