Models
Profiles
Padma Lakshmi Walks Into a Bar
Since leaving “Top Chef,” Lakshmi has found herself in a period of professional uncertainty. What better time to try standup comedy?
Shouts & Murmurs
The Model Is Wearing a Size Small
The model is wearing the Worst Color for Particularly You, but it looks incredible on her. Wow. Look how it makes the model’s eyes pop.
Cultural Comment
Emily Ratajkowski and the Burden of Being Perfect-Looking
In a new collection of essays, “My Body,” the writer and model reckons with how her appearance has shaped her personal relationships, career, and psyche.
Postpartum Dept.
Grotesque, Menacing, Monumental: Motherhood!
At a cocktail-fuelled art-history lecture with Emily Ratajkowski and Huma Abedin in the audience, Sarah Hoover and Christy Turlington Burns discussed the gnarly cultural narratives around giving birth.
Books
When the Barbizon Gave Women Rooms of Their Own
The story of New York City’s most famous women-only hotel is also a story of class and sexual politics in the twentieth century.
Page-Turner
“Miss Aluminum,” Susanna Moore’s Memoir of Trauma and Transformation
The writer brings a cool touch and an ironic eye to the tradition of guts-and-all retellings of the harrowing paths walked by female authors.
On the Runway
Eckhaus Latta’s Fashion Models and “Nodels”
The casting director Rachel Chandler’s “grown, scary women who will yell at you if you drop something in their house” aesthetic.
Profiles
Hari Nef, Model Citizen
How the transgender alt-glam scenester faces the demands of being a muse and a mouthpiece.
Up Life’s Ladder
Part-Time Idol
Art
This Week
Photo Booth
Male Models at New York Fashion Week
Dept. of Aviation
Game of Thrones
On and Off the Avenue
Customer Relations
Portfolio
Rag & Bone
Mother-Daughter Dept.
Glimmer Twins
Critic’s Notebook