Innholdsfortegnelse for August 29-Septebmer 11, 2022 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Jen Wieczner documented the implosion of Su Zhu and Kyle Davies’s multibillion-dollar crypto fund (“The Three Arrows Guys Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight,” August 15–28). Fortune’s Jeff Roberts said the report was “every bit as delicious as I expected.” Protocol called it “almost too unbelievable, and you can already sense the limited-time HBO series or feature film Hollywood producers might try to cook up from these details.” Noting Zhu and Davies’s time at Andover, the Los Angeles Times’ Matt Brennan wrote, “From the boarding school that brought you the Iraq War, a new and somehow even more astounding scam.” For Futurism, Maggie Harrison wrote, “3AC’s success was built on two of the flimsiest things around: social media influence and heavy borrowing.” Reporter Nick Statt…

CHUCK SCHUMER had the ease of someone already on summer vacation. “I’d much rather be in New York than Washington any day of the week,” he said during a Zoom conversation from his Manhattan office in mid-August. The Senate Democrats had just passed the Inflation Reduction Act, a climate and tax law that constitutes the centerpiece of Joe Biden’s reform agenda, and as the majority leader responsible for saving this legislation— and, perhaps with it, Biden’s presidency—from what appeared to be certain defeat, Schumer could be forgiven for not merely taking a well-earned break but also resting on his laurels a bit. “People are just so positive,” he gushed, claiming that Democratic incumbents in battleground states are thrilled to run on the IRA in the upcoming midterms. “They said they’ve…

NICE IS FAKE.” It’s an August Sunday in Los Angeles and Megan Thee Stallion—the at once benevolent and brutal queen of the Hotties—is reintroducing herself. “Playtime is over and all that nicey, nicey? That’s done.” ¶ The Megan on her latest album, Traumazine, which will be released the following week, isn’t exactly brand new—it’s more her. The Megan in front of me today, though, laughing wearily, says she is on hour 44 of her workday: “I feel like we’ve been up for a week straight.” Aside from her being a bit quiet, it would be hard to tell if she were tired. Her mood sets the tone of the room, and when she smiles, which she does often, so do all the people watching her. Everyone is watching her. ¶…

BEST OF NEW YORK For $300 Less Than Other Quotes LOU MOVES YOU; loumovesyou.com → WHEN CLIMATE ACTIVIST Seth Laxman moved from a third-floor walk-up in Flatbush to a new apartment in Bed-Stuy in May, he reached out to Lou Moves You, which had previously moved his girlfriend, and got a quote of $625—nearly $300 less than a larger moving company he had contacted. Educator Toomi Al-Dhahi, who moved from Harlem to Brooklyn in April, said the same thing: “Lou was a sweet deal—$300 or $400 less than any of the other quotes I got.” Owner Lou DeFabrizio keeps prices down by keeping overhead low. He runs the business with his wife and one office assistant and typically hires a crew of artists and musicians who are in…

DANIELLE DEADWYLER auditioned for the part of Mamie Till-Mobley in 2021 over Zoom in a closet down the hall from where her 12-year-old son, Ezra, was playing on the computer. Her upcoming film, Till, directed by Chinonye Chukwu, dramatizes the true story of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Black boy from Chicago who was tortured, murdered, and dumped in a river in Mississippi after offending a white woman in 1955. The audition scene was the one in which Mamie sees her son’s corpse alone for the first time. “You might hear some noises,” Deadwyler warned Ezra, “but it’s going to be okay.” (“Yeah, yeah,” he replied, unfazed. “Okay, Mom.”) Deadwyler’s sister was visiting, and Ezra had to reassure her that his mother’s anguished cries were not an emergency. That kind of…

ON A VERY HOT afternoon in London, the writer Gwendoline Riley and I visited the Tate Modern. As we walked into the vast entrance hall, which usually holds large art installations but on this day held nothing, Riley gestured around. “What’s this one called?” she asked. I explained in the bright voice of a primary-school teacher that the room is called the Turbine Hall. She looked at me, baffled. “Yes, I know it’s the Turbine Hall,” she said. “I was making a joke because it’s empty.” I laughed and cringed. Of course she knew it was the Turbine Hall; of course it was a joke. This kind of social misfire with two parties communicating totally, almost heroically, at cross-purposes is a prominent feature of Riley’s work. She writes very clever,…

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WHEN WE AT the Cut talk about who we want in our Fall Fashion issue, we start by looking for those in the public realm who are wielding the power they have in a way that feels intentional and thoughtful. The magazine for us is more than just what appears in these pages or on our site; it’s a space for readers to feel seen and heard and to hear from women and femmes who speak to them, people who go against the grain, who are unapologetically determined to live in their truth no matter the consequences. So who better to represent that this fall than Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Megan Thee Stallion, two Black women whose lives have been filled with criticism and critique but used it to…

IN THE MID-AUGHTS, a teenage Rina Sawayama, then a student at a North London Church of England girls’ school, could often be spotted swaying among a flock of teens at a Soho nightclub. She was there to see the Bravery, a band of five skinny-jean-clad young men from New York with angular haircuts and cheekbones. The group had a penchant for ignoring its fans. “I loved them deeply,” Sawayama says of those fresh princes of landfill indie. “I guess something inside of me was lacking and the Bravery filled it.” Sawayama is now a successful pop star in her own right. She has sold out Brixton Academy, opened for Elton John, and duetted with Lady Gaga and Charli XCX. Also, she doesn’t ignore her fans. “The bands I used to…

LOEWE IS A $1 BILLION-A-YEAR FASHION BRAND owned by LVMH, though it has been around since the mid-19th century, when a German immigrant in Madrid bought into a group of leather artisans and gave it his surname. You say Lo-WEH-vay. For close to a decade now, it has been under the creative direction of Jonathan Anderson. LVMH is extremely good at sprucing up storied houses, but until Anderson, it struggled to make the Spanish brand feel new and exciting instead of traditional and dull. The challenge defeated three designers over 16 years, each valiantly trying to come up with a fresh way to cut a pencil skirt or blazer in leather and suede. One critic summed up the excitement their clothes produced as “Madrid Whenever.” It is telling that the…

ALEXANDER PARIS Artist and witch, Bushwick What brought you to the rink? I had a performance at the Armory. Afterward, I smoked a joint with a friend and then got paranoid, so I got off the train and went to Central Park. I heard “I Feel Love,” by Donna Summer, and I looked up and saw a neon sign with big disco balls, and it said “DiscOasis.” I remembered that my friend messaged me earlier asking if I could come. Then the Queens remix of Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul” started playing, and I couldn’t take it anymore. I got a ticket and skates even though it was $60. Was it worth the price? Once I got inside, I was like, Oh God, I can’t even afford a locker. I begged…

What’s It About? Both the LOTR books and The Hobbit take place during a period called the Third Age— a time when the Dark Lord Sauron is trying to find his One Ring. The Rings of Power takes place earlier, during the Second Age: The elf Galadriel is young. The proto-baddie Morgoth has been defeated, and his lieutenant Sauron has yet to reemerge and become the Dark Lord we see in the films. Human and dwarf kingdoms are at the height of their splendor. ¶ But we know it can’t last. Eventually, Sauron will return and trick the elves into creating the Rings of Power. We also know he’s nearly successful—before being stopped (for a while) by the “last alliance of elves and men.” The Rings of Power shows us…

GLORILLA’S METEORIC RISE began with a beat originally dreamed up for Megan Thee Stallion. Not hearing back from Meg quick enough, standout Memphis producer Hitkidd reached out to Glo, who was on the way to get her lashes done, saying he needed a summer anthem—and fast. The artist had been on his radar since he saw her perform at a local showcase last year. She arrived at his studio straight from the appointment, stepped outside to hit a blunt before getting in the booth, and came back with the hook that changed the trajectory of her life: “I’m F-R-E-E, fuck nigga free / That mean I ain’t gotta worry ’bout no fuck nigga cheating/ And I’m S-I-N-G-L-E again/ Outside hanging out the window with my ratchet-ass friends.” Eager to share,…

ACTRESS, SINGER, and Hollywood icon Sheryl Lee Ralph welcomes me into her home as if I were one of her children. At her Hancock Park–adjacent residence in L.A., a sweeping set of stairs leads to her front door. Opening it, she looks every bit the fabulous woman who starred as Deena Jones on Broadway in Dreamgirls. I expect her place to be nothing short of chic, chic, chic. And it is chic, but it’s more in keeping with the style of a mother who has nurtured us through a television screen for decades. It’s not cold—this house is lived in. She purchased it in the early 1980s with the money she earned from her first series contract role on TV, ABC’s It’s a Living. It feels like I’m in my…

ALL FASHION SHOULD make you say, “Hmm, seems stupid. I love it.” Sunglasses most of all. The oversize eyewear of the late aughts and early 2010s got a bad rap. It was the Rachel Zoe–to–Paris Hilton continuum, huge sunglasses paired either with giant blazers and venti nonfat lattes or small dogs and Juicy tracksuits. Big sunglasses meant Über-thin celebrity, McMansion gauche, and birthday parties at Claire’s—embodying an ideal that was both hyperunattainable and nauseatingly ubiquitous. 2017 ushered in a hard pivot to tiny sunglasses, sharp and sleek, like The Matrix meets the Kardashians. (Kris Jenner is—say it with me—Morpheus.) They were so small they just slipped onto the runway, like two tinted chiclets barely big enough to cover your pupils. Soon, no one was able to picture either Hadid sister…

THE CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT FOR CONFESSION. It is a beautiful August day in Montecito, in a beautiful sitting room, in a beautiful home. Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, a lively 3-year-old with a shock of ginger curls identical to his father’s, toddles into the room demanding “Momma” listen to his heartbeat with a wooden toy stethoscope. He stands, tummy protruding, while his mother, Meghan, convincingly performs her glee at hearing the thump-thump, thump-thump in his chest. Archie giggles and, satisfied, toddles right back out again. Meghan, relaxing in a cozy chair, gazes over all that is climate-controlled and high-ceilinged and sun-dappled and perfectly marshmallowy, and hers. An invisible hand has lit a Soho Housebranded rose-water candle (the founder, Nick Jones, is a friend from “long before I met Harry,” she says), and…

This shopping-advice column—in which the style team answers incredibly specific fashion questions—is just one of the regular series you’ll find at the Cut Shop, a new and very stylish corner of the internet. thecut.com/shopping I’m back at the office. Can I wear a crop top? A.M.W.: Yes. It technically isn’t cropped if you wear it with high-waisted pants. When I went to the office the other day, I wore a $20 cropped tank from Amazon with jeans and a denim blazer on top. What’s going to be the next brand from the early aughts to make a comeback? Danya Issawi, fashion news writer: Baby Phat. Kimora Lee Simmons just launched a collection with Puma—which is on the lineup for New York Fashion Week this year. The last time Puma did…

ONE NIGHT in 2016, Laura Modi was facing an acute episode of an eternal parenting problem: trying to get your infant to eat. Modi had just given birth to her first child, a girl, and she was attempting to breastfeed, in part because she wanted to and in part because the American Academy of Pediatrics encouraged it. But Modi was struggling to produce milk and dealing with mastitis, a painful breast-tissue inflammation that can lead to infection—just two of the many medical, professional, and societal obstacles that can make breastfeeding impossible. Like three out of four new parents, Modi was going to have to use formula to keep her infant fed. As Modi paced the aisle of a pharmacy in San Francisco, where she worked as Airbnb’s director of hospitality,…

BACK IN 2016, one of our editors discovered a pair of Japanese toenail clippers at Tokyo’s Narita airport capable of, as he put it, slicing through nails like a santoku through a tomato. Six years later, while refreshing our clipper coverage, Strategist writer Arielle Avila spoke to nearly a dozen dermatologists, nail technicians, and beauty writers to find out their favorite. Although the consensus was that a classic $11 Tweezerman is the best around, she wasn’t completely convinced. So she got her hands on the latest version of the Japanese model (the Seki Edge—it has a more ergonomic grip than the original and costs $20 on Amazon), and when she took the Seki and the Tweezerman to her toes, the winner was immediately clear: “The ease and seamlessness while using…

Dame’s Seafood Experts Are Moving to Mammals Dame, the seafood spot that opened to much acclaim during the height of the pandemic in 2021, serves arguably the best fish and chips in the city. But when its owners, Patricia Howard and Ed Szymanski, open their next restaurant, Lord’s (506 La Guardia Pl., nr. Bleecker St.), in October, they’ll honor the tradition of London’s fabled St. John—among others—for a new spot that is, in Szymanski’s words, “bistro-y, but English and not French,” with a heavy emphasis on offal and homemade terrines. (But remember, Dame got its start as a pop-up offering bottarga-topped beef tartare and skewers of grilled duck hearts.) The Dhamaka Team Will Open Three More Places In 2018, Chintan Pandya and Roni Mazumdar broke out with Adda, their standout…

AT SOME POINT IN 2021, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II decided he needed to build a life. Overnight, it seemed, the city planner turned actor had become one of Hollywood’s most in-demand leading men, after showing up as a delightful disco usurper in Baz Luhrmann’s Netflix series, The Get Down, his debut. The six years that followed were nonstop work—when he wasn’t shooting a movie (Candyman, Ambulance) or promoting a movie (The Matrix Resurrections, The Trial of the Chicago 7), he was shooting and promoting and winning an Emmy for the dual roles of a god and his corporeal form in the HBO series Watchmen. He was content with this structure at the time, but living peripatetically, going from set to set to set, gets old. The 36-year-old had moved to New…

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1 Deconstructing Power: W.E.B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair Cooper Hewitt, opens 12/9 AT THE CENTER OF this not-to-be-missed show are 20 charts, diagrams, statistical grids, and data visualizations that Du Bois and a handful of assistants made for the 1900 Paris World’s Fair’s “Exhibit of American Negroes.” These works are what we might call infographics today, but back then they remapped the way people saw the Black population in this country. Examining migration patterns, literacy and mortality rates of Black people, urban and rural population growth, the occupations of Blacks and whites, increases in the number of Black students and educators, and “the condition of the descendants of former African slaves,” these glyphs allow us to enter the kingdom of systemic American racism, enforced by rope,…

MODERATION ISN’T interesting to me. I dislike incremental change. Once you’ve decided to do something, why wouldn’t you just do it right then? Where I’m going with this: After another frustrating experience of trying to get dressed in a semi-post-pandemic world—What did I used to wear to dinner with girlfriends? Do I look good in strapless tops? Didn’t I have more bags than this?— I reached into my closet and tossed about 40 percent of my clothing. Obviously, I hadn’t thought this decision through and very suddenly had a lot fewer clothing options. Sure, I was rid of those uncomfortable sandals that I truly was never going to wear. But there’s attacking a problem and then there’s actually fixing it. As with all great love stories (yes, this is a…

MARCELO GUTIERREZ came to New York from Oakland, California, at the age of 20 to be a painter and got a job as a stylist’s assistant instead, steaming clothes. Eventually, he ditched his earlier dream. “I saw the makeup artist on set and I was like, Wait a minute. I know how to do makeup, and I’m a painter, and they’re probably making a lot more money than me,” he says. “I was like, I think this would be a really amazing route to take as an artist and as a being living in capitalism—a way to satisfy staying alive but also feeding my creativity.” He started by practicing on himself before going out. “The fastest way to get to know people in New York City is clubbing,” he says.…

› OLUWOLE OLOSUNDE, a 25-year-old emergency-room nurse and designer, is also a teacher who demystifies how fashion is made in New York. In the spring, he debuted a daylong class, How to Make It in the Garment District. The class includes a field trip. He takes students to fabric suppliers, trimmings shops, patternmakers, and sampling experts. He points out the durable zippers he prefers for jeans and where he found a great deal on corduroy. “This entire area, and everything I’ve shown you so far, is a network,” he says to the class. His students, who pay $750 for the day, are often young people with jobs in media or retail. Most make clothes at home, sewing from scratch or altering pants and jackets with patches and embroidery. While almost…

“I GET TO sort of Build-A-Bear my life, and that’s really fab,” Tommy Dorfman tells me over lunch near her apartment in leafy, low-key brownstone Brooklyn. It’s over 90 degrees, and she’s feeling “hot, tired, and hormonal,” none of which has lessened her appetite, apparently. Her blonde bangs are sticking to the side of her face while she picks at a plate heaping with eggs, veggies, and pita bread, which, when it arrived at the table, inspired her to blurt out, “Wow. Fuck me. Fuck.” Then she moves on to a plate of compote-covered French toast. “As you can tell, I eat a lot, and I love sweet things.” Dorfman has always been hungry for more. Born in Atlanta, where she was raised with four older siblings by parents who,…