Innholdsfortegnelse for January 30-February 12, 2023 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Zoë Schiffer, Casey Newton, and Alex Heath chronicled the chaos at Twitter (“Elon’s Birdcage,” January 16–29). Journalist Sam Sachdeva called it a “great deep dive into Elon Musk’s (swiftly crumbling) Twitter empire,” and Recode Media host Peter Kafka said, “Even if you have been obsessively following the shitshow (and since you are still here, good chance that’s the case) you will find new jaw-dropping stuff.” Chip Riggs added, “I’ve heard folks on podcasts discussing Musk’s Twitter takeover in dry, business terms, but none of that captures the human misery he’s created in the company (and on the app) like this story does.” Reporter Nick Statt wrote, “Damn every paragraph of this excellent feature … just gets bleaker and bleaker as you read. Enough…

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE with the sound of schmoozing. It’s a rainy weeknight at the Upper East Side’s Mark hotel, where the bar is full of networking menswear acolytes and well-heeled couples enjoying cocktails. On a zebra-print divan, Myles von Trapp Derbyshire, great-grandson of the only famous naval officer Austria has ever produced, is pitching me on the TV drama he’s developing about his family history. It’s called Baroness, a title his mother is still addressed by in the Old Country, even though technically the Austrian nobility hasn’t existed since 1919. Today there are around 100 living von Trapps, descendants of the ten singing siblings whose childhoods were dramatized in The Sound of Music. Thirty-eight-year-old Myles, clad tonight in an oatmeal Fair Isle sweater with a popped collar underneath, is…

THE WAYS WE SOCIALIZE AND date, commute and work are nearly unrecognizable from what they were three years ago. We’ve enjoyed a global pandemic, open employer-employee warfare, a multifront culture war, and social upheavals both great and small. The old conventions are out (we don’t whisper the word cancer or let women off the elevator first anymore, for starters). The venues in which we can make fools of ourselves (group chats, Grindr messages, Slack rooms public and private) are multiplying, and each has its own rules of conduct. And everyone’s just kind of rusty. Our social graces have atrophied. We wanted to help. So we started with the problems—not the obvious stuff, like whether it’s okay to wear a backpack on the subway or talk loudly on speakerphone in a…

NOT A PROFESSIONAL. JUST CRAZY. The Best Patch for Every Kind of Pimple WHEN STRATEGIST BEAUTY COLUMNIST Rio Viera-Newton first got into skin care, there were only a handful of pimple patches on the market. These days, the options are endless. Here, she breaks down which ones are right for every situation. FOR DEEP CYSTIC PIMPLES Acropass Trouble Cure, six-count, $18 “With an under-the-skin spot, a standard pimple patch isn’t going to penetrate or absorb anything. For these meanies, microdarts will effectively deliver treatment to the blemish and shrink it down.” FOR CLUSTERS Rael Beauty Miracle Patch Spot Control Cover, ten-count, $12 “If you’re dealing with multiple pimples in one area—this sometimes happens to me along my chin or jawline—these large hydrocolloid strips are super-handy. They’re flexible, adhere to the…

WHEN ROMANCE NOVELIST Jasmine Guillory first saw the Mara Hoffman popcorn dress, she was so taken with it she purchased a version (the Sloan in pink and red) without trying it on, instead trusting a FaceTime modeling session with a friend, New Yorker food writer Helen Rosner, to help her determine sizing. Guillory bought the Sloan to wear to a wedding. A year later, she saw photos of Rosner wearing another version of the popcorn dress (this time, the Freya: poofy, long-sleeved, mid-length, with abstract splashes of crimson, royal blue, and marigold) to her baby shower. Rosner had decided to buy this second popcorn dress after she saw a pregnant Katy Perry wearing the same one to sing the national anthem at a soccer game. Guillory expressed so much love…

MEI KAWAJIRI’S PROCESS is magpie bricolage; she uses objects like salt and pasta when she creates nails, and she steals shapes and colors too. A dark-green foamlike design was inspired by a matcha shop in Japan. When a pink puffy couch caught her eye while scrolling through Instagram, she created ten teeny-tiny nail-size versions. Kawajiri grew up in Kyoto and started as a painter; at 19, nails became her chosen canvas. At 21, she moved to Tokyo to work at a salon. Two years later, she opened her own shop in Harajuku called Foxxy. In 2012, Kawajiri came to work in New York at the now-closed Valley Nails and amassed a clientele of what she describes as “downtown cool girls.” Her completely over-the-top talons—nails with nipples, nails with nails of…

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER a video drops on the internet is in the hands of the lords of the algorithm. Whether it spawns a dance craze, lingers in limbo, or springs the dawn of a new rap superstar, the “For You” page has catapulted or throttled many a creator traversing the digital realm. The results are as thrilling as they are disorienting. GloRilla knows this feeling well. Her music video for “F.N.F (Let’s Go)” debuted on YouTube in April, and over the summer, fans quickly made it a viral hit, propelling the song, a collaboration with music producer Hitkidd, onto the top of year-end “Best Of” lists. Its bumpy, staccato spelling-bee chorus—“I’m F-R-E-E fuck nigga free/That mean I ain’t gotta worry ’bout no fuck nigga cheating”—just as swiftly made its way…

IN 1996, WHEN THE British designer Sarah Burton was a student at Central Saint Martins, the London arts-and-design college, she asked a teacher, Simon Ungless, to recommend her for an internship at Alexander McQueen. This was something Ungless could easily do: He had worked with McQueen on his earliest collections, including “Taxi Driver,” his first after leaving school. Presented on a clothes rack in a room at the London Ritz in 1993, “Taxi Driver” laid out much of the territory that would become synonymous with McQueen. The original “bumster” trousers, which were cut extremely low on the hips in order to lengthen the female torso—and demonstrate, he later said, that you could change the way women looked just by cut. The precision tailoring that caressed the body so lightly and…

ICE SPICE HASN’T ALWAYS BEEN famous, but she’s always felt like it. “Just the way people would treat me, even when it came to school or being out in public, I always felt stared at,” she says. “When I was at school, I was really one of the most popular people there, so I always felt like, Okay, I could be famous because I’m so popular.” At home in New Jersey, where she moved after becoming too recognizable in the Bronx (“I get recognized less here, especially when I’m hiding”), the rapper likes to blast her own songs and keep her own music videos on loop on television screens throughout her house. Ice Spice, 23, grew up as Isis Gaston. (The moniker Ice Spice came from a finsta account she…

For an Onsen in Tribeca SHIBUI SPA AT THE GREENWICH HOTEL 377 Greenwich St.; thegreenwichhotel.com FRAMED WITH WOOD from a 250-year-old Japanese farmhouse (lanterns light the pool and lounge), Shibui Spa has been a favorite of privacy seekers for over 15 years. Laura Kim, a creative director of Oscar de la Renta and Monse, has tried every one of the spa’s treatments. Her favorite is one of the multipart Onsen Rituals ($400), which includes a mineral-salt bath followed by a “guided inhalation” body massage and a warm mud mask and scalp massage. Julia Horn, Intermix’s director of merchandise planning, likes that guests are provided with traditional yukata robes and slippers and especially appreciates that the aestheticians tailor facials to skin type. Lily Galef, co-founder of wellness company Hilma, enjoys the…

“THIS FEELS LIKE a restaurant in one of the finer, more empty hotels in Dallas,” my discerning friend muttered as we settled down at Shikku, the sushi-and-sake bar at the Tin Building, Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s new food bazaar at the South Street Seaport. Was this entirely fair? It was the middle of January, when most of gourmet New York is still sunk in a deep postholiday slumber; it was lunchtime, not a prime hour for the haute toro set; and it wasn’t even clear if my friend, a regular at the trendy sushi dens of Tokyo, had spent much time in the grand hotels of northern Texas. But peering around the room, you could see what he meant. The bar is constructed of black marble and layers of pine, and each…

IN PARK CITY, UTAH, at the first in-person Sundance Film Festival since 2020, you could go be devastated by the Cynthia Erivo–Alia Shawkat film Drift, about an impoverished refugee, then fête it in a lounge at an after-party sponsored by Chase Sapphire. Sundance has always been half about the movies and half about the atmosphere surrounding them. Strangers talk to you in line for coffee or for a panel. You go to a temporary outpost of Tao and see former network-TV star [redacted] dragged out shit-faced. It’s in these spaces where hype ferments and introductions are made and the upcoming year in cinema is decided. One of the biggest stories this year is that the majority of feature films that premiered were directed by women; some high-profile, positively received examples…

For more culture coverage and streaming recommendations, see vulture.com. Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read. FEBRUARY 1–15 TV 1. Watch Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence The Slonim 9 roommates share their story. Hulu, February 9. This docuseries from Oscar-nominated director Zach Heinzerling, based on New York’s 2019 story about a group of college students who were manipulated and abused by a classmate’s father, takes us inside the cult with video and interviews of the affected “stolen youth” in an attempt to understand how any of this could have happened. ROXANA HADADI MOVIES 2. See Knock at the Cabin Incredibly tense and unbearably moving. In select theaters, February 3. M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, about a gay couple and their young daughter besieged by four weirdos…

The title alone he would have loved: “The Collection of André Leon Talley.” On January 27, just over a year after the legendary fashion editor died at the age of 73, Talley’s worldly possessions went up for sale through the first of a series of online auctions at Christie’s. A live auction will be held in New York on February 15. (Proceeds from both go to his former churches, Abyssinian Baptist in New York and Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist in Durham, North Carolina.) The 460 lots tell of his tastes, his friendships, and maybe a few things that his two memoirs never divulged. There are caftans galore in couture silks and satins and multiple sets of monogrammed Louis Vuitton luggage—consistent, perhaps, with the imaginings of a young man from the…

ELLA EMHOFF, the model, designer, and stepdaughter of Vice-President Kamala Harris, and her boyfriend, GQ fashion writer Samuel Hine, can be found at pretty much every important fashion show. Most 23-year-old Parsons grads would relish this kind of excitement and its newfound freedoms, but Emhoff is under near-constant surveillance. That’s because her relationship with Hine has a third party (no, not like that). They’re striding near Emhoff outside the Courrèges show, watching her on the runway at Prabal Gurung, peering at her from mere steps away at the Met Gala. There they are, in their little ties, cropped haircuts, and close shaves: her always-present Secret Service detail. Emhoff attends the kind of events where the dangers include someone stomping on her pinkie toe with last season’s Versace heels. The necessary…

A FEW DAYS A WEEK, Wang Juntao, a primary organizer of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and one of the world’s most renowned Chinese dissidents, travels from his home in New Jersey to his office in Flushing. He drives to the train station with the cheapest parking, then takes the PATH to the LIRR to Main Street, emerging to the whiff of fish and cigarettes and the roar of planes making their final approach to La Guardia. Skirting a stretch of street vendors and Falun Gong practitioners, Juntao cuts up 41st Avenue toward the weather-beaten headquarters of the Democratic Party of China, the organization he has led for more than a decade, dedicated to the overthrow of the Chinese Communist Party. New York has the greatest number of exiled Chinese…

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TORA HOLMES Chef, Cliffwood, New Jersey How did you land on the outfit? My partner and I usually choose a theme. I’ve been into hats lately, so I told her, “I’m gonna start with a bowler hat—we’ll go from there.” It worked. And you’re a chef as well? Yes. Over the summer, I fed the Seattle Mariners for their entire baseball season. And last year was the first time they made it to the playoffs in 21 years. Coincidence? I don’t know. THE LOOK BOOK: TATIANA Who brought you here? My publicist. He took me and another one of his athlete clients, Serge Ibaka. We legitimately ordered the whole menu. Like six of the chopped cheese with the truffle. Now we’re headed to this private party Drake’s throwing. Who are…

FAME IS A fickle thing. If you desire attention—if you need it—usually you have to sing and dance for it, and you’d better keep it fresh. That’s the lesson sexy murderess and would-be vaudeville star Roxie Hart learns in the musical Chicago, and often it’s the lesson of reality television, quite literally so on RuPaul’s Drag Race: You’d better lip-sync for your life! As it happens, Jinkx Monsoon, the only queen to win Drag Race twice (“I claim this in the name of Hecate, Mother of Witches,” she declared when crowned the Queen of All Queens, beating other past winners she was pitted against in Drag Race All Stars last year), is starring as prison warden Mama Morton in Chicago. She is appropriately bewitching in the role. I overheard one…

› IN SHORT: Yes! No matter what hair texture you have or what race or ethnicity you are, you can use whatever hair products you like. “I speak to so many Black founders on my podcast, and white people ask them all the time, like, ‘Can I use it?’ And they’re like, ‘Yeah, absolutely,’” says Brooke DeVard Ozaydinli of Naked Beauty. In practice, the answer is a little more nuanced. Hairstylists don’t typically think about hair in terms of a person’s race or ethnicity; they think about texture and type. “For me, it’s more about functionality than race,” says celebrity hairstylist Lacy Redway, who works with clients such as Tessa Thompson and Zazie Beetz. “I’m choosing products based on the look I’m trying to achieve.” When you shop, follow that…

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ONE DAY LAST SUMMER, Shelbey Wilson, a digital creator based in Nashville, replenished her stock of cleaning products from the Laundress. A loyal customer of the brand for about five years, she was partial to its No. 10 detergent and matching fabric conditioner. They were advertised as plant based and dermatologist tested, and she particularly loved the way they smelled: an olfactory “chorus” of “dark, almost sinister spice.” Wilson, who is 29, ordered several bottles. She also tried out three of the brand’s newer scents: Isle, which was more “dewy” with notes of fresh basil, mint, and lime; Artisan, which the company said was designed to “enhance rituals of self and home care” and “ignite the imagination and bring out your own inner artisan”; and Way Out West, John Mayer’s…