Innholdsfortegnelse for The CUT - February 2025 i New York Magazine

IT ISN’T EASY TO KNOW WHAT TO PAY ATTENTION TO ANYMORE. I write this amid the whirlwind of New York Fashion Week, against the backdrop of Trump’s chaotic overhaul of our government, all while trying to hold on to my own moments of joy, like Kendrick Lamar’s tribute to Black history at the Super Bowl. At the Cut, we strive to cover it all—from style, to pop culture, to the tumultuous political landscape, to the things you may be too afraid to talk about in your group chats. In this issue, our second solo print edition, we aimed high, hoping to make something worthy of your gaze while creating a modern fashion publication that invites you to see the world a bit differently: to find a new artist to listen…

Make Every Accessory Count (Down to Your Socks) Maximalist dressing is about so much more than bright colors and mixed prints, says Chloe King. She punched up this monochromatic look with playful stockings. Embrace the Flirty Little Bag … … And let it dictate the rest of the styling. King grabbed a pink peplum top and popped on a fanciful headpiece to mimic the purse’s confectionery vibe. Consider Time Travel How do you pull off futuristic sunglasses without looking like a Martian? A retro hat and necktie. Polka dots in different weights and sizes (but the same palette) add visual interest. There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Bling Why stop at a bunch of necklaces? King added a pearl brooch, button earrings, and a cocktail ring over a men’s…

The 2020 Netflix documentary Blackpink: Light Up the Sky introduces Rosé stealing time after-hours, strumming a guitar on the floor. “Sometimes I actually miss my trainee days because back then, we were surrounded by music all the time,” she says. “But these days, we’ve got a lot of work, so I actually have to make time for this.” The implication is that these nighttime jam sessions provided some personal relief at odds with the activities of Blackpink, the brash, world-touring, hip-hop-heavy girl group she belongs to. While her onstage persona, Rosé—real name Roseanne Park—has superhero swagger, her own musical tendencies flicker around private moments like this. Rosé, 28, was born in Auckland and moved to Melbourne when she was 8. At 15, she went to Sydney for an open-call audition for…

The morning light shines through your flax-colored curtains made from 100 percent European linen. You jump out of your dusty-mauve sheets (also linen) and slip into a soft ivory robe (bamboo jersey). After showering and drying off with your ivory bath towels (Turkish cotton), you pull out a pan (nontoxic ceramic) to fry some eggs and slice your toast with a serrated knife (Damascus steel). You mix water (in a beaded tumbler) with a pouch of electrolytes (zero sugar) and brew some coffee in your French press (stainless steel). Then it’s time to get dressed: You and your daughter opt for matching ivory fisherman sweaters (100 percent Mongolian cashmere)—she pairs hers with a miniskirt (100 percent washable silk), while you go for a trouser (wrinkle-free ponte), loafer mules (Italian calfskin),…

ON THE AFTERNOON of December 2, 2024, Jess Chou, a radio-advertising executive in Honolulu, sat at her computer waiting for the livestream of a Los Angeles Police Department press conference. The police were scheduled to give an update on the case of Hannah Kobayashi, a 30-year-old Maui woman who vanished three days after missing her connecting flight from LAX to JFK on November 8. Just before Kobayashi’s phone went dead, she sent friends and family a series of strange texts. She said she’d been “hacked” and “stripped of my identity”; when asked to explain, she said, “I got tricked pretty much into giving away all my funds. For someone I thought I loved. I’ve been on the streets.” The messages, Kobayashi’s family said, didn’t sound like her, and Chou feared…

The Breakout Actress Who’ll Cast a Spell on You MYHA’LA may play a ruthless hedge-fund manager on HBO’s Industry, but offscreen, she’s another self-described “anti-capitalist” living in Brooklyn. Do you have any secret talents? I’m a witch. Every morning, I refresh the water and coffee on my altar as offerings. I light a candle or two. Say a morning prayer or a mantra. Then I pull some cards. The Makeup Artist Who Brings Flair to His Garden Before the Kardashians and Hadids hit the red carpet, they get their makeup done by PATRICK TA. When he’s at home, you can find him primping his yard. What would you do if you weren’t a makeup artist? Landscape design. When I built my house, I brought in a bunch of olive trees.…

If you find it genuinely confusing when someone uses the word ugly as a pejorative and don’t need to wear deodorant because you’ve chemically altered your body odor with herbal supplements … then you probably own: KATIE STOUT Ceramics (Prices Upon Request) If you sleep with mouth tape, in heatless curlers, wearing a half-inch of snail mucin, were voted “Most Ambitious” by your sorority, and just switched your house scent from Diptyque Baies to the Loewe Tomato Leaves candle (only magnums) … then you probably own: HERMÈS Avalon Throw Blanket ($1,925) If you are in negotiations to poach Nancy Meyers’s set decorator, curate beautiful feasts and closely watch what everyone is eating, and give your hosts more special requests than a Mariah Carey rider … then you probably own: MACKENZIE-CHILDS Courtly Check Tea…

CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN, Kamala Harris, Laphonza Butler: To be a Black woman in the U.S. Senate was to be part of a small and lonely club—until now. For the first time in the body’s 236-year history, two Black women are serving simultaneously: Senator Angela Alsobrooks from Maryland and Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware. Their November victories were rare cause for celebration in an election marked by many losses for the Democratic Party. In their campaigns, neither candidate put identity front and center. Yet after Alsobrooks and Blunt Rochester first connected in the fall of 2023, they quickly bonded, sharing advice and taking to calling each other “sister senator.” Now, they’re leaning on that bond as they get to work in a hostile political environment. Here, the senators discuss settling…

PATTI ROBERTS, who regularly goes viral on TikTok for her beauty tips, likens her gray hair to cotton candy. “Most people get wiry, uncontrollable grays, but mine went the other way,” says the 59-year-old. “It’s softer and fluffier now.” She’s had waist-length hair and a post-divorce Toni Braxton pixie cut, but her current length and shade are her favorite. “The transition from coloring it was a rough one, but I love my gray hair so much better.” Here is her routine. The day before: When my hair feels a little dry, I put an Amika’s Soulfood hair mask on it and sit in the steam room or sauna at the gym, letting it soak in for about 20 minutes. 11:30 a.m.: I start by stimulating my scalp. I always keep…

Before he was Bad Bunny, when Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio was still only Benito, named after his father, who was named after his father, growing up in a barrio called Almirante Sur in Vega Baja, about a 45-minute drive from San Juan depending on how good you are with potholes, he didn’t know much about Puerto Rico’s history. In school, he was taught that Christopher Columbus “discovered” the island; that Juan Ponce de León was its first governor, appointed by the Spanish Crown 4,000 miles away; and that Luis Muñoz Marín, the namesake of the big airport, became Puerto Rico’s first democratically elected governor in 1948. “That’s basically 500 years in between of history that they don’t teach us,” he says. We’re sitting inside the claustrophobic back office of the…

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