Wedding dress designer Elise Hameau has teamed up with French lingerie label Noo for a capsule collection—Love in Portofino—created for especially for wedding nights. The collection includes impossibly lovely ensembles made of ribbons and lace for pure romance . . .
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News 06.11.24: Five Essential Articles
We live in a time of large-scale democratic reckoning, coupled with crumbling trust in public institutions and their elite functionaries. More people will cast electoral votes in 2024 and 2025 than at any other moment in human history…
News 01.11.24: Five Essential Articles
Before the gig economy consumed a third of the workforce, it was mostly musicians who worried about gigs. There are debates about the origins of the word—some believe it derives from an eighteenth-century term for horse-drawn carriages that may have doubled as stages for performers, while others contend that it was adapted from a Baroque dance called the gigue
News 30.10.24: Five Essential Articles
In the 2010s, affiliate marketing became a dominant strain of online business models. The Wirecutter, which sold to the Times in 2016, made money by driving its visitors to retail Web sites like Amazon or Best Buy, taking a small cut from any purchase of items it recommended.
Notes from the Weekend
DUE TO server issues over the weekend and The Shop’s relaunch early in the week, our usual Weekend Links feature became Midweek Links. We did, however, manage to publish two newsletters…
News 28.10.24: Five Essential Articles from Around the Web
Computers don’t actually do anything. They don’t write, or play; they don’t even compute. Which doesn’t mean we can’t play with computers, or use them to invent, or make, or problem-solve.
The Edit: Autumn Style Inspiration /003
In the golden hours of autumn, when sunlight slants through branches at just the right angle, the world takes on a burnished glow. Virginia Woolf once observed that “autumn seems to cry for a million golden quills to paint it”. Indeed, it’s a season that gilds everything it touches—from the last lingering leaves to the quiet sophistication of a perfectly tailored camel coat in the crisp morning air.