Displaying all articles tagged:

Best Of The Cut

  1. the lost season
    Miuccia Prada Is Too Wise for Post-Pandemic Predictions“Designers cannot change the economic system.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  2. the lost season
    Stella McCartney Might Not Recognize You Anymore“The question more than ever is ‘What is luxury?’ It’s certainly not a bloody crocodile handbag, I can tell you that much.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  3. the lost season
    Reed Krakoff Is Looking for a New Design Language“Your guess is as good as mine what the new normal will be.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  4. the lost season
    Nicolas Ghesquière Just Wanted to Stay in California“If surprises don’t exist, then I’m quitting. I’m looking for another job.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  5. the lost season
    Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski Is Ready for the Nurses to Take Over Instagram“I don’t think it’s about going back. It’s about how we can evolve.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  6. the lost season
    Clare Waight Keller Knows That Time Is the Greatest Luxury“There’s this ethos in fashion of constant creative output. But I’m not sure it’s always conducive to thinking deeply.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  7. the lost season
    Alessandro Michele Owns 35 Editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland“I’m not really sure of what is real and what isn’t real. It depends on your perspective.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  8. the lost season
    Rei Kawakubo Didn’t Stop Working for a Minute“To create means to keep looking for something new all the time, no matter where you are, no matter what kind of situation you are in.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  9. the lost season
    Kerby Jean-Raymond Is Not Interested in the Scraps“Being able to have the resources to create our own systems. That’s what the end goal looks like to me.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  10. the lost season
    Raf Simons Hasn’t Worn a Piece of Fashion in Months“The nature of a revolution in fashion is that it comes from someone we don’t know.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  11. the lost season
    Rick Owens Knows He Shouldn’t Say This, But …“We are the generation that somebody needs to reject. That’s just who we are. We’ve established ourselves. And somebody needs to violently reject us.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  12. cut covers
    Chika Is for LoversBut even lovers have their limits.
    By Kiana Fitzgerald
  13. the lost season
    Demna Gvasalia Discusses Fashion With His Shrink Every Week“I got rid of fears. Creatively, it really helped me—I stopped being scared of what people will think. I became more true to myself.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  14. the lost season
    Marc Jacobs Is Putting On His Heels and Going for a Walk in the Real World“I feel like I still have stories to tell—I don’t know what they’d be right now.”
    By Cathy Horyn
  15. the lost season
    The Lost SeasonFashion’s leading designers are reconsidering the pace of consumerism and their own relationships with creativity. What do they have to show for it?
    By Cathy Horyn
  16. housing
    The Eco–Yogi Slumlords of BrooklynHow did a couple who built an empire of yoga studios, vegan restaurants, and homes with “living walls” end up as pandemic villains?
    By Bridget Read
  17. family
    Why Did These YouTubers Give Away Their Son?Myka and James Stauffer adopted a toddler from China and shared every step of the process with their online audience. Except the last.
    By Caitlin Moscatello
  18. the body politic
    Sixty Seconds to Self-SabotageThe DNC’s choice of who to feature speaks volumes about the party’s inability to see its own future.
    By Rebecca Traister
  19. crime
    What We Know About the Killing of Elijah McClainThe 23-year-old died last year after police brutally detained him while he was walking home from a convenience store.
    By Claire Lampen
  20. overloaded
    When Becky Yells at YouAn excerpt from Shayla Lawson’s new book, This Is Major, about working alongside a white woman with a massive inferiority complex.
    By Shayla Lawson
  21. the body politic
    Biden’s Fantasy of Female SubmissionThe Democrats have completely botched this VP pick.
    By Rebecca Traister
  22. fiction
    Luster“Then I remember his wife, the coaster eases downwards, and we fall.”
    By Raven Leilani
  23. fiction
    Life Events: A Novel Excerpt“Here I was, joined in mourning with people I had never met before.”
    By Karolina Waclawiak
  24. the body politic
    The Poison of Male IncivilityWhen a woman dares respond to it, she’s seen as “disruptive.”
    By Rebecca Traister
  25. encounter
    ‘We Saw This Problem Coming’Lauren Underwood, the youngest Black woman to ever serve in Congress, on remote legislating during a pandemic.
    By Rebecca Traister
  26. book excerpt
    There’s a Divide in Even the Closest Interracial FriendshipsIncluding ours.
    By Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
  27. fiction
    Fleishman Is in Lockdown: A Short Story by Taffy Brodesser-AknerA sequel, exclusive to the Cut, in which Dr. Toby Fleishman works through the pandemic at a New York hospital.
    By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
  28. many mouths to feed
    The Secondhand Refrigerators Feeding New YorkersCommunity fridges across the city are fighting food insecurity, reducing waste, and uniting neighbors.
    By Brock Colyar
  29. protests
    How to Support the Struggle Against Police BrutalityOrganizations to donate to, and other actions to take to help demand justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other victims of police violence.
    By Claire Lampen
  30. work
    5 Vulnerable Workers on the Anxiety of Returning to the Office“They basically have the power of life or death over me right now.”
    As told to Anna Silman
  31. don't try this at home
    I Dressed Like Catherine the Great for a WeekA historically inaccurate experiment in honor of the “occasionally true” Hulu show, The Great.
    By Andrew Nguyen
  32. pandemic weddings
    No One Knows How To Throw A Pandemic WeddingLoose and confusing guidelines means some couples can have 100+ guests.
    By Angelina Chapin
  33. the bigger picture
    See the Second Lives of Drive-in Movie Theaters“People make a purposeful trip to visit these places. They’re invested.”
    By Gretty Garcia
  34. what i learned
    A Quarantine Diary of My Terrible RoommatesBad boyfriends, jettisoned wine, and passive-aggressive living.
    By Brock Colyar
  35. what i learned
    Making a New Kind of Space for Each Other“I was born Black. We strive every day to have just a glimmer of hope,” my partner tells me.
    By Carl Swanson
  36. portfolio
    Solidarity at SeaRockaway surfers unite for Black Lives Matter.
    By Emilia Petrarca
  37. how i get it done
    How I Get It Done: Representative Ilhan Omar“I believe if you want to make change, we have to be as bold as we can.”
    By Bridget Read
  38. what i learned
    I Had No Idea My Wife Was Hiding Her Cooking Talent“In retrospect, I think the clues were there all along.”
    By Michael Rovner and Keisha Rovner
  39. what i learned
    How Did I Not Know This About You?What we discovered about each other while locked down together.
    By Molly Fischer
  40. first person
    This JuneteenthI want to feel the peace that white people have enjoyed at my expense.
    By Jennifer Neal
  41. power
    6 Teens Organized a Protest. 10,000 People Showed Up.They spoke with the Cut about coming face-to-face with the riot police, educating their own parents, and being radicals (not Democrats.)
    By Brock Colyar
  42. photography
    The Afterlife of George Floyd: A Portfolio by Photographer Eli ReedAmerican iconography of a death, history and a Black southern homecoming.
    By Chaédria LaBouvier
  43. the body politic
    Racism Doesn’t BlinkThe public performance of white supremacy is key to upholding it.
    By Rebecca Traister
  44. my two cents
    How to Make Your Donations CountWhen everything feels so urgent, it’s tough to decide where your money should go.
    By Charlotte Cowles
  45. parenting
    The Sacrifice Black Children Shouldn’t Have to MakeThis country prizes Black children’s precocity — insists on it, even, much of the time.
    By Stacia Brown
  46. the body politic
    ‘We’ve Seen Our City Set Ablaze’Ilhan Omar on the fight against structural racism and injustice, and how the Congressional Black Caucus can move us forward.
    By Rebecca Traister
  47. breonna taylor
    A Mother’s Birthday Tribute to Breonna Taylor“It’s hard to breathe without her.”
    As told to Angelina Chapin
  48. black birders
    Black Birding Is About HopeTalking to Corina Newsome, co-organizer of the first-ever Black Birders Week.
    By Kathleen Hou
  49. the body politic
    Don’t Call It RiotingMaxine Waters on the history of protest and the language of insurrection.
    By Rebecca Traister
  50. risk
    It Hardly Ever Happens But Sometimes It DoesOur new national pastime is calculating relative risk.
    By Lisa Miller
Load More