The New York Fashion Innovation Center (NYFIC) has awarded $120,000 in its fourth grant round, giving $10,000 each to 12 projects that turn New York-grown wool, flax, hemp fiber and agricultural byproducts into usable textile materials. Recipients include Brooklyn startups Cellsense and MushLume Lighting, Syracuse
New York Fashion Week opened on September 10 with roughly 70 runway shows and presentations on the official CFDA calendar, introducing Spring/Summer 2027 collections under a new fur-free policy that marks the first time animal fur has been formally prohibited from the event’s official schedule.
Bryant Park lights its Winter Village tree on Tuesday, December 1, 2026, at 5:30 p.m., one night before Rockefeller Center’s ceremony on December 2. The Bryant Park show is free, with first-come seating from 3:30 p.m. and a livestream. Midtown gets two tree lightings on back-to-back evenings, less than ten blocks apart. Key Takeaways The Bryant Park Tree Lighting runs Tuesday, December 1, 2026, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and admission is free. Seating opens at 3:30 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis, and there is no re-entry once the deck reaches capacity. Bryant Park streams the show live on its event page for viewers who cannot attend. The rink closes early on lighting day, and public skating resumes around 6:15 p.m. Rockefeller Center lights its tree the next night, Wednesday, December 2, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., with no public tickets. Winter Village is in its 25th
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Fashion editors in Manhattan are stepping back from the seasonless fashion New York movement after years of championing capsule wardrobes and year-round pieces. The model promised liberation from seasonal shopping cycles, but the city’s humid summers and icy winters expose its limits. The thesis: seasonless
The average person wears roughly 20 percent of the clothing in their closet on a regular basis, leaving the remaining 80 percent occupying space without contributing to daily outfit rotations. Building a wardrobe that functions efficiently requires a shift from accumulation-based shopping toward intentional curation,
Retired Navy Capt. Sunita “Suni” Williams leads the 107th NYC Veterans Day Parade as Grand Marshal on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, with Navy veteran Vicki Bello marching as Honorary Marshal. The parade steps off at 12:30 p.m. from Fifth Avenue at 26th Street, with the Navy as this year’s featured service. Key Takeaways Suni Williams, a retired Navy captain, retired from NASA effective December 27, 2025, after 27 years with the agency. Vicki Bello, a native New Yorker, enlisted in the Navy in 1985, served as a Radioman, and later served in the Naval Reserve at Fort Schuyler in the Bronx. The Navy is the parade’s featured service for 2026, and both marshals are Navy veterans. Williams was one of three grand marshals in 2025 and leads the parade alone this year. Bello manages community and veterans programs at the Theatre Development Fund, whose veterans program serves about 1,600 veterans
Blue Man Group returns to New York City this month with its first Broadway engagement, Blue Man Group: A New Holiday Surprise. Previews begin November 12 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, opening night is November 17, and the limited run closes January 3, 2027, nearly two
The New York Comedy Festival 2026 runs November 6 to 15. It opens with Dave Chappelle at Madison Square Garden on November 6 and 7, then spreads more than 100 shows across a 42-stage venue list. The festival’s home club, Carolines on Broadway, closed four
The Rink at Rockefeller Center moves into its rebuilt Skate House on Saturday, November 14, 2026, adding a heated VIP Lounge, dedicated storage and a new 49th Street entrance for its 90th season. Skaters can now choose among four tiers, from a $22 General Skate
Walking into a vintage fashion market for the first time reveals racks sorted by era, bins of accessories, dealers who know garment history, and prices that reflect condition and rarity. This vintage fashion shopping guide explains what first-time visitors will encounter, how stalls are organized,
The gap between a well-dressed person and an everyone-else-dressed person is rarely about how much money got spent on the outfit. It is almost always about how the shoes and accessories were chosen, organized, and combined. The clothing is the easy part. A decent shirt
Today’s clothing does more than just look good—it solves problems. From moisture-wicking workout gear to temperature-regulating outerwear, fashion designers now combine aesthetics with advanced textile engineering. The right fabric choice can mean the difference between a garment that performs and one that falls short. Understanding
The world of beauty and fashion has always been fluid, but in recent years, a new trend has emerged: looksmaxxing. It’s a term that’s been buzzing in online communities, especially among those obsessed with self-improvement and aesthetics. Essentially, looksmaxxing refers to the deliberate pursuit of
Chappell Roan’s unannounced performance at a compact Lower East Side club during New York Fashion Week (NYFW) turned a standard night of after-parties into a era-defining viral moment. By appearing in an intimate, no-barricade setting, Roan leveraged the “scarcity principle” to bridge the gap between
Delphine, a French brasserie from chef Jarett Brodie and four hospitality operators, opened October 29, 2026, at Ace Hotel New York at 16 West 29th Street in NoMad. It is
Jeju Noodle Bar, chef Douglas Kim’s Korean ramyun restaurant and the first noodle restaurant in the United States to earn a Michelin star, has opened its second New York City
Daniel Humm, the chef behind Eleven Madison Park, opens Humm on Saturday, October 10, at 435 Hudson Street in the West Village. The 5,000-square-foot restaurant serves an à la carte
Old Fulton Street in DUMBO now also carries the name “Patsy and Carol Grimaldi Way,” honoring the couple who began serving coal-fired pizza on the block in 1990. The co-naming
Bowen Yang, the former Saturday Night Live cast member and Wicked film actor, began a 12-week limited Broadway engagement as Mary Todd Lincoln in Cole Escola’s Tony Award-winning comedy Oh, Mary! on September 15, 2026, at the Lyceum Theatre. Yang succeeds Meg Stalter in the
Tracee Ellis Ross is giving New York audiences another reason to keep Broadway on their summer cultural calendar. The actor and producer is currently starring in Every Brilliant Thing at the Hudson Theatre, bringing her established screen presence to a solo stage production while adding
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