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Sunday night Brazilian designer Alessandra Meskita presented her Fall/Winter 2014 collection at New York Fashion Week. With a front row sprinkled with celebrities -- Jesse Metcalfe, Cara Santana, Guillermo Diaz, or as Wa...

Sunday night Brazilian designer Alessandra Meskita presented her Fall/Winter 2014 collection at New York Fashion Week. With a front row sprinkled with celebrities -- Jesse Metcalfe, Cara Santana, Guillermo Diaz, or as Wa...

If you’re anything like us, when you think of carnivals and amusement parks, you think of cotton candy! But now that we’ve grown up and developed a sophisticated palette, our ...

Washington Post reporters will be reporting from New York all week on Style's live Fashion Week blog; find daily re-caps, and more top looks from runway shows, news and more on the Style blog. Plus, get visual updates on...

Washington Post reporters will be reporting from New York all week on Style's live Fashion Week blog; find daily re-caps, and more top looks from runway shows, news and more on the Style blog. Plus, get visual updates on...

Does your city get plenty of nice weather? Atlanta-based designer and software engineer Kelly Norton ranked tallied how many pleasant (not too hot, not too cold, no significant precipitation) weather days cities across t...

How much did the Winter Olympics in Sochi cost? There's no easy answer to that question, even though the Western news media has tried to simplify it. Or perhaps oversimplify it. The consensus figure is $50 billion, which...

Warning. This is an awkward post. It's deep winter and many of us are trapped indoors without the flow of fresh air from open windows. I, personally, have become quite conscious lately of daily smelly moments both at hom...

She seems a fragile support for an ambitious family canvas: this slender barefoot woman in a white nightdress, often seen huddled in a wooden rocking chair. Yet, in "La Señorita de Tacna (The Young Lady From Tacna)," th...

Deny it if you can -- the pianist Simone Dinnerstein has a way with Bach. Her poetic, almost intimate interpretation of the Goldberg Variations shot her to prominence back in 2007, and she's just released a disc of Bach'...

  Despite what seem to be generally positive reviews, I have no intention of seeing the Lego movie. I think its very existence an affront to childhood. Legos have been around since the late 1940s, and even today there's...

Despite what seem to be generally positive reviews, I have no intention of seeing the Lego movie. I think its very existence an affront to childhood. Legos have been around since the late 1940s, and even today there's no...

Sometimes when I get a little anxious about dwindling space, it calms me to remember: "there's always the back of the door." Whether it's a closet door or a cupboard door, back-of-the-door storage is often the aha! solut...

Here are 20 projects that you can do because it's Valentine's Day -- or anytime you feel like making something sweet. Maybe you need more heart-shaped things in your life, maybe you'll be inspired to make a care package ...

In the divide between minimalists and maximalists, I've always felt more drawn towards a less-is-more aesthetic, but after touring some wonderfully vibrant homes that are far from minimal, I find myself inspired to add m...

Parents have to buy a lot of stuff. Norwegian design group Permafrost has created a chair your kid can use from six months old to about seven. Stokke Steps is an all-in-one bouncer seat and high chair that converts as yo...

I looooove fiddle leaf figs. I first noticed them in Wilson's office on House, of all places. I'd get so distracted admiring the plant that I'd have to rewind to catch the dialogue. Now that I have my own fiddle leaf fig...

A young high school girl, blood pouring down her face from a bullet hole near her temple, laughed with her friends.

The Mivos Quartet, formed in 2008 at the Manhattan School of Music, has put admirable focus and resources into expanding the string quartet repertoire, conducting workshops and competitions for new composers. Its all-Bri...

For starters, don't treat your children as if they're adults. They aren't.

Name: Jessie and JonLocation: Brooklyn Heights; New York, New YorkSize: 710 square feetYears lived in: 7 months; rented Within every couple-cohabited space there is a love story: the how, when, and why a house adapts to ...

Pressure (and pressure cookers, maybe) are on for the White House chefs whipping up Tuesday night's state dinner for French President Fran oise Hollande. After all, the French have been the center of the gastronomic worl...