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A Soothing Array of Spring Colors

Ariana Simone, left, and Chauncie Parchment had a certain coolness about them as they were walking along Canal Street in Manhattan on a Sunday in early January. Wearing shades of lavender, blue, orange and green, they brought to mind the palette of a spring day, as well as the colors of the New York Knicks….

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Bans, Fees, Taxes. Can Anything Stop Overtourism?

For years, Dubrovnik, Croatia, has been a poster child for overtourism, with summer visitors vastly outnumbering the local population and the municipal government repeatedly introducing measures to diminish the size and impact of a flood of tourists that turns the historic center into a crowded parking lot of selfie-snappers. But you would never know about…

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The Joy of Escapism

It was Day 1 of the couture shows in a chilly Paris, and the Schiap pack were tottering around the Petit Palais in their gold-toe shoes and anatomical gold jewelry, swinging their bejeweled Face bags and waiting for the Schiaparelli show to start. That they were a little — um, overdressed for 10 a.m. on…

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Hefty Sweaters for Heavy Times

As an avid knitter, Gabriela Tilevitz has had, as she put it, “a lifelong relationship to sweaters.” The ones that Ms. Tilevitz, a 33-year-old sex therapist in New York City, has recently been wearing are woolly, thick and extremely oversize — traits shared by many sweaters that she has lately noticed on a growing number…

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