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P&G profits dip, says China recovery will take time

P&G profits dip, says China recovery will take time 9

Procter & Gamble (P&G) reported a decline in profits on slightly lower sales Friday, October 18, for the first quarter of its staggered financial year2025. The company said a recovery in China was still a number of quarters away. The…

Do You Remember School?

Do You Remember School? 10

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I have been thinking about memory these days, because I have been gathering contributions for Class Notes from my classmates at the Brearley School. Seven contributions have come in, either instantly…

Girl, What Waist?

Girl, What Waist? 12

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Remember the Trompe l’Oeil Sweatpants from Balenciaga? The nearly twelve-hundred-dollar heather-gray drawstring pants that seemed ordinary, innocent of fashion, until the shopper, scanning upward, caught the plaid trick happening at the…

Elisheva Biernoff’s Family of Man

Elisheva Biernoff’s Family of Man 18

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Ever since the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced, in the mid-eighteen-twenties, what is now the world’s oldest surviving photograph—a lonely, ghostly image of a rooftop taken from a window—the medium…