Editor's note: This quiz was originally published on February 7th, 2009. We're running it again now because, well, it's awesome.

First Ladies have always garnered public attention. Their activism, political prowess, and style make most of them household names. Just recently, Martha Washington made headlines because historians are now...

Oh, dear reader! No matter what the world thinks of me, I am really just a simple village girl from Ghana, West Africa. I was swept from my motherland at a young age and hustled into the dazzling lights of Boston (maybe not so...

As a fashion-lover living in Hanoi, Vietnam, I keep finding myself confronted with the question, "What is real?" There are so many sartorial imitations of American and European brands that the very definition of brand-name clothing is turned upside down. Fake imitations of brand names made sense during the recent...

I grew up in the culturally rich Romanian seaport of Constanta, where I was exposed from an early age to the diverse heritage of the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine empires, which extended their influence over this region at different times in history. As a child I helped my parents...

Harriet Van Horne once wrote: "Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." It's very easy to see the wisdom of this point when you understand the creative fire, enthusiasm, and passion of Yasamin Beitollahi, one of the hottest chefs to emerge in...

Previously on: The designers' generally underwhelming winning looks inspired even more underwhelming complement looks, and neither Logan's silver pants nor his 40 zippers could save him from Heidi's Teutonic axe.

It's morning in the ladies' quarters, and suffice to say they're not all on the same cycle just yet....

Last week the New York Times published Part 1 of an article 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do by Bruce Buschel. Today he posted Part 2. It's a great list, and one can only hope servers, hosts, chefs, and owners are printing it and posting it on...

Alexander Wang's Rocco bag, an embossed-leather duffel with studs all over the bottom, just became "available" for purchase on his site... but it's already sold out.

Barneys already has a waiting list of over 400 for the bag, and Wang...

Salad culture in this country has changed so much since I was a young. Back then iceberg wedges and Julienne Salads reigned the day. I rarely see them anymore except at a steakhouse, diner or deli which I enjoy but rarely frequent.

Now, it seems to me almost every casual...

I sat down with Narciso Rodriguez on Election Day 2009 to recount the past year. Yes, that Narciso Rodriguez - the designer responsible for the bold (and highly controversial) black and red sleeveless dress Michelle Obama wore exactly a year ago when her husband swept the polls and became...

Editor's Note: In honor of the one year anniversary of Barack Obama's election, we thought it would be fitting to re-publish this defense of Michelle Obama's controversial election night dress. It originally ran on November 5th, 2008. Read designer Narciso Rodriguez's thoughts on the frock here.

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I was born at the tail end of the baby boom, and have had a love-hate relationship with boomers since I was young enough to know what cool was. The 60's were cool, damn it, and I had been born too late to really say I had been there.

Like...

Pictured: A beautiful and seldom seen photo of Amelia from a poster for her lecture tour. Her aviator pin, pearls and open collar look contemporary.

Recently, I saw the movie Amelia with Hillary Swank. I had read and studied...

The restaurant business is a very unique industry, packed with colorful characters, miscreants, thieves, liars, unique talents, wonderful personalities, horrible personalities, and truly dedicated people. Hal Goldman, a Long Island NY chef of extraordinary dedication, was a rare human being. Hal was my friend. He was not the friend who...