During the week, the fashion designer Ulla Johnson spends most of her time in her SoHo studio or traveling to countries like Kenya, Peru, or India for materials and inspiration. On weekends, however, she tends to stay within a tight radius of her Fort Greene brownstone. “My vision and the actual logistics of my life are so scattered, with the travel and work and the sourcing and everything, it’s nice to be close to home,” she said.
For Ms. Johnson, 45, a native New Yorker who was raised in a small apartment building in Yorkville, the tree-lined streets of Brooklyn, where she lives with her family (husband Zach Miner, 46, an art consultant, and their children Soren, 13, Asher, 10, and Agnes, 7) have special appeal. “It’s very verdant,” she said. “I grew up in a much more urban setting, but my children have a different life. It’s a much more peaceful existence.”
Ms. Johnson will show her newest line of clothing and accessories at New York Fashion Week on Feb. 8.
“My husband is a very avid cook — like, incredible — in all meals and all genres; we usually do some kind of waffles or pancakes. I don’t eat it but the kids love it.”Credit...Maridelis Morales Rosado for The New York Times
LET THEM WATCH We don’t sleep much later on the weekend than the week — maybe I sleep until 7:30 versus 6:30. It’s not wildly different, even though that feels somewhat luxurious. I am a “coffee the minute I wake up” kind of person. My husband and I will have coffee, and usually the kids will tiptoe by our door and try and sneak down to the TV to watch cartoons. I’m a little bit draconian about restricted access to screen time, but we do let them — that’s the time of the week that they really get to do their own thing.
RUN One reason that I’ve always loved Fort Greene is that I love running in Prospect Park. The run from my house, around the loop and back, is about five miles. It’s a beautiful run; for me, it’s my sort of contemplative practice. I don’t listen to music, I’m just present with myself and my thoughts.
FAMILY BREAKFAST I’ll come back and then my husband will go out after me. By 10, we’ve both come back. The kids are probably starving and everybody’s getting grumpy. My husband is a very avid cook — like, incredible — in all meals and all genres; we usually do some kind of waffles or pancakes. I don’t eat it but the kids love it.
PLAYGROUND APPRECIATION After that, everyone has to get ready. I’ll take my daughter to the playground — she’s obsessed with the monkey bars, and she’s shockingly good. My husband takes the boys to shoot hoops, maybe block away from where the playground is. We’ll do that for an hour.
It’s funny because I’ve just come to my playground love with the end of the young part of my third child’s childhood. For a long time it was sort of the chaos of, “Oh my God, who’s crying? “Where did the kid go?” The hyper awareness, all the different idiosyncrasies of the social dynamic. But now it’s not like that: my daughter’s just doing the monkey bars. It’s so peaceful.
DON’T CALL IT BRUNCH After that we’ll go to Roman’s. I do love an Italian grandma lunch. I’m such a creature of habit: I find my favorite places and then I’m like, “That’s where we’re going.” The other thing about Roman’s is that they don’t serve brunch — they don’t do fancy eggs or a hollandaise. It’s lunch, it’s delicious, there’s pasta, there’s meat. It’s wonderful and it’s quite leisurely. It doesn’t have that brunch freneticism and the endless Bloody Marys — that vibe that happens when you go to places that are very brunch-oriented.
LOST IN BOOKS The other place I love to go: Greenlight Bookstore. We can all get lost there: everybody looks at their own little sections. It’s a great place to hang: it’s so welcoming and there’s plenty of space around.
I’m a literature freak. I read things with heavy subject matter; I read a lot of female authors. It’s an exciting time for literature, there’s so much good stuff out there. I’m constantly buying more books.
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY We often host people on Sundays. It’s kind of like an open door — Sunday supper, anybody knows, we’re there, we’re cooking at home, it’s probably going to be chicken, we’re listening to Johnny Cash, there’s always candlelight.
The chicken goes in the oven and we have that hour and half when we can connect in another way. We’re really into games — this is another great equalizer between the ages: a 14-year old and a 7-year old both like it. We like Yahtzee, Scrabble or a new obsession, Phase 10. Any opportunity to play a game or do a puzzle — these are things that our family really loves and can come together.
NO MORE SUNDAY DREAD After the kids go to bed, Zach and I will have a cup of tea — that’s one of my favorite things to do. It’s a place where we can just talk about the week ahead. I grew up with that idea of Sunday dread and I don’t have it anymore. It’s always excitement. The weekends are very full and amazing and family-based and Monday is something totally different that I also love.
Sunday Routine readers can follow Ulla Johnson on Instagram @ullajohnson.
公衆衛生と安全保障について議会に助言するシンクタンク「Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense（バイオディフェンス超党派委員会）」事務局長のアシャ・ジョージは、「目に見えて切迫していない問題を優先的に扱うことは難しいのです」と言う。ジョージによると、米国の公衆衛生システムは、中国における事態と同じようなアウトブレイクに対処する備えができていないのだという。
We are in very close communication with China concerning the virus. Very few cases reported in USA, but strongly on watch. We have offered China and President Xi any help that is necessary. Our experts are extraordinary!
atama plusでは“ユーザー”という言葉がほとんど使われません。現在では、真一君、純二君以外にも晴美さん（藤井家の母）、友子さん（大学生講師）、川村さん（塾の教室長）、福原さん（塾の本部管理者）と多様なペルソナが存在しますが、メンバー全員が各ペルソナを深く理解しており（新入社員は入社時にペルソナ研修を受けます）、社内の会話は「友子さんのためにどうしたらよいか？」「川村さんのために何を明らかにすればよいか？」といった感じでペルソナをベースに行われています。
Tan France and Kerby Jean-Raymond critique Farai Simoyi-Agbede and KiKi Peterson in Next in Fashion. (Netflix)
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Next in Fashion episodes 4 and 5.
Most of Netflix’s new fashion reality competition Next in Fashion, hosted by Queer Eye’s Tan France and TV presenter Alexa Chung, is what you’d expect of a Project Runway derivative. There are challenges ranging from red carpet, to denim, to streetwear, each timed out at two days and requiring designers to call upon their design and construction skills in equal measure. Yes, there’s the added wrinkle of designers having to participate in pairs, but the end result is the same: good fashion, a dash of drama and plenty of entertainment.
But the first season, which dropped Wednesday on Netflix, develops an interesting wrinkle in episode 4. That’s the streetwear episode, featuring Pyer Moss label founder Kerby Jean-Raymond as a guest judge. (Next in Fashion, to its tremendous credit, really walks the walk when it comes to its guest judges being true movers-and-shakers in the fashion industry.) You get the sense something is up during the initial judging phase, right after the runway show. Kerby seems to be on a distinctly different page than Tan and Alexa in particular, praising the work of design team Farai & Kiki (made up of two Black women designers, Farai Simoyi Agbede and Kiki Peterson). While the two host-judges knock the construction, Kerby says they understood streetwear better than anyone else. (Seeing as Kiki is a specialist in streetwear, this makes sense.)
Things get significantly hotter during judging, though. As opposed to every other episode, where the judges are able to come to a unanimous consensus before calling the contestants back, there’s still some discord when the remaining designers come out on stage. Farai & Kiki are judged to be in the bottom two, and Farai makes a spirited defense of their voices in fashion. She remarks how unique they are — the implication being that their voices as Black women are underrepresented — and notes that they’ve had a remarkably difficult time breaking into the industry. Kerby is immediately sympathetic, and gives the best advice he can before the judges launch into full critiques.
Upon hearing the critiques, it’s clear that Farai & Kiki will be eliminated. Their critiques are the harshest, with the judges coming down on the pair’s construction of their streetwear looks. But while the other judges seemingly have other issues with the look, Kerby is insistent that theirs are actually the best looks when you consider the challenge was about looking forward in streetwear. He doesn’t flinch from this, either, and openly expresses disgust with the decision in the final judgment phase.
And then he walks out. Kerby protests the decision so strongly that he just fully leaves the staging area, and refuses to return.
The episode ends on a cliffhanger, with no elimination.
At the start of episode 5, Tan comes out to talk to the designers and emotionally admits the judges have been unable to come to a consensus. The next morning, he and Alexa break the news that no one will be eliminated. However, at the end of that next episode, Farai & Kiki once again find themselves in the bottom, with the judges fixating on one particular construction issue in their otherwise strong lingerie looks. They are promptly sent home, the judges now free of Kerby’s protestations.
This situation is a window into the fashion industry’s greater problem with race, particularly with recognizing Black women designers. This has been an ongoing issue for the industry, one that Project Runway has touched on multiple times. Kara Saun won four challenges in Season 1, only to lose in the finale to the otherwise-winless Jay McCarroll. Designer and guest judge Rachel Roy once had to argue for the value of designers of color in fashion in Season 11, when the judges wanted to eliminate Samantha Black over a white, male designer who had performed worse. Season 12’s Dom Streater remains the only Black woman to win the 18-seasons-running reality show.
The most significant example of such a situation, though, was in Season 12’s final four episode, when Kimberley Goldman made an argument for her voice as a Black woman in fashion that was likely a major factor in her advancing to the finale. It was the kind of direct address about an underlying issue that too rarely comes up on Project Runway, but seems to be more part and parcel of Next in Fashion so far.
My own opinion is that Farai & Kiki were not the strongest designers in the competition, but did not deserve elimination in either episode 4 or 5. Their creative muscles were clearly on display in the streetwear challenge, and the amount of nitpicking the judges had to do in episode 5 was embarrassing. There was pretty obviously a plan for Farai & Kiki to go out around that time — not surprising, lots of reality shows have rough predetermined elimination orders — but Kerby’s protests kept them in the game for a week longer.
Still, by allowing the disagreement in episode 4 to air at all, Next in Fashion provided one of the more fascinating looks at race in a particular industry that you’ll see on reality TV this year. It’s a fascinating moment, and one that helps the Netflix series transcend. This isn’t just a fashion reality competition — it’s one that’s willing to, at least for one episode, have a difficult conversation. If only the show had been willing to give Farai & Kiki the chance Kerby so desperately wanted them to have.
Kevin O'Keeffe is a writer, host, and RuPaul's Drag Race herstorian living in Los Angeles. Follow his musings and rantings on Twitter @kevinpokeeffe.
Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis reunited for a screening of "Thelma & Louise," held by Kering’s Women in Motion.
The pioneering actresses discussed activism and the legacy of politics in film.
“It turned out to be something that was so empowering and infuriating at the time,” Sarandon said, during her opening remarks. “One of my favorite lines is, ‘You are what you settle for,’ and I’m happy that this time, when we’re celebrating the anniversary of women being able to vote, that we’re not going to settle.”
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A Dundee designer said being chosen as a contestant on a new Netflix fashion competition had been "a bit surreal."
Hayley Scanlan is one of 18 international designers competing on Next in Fashion, which was filmed last spring in Los Angeles.
The winner receives $250,000 (£192,380) and an opportunity to launch their collection on a fashion e-tailer.
Scanlan, twice named Scotland's Young Designer of the Year, runs her H.S brand from her Dundee studio.
Her designs have been worn by celebrities including Little Mix, Pixie Lott and Jessie J.
She said that she had received the invitation to compete on the 10-episode show on the morning of her twin sons' birthday.
Scanlan said: "I was a bit apprehensive about doing it because TV is not something I'd thought about before and it seemed like such a huge, huge TV show.
"But as time went on, I was like, this an opportunity that I can't really miss, so I ended up just going for it."
After being flown to California, Scanlan and the other contestants took part in a series of challenges, including red carpet and leisure "looks."
Scanlan was one of only four British designers competing on the show, which is presented by fashionista Alexa Chung and Queer Eye's Tan France.
