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1 month ago | 
family.style | Emily Simon |Alisha Wexler
A sea of dusty brown hills and dry brush make up California’s Coachella Valley. This auburn landscape is the backdrop for Desert X, an international, site-specific exhibition organized by the Dessert Biennial, which runs from March 8 to May 11, 2025.
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1 month ago | 
family.style | Ann Binlot |Emily Simon |Meka Boyle
Everyone knows salad is good for you—but beyond nutrient rich vegetables and leafy greens, the health-food favorite was once considered to be medicinal. Claudia Keep’s vinaigrette recipe keeps this tradition alive. In the fourth to fifth century, Roman legions didn’t just think of salad dressing as a way to add flavor to lettuce; they mixed apple cider vinegar, Dijon mustard, and plenty of garlic to combat harmful bacteria encountered during their conquests.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
family.style | Teller Thomas |Emily Simon |Qingyuan Deng |Edward Bowleg III
Clothes shrink and disappear under the unforgiving, white-hot summer sun. But for the whimsical and inspired, the bone-dry heat is no match for the fantasy of getting dolled up. Wools, gowns, hats, tinsel, and sequins are, after all, a glamorous barrier against sunburn—and when the Mediterranean breeze rolls into the eastern coast, they rustle, billow, and glisten to the rhythm of castanets in the distance.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
family.style | Sahir Ahmed |Teller Thomas |Emily Simon
The month was January 1972; Nixon was in office, and the U.S. was pulling troops from Vietnam; the Equal Rights Amendment was moving through Congress; and Title IX, prohibiting sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs, was on the horizon. In a matter of months, feminist Gloria Steinem would launch the inaugural issue of Ms. Magazine, cementing the rise of second-wave feminism.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
family.style | Teller Thomas |Emily Simon
Six disembodied Victorian-style gowns, semi-transparent and ethereally green, hovering in place across the floor of Europa gallery bring to mind a gothic novel-type haunting, spectral and delicate. But for Brandon Morris, the eerie scene took shape out of a formidable technical challenge. During his final year as a fashion design major at Parsons, Morris envisioned crafting a series of “freestanding” dresses. The issue? “I didn’t know how I would do it,” says the 24-year-old artist.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
family.style | Teller Thomas |Emily Simon |Qingyuan Deng
Some may say Florence Knoll grew up to be a pioneer in design against all odds. Born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan during the midst of World War I and orphaned at age 12, the late designer’s interest in architecture started in early adolescence. Now, her legacy lives on with her namesake company which she established with her husband, Hans Knoll.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
family.style | John Belknap |Teller Thomas |Emily Simon
James Bantone takes up the quintessential all-American medium, steel for his second solo U.S. exhibition, “Scrap,” following the Paris-based artist's show with the Swiss Institute last spring. Bantone transforms slabs of this industrial material, synonymous with strength, resilience, and mass production, into sleek artworks. The works aren’t humongous minimalist excretions or rhizomatic-cloud capitalism installations.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
family.style | Emily Simon |Teller Thomas |Qingyuan Deng
Look out across at any fashion show front row, and a sea of iPhones will surely be looking back. Since the invention of smartphones, fashion editors have turned to the technology to document their picks of the season. It’s only natural, then, that these compact recording devices would eventually seep into the shows proper. But how to do this from a creative standpoint? Case in point: La Croisièr, Simone Porte Jacquemus’ Paris runway return, filmed entirely by the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
family.style | Teller Thomas |Emily Simon
This layered Bird’s Milk Cake transcends texture. A timeless family recipe of Tolia Astakhishvili, this dessert requires to be baked with precision—the artist eats it carefully, too. “I like to separate all the layers in my mouth and eat slowly,” the Berlin-based artist tells Family Style.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
family.style | Emily Simon |Ann Binlot
The cat’s out of the bag: Writer and curator Gaby Cepeda shares the secret to her go-to method for slow-cooking meat. The main protein? Dealer’s choice. The end result is best enjoyed “with guac on tortillas,” shares Cepeda. “It always wins on a weekday night.” For sides, a bed of broccoli and a side of rice will do with this fatty main course. When it comes to the mystery meat, “cheaper cuts work better,” Cepeda explains. “I prefer pork or beef.
