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1 week ago | 
family.style | Sahir Ahmed
Picture this: It’s San Francisco in 1932 on a foggy night in early May. Isadore “Izzy” Gomez is holding court on Pacific Street. Inside his saloon, it’s standing room only. Painters, printers, and poets are elbow-to-elbow, swapping gossip over thick-cut steaks and one too many rounds of gin. Wine is flowing, the piano is out of tune and nobody is paying for anything they can’t talk their way out of.
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1 week ago | 
theface.com | Sahir Ahmed |Trevor Wisecup
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2 weeks ago | 
i-d.co | Sahir Ahmed
For over five decades, Fran Lebowitz has lived every New Yorker’s dream: getting paid to complain. But where others gripe into the void, Fran transmutes the city’s chaos into acerbic observations that cut through like a cab driver on a mission. Her essay collections Metropolitan Life and Social Studies cemented her reputation as the sharpest-tongued chronicler of the city’s contradictions.
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3 weeks ago | 
family.style | Will Fenstermaker |Sahir Ahmed |Meka Boyle
Self-portraits, historically the province of artists, were once a reflexive genre—in part, a way to imbue their presence with aesthetic authority. Now that nearly everyone takes selfies, we are inundated with our likenesses. But how do we see ourselves, really? And are artists’ self-portraits any different from others? The original photographs in this portfolio navigate the rich territory between traditional self-portraiture and the pictures we all make of ourselves each day.
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3 weeks ago | 
family.style | Sahir Ahmed |Will Fenstermaker |Meka Boyle
What pairs best with gluten-free shrimp spaghetti? Ask Deun Ivory and the answer is French fries. When the photographer isn’t using her camera to celebrate Black culture and beauty, she spends her time like a local in Houston. Whether she’s ordering a plate of shrimp pasta with a side of fries at Bellagreen restaurant or making her own version at home, the combination never misses. “It's such a warm and delicious meal that hits all the right spots,” Ivory tells Family Style.
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4 weeks ago | 
family.style | Sahir Ahmed |Devan Diaz |Meka Boyle
Kelly Rutherford knows a thing or two about playing royalty. Off screen, the actress carries the same cool, composed, effortlessly chic energy as the roles that cemented her in pop culture. So when PDPAOLA revealed its latest fine jewelry collection, Rutherford naturally made perfect sense as the face. An old-world-style oil painting of Rutherford hangs at the brand’s sleek flagship in the West Village.
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1 month ago | 
documentjournal.com | Sahir Ahmed
Tasneem Sarkez grew up surrounded by online images. An early aughts baby, the 22-year-old Libyan-American artist works across painting, installation, and found objects. In just a few years, she’s built a portfolio that reads like a lossy acid trip through the 2010s into the 2020s, where white noise bubbles over.
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1 month ago | 
family.style | Jane Lewis |Sahir Ahmed
In the heart of Shanghai, the arched front doors of Rong Zhai lead into a foyer with ornate cherry wood-framed mirrors inspired by Italian bakeries, reflecting a display case of re-imagined tiramisu, cassata cake, and delizia al limone. The pastry shop is just one part of a home-turned-new-culinary experience created by Prada and Wong Kar-wai. Titled Mi Shang Prada Rong Zhai, it reflects the visuals of both the Italian fashion house and the celebrated Chinese director.
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1 month ago | 
family.style | Sahir Ahmed
When Marcos Florentino isn’t capturing vibrant editorials for magazines as one half of the photography duo MAR+VIN, he can be found in the kitchen, cooking up recipes passed down from his family. One of his fondest? Home-made, fried tapioca twists—a staple in Brazil. Florentino reminisces on how this simple, savory recipe reminds him of his childhood: It’s a dish that his mother often made him for breakfast, he tells Family Style.
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1 month ago | 
family.style | Olivia Singer |Sahir Ahmed
There aren’t many bookstores that can count Lil Uzi Vert and Mia Khalifa among their shopkeepers, and fewer still who consider rare Cosey Fanni Tutti VHS tapes and Yayoi Kusama periodicals among their greatest hits. But Climax Books isn’t like any other bookstore. In fact, walk into its space on East 4th Street and, instead of infinite stacks and sky-high shelves, what you’ll find is a tight curation of select publications and ephemera.
