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Have you ever admired a particularly stylish stranger at close range? Maybe the color of their overcoat popped out in a crowd, or you noticed the way they stacked fancy rings in a \u201cWhat, these old things?\u201d kind of way. Whatever draws your eye, and no matter how you think about good personal style, you probably know it when you see it.<\/p>\n
I like to think of those kinds of details as \u201cthe exuberance of individual choices\u201d \u2014 all the small decisions that go into getting dressed, coalescing into a unique package. These are the magic moments we try to capture in \u201cStyle Outside,\u201d<\/a> a column by the newest member of our team, photographer Simbarashe Cha.<\/p>\n Last February, Simbarashe and I sat down to dinner in Paris, after a long day spent covering fashion shows. He told me about his passion for portraiture and the joy of walking around and observing people; how the toss of a scarf, the fade of a haircut, or the way the cuff of a man\u2019s pants hits his ankle was the manifestation of attitude.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Simbarashe said he appreciates the way someone looks, but also how they respond to being asked for a photograph, especially when they aren\u2019t necessarily posing. He also told me of a fateful day, in early 2012, when he was walking in Riverside Park after a snowstorm. He stopped a woman and asked if he could take her picture. She said yes, then told him, \u201cYou\u2019re like Bill Cunningham.\u201d But Simbarashe, a self-taught photographer (and former banker) was not familiar with the legacy she was referring to; Cunningham was a New York Times photographer<\/a> who chronicled people on the street and at parties for the paper for nearly 40 years. The woman insisted he go home and watch the documentary about Cunningham<\/a> that night. He did, and decided then and there he\u2019d devote his life to this medium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Following in that tradition of fashion reportage, in which clothes come alive off the runways as much as on, Simbarashe is out and about, all over the world, snapping pics of whomever he finds interesting. It\u2019s a hobby I share with him: forever noticing the tender quirks of personality on display all around me, though I\u2019m not holding a camera.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n I recently met a Milanese woman who wore a single long strand of cobalt beads over an orange dress covered in tiny monkeys, paired with New Balance sneakers. I would never have thought to combine those items! Her sensibility was so specific to her that it felt revelatory \u2014 she was the embodiment of \u201csprezzatura,\u201d as the Italians call that type of studied casualness \u2014 and I was captivated. When I raved about her style, she told me the name of the shop in Sardinia where she had bought the dress (it\u2019s called \u201cForesta G\u201d). A compliment had turned into a tip for a reporting mission.<\/p>\n A lost work by Raymond Chandler, best remembered for his hard-boiled detective novels, was found. It\u2019s a poem.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Four months after the British Museum fired a curator suspected of stealing\u200b from its Greek and Roman stores, the \u200binstitution\u200b said about 1,500 objects were missing. Gold taken from some other items has probably been sold to scrap metal merchants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Brooklyn Academy of Music\u2019s \u200bdance-heavy \u200bupcoming season<\/a> will feature \u200ba rock opera by the performance artist Taylor Mac and a film retrospective of the actor Jeffrey Wright\u200b.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The actor Andre Braugher died this week at 61. Stream seven of his memorable performances<\/a>, including \u201cThe Tuskegee Airmen\u201d and \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Cardi B announced that she had separated from her husband<\/a>, the rapper Offset, Billboard reports.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm\u201d will officially end after season 12 next year<\/a>, Variety reports.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n A judge ruled that there was sufficient proof that Prince Harry\u2019s phone was hacked by a U.K. tabloid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n In Miami, Kanye West previewed his first album<\/a> since a string of antisemitic comments threatened to end his career last year. Onstage he wore a pointed black hood that resembled a Ku Klux Klan robe.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n A jury ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million<\/a> to two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whom he falsely accused of trying to steal votes from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Israeli troops mistakenly killed three Israeli hostages<\/a> during combat with Hamas in northern Gaza, the Israeli military said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n An autopsy found that the \u201cFriends\u201d star Matthew Perry died from the \u201cacute effects of ketamine,\u201d<\/a> the Los Angeles County medical examiner\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Material from the investigation into 2016 Russian election interference went missing<\/a> in the final days of Trump\u2019s presidency, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Several women at the fast-growing real estate firm eXp said they had been drugged and assaulted<\/a> by two star agents, and that the company long ignored their complaints.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a suicide mission.\u201d For two months, Ukrainian marines have fought over a muddy patch of land<\/a> along the Dnipro River. Soldiers say the combat is brutal, with little to show for it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Sheikh Nawaf<\/a>, the emir of Kuwait, who took power in the oil-rich state during political infighting in 2020, died. He was 86.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \ud83c\udfac \u201cAmerican Fiction\u201d (Out Now):<\/strong> Jeffrey Wright stars in this lacerating satire as Thelonious \u201cMonk\u201d Ellison, an underappreciated novelist who, under a pseudonym, releases a book stuffed with \u201cdeadbeat dads, rappers, crack\u201d and other Black literary clich\u00e9s that he has long resisted. To his amusement, then horror, it\u2019s a hit. For bonus points, check out \u201cErasure,\u201d by the great Percival Everett<\/a>, which the movie is adapted from.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udcfa \u201cMaestro\u201d (Wednesday):<\/strong> In the microgenre of classical-music dramas, last year we had Lydia<\/a>, and this year we have Lenny<\/a>. After a brief theatrical release, this biopic is now streaming on Netflix, with Bradley Cooper as a larger-than-life Leonard Bernstein (Cooper also directed and co-wrote the script) and Carey Mulligan as his wife, Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n During the chaotic excess of the holiday season, it\u2019s often the simplest dishes that hold the greatest appeal. Eric Kim\u2019s brothy miso soup<\/a> is just the thing to simultaneously satisfy your appetite and calm your spirit. It has the deep umami flavors of kombu and wakame, rounded out with a little bit of sake and mirin for complexity, and a dollop of soft tofu for texture and heft. Sip the soup as is, or use the recipe as a base for all kinds of additions. As Eric notes, sliced shiitakes, fried tofu, clams, chicken <\/strong>or even a tiny bit of butter can be delicious stirred into this gentle, warming soup.<\/p>\n Object by object: <\/strong>How Anderson Cooper deals with grief and memorializes his family<\/a> at home.<\/p>\n What you get for $1.1 Million\u200b:<\/strong> A circa 1720 stone house in Kerhonkson, \u200bN.Y., a 1912 Colonial Revival home in Wilmette\u200b, Ill., and a 1926 Craftsman cottage in Seattle<\/a>.<\/p>\n The hunt: <\/strong>Homing in on Lenox Hill, could a young couple find a one-bedroom on the Upper East Side for less than $1 million? Play our game<\/a>.<\/p>\n Female renters: <\/strong>A new study puts a spotlight on the challenges faced by \u200bsingle women living alone\u200b, who are more rent burdened<\/a> than single men.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Genius loci: <\/strong>As travel boomed again this year, we offered new takes on classic destinations\u200b as well as surprising coverage of some lesser-known places. Here are some of your favorites.<\/a><\/p>\n Pain: <\/strong>Getting an IUD hurts. Why aren\u2019t more women offered pain relief?<\/a><\/p>\n E-commerce: <\/strong>With retailers like Shopify rolling out chatbots, this holiday shopping season might be the first to be powered by A.I.<\/a><\/p>\n Losing hair, gaining followers:<\/strong> Hair-loss influencers say they are destigmatizing an insecurity. Critics say they are cashing in on a vulnerable audience<\/a>.<\/p>\n Quiet superfood: <\/strong>Flaxseeds have many potential benefits<\/a>, from boosting heart health to lowering inflammation. But they can\u2019t do everything.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n If you\u2019ve got big holiday cookie plans this year (and how could you not, with this recipe lineup<\/a> from NYT Cooking?), a couple handy little tools will make the messy, sugar-dusted operation go smoother. As the senior editor of Wirecutter\u2019s kitchen coverage, I swear by a good bench scraper and nimble offset spatula from our guide to holiday cookie baking gear<\/a>. Use the bench scraper to divide dough, scoop up a pile of chopped nuts, level a measuring cup or scrape your counter clean. The offset spatula can deftly smooth frosting, spread jam or pry a delicate cut-out cookie from the counter. <\/span>\u2014 Marguerite Preston<\/em><\/p>\n Texas vs. Nebraska, N.C.A.A. volleyball championship: <\/strong>Early this season, Nebraska became the center of the volleyball universe when the team drew more than 92,000 fans<\/a> to a match \u2014 setting a world record for attendance at a women\u2019s sporting event. They have lived up to the hype since then, going 33-1 and earning the No. 1 overall seed in the N.C.A.A. tournament. After sweeping Pitt in the semifinals, Nebraska will face Texas, last year\u2019s champions, in the finals. The teams have met in the championship twice before \u2014 in 2015 and 1995 \u2014 and Nebraska won both. Tomorrow at 3 p.m. Eastern on ABC.<\/em><\/p>\nTHE WEEK IN CULTURE<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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