Lisa Skolnik

The invite said "Dress to Impress." For most of the crowd at UNICEF's Designs of Hope gala at the InterContinental Hotel, it meant elegant black. Among those who made impressions:...

Spare me. If one more sappy human tries to pat my tummy or says I'm adorable, I'm going to . . . . Anyway, I'm sooo tired. Stop flirting with...

Flowers bloom. We can too. "Especially in our later years, when life is less complicated and we're not forced to spread ourselves all over the place," says Connie Goldman, author...

Toshiko Mori, chair at Harvard Design School, thinks we have something exceptional over our coastal competitors--the McCormick Tribune Campus Center designed by Rem Koolhaas at the Illinois Institute of Technology....

To dye or not to dye? That seems to be a big issue for women in their 40s, when their silver strands are finally out in force. But bottle blonds...

Three French kings named Louis started it all. While they ruled, their fancies dictated the conventions and trends of the day--right down to food, fashion and furnishings. Rich and heavily...

Buying a sofa calls for sitting down on the job. What you see is just as important as what you don't, so ask about the sofa's frame, foundation, cushioning and...

Cocooning, the trend that Faith Popcorn identified in the early 1990s as a need to protect ourselves at home from the harsh realities of the outside world, is still going...

One pot, three ways: Do you long for a garden but lack time, space or access to a plot of land? The answer to your predicament is in one of...