This week’s Fashion on Fifth is dedicated to my favorite subversive footwear style, the tabi! A tabi is defined by a split toe that separates a person’s big toe from the rest, just like a flip flop does. The tabi’s split toe is thought to promote agility and mobility. (Yes, they are actually comfortable!) However, in 1988, Belgian designer Martin Margiela was inspired by the Japanese tabi style and debuted it on the runway for the first time. Shock, revolt, then obsession followed. The rest is history.
Category: Series
Cook-ING: Easy and cozy banana bread
Welcome to Cook-ING, a biweekly series where writer Ingrid Doubleday (Ingrid, ING, get it?) shares recipe ideas and reviews, meal prepping tips, dinner party plans, and other fun cooking related tidbits, stories, and snacks. This week we’ll be Cook-ING — or better yet Bak-ING — banana bread!
Writes & Bites: Ariston Flowers and nurturing your authorial texture
Welcome to Writes & Bites — a series where Creative Writing MFA student Arianna Gundlach periodically reviews a place in New York City you could write at and tackles a writing topic that has been weighing on your mind. This week we look at Ariston Flowers & Café located at 78 Fifth Ave., right across from the University Center.
Fashion on Fifth: Baby, it’s cold outside
This week’s Fashion on Fifth is all about the accessories we wear to stay warm during the winter. In the midst of recent snowfall, accessories are not only necessities, they also transform functional clothes into fashionable outfits. While some go to class with minimal layers, other students opt for wool trench coats, scarves, and mohair hats. From students shuffling out of bed to those with hour-long commutes to class, New Schoolers are finding ways to keep warm from the first snowy winter in over a year.
Restaurant Diary: Williamsburg’s savory breakfast gem, Claudia’s
Restaurant Diary is a biweekly series where food writer Clementine Hecker reviews restaurants that stand out among the millions of options in New York City’s restaurant scene. This week, they look at Claudia’s, a small family-owned restaurant serving traditional Guatemalan cuisine on a quiet part of Bushwick Avenue.
Love, Lucy: Friends in the classroom
NSFP’s advice column Love, Lucy provides some words of wisdom to those who share classes with friends who don’t always put in the work. (Let’s be honest, we all know that person.) And while friends can be great assets to the classroom as group project buddies, study buddies, or someone to rant to about homework, they can also be major distractions.