Jo Copeland designed glamorous couture clothes for the rich and famous. But while she was an extraordinary designer, she was a disaster as a mother.

Willow Smith, Elle Fanning, among others, are now "style icons." Are we warping what it means to be a kid?

As a new mom, I'd started to feel invisible. Then, with four little letters, a college kid proved I wasn't

How to help your kid be happy and secure in a media-heavy, appearance-obsessed culture

Researchers hit the party scene armed with notebooks and Breathalyzers -- their findings are "sobering."

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Straight, confused and longing for acceptance, I tried to start a sorority at Sarah Lawrence. What could go wrong?

Applauding the new range of Barbies is easy—teaching kids to look beyond their plastic toys for self-worth is hard

Louis Meisel, the king of the pinup, celebrates the goddesses of all-American flesh.

Katie Roiphe defends risque jokes at work, but then an arts story wonders if women comics are going too far

Spears is the flight attendant without a plane, the girl next door to a house never built.

Many parents shelter their daughters from the expectations of beauty norms. Maybe it's doing more harm than good

As clothing comes to signify less and less about a person, I wonder if I should bother getting dressed at all.

E.J. Bellocq's enigmatic New Orleans whorehouse photos still inspire wonder.

A young woman with big dreams for her future confronts the confusing and unexpected ticking of her biological clock