Although they attended the same high school in Rochester Hills, Mich., Julia Marie Gerard and Adam Edward Romund never crossed paths until their senior year. They were placed in the same personal finance class and became fast friends. The two began spending more time together outside of class, attempting to prepare for their A.P. calculus…
I wanted to hide. With my bald head and saliva-caked cheeks, I hadn’t had enough time to gauge my tolerance for being seen by someone I once wanted to find me pretty. “Dad,” I said, “this is my friend Kevin.” I didn’t try to explain our history to my father. The only clear memory I…
How Garrison Anne Rufa and Theodore Joseph Lavoie didn’t meet before they did is a mystery to them both. The two were avid snowboarders growing up in New England, which has a tight-knit snowboarding community. Ms. Rufa was so involved in the sport that when she was 15 her family relocated from Little Silver, N.J.,…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. On the spring 2024 runways, you famously couldn’t go five feet without running into a ruffle, rosette, or bow. Now, the style is devouring TikTok too, with ribbons adorning everything from TV remotes to chicken tenders. Fashion’s wave of sweetness may…
What happened to fun? In the clinical white of the gallery, art can be forbidding, aggrieved, elite, academic. Shouldn’t it also, sometimes, be joyous? The collaborators behind Luna Luna thought so. This was the amusement park staged in Hamburg, Germany, in 1987, where nearly 30 professional artists including Basquiat, Hockney and Dalí designed the rides.…
What is the happiest dog you can imagine? Is it beaming with joy on a celestial plane or frolicking in a field of psychedelic flora? If those images are hard to conjure, have no fear, or perhaps a healthy dose of it: Artificial intelligence can vivify even the most absurd scenarios in vibrant color, and…
Of course, we must begin with the bag that started it all. Fendi’s baguette truly exists in a league of its own—as Carrie Bradshaw once exclaimed, “It’s not a bag, it’s a baguette!” We especially love this style’s monogrammed print, as it further celebrates the brand’s heritage. Colors: Marron Dimensions: Width: 2 inches; height: 5.1…
On a recent morning, Anna Chiu, co-founder of the womenswear brand Kamperett, received an email from somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. An acquaintance from a few years back was on a flight to San Francisco, where she’d be hosting a TED Talk. Noticeably nervous and wanting to look and feel her best, her first order…
One video opens with a large white leather handbag covered in the signature LV logo of Louis Vuitton. Within milliseconds, a hand with a switchblade swoops in and slashes a huge gash in the side of the bag before tearing it apart at its seams. In another, the distinctive red sole of Christian Louboutin is…
Fi Cotter Craig, a television producer in Britain, was scrolling through Instagram one day when she was struck by a photo. “I saw my friend wearing a jacket that I actually thought I would kill her for,” Ms. Cotter Craig said. “Rather than kill her, I rang her up and said, ‘Where did you get…