Kyle Long and Skylar Simpson matched on Tinder in March 2019, during a period when both were reaching their limits on dating apps and hoping to find someone serious. They started chatting, and within 48 hours they met at food hall in Denver and spent hours getting to know each other. They were among the…
The concept of museum-worthy clothes is arguably as old as museums themselves. But only in modern history did blockbuster fashion exhibits really take off. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 2018 exhibition “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” drew some 1.6 million guests, according to the museum. “Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design,” an…
I was raised in Los Angeles by a designer for Pauline Trigère, but now I live in rural Ohio. I took a long break from fashion after escaping a domestic violence situation; jeans and T-shirts, and no makeup was my “disguise.” I’m tired of this, and would really like to figure out a new style.…
Mr. Drici explained that the brand’s needs for watchmaking knowledge had evolved in recent years. “For example, we need qualified watchmaking operators on our assembly lines that we train through a two-year watchmaking training,” he wrote. “For our customer service department, we require experienced watchmakers who can perform acts of restoration, while we will look…
Party at a magazine store? That was the story behind a cool-kid takeover of Iconic Magazine at the corner of Mulberry and Kenmare Streets in SoHo, hosted by the skateboarder-turned-actor Evan Mock for JuneShine, a hard kombucha brand. The March 16 event drew an overflow crowd of downtown scenesters including the rapper Asap Ferg, the…
For decades the New York theater world paid homage to J. Smith-Cameron, a veteran stage actress who has often been compared to Carole Lombard for her precise timing and comic verve. When she wasn’t doing Molière or Shakespeare, she was impressing critics and her fellow actors with her performances in plays by Paul Rudnick, John…
Remember when eager fitness enthusiasts had to wait a few months for their Pelotons to arrive? Or when cycling devotees were outraged when SoulCycle classes filled up in 42 seconds? Those were the good old days. Today, those coveting a lavish workout experience may do everything short of getting on their knees and begging to…
She set about changing that, beginning by updating the thinking of the board of directors. “Their attitude was, ‘Women aren’t interested in sex,’” Ms. Gold said. She proved them wrong, marketing sexy lingerie, swimwear, sex toys and novelty items to women, who, she discovered, were eager for them. According to news accounts of the period,…
On Reddit, the online platform where people go for advice, conspiracy theories and N.S.F.W. everything, there’s one “porn” community that’s just about the furthest thing from salacious you can imagine: “Penmanship Porn.” There, users share photos and videos of beautiful penmanship — their own or others. Additional Reddit communities in this constellation offer a safe…
All too often, remaining a publicly viable woman in the second half of life means — paradoxically — doing one’s utmost to look like one is still in the first half of life. Being visible as a woman, that is, requires making one’s age invisible. It’s a conflictual, not to say crazy-making diktat, to follow.…