Chatters aren’t necessarily better at extracting money from subscribers than a creator who handles her own inbox; in fact, they can be worse. “You should do your homework very well about who you hire,” a 29-year-old OnlyFans creator, who goes by Sonia LeBeau, told me. She has worked with agencies in the past and had…
Former bad boys of New York’s downtown art scene spent last Sunday in the polo fields of Greenwich, Conn., where the Brant Foundation Art Study Center held a pared-back opening for Spencer Sweeney, the artist, D.J. and party ringleader. Instead of a lavish affair with spit-roasted lamb, artists like Dan Colen, Nate Lowman and Tabboo!…
When she graduated from Hollywood High School in 1961, Carrie White did her hair up in a bubblegum-pink beehive. She had learned, she wrote in her memoir, that “if I could get my hair right, my life would work better.” After attending beauty school, she developed a reputation for getting other people’s hair right. And…
Both Jenny Dhoumo and Lauren Kirshenbaum found out on Instagram. Ms. Dhoumo, a 24-year-old New York University senior was in a cafe, doing schoolwork, when she saw a friend’s repost from Rolling Stone, announcing that Taylor Swift would speak at the N.Y.U. commencement this month and receive an honorary doctorate of fine arts. Ms. Dhoumo,…
“With privacy, it’s like, once it’s out, it’s out,” Professor Meiklejohn said. Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, a physician and the director of Women on Waves, a nonprofit that provides resources for abortion seekers, found this to be the case when she tried setting up her own crypto wallet. “It had exactly the same diligence requests as…
Courtesy In the inimitable words of Blink 182, “work sucks, I know.” Or maybe it doesn’t; maybe you love your job—I hope you do. But even if so, there’s no denying that the mass return to office is…an adjustment. Now that many business and corporations are trending away from WFH, it means we’re making like…
I am an advertising professional who lives in Brooklyn, with a closet biased toward work wear and American heritage brands, but I will soon be moving to Los Angeles. How do I adjust my wardrobe to embrace the new climate and lifestyle? I don’t want to adopt a completely foreign or uncomfortable style, yet I…
Less than two weeks ahead of the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death, which spawned a global reckoning over racism and policy brutality, and on a smaller but nonetheless visible scale, a lack of diversity within the fashion industry, an impressive range of talent, including Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing, gathered at Parsons School of…
There’s just such a pleasure in seeing a woman being able to use her talents and do well, you know? And then when I see a policewoman directing traffic, for example, I always just wave at her and say thank you. Then there is, of course, the broader critique of modern feminism: that it has…
Today’s Love Letter is written by Anna Martin, the host and a producer of the Modern Love podcast. I spent most of middle school listening to Usher’s “U Got It Bad.” It was almost uncanny; the ballad seemed to have been written expressly for me and my debilitating obsession with a drummer in a church…