Name: Marie Tomanova Age: 36 Hometown: Mikulov, Czech Republic, a castle-laden town near the Austrian border. Now Lives: In a one-bedroom apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with her husband, Thomas Beachdel, an art historian and curator. Claim to Fame: Ms. Tomanova is a photographer and wide-eyed documentarian of New York who uses…
Recently I popped on a favorite T-shirt purchased some years ago. It fits nicely, but I noticed that it was a size large. The tees I’ve bought more recently have been XS/petite, and yet often they’re too roomy. Has something happened to women’s clothing sizes? Are they being inflated? Please explain. — Barbara, White Plains,…
Leah RomeroGetty Images After the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by police, the protests that ensued during the summer of 2020 cornered a number of industries into publicly declaring their support for the Black community. Fashion was no exception. Long-known for its less-than-stellar reputation for racial diversity, brands across all facets of the…
Gayle Brandeis, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, wasn’t sure if her marriage could rebound from her obsession with another man. However, a glimmer of hope arrived in the form of an unexpected 98 percent match on a dating app. That match was with her husband, and from there they were able to…
It’s been a long 18 months spent languishing in soft clothes, but, finally, fashion is making a comeback on the streets of New York City. It also returned to the stage of New York City Ballet. On Thursday, the company resurrected its Fall Fashion Gala at Lincoln Center with two new ballets dressed up in…
The actress Ann Dowd stood straight-backed at the helm, hands gripping the wheel, eyes fixed on the green-gray-blue river spread before her like a rumpled blanket. The Statue of Liberty beckoned just beyond. “Everyone looks awesome behind the wheel of a sailboat,” Jonathan Horvath, the captain, said. “But some people look more awesome than others.”…
The Metropolitan Opera reopened on Sept. 27 with a performance of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” — the first opera at the Met by a Black composer. Because of the pandemic, there was no red carpet or cocktail reception for the opening night gala, a traditional high point of the fall social…
PARIS — The thick, white fog rolled across the plaza of the Musée d’Art Moderne on a gorgeous sunny day like a scrim of cotton wadding, fuzzing the view, making it hard to see what was coming next. It was the Rick Owens show, but the clouding of reality seemed awfully familiar. The symbolism is…
A world defined by lockdowns and curfews meant that Gabriela Hearst’s debut show as Chloé creative director in March was a digital one. This week, however, on the sun-dappled banks of the Seine, the Uruguayan-born designer — who shows her namesake brand in New York — presented the Chloé spring 2022 collection to a live…
Some TikTok creators have become successful on the video platform by dancing, singing or performing everyday tasks. Miles Laflin has amassed 11 million followers by cleaning pools. Better known by his moniker, @thep00lguy, Mr. Laflin, a swimming pool engineer from Britain, posts short videos to his channel that take viewers through the often laborious process…