You’re reading In Her Words, where women rule the headlines. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Let me know what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com. This year, with the future of Roe v. Wade newly in question after the appointment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a rash of abortion-related…
ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULATGetty Images On Monday, Rihanna made the unusual decision to skip the Met Ball, an event that she regularly dominates. On Friday, it was confirmed that she would be creating an original fashion line for LVMH under the Fenty name. The first collection is set to be released for spring 2019–in other words, any…
Name: Sage Adams Age: 22 Hometown: Brooklyn Now Lives: In a five-bedroom house in Hidden Hills, Calif., with two roommates. Claim to Fame: Mx. Adams, who identifies as gender nonconforming, is an artist who works as the creative director for SZA, the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter. “A lot of my work is trying to figure out how…
Image Rihanna at her Savage x Fenty show in New York in 2018.CreditNina Westervelt for The New York Times Get ready for the second coming of Fenty. On Friday, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group, officially confirmed not only that the fashion line created by Rihanna was becoming part of its…
In the coastal city of Lima, street art is plastered on many of the weathered colonial buildings in the bohemian barrio of Barranco, the neighborhood where the celebrated chef Virgilio Martínez reopened his world-famous Central restaurant last June. [How coveted is a table at Central? Some people build their trips around a reservation there.] “It…
Chronic constipation often accompanies depression. Using a mouse model, researchers investigated why this relationship might occur. They have also tested an experimental drug with encouraging results. Depression and constipation often go hand in hand. Over the years, scientists have found strong links between psychiatric disorders and an increased risk of constipation, particularly in older adults.…
It was a most unusual message from a health official: People should be allowed to eat, drink and smoke as they see fit. Norway’s new minister in charge of public health said this week that adults did not need government lectures about what to put in their bodies, but it sounded a bit like she…
NEW YORK – Thursday, May 9, 2019. Michael Kors is pleased to announce that the following women wore Michael Kors Collection, and the men wore Michael Kors Mens, to a private dinner celebrating the Old Bond Street townhouse store opening on Thursday, May 9, 2019, in London, UK. Kate Moss wore a black wool-crepe-broadcloth jacket,…
When Gabriel Friedman came into Laura Hamm’s life in July 2015, she was already living with someone she had met 10 months earlier at an IHOP in Baton Rouge, La. “We began living together almost immediately after I met him, and my parents were very concerned about that decision,” said Ms. Hamm, who was born…
“Oh my God, this is going to be amazing,” a preadolescent wearing a gray hoodie exclaimed as he dashed in to The Yard, a 50,000-square-foot adventure playground on Governors Island in New York Harbor. The Yard, for kids 6 through 13, lacks the usual monkey bars, slides and swings. It is, however, well-stocked with dismembered…