Von Dutch and the Conquest of Cool

Getty Images; Courtesy of Hulu Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Paris Hilton, one of the most prominent Von Dutch wearers in the label’s heyday, is asked at one point in the Hulu miniseries The Curse of Von Dutch if she would ever re-wear their pieces. “Probably…

‘The Odds Were Stacked Against Us’

Kelsey Reynolds and Kamah Asha Wilson call themselves “hopeful romantics.” “We are a lesbian-queer, interracial, progressively Christian couple in the Deep South, from conservative families. The intersectional and circumstantial odds were stacked against us,” said Mx. Reynolds, who is nonbinary and uses gender-neutral courtesy titles and pronouns. Ms. Wilson was facing an internal battle that…

Lorde Performs at Guggenheim Gala

The Guggenheim International Gala took place Nov. 17 with a black-tie dinner and a performance by Lorde. The gala, which was sponsored by Dior, honored Etel Adnan, Jennie C. Jones, Cecilia Vicuña, Gillian Wearing, and Phyllis and Bill Mack. And the Alzheimer’s Association raised more than $600,000 for Alzheimer’s research and care at its fund-raising…

House Passes Biden’s Build Back Better Bill

WASHINGTON — The House on Friday narrowly passed the centerpiece of President Biden’s domestic agenda, approving $2 trillion in spending over the next decade to battle climate change, expand health care and reweave the nation’s social safety net, over the unanimous opposition of Republicans. The bill’s passage, 220 to 213, came after weeks of cajoling,…