PARIS — “Inclusivity, diversity, no gender binaries — he was the first one,” said Olivier Rousteing, otherwise known as the creative director of Balmain, ticking off the issues at the forefront of identity politics. He was talking about the designer Jean Paul Gaultier, who retired from his eponymous house in 2020. Since then, a rotating…
Reggie Clark and Jamie MoCrazy were immediately drawn to each other after meeting through a mutual friend in June 2017 at a Bar Named Sue near Salt Lake City, where he lived. They bonded over a shared love for the outdoors. “We quickly made a lot of plans for trips,” Mr. Clark said, which, he…
I have moved five times in the decade since, and they have never reappeared. For years I grieved those pearls — the wasteful expense, the irresponsible loss. I imagined someone at Goodwill stumbling across the leather pouch while sorting through my bags of unwanted clothes, reveling in the little treasure. I hope they found a…
When Madelyn Elizabeth Krebs and Tyler Christopher Fox met in August 2013, she was starting her second year at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a high school in Durham, and he was beginning his first. The two went to lunch with some classmates at a local diner. By chance, they sat down…
Tara Cannistraci was finishing dinner with a friend at El Barrio in Scarsdale, N.Y., in early May 2017, when Michael Todd Mondrone, a part owner of the Mexican restaurant, sent over some sorbet as a way to introduce himself. “She thanked me on her way out,” Mr. Mondrone said. “I asked her to stay.” Ms.…
When Amina Elise Colter walked into Barcelona Wine Bar 45 minutes late and sat down for her first date with Jason Michael Jones, he sensed that his waitress and nearby tables wanted to cheer. And so did he. “I’m sitting here by myself,” Mr. Jones said of that night in Atlanta in September 2018. “I…
Charlie Kelly was so sure of a relationship with Jean Paul Broc Gomez that he began to think of ways to spend more time together before their first date officially got started. “Love at first sight is a real phenomenon and we were lucky enough to live it,” Mr. Kelly, 30, said. The pair were…