Pasta Times Two

Hi, everyone! Margaux Laskey here filling in for Emily this week. It’s a stunningly beautiful spring day where I am, like a Gerda Muller picture book come to life (except with sirens and aggressive pigeons). There’s a whisper of chill in the air, but the sun is bright, and I’m thinking this might be the…

A High School Reunion for Two

After a long absence from the dating scene, Courtneye Barrett made her presence felt three years ago on Bumble, when she parked her cursor on the profile, “John C., 53’s,” which belonged to John Capshaw, a bearded, blue-eyed man. The first sentence in Mr. Capshaw’s profile put a smile on the face of Ms. Barrett,…

Is Fashion Hacking the Future? Gucci Says Yes.

Gucci is singing a brand-new tune. (Emphasis on “brand.” Or maybe “branded.”) The designer Alessandro Michele called his newest show “Aria” — he rejected the whole spring-summer, fall-winter groupings as false seasonal equivalencies at the start of the pandemic — but a more appropriate name for the first salvo of the company’s centenary year might…