Nell Mescal describes herself as “chronically online.” So chronically online that she regularly breaks one of the internet’s cardinal rules and searches for her own name on Twitter. It occasionally turns up some funny stuff. Like a tweet from January in which a stranger admitted to not knowing anything about Ms. Mescal’s brother, the actor…
“Not many people knew that I worked for her,” Ms. Rilling said. Relatively few know even now that she confected the delicately pleated gown, its colors intensifying from dusty pink to flame, that Mrs. Obama wore for the unveiling of her White House portrait. Joining forces with Meredith Koop, Mrs. Obama’s longtime stylist, Ms. Rilling…
This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity in design is changing the way the world looks. Victor Glemaud, a 45-year-old Haitian-born designer of statement knitwear, has busied himself with patterns for nearly his entire career. But only after introducing his first home goods for the textiles…
Sexually transmitted infections have soared in recent years in the United States, prompting an urgent search for solutions. New research suggests that a widely available antibiotic, taken after sex, may help stem the tide. A single dose of doxycycline taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex dramatically cuts the risk of a bacterial S.T.I., studies…
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This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity in design is changing the way the world looks. Calling attention to commonplace accessories, humdrum crafts, misplaced masterpieces and blithe inequities is a focus of much contemporary design scholarship. We see it on a global scale in several new…
This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity in design is changing the way the world looks. In 2020, Jomo Tariku, a furniture designer who was born in Kenya and raised in Ethiopia and who had a second career as a data scientist with the World Bank,…
This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity in design is changing the way the world looks. Growing up in federal public housing on the Oneida Indian reservation five miles west of Green Bay, Wis., Chris Cornelius did not envision a future as an architect. He was…
The photos immediately started winning awards, but Ms. Bright found that many white viewers could not get over their own internal stereotypes. “I was told by a publisher I didn’t have enough signifiers in there to show the work was Black,” she said. A consultant told her, “This looks like my house. There is a…
This article is part of our Design special section on how the recent push for diversity in design is changing the way the world looks. Even when Tione Trice was a child in Atlanta in the 1990s, he nurtured a love for a design style he called African Essentialism that was nothing like the Eurocentric…