Last week, Modern Love and WBUR hosted a Valentine’s Day event at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. The actor William Jackson Harper read Ryan Pfeffer’s essay, “Your Dog Has Seen Me Naked,” in front of a live audience. Listen to Mr. Harper’s reading on this week’s Modern Love podcast. Mr. Pfeffer is the associate…
Karl Lagerfeld stole his famously pampered cat, Choupette, and was not ashamed to say so. “Choupette belonged to a friend of mine who asked if my maid could take care of her for two weeks when he was away,” Mr. Lagerfeld, the designer who died in Paris on Tuesday, told The Cut in 2015. “When…
What’s black, white and striped all over — except for its head? Horses wearing zebra coats on a farm in Britain. The animals weren’t attending a masquerade. They were dressed for studies investigating a mystery that has puzzled scientists for more than a century. With solid coats of brown or gray, “most mammals are pretty…
Looks from the LBV Care of Joss Sackler line.CreditNick Ferrari Photography CreditNick Ferrari Photography Last week, at the tail end of New York Fashion Week, in a private suite at the Soho Grand Hotel, models with Day-Glo yellow eyelashes and matching parkas dotted the room. They held handbags with the initials LBV molded in gold,…
Do black and brown match? Ask the Google search bar. It’s been asked (typed?) the question so many millions of times, even its “related” searches are basically the same. Google.com Of course, you should wear what you want. But black and brown as a runway-approved trend, instead of an enigmatic choice or a UPS uniform,…
Getty ImagesJohn van Hasselt – Corbis Karl Lagerfeld, the prodigious designer behind Chanel and Fendi, opens up about whose body he’d like to have, his greatest indulgence, what he really thinks about fashion, and much more. Other than yourself, who is your favorite designer? Difficult to give just one name. Miuccia, Nicolas, Stefano, Riccardo, Alber,…
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Image Wales Bonner, fall 2019CreditTom Jamieson for The New York Times LONDON — On the outside of the envelope that contained the invitation to Grace Wales Bonner’s fall show were stamped a few lines by the American writer Ishmael Reed: “I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch…
Stonewall Was a Riot “I would like to see a Pen-Pal Club initiated?” That was question eleven on confidential survey sent to members of the Mattachine Society, a midcentury gay and lesbian rights group. Reflecting the risk of being openly L.G.B.T. in the 1960s, an anonymous respondent circled “no,” adding, by typewriter: “Could lead to…
There are some lessons that can only be learned after your wedding day. We asked our readers to share some of what they had learned from their trips down the aisle. Here is a selection of tales of lost rings, ripped gowns and sweaty nuptials from former brides and grooms. Image Amelia Hoffman with her…