How hard did age hit you? We ask, because by now you’ve seen or participated in social media’s #10YearChallenge, the latest viral internet craze asking users to compare photos of themselves from 2008/2009 and 2018/2019 (your choice), and for some there was a drastic change. But for Olivia Culpo, former Miss Universe star, it’s her…
Image CreditFranziska Barczyk Welcome to In Her Words, where women rule the headlines. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Let me know what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com. “March with one of them. But march.”— Gloria Steinem, responding to news that there would be competing women’s marches in New York City Days…
PARIS — When Chris Brown and Gunna fired up spliffs in the front row at the Yohji Yamamoto show on Thursday, it was a sure signal that fashion had crossed into new territory. The outlines of the landscape we’ve now entered are starkly unlike the one that came before in ways that are as much…
PARIS — Every so often a show comes along to remind us of the toll taken on an entire creative generation by AIDS, the disease many people pretend has ceased to exist in the era of PrEP preventive drugs. Growing up in dusty, dry Porterville, Calif., without a television, and with little access to news…
Carmen Ejogo leapt in the air and grasped two lengths of silk, each the color of arterial blood. She took a deep breath, fell back and spun upside-down in the middle of a warehouse in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. “Whoooo!” she yelled, squeezing her legs together to increase her speed. Ms. Ejogo, 45, who…
PARIS — “Warning!!” the T-shirt read. “What you are about to witness will disturb you. Even shock you. There is a dark side of humanity the censors won’t let you see … but we will.” That’s a Vetements promise. Shock and awe are arrows in the quiver. “View at your own risk” is the T-shirt’s…
Name: James DeSantis Age: 30 Hometown: Sylvan Beach, N.Y. Now lives: In a two-bedroom apartment in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Claim to fame: Mr. DeSantis is one-third of the Manscapers, a landscape design firm in Brooklyn with an eclectic clientele drawn from the city’s cultural fauna. Along with his longtime pals Garrett Magee and…
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A personal massager, a sperm counter, virtual-reality pornography, something described as “the world’s first ebook-driven sex toy”: All of these products have been exhibited at CES, the country’s largest consumer electronics convention. Two of them won awards there. So Lora Haddock was surprised when Osé, a hands-free sex toy she designed with a team of…