A month after Rachel Christine Koppelman purchased a mountain bike from Gregory Alan Saxton, in October 2016, it was stolen from the bicycle shop where Mr. Saxton was working as the head mechanic. “When I came into the shop one day while working on the bike, it was gone,” said Mr. Saxton, who was doing…
In the bonus round of a March 2016 episode of “Wheel of Fortune,” Shawn Christopher Tracey Jones had 10 seconds on the clock and very few letters on the board. Pat Sajak, the show’s host, was readying him for defeat. “Obviously it’s challenging, but you know, keep talking. Stranger things have happened,” Mr. Sajak said.…
After it was reported that a typical New York Fashion Week emits up to 48,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, there were calls for the fashion weeks in London, Milan, New York and Paris to rein in their harmful environmental impacts. The booming digital fashion industry, with its virtual runways and NFTs, promises to make…
“It has a great granite-like reflection on it, which is bright, but also rugged and rough,” said Mx. Valle, who paid $2,250 for the ring from Kris Averi, a jewelry line in New York. Haley Biemiller, a co-founder of the jewelry line Venvs, which specializes in “atypical” stones including salt-and-pepper diamonds, says another style favored…
What can’t Selena Gomez do? The Disney Channel star turned singer, dancer, and actor sells out stadiums on the regular—she even has a cooking show. She happens to be one of our generation’s coolest fashion icons while doing all those fabulous things. And, the fact that she can be stylish in the wintertime has earned…
It looks at a glance like a monument, a towering edifice of painted wood and brass. But on closer inspection, it is a half-pint — a sculptural pendant that stands a mere 4 ¾ inches tall, one of the small but mighty jewelry designs the artist Louise Nevelson crafted for friends or wore like a…
For a particular corner of the internet, the world ended this summer. Several internet-famous WLW couples — an abbreviation for “women-loving women” — had made online announcements that they had split up, leading their followers to speculate about a so-called breakup curse. Followers of the drama called it the “lesbian breakup apocalypse,” and NBC News…
Name: Midori Francis Age: 28 Hometown: Rumson, N.J. Now Lives: In a two-bedroom apartment on the West Side of Los Angeles, which she moved into last summer. Claim to Fame: Ms. Francis is a queer Asian American actress who starred in “The Sex Lives of College Girls” on HBO and “Dash & Lily,” a young…
PARIS — The cavernous Stade Jean-Bouin, the rugby arena in the 16th Arrondissement, was heaving late Wednesday night. Around 7,000 people were munching French fries, clutching drinks, waving their phones in the air and otherwise waiting for the third Balmain Festival to begin. Backstage, reached through a maze of hallways, the designer Olivier Rousteing was…
They were standing in a Walmart parking lot when William’s wife turned to him and asked, “Are you gay?” Those three words catalyzed the end of their marriage, and the end of a 22-year partnership filled with many joys and rituals, including the haircuts William’s wife gave him. But those words were also an opportunity…