This week, I and fellow editors of Vows and Modern Love published “Terms of Endearment,” a special project on language and love. In it, we explore why some husbands choose to take their wives’ last names, and how the language of therapy has infiltrated dating. We look at how couples who speak different languages express…
LONDON — The invitation to the memorial service for Vivienne Westwood came with a last specific command from the late designer herself: “When in doubt, dress up!” The congregation at Southwark Cathedral on Thursday afternoon — the eve of London Fashion Week — had clearly taken those words to heart. Attendees spilled into the historic…
In May 2022, Kevin Patrick Gleeson upended his life. He was in the process of dissolving his marriage with his second wife, had retired, left Woodside, Queens, where he had lived for the majority of his life, and relocated to Macon, Ga. He had no idea that love would uproot him once more a few…
For much of New York Fashion Week, temperatures hovered on the warmer side of cool. The crowds, in turn, ditched the dark, drab layers that typically characterize the style outside the February shows for more creative outfits. Some of that creativity came in micro doses. Among the black leather jackets, seemingly a staple for cool…
You’ll meet his bloodshot, menacing gaze in any number of neighborhoods in New York, his mouth stretched into an open, hungry grin, his tentacle-like limbs ready to envelop you. On Mott Street in Chinatown, he is lashed to display racks in front of shops selling New York City-themed cooking aprons or “Got Weed?” T-shirts; in…
“Because we had grown so close on a spiritual level during our long-distance relationship, when we moved in together it felt so familiar, like we had dated in person over the last year and a half,” Mr. Plaza said. “We knew and loved everything about each other.” Mr. Plaza proposed on Jan. 29, 2022. He…
Hundreds of runway shows will have taken place in New York, London, Milan and Paris by the end of those four cities’ consecutive fashion weeks — or fashion month. Even for the most clothes-obsessed, that’s a lot to keep up with. And what happens inside the fall 2023 shows is only part of the action:…
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Tory Burch, onetime muse of the Pierre-Park Avenue set, captured the moment perfectly in a show literally predicated on imbalance: purposefully “broken” heels, logos sliding off handbags, slithery satin dresses buttoned wrong-side ’round. The familiar rendered, subtly, wrong — which made it seem very right, one of the ironies of fashion. It’s not an accident…
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