“For a long time, I focused on what the intensity of my emotions has taken from me. But my feelings also have given me the ability to imagine vivid possibilities.” In this week’s Modern Love essay, “No Longer Running From My Emotions,” Gabriela Fowler writes about her struggles with depression and her fear of being…
Every September marks a season of new beginnings. Summer is finally over, kids are back in school, and New York Fashion Week is officially upon us. This year is shaping up to be the biggest one in recent memory, with just over 100 designers showing IRL and online, including a few Europeans. We’re hitting the…
The mayor of New York City is not a labels guy. “I see something that I like, I’m going to move toward it,” Eric Adams said Thursday evening during an interview in the formal French-wallpapered dining room of Gracie Mansion. “Sometimes I think people focus too much on a designer,” he added, when asked if…
“David would be very impressed with this film,” he added. What Morgen didn’t realize was how much making the film would change him, especially after he had a debilitating heart attack, at 47. He flatlined and was in a coma for a week, he said in a phone interview. He emerged with a mind-set that…
Bethany Simko didn’t mean for claw clips to become her TikTok claim to fame. If it weren’t for one forgetful moment earlier this summer, they might never have been. Not all hair accessories are created equal. Finding a claw clip that works for your particular combination of head shape, hair texture and length can be…
Early this year JetBlue stopped bringing in professional cleaning crews to clean tray tables between flights, something they started doing in the spring of 2020, according to a flight attendant. Similarly, by August 2020, Southwest said it had stopped disinfecting armrests and seatbelts between flights. Tidying up chips on the floor, of course, is different…
When I bumped into him on the street in Rome last summer, we hadn’t seen each other for nearly a decade. You know how people say that you’ll fall in love when you least expect it? I am never not expecting it. On every plane, at every coffee shop, I’m always hoping for a spark…
Jordan Leigh Rutter and Vincent Joseph Covatto both say a certain magnetism drew each to the other at Heartbeat Opera’s annual Halloween drag gala in October 2016. “There was just something about the energy I was getting from this person that was mesmerizing,” Mr. Covatto said of Mx. Rutter, who uses a gender neutral courtesy…
When Carly Lena Sophie Stein first saw Oliver Samuel Kremer’s profile on Hinge, she almost swiped left. “My bro radar went off,” Ms. Stein said. “He’s handsome. He’s fit.” And, thus, he wasn’t quite her type. But then she saw that he liked her favorite blog, Tim Urban’s “Wait But Why.” Her interest piqued, right…
Jennifer Noinaj didn’t think she would ever get married, but after a year with Andrew Perry Chu, who goes by his middle name, she changed her mind. “You know that feeling, you trust yourself?” she said. “I’d never felt that trust in anyone else except him. And it was at that point — that I…