Hasta el día de hoy, no sé si aquella primera noche fue una cita. Millie y yo, después de todo, nos conocimos a través de Tinder. Aunque yo especifiqué que solo buscaba amigos, mi presencia en una aplicación para ligar quizás implicaba que estaba abierta a algo más. Para complicar aún más las cosas, ninguna…
This article is part of a series examining Responsible Fashion, and innovative efforts to address issues facing the fashion industry. What makes the perfect thrifted T-shirt? For the designer Erin Beatty, it’s often in the texture — not too stiff nor too soft, and worn enough for the color to be muted but not faded.…
There are stressful moments, as with “Moulin Rouge!”, when Mr. Luhrmann and Ms. Martin found a fax someone accidentally left in the machine with an urgent plea to the studio to come and take over because “Baz is out of control.” But if it isn’t impossibly difficult to birth, it isn’t Baz-y. C.M., as Ms.…
“I was a big fan of seeing the insides of other people’s houses, especially people who were slightly famous like Melissa,” Frances, the narrator of Sally Rooney’s “Conversations With Friends,” says early on in the novel. Homeownership is a remote concept for Frances, a millennial college student in Dublin who writes and performs spoken word…
Everyone’s been playing Dungeons & Dragons without you: your co-workers, Anderson Cooper, Tiffany Haddish. More than 50 million people worldwide have “interacted” with D&D since it was created in the mid-1970s, according to its publisher, and while that number also includes movies, video games, books, television and livestreams, it doesn’t factor in the number of…
I often hear about avoiding fast fashion because it’s better for the planet, in part because it is highly disposable and people cycle it through to the landfill too quickly. But can I feel just a little less guilty about my fast fashion if I hold on to my clothes until they wear out? I’m…
Leading by Example In the past six months, my organization approved the optional inclusion of pronouns in email signatures. I learned that one of my team members uses nonbinary pronouns. In my written communication and conversation about that team member, I now use those pronouns, but I notice that no one else has made the…
“Trying to be a girl for me felt like gathering sand in my hands: there, tangible, but not something I was allowed to keep,” August Singer, who is transmasculine, writes in this week’s Modern Love essay. “My sister knew about my gender first because I told her everything first.” “My mother was the last to…
The only place you see Mr. Abloh in the installation is in a short video filmed last year in his Paris studio during the design process. But it’s hard not to understand this release as a breathing extension of his life’s work. A hip-hop staple, manufactured by hand in Italy, full of nods to connoisseurs…
Name: Amiri Nash Age: 20 Hometown: Washington, D.C. Now Lives: Mr. Nash lives on-campus at Brown University in the Harambee House, a residence for Black students. Claim to Fame: Mr. Nash, a sophomore at Brown, is a journalist, activist and poet who was named Washington’s Youth Poet Laureate in 2021. He was part of a…