On a Saturday in June 2018, Vaibhavi Kamat, then a rising senior at North Carolina State, took a seat at a busy table at Darbar Indian Cuisine, a restaurant in Manhattan. Soon, she was talking to Jaideep Rao, then a rising senior at the University of Mississippi. Ms. Kamat and Mr. Rao had each traveled…
The first time Elizabeth Maia Wexler met Eric Ryan Hollenberg, she didn’t see the bottom half of his face. The pair initially connected on the dating app Bumble in March 2020. They had been sporadically messaging for months when, that June, they realized that they both happened to be vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts,…
Your skin is home to a thousand kinds of bacteria, and the ways they contribute to healthy skin are still largely mysterious. This mystery may be getting even more complex: In a paper published Thursday in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, researchers studying the many varieties of Cutibacterium acnes bacteria on 16 human volunteers…
The red carpet is a financial exchange — the most high-profile of red carpets, at least. If the E! Network has at least one microphone-wielding staffer on standby, there is serious money on the table. But like many financial exchanges, its transactions are often opaque. Fashion brands pay undisclosed amounts of money for celebrities to…
As a result, Ms. Scharf said she became “so fragile and needy,” adding, “I feared I was being a burden on Robby” to the point that she “worried his compassion tank would run out, or he’d lose patience with me and want to leave.” Ms. Scharf said that “facing our difficulties head-on” with the help…
“The whole nudity thing is me exploring my sexuality, which goes back to being from West Texas,” Mr. Mooney said. “It was very much, like, ‘You’re gay, you’re bad, sex is not until marriage.’ Had I seen images of queer men being proud of their bodies, I think that would have made growing up a…
Welcome. I’ve become fixated on the nook, on making it so comfortable and inviting that uninterrupted hours of reading will have no choice but to happen within it. It’s less nook and more corner, a corner where an old wingback chair has been residing for two years. The chair was once part of a guest-friendly…
Courtesy Prada x Adidas New year, new fashion! Thankfully, 2022 promises to (hopefully) bring a dose of optimism in regards to style. Keep your eyes on this list as we make note of the best fashion news, collaborations, and launches happening this January. Advertisement – Continue Reading Below 1 Who: Prada and Adidas What: The…
It’s the first week of the new year, but the competition to win the 2022 fashion collaboration game, that ever-escalating race to come up with the most eye-popping, head-shaking counterintuitive pairing of brands, has already begun. First out of the gate: Balmain, the French high fashion house, and Barbie, the ultimate plastic doll. It may…
Asking yourself “do I need a new bikini?” can usually be answered with a resounding “no,” but it doesn’t hurt to look, right? And if you end up buying a new suit, that’s totally fine, because bikinis are never not in style, not to mention you can mix and match tops and bottoms to your…