The intermarriage of fashion and music, streetwear and luxury, mass and elite, is about to reach its final frontier. The much rumored collaboration between the power mononyms, cultural influencers and BFFs Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Demna (formerly known as Demna Gvasalia, the creative director of Balenciaga) has come to fruition with the…
While similar legislation regarding due diligence is being debated in the European Union, and while Germany, France, Britain and Australia have laws requiring due diligence when it comes to human rights and slavery, there is no general legislation in any country governing the greater social and environmental actions of the fashion industry and mandating change.…
The first week of January is often marked by reflection and resolutions. But at a time when time itself seems broken, looking back and planning ahead can feel like impossible feats. What happens this year is anyone’s guess right now. So we decided to give it a shot. Will 2022 be better than 2021? For…
“Like this,” he said, pointing at the mountains, the trees, the lake as blue as his eyes. Nearly a decade later, we came close to that life when we moved to Flagstaff, Ariz., and I got a teaching job at Northern Arizona University. Here we have trees and mountains. We have a lake but it’s…
Michael Porten had been sleeping on a piece of foam inside a Savannah, Ga., parking garage when Trish Andersen invited him to crash in the room at a local hotel that she was sharing with her ex-boyfriend. Mr. Porten, of Savannah, was not down on his luck, just slightly maniacal about proximity to his job…
Darrick Lo and Adrienne Lei each felt something special about the other when they met in 2015 — and again in 2017. “I rarely go up to a random individual and try to get to know them better,” Mr. Lo said. But when he first saw Ms. Lei at the Frick Collection in New York…
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…