Getty Images; Courtesy of Hulu Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Paris Hilton, one of the most prominent Von Dutch wearers in the label’s heyday, is asked at one point in the Hulu miniseries The Curse of Von Dutch if she would ever re-wear their pieces. “Probably…
Kelsey Reynolds and Kamah Asha Wilson call themselves “hopeful romantics.” “We are a lesbian-queer, interracial, progressively Christian couple in the Deep South, from conservative families. The intersectional and circumstantial odds were stacked against us,” said Mx. Reynolds, who is nonbinary and uses gender-neutral courtesy titles and pronouns. Ms. Wilson was facing an internal battle that…
When Peter Vidani and Jennifer Pierce attended an open house in September for a townhouse in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, a few blocks east of Fort Greene Park, Mr. Vidani felt like the couple — who had relocated from California at the beginning of the year — had found their dream home. Ms. Pierce, though, said…
The Guggenheim International Gala took place Nov. 17 with a black-tie dinner and a performance by Lorde. The gala, which was sponsored by Dior, honored Etel Adnan, Jennie C. Jones, Cecilia Vicuña, Gillian Wearing, and Phyllis and Bill Mack. And the Alzheimer’s Association raised more than $600,000 for Alzheimer’s research and care at its fund-raising…
“What kind of goofazoid puts her full name on Tinder,” Rebecca Woods had wondered in May 2019 when Beth Abrams Schafer’s first and last name showed up on the dating app. Ms. Schafer, just out of a relationship, said she felt a bit “stymied” when it came to meeting people. Ms. Woods, though, became intrigued…
Benjamin Richard Koller Lowell was hoping to impress Dr. William Douglas Winkelman on their second date, in October 2013. The couple had matched on a dating app about a month earlier, and Mr. Lowell, who grew up in San Francisco, wanted to show Dr. Winkelman, who had recently moved to the city, around the area.…
When the producers of the Netflix show “Love on the Spectrum” first asked Jodi Rodgers to join, she turned them down. A sexologist and counselor who specializes in autism spectrum disorder, she was reluctant to appear in the series, where her private work helping people navigate the challenges of dating would be made into entertainment.…
Yoelit Lipinsky was done with dating when Ariel Greene’s profile came across her computer screen in December 2019. At the time, Mr. Greene was living in Seattle and Dr. Lipinsky in Toronto, where she was remotely finishing her dissertation for a Ph.D. in medical ethics from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. “I was finished dating at…
The two men were engaged in 2019, planned a wedding for Oct. 10, 2020, and then postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. In April 2021, they moved to Los Angeles, where Mr. Leclaire, an actor and comedian, had lived briefly before, when he accepted a TV writing job. “Being someone who is trying to work…
Timothy Agra has a law degree, but it was his captain’s license that made him the perfect match for Kathleen Reardon. “Ever since I was little, I’ve had an affinity for all things mermaid. It doesn’t hurt that I have long red hair and used to pretend I was Ariel,” Ms. Reardon said. “The running…