There are plenty of earnestly respectful vaccine selfies, where the inoculated person bares a shoulder and thanks science for their shot. But the array of vaccine brands, each with their own protocols and typical symptoms, has made room for them to be interpreted as an internet-wide personality test, with all the irrational identification of an…
Fed up with his soulless corporate job, a young man moves to the farm he inherited from his grandfather, where he joins a quaint community and meets his future husband. That’s not the plot of a new gay Hallmark movie — it’s the story of my pixelated alter ego in the video game Stardew Valley.…
If you want your bedroom to serve as a refuge from daily stress, one piece of furniture is more important than all the rest: the bed. But you need to do more than just choose a good mattress and bed frame. How you dress the bed — whether you create a pared-down crash pad of…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. The last time I heard Alber Elbaz speak, he sounded optimistic. He was addressing editors via Zoom for the launch of his line AZ Factory on Net-a-Porter. It was shortly after the inauguration, and he explained that President Biden (or, as…
Amazon Let’s be honest: Amazon knows what we want to shop. It’s true for everything, including fashion, and they’ve totally won us over with The Drop, capsule collections designed by influencers and available to shop for 30 hours only. The latest is new…but not exactly. It’s the fourth rodeo for LA-based Ellenor Kim, aka @spreadfashion,…
With a full-fledged IRL red carpet and a ban on sweatpants, the Oscars delivered on the style front. And no, we’re not talking about sad, virtual get-ups or even a return to the glamour of last year’s Academy Awards. Celebrities went all out. We’re talking gowns that belong in museums, nominees and presenters dripping in…
The 93rd annual Academy Awards were a night of historic firsts: first woman of color to win the directing Oscar; first Black women to win the makeup and hairstyling Oscar; oldest woman ever to win an Oscar; first Korean actor to win an Oscar. But in at least one area it was more like same-old,…
Josh Swain of Arizona was, of course, joshing. He never really intended to fight anyone who shared his name, but what was he supposed to do? Every time Mr. Swain went to register for a social media account under his name, he was foiled. “It’s always been taken,” Mr. Swain said. What’s even more bizarre:…
Ben Kirby started the Instagram account @preachersnsneakers as a gag in 2019. Mr. Kirby, then a 29-year-old MBA student and former Marine, had no idea that the result — images of megachurch pastors decked out in designer gear, juxtaposed with the price tags of their clothes and shoes — would ignite a widespread conversation about…
In one of those you-couldn’t-make-it-up moments, Carey Mulligan and Andra Day, both nominees for best actress, showed up on the red carpet in gold midriff-baring gowns — Mulligan in Valentino haute couture and Day in custom Vera Wang. The resemblance to Oscar himself was immediately apparent. Though the silhouettes were quite different (how would Mulligan…