The fashion stylist Mel Ottenberg, 45, has dressed some of the world’s most influential celebrities (Rihanna and Justin Bieber) and worked with the biggest brands (Dior, Nike and Calvin Klein). For the past three years, he has also been the creative director of Interview magazine, the jumbo newsprint tome founded in 1969 by Andy Warhol.…
It was an awkward first encounter. In March, 2011, when Jennifer Chu was 19 and the single mother of three-year-old daughter Orianna, she was introduced to Charonton Barber, a 2002 U.S. Naval Academy graduate. Feeling insecure because Orianna’s father had been Ms. Chu’s only previous relationship, she was unusually quiet when Mr. Barber entered the…
He proposed in December of 2019, inside the house they had just bought together, in Toronto. They set their wedding date for May 29, 2021, at an indoor venue, but like so many couples, the coronavirus forced them to change their plans. They postponed it to summer, moving it outdoors. They were married by Dean…
Jake Rowton first noticed Morgan Wolfe at a fraternity party in August 2016, when both were juniors at Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kan. “She was the most attractive girl there,” said Mr. Rowton. “But she was with someone else.” Several months later, when Mr. Rowton was working at a temporary job at Einstein Bagels,…
It was October 2017 and they were in Paris for a two-day history-of-medicine colloquium on the subject of the French royal court. As she handed him his name tag, the first thing that Nathalie Demirdjian noticed about Justin Rivest was that he was all smiles. “I thought he was hitting on me — I couldn’t…
Eight years ago, just before the dating app Hinge started up, Julia Silva invested some of her spare time to serve as a beta tester. Her job was to help try out its software from a consumer perspective. That investment paid handsome dividends for Ms. Silva when it came to a man named Brian Whelan,…
In April 2010, Albert Rupert Gladden was hoping that luck was on his side. He was at a fund-raising event for New York Needs You, now named America Needs You, an organization that promotes college completion for first-generation students. The fund-raiser included a silent auction, where attendees could bid on lunches with various executives in…
Yousra Attia If the past year or so has taught us anything, athleisure is more than just a state of mind. It’s a lifestyle. As I put my recurring clothing favorites on the bench during the early stages of quarantine, I brought a slew of new clothing players to my roster. Soon enough, I was…
What did you make of the news that Mike Richards and Mayim Biyalik would be replacing Alex? Well, I felt like the point of the guest hosts was that they were trying to promote diversity. And they ended up picking a very vanilla option. Another white man doesn’t reflect the contestants very well, especially now.…
Christian VierigGetty Images The previously unthinkable is now the standard in online shopping: Amazon has quietly become a go-to destination for closet essentials like minimalist jewelry, fall staples, and now, the best jeans. That is, if you know where to look. We did the denim searching for you, sifting through thousands of pairs to track…