MIAMI — America’s business leaders, freed from the office, looked around the country, taking note of its coronavirus lockdowns, taxes and rabble rousers. And many said as if in unison: Miami! Blackstone Group: Miami! Elliott Management: Miami! Silicon Valley venture capitalists: Miami! And the charming mayor, Francis X. Suarez, a registered Republican, knowing he had…
The death of the haute couture — those wildly expensive, wildly extravagant clothes, made by hand for the very, very few — has been often predicted. It was predicted during the Great Recession, for obvious reasons. It was predicted during the rise of streetwear, thanks to social evolution. It was predicted as more and more…
Last fall, Caroline Chalmer and Mie Ejdrup, both former jewelry retail analysts who met a dozen years ago as students at Copenhagen Business School, made a career move that they probably would have advised clients to avoid. In the midst of a pandemic, they began a jewelry business. As Ms. Ejdrup put it, in a…
People realized that they can work from home and they didn’t have to spend 100 percent of their time at the office to be efficient. So I think that people will realize that there are other ways to do business. I think that the city will come back bigger and better and stronger than ever.…
Ms. Chettiar told Mr. Wolf early on that she was dating with intention, that if he wasn’t interested in partnering for life and having children, he should let her know. Such a declaration from him never came. Instead, as the pandemic barreled into Manhattan in March 2020 and they began quarantining at each other’s apartments,…
It was a few days before Rosh Hashana, and Dr. Margaret Swenson Soper suddenly found herself with no plans. She had just learned that the tickets she thought she had to attend services had fallen through, and was feeling sorry for herself. “I had a little pity party for myself,” Dr. Soper, 41, said. “And…
On a November evening in 2016, Bianca Hernandez attended Star Wars night at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. In a room where costumed people jousted with lightsabers, she met Frank Knight, who was staffing a table while his friend took a bathroom break. “There’s this thing in fandom where dudes test your…
On a Sunday night in early September 2017, Kara Eileen Cheever called her sister. She had just gotten home from her first date with Fuery Thomas Hocking, after matching with him on the dating app Bumble. What was supposed to be a casual afternoon walk in Central Park with Ms. Cheever’s dog, Percy, had lasted…
Alexis Branagan and Patrick Ryan arrived separately at the Cloister Inn eating club at Princeton in June 2017. Although they didn’t know each other, Ms. Branagan, 31, who graduated from Princeton in 2011, and Mr. Ryan, 34, who graduated in 2009, were all-too familiar with the annual Princeton reunions event, which Ms. Branagan was attending…
She was worried too. On the phone, she said, “I’m fat and ugly.” “I’m bald and skinny,” I said. “What if you can’t stand my stupid face?” she said. “I’ll just put a bag over your head,” I said, “and pretend you’re Zutki.” On the day of her arrival, she emerged from the airport with…