The United States is a relatively young country, and this year’s American fashioned-themed Met Gala seemed, in many ways, a nod to that fact. The hosts were a Gen Z dream team: Amanda Gorman, the 23-year-old inaugural poet; Timothée Chalamet, the 25-year-old star of “Dune”; Naomi Osaka, the 23-year-old tennis champion and mental health activist;…
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In January, his doctor, Alexis Thompson of Northwestern University, told him he no longer had sickle cell disease. It is strange, Mr. Hubbard said, to think he has a future. “I am becoming more serious about life,” he said. “I didn’t think I would have a life.” Helen, too, has been adjusting to life as…
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. As a medical reporter, I regularly write about terrible illnesses and about treatments that can help some, though not most, patients. But the cruel injustice of inequities in access to medical advances in sickle cell…
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The entrance to your home is often its public face, communicating your sense of style to the world. It’s also a transition space that can be either inviting or forbidding — a source of pleasure or frustration. “I think of it as an outdoor room, and it’s the first room you come into contact with,…
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“It’s Never Too Late” is a series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms. Since Vica Steel was a child, she has dreamed of becoming a priest, of forging a path to church leadership. But she had abandoned that dream long ago. She felt out of…
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“You have to believe, ‘Today is the day I’m going to walk,’ ” says Brady Johnson, a former senior airman for the U.S. Air Force from Belvidere, Ill., who suffered a catastrophic stroke in 2004 during a surgery for a cerebral hemorrhage. One day, Johnson was a healthy 31-year-old training for a marathon. The next…
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NEW DELHI — The forecast was mathematically based, government-approved and deeply, tragically wrong. In September 2020, eight months before a deadly Covid-19 second wave struck India, government-appointed scientists downplayed the possibility of a new outbreak. Previous infections and early lockdown efforts had tamed the spread, the scientists wrote in a study that was widely covered…
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When ASAP Rocky asked Eli Russell Linnetz if he could visit the young designer’s studio, Mr. Linnetz was somewhat reluctant. His space is “very private,” he said, tucked away in Venice Beach, Calif., isolated from the fashion world. But the New York rapper showed genuine interest in the label, ERL — and he was “the…
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It may be useful, when trying to comprehend the work that went into the gymnast Simone Biles’s Met Gala dress — a showgirl-inspired satin gown with crystal embroidery that mimics feathers — to know the numbers. The gown was made by Area, a New York label designed by Beckett Fogg and Piotrek Panszczyk, who said…
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Often referred to as the Oscars of the fashion industry, the Met Gala red carpet is home to some of the biggest style statements of all time. The difference, however, is its dress code: the celebrities in attendance have homework. This year’s exhibit, “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” was open to interpretation. Many guests…
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