For decades, costumes meant to depict the future have taken inspiration from the streamlined silhouettes of the space age, and designers like André Courrèges and Paco Rabanne. But the way we dress in the coming years could be shaped more by climate change than life on the moon. That’s the premise adopted by the costume…
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“Each hotel is different, but fewer people mean there are potentially fewer eyes on what is happening,” said Yvonne Chen, the director of private sector engagement at ECPAT-USA, a nonprofit trying to eradicate commercial sexual exploitation of children. “In light of Covid, we’ve seen vulnerabilities increase for everyone and vulnerabilities are what traffickers target.” Trying…
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Name: Chloe Flower Age: 37 Hometown: Mechanicsburg, Pa. Now Lives: In a two-bedroom apartment in a Frank Gehry-designed tower in Lower Manhattan. Claim to Fame: Ms. Flower is a classical pianist and composer known for her self-titled crossover genre, “Popsical,” which merges classical music with pop and hip-hop. She performs on lavish pianos once played…
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Grace Fooden and Michael Nicholas Correy make a practice of not dismissing the opinions of younger people in their lives. For example, at the beginning of 2018, Ms. Fooden, who had recently moved to Los Angeles from New York, didn’t object when a work colleague in her 30s grabbed her phone and set up a…
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Additionally, when she tried to take the ring off the following day, it would not budge — “not with butter, not with soap, nothing,” she said. They ultimately went to the fire department, and a firefighter clipped it off. After a disappointing proposal, and a broken ring (they were able to salvage the diamond), she…
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When Mtamanika Colisse Beamon and Marc Anthony VanSchaick were both working at WABC-TV in New York — she as a producer and he as a photojournalist — in 2007, neither was interested in meeting the other, despite the encouragement from a colleague. Mr. VanSchaick, 47, had a son from a previous relationship, “so all of…
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Recently I came across the deed to two cemetery plots I own on Long Island. One is the final resting place of my late husband, Mark. The other, next to it, is vacant but was never meant for me. I bought it for his grieving girlfriend. Twelve years ago, Mark and I were in the…
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David Brendan Ruttura and Katherine Julia Travis met in October 2014 in New York while working on the national tour of “The Phantom of the Opera.” Ms. Travis, who goes by Katie, was playing the role of Christine Daaé and Mr. Ruttura was the resident director. They were friends for more than a year before…
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Facing pressure to follow a wave of industry price cuts, the drug maker Sanofi said on Thursday that it would reduce the sticker price of its most commonly used insulin by 78 percent. The company said it would also cap, at $35 per month, that product’s out-of-pocket costs for diabetes patients with private health plans.…
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Awards season, as we all know, is actually gown season. Save for the perennial winners and losers lists, most people are simply keeping an eye out for who wore what. When several versions of a specific design start appearing on different celebrities waltzing down red carpets, look around: You’re in a moment. This awards season,…
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