Name: Bianca Saunders Age: 28 Hometown: London Currently Lives: In her family’s house in South London, with her parents and four of her six siblings. Claim to Fame: Ms. Saunders is a rising British men’s wear designer who collaborated with…
Read MoreBushwig Grows Up
The annual festival celebrated 10 years of drag, queerness and artistry this month, but some local queens want more. Photographs by Camila Falquez By Julia Carmel Bushwig, the end-of-summer drag weekend extravaganza held each year in New York, was born…
Read MoreRemembering Richard Buckley
There’s a photograph in Tom Ford’s house in Beverly Hills, a Polaroid of him with his husband, Richard Buckley, who died last weekend at 72 after more than 30 years of health issues resulting from cancer. The picture was taken…
Read More‘The Most Beautiful Proposal’
When Leslie Arffa was asked what she thought were Samir Doshi’s best qualities, she hesitated, cleared her throat, and hesitated some more before starting to cry. “He’s incredibly kind and thoughtful,” she said. “I never met anyone before that I…
Read MoreA Bond That Began With Football
When Natalie Wengroff and Paul Wiley met during their first year at Washington & Lee University’s law school, they found an easy conversation opener in the University of Michigan gear she regularly wore from her alma mater. “I noticed that…
Read MoreMy Brother-in-Law Vilified Us Online. Should We Still Have Him Over?
As soon as everyone was vaccinated, we invited my family to our home for a holiday meal outdoors. We also included my brother-in-law, who is my wife’s only living relative and has nowhere else to go. My own brother expressed…
Read MoreThe Stylist Behind Grimes’s Futuristic Look
For last week’s Met Gala, Grimes wore a Dune-inspired reptilian dress and carried a steel sword made from a melted down AR-15 rifle. The woman who pulled the ensemble together is a stylist named Turner, a former accessories editor at…
Read MoreDitched the Dye During Covid? Maybe Stay Gray.
It wasn’t as if Liesl Tommy couldn’t get her colorist flown in. It was the Los Angeles premiere of “Respect,” the Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson, and Ms. Tommy, the film’s director, would be photographed every few steps. When…
Read MoreOkCupid Introduces Feature in Support of Abortion Rights
The dating service OkCupid has introduced a way for users to clearly indicate their support of abortion rights: a “pro-choice” badge that appears prominently in a dating profile. Melissa Hobley, OkCupid’s chief marketing officer, said the feature was created in…
Read MoreHaving Trouble Finding Your Soul Mate? Let Mom Do It For You.
It’s no secret that online dating can be a stultifying, painful and sometimes traumatizing experience. But add to the general discomfort of small talk with a stranger or the fear of being stood up, the possibility of catching a virus…
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