Before she started her label in 1996, Monique Lhuillier was just a woman shopping for a wedding gown. Unsatisfied with her options, and armed with a degree from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
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Will TikTok Make You Buy It?
In three short years, TikTok has grown in the public imagination from an app for dancing teens into an all-purpose cultural powerhouse, driving trends in music, food, news and politics, and changing the way people
Read moreWhy Are Clothing Sizes So Confusing?
Recently I popped on a favorite T-shirt purchased some years ago. It fits nicely, but I noticed that it was a size large. The tees I’ve bought more recently have been XS/petite, and yet often
Read moreGabriela Hearst on Refashioning the Luxury Business
A world defined by lockdowns and curfews meant that Gabriela Hearst’s debut show as Chloé creative director in March was a digital one. This week, however, on the sun-dappled banks of the Seine, the Uruguayan-born
Read moreTheir Future Was Written on the Calendar
Establishing a joint Google calendar may not be a standard marker of a flourishing romance, but for Efrain Guerrero and James Jones, it stood in just fine for a more customary expression of commitment. The
Read moreTaking the Slow Route to the Altar
Amy Ogbonna and Samuel Oiwoh both swiped right on the dating app Tinder in December 2014, but neither of them messaged the other. Three weeks later, Ms. Ogbonna spotted Mr. Oiwoh at a party. She
Read moreA Bond Built on Family, Faith, Hard Work and Sushi
Soon after he began dating Rexanah Wyse, Eric Morrissette began receiving text messages that he found suspicious. The messages would arrive early in the morning, around 4 or 5 a.m. They were from Ms. Wyse.
Read moreFinding Common Ground in the South, San Francisco and South India
It was ultimately a dating app that introduced Sree Arimilli and Sandheep Surendran of San Francisco. But more traditional and spiritual elements, as well as a bit of self help, also played a part. Ms.
Read morePartners in Business and Adventure
When Caroline Matthews is asked where she first met Connor McCarthy, she says simply, “We met in graduate school.” Ask Mr. McCarthy, a self-described adventurer, that same question, and he will say, “We met hiking
Read moreRihanna on Her Latest Lingerie Collection and Becoming a Billionaire
LOS ANGELES — Rihanna’s “Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 3” features the superstar and several of her very hot friends in cheeky, lacy pieces from the new collection of her lingerie line. The fashion show-concert
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