When Ms. Terpening came out in 2014, she said, some people she had known since childhood started to look at her askance. Online, however, she found more supportive communities, which, along with her family, helped her find her footing as a late-in-life lesbian. She is still legally married to her…
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Dries Van Noten Retires From Fashion With Final Paris Runway Show
“I tried to make things people would cherish,” Dries Van Noten said on Saturday evening, during a cocktail party and dinner preceding his final runway show. Mr. Van Noten held his first show in Paris back in 1991; now, at 66, he is stepping away from his namesake brand. His…
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Kevin Kwan’s Art Deco Heirloom
Kevin Kwan used to do some of his best napping in jewelry stores. This was decades before Mr. Kwan, 50, wrote his new novel “Lies and Weddings”; before the three books in his “Crazy Rich Asians” trilogy became best-sellers; before it was announced that Jon M. Chu, the director of…
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KidSuper and Cirque du Soleil Join Forces at His Paris Fashion Show
Tucked away on a side street behind Père-Lachaise, the largest cemetery in Paris and perhaps the most visited necropolis in the world, Colm Dillane, a.k.a. KidSuper, stood at the cyclonic center of a studio strewed with clothes, bags, shoes and props and crammed with models, stylists, photographers, videographers, the designer’s…
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Travis Scott Releases Mug Shot T-Shirts After His Miami Arrest
After a night of partying in South Florida, the superstar rapper Travis Scott ended his Thursday with two more charges on his record and one more product on his website than he started with. An established swag king who’s no stranger to brand deals, Mr. Scott, 33, turned a spotlight…
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NOFX to Retire After Final Tour Without Ever Having Had a Job
The punk rock pioneers chose freedom — and chaos — over major labels. Pulling the plug while things are still working is one final act of rebellion. By James H. Martin Photographs by Max Slobodda June 18, 2024 “It’s like going to your own wake.” Mike Burkett, known exclusively in…
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Their Wedding Became a Music Festival
As Alexis Major walked down the aisle to a violinist’s rendition of John Legend’s “All of Me,” she could see her beloved, Karim Butler, seated beneath the ceremonial white floral arch, crying. She settled into the chair across from him, wiped the tears from his face, and the traditional Muslim…
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Justin Timberlake Arrest Causes a Stir in the Hamptons
On Tuesday afternoon in Sag Harbor, Janice Yu of WABC-TV was sitting in the passenger seat of a Nissan news van, eating from a bag of Smart Food popcorn. It was as close as she would come to getting to a kernel of news. “We don’t even know who he…
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My Renter, My Friend
Looking out for a woman in trouble, from eight states away.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘To Die with Perfect Abs’
Tenderness in Three Minutes or Less I love my husband, Igael, and like to show him attention, but what can I say? I’m busy! I’m a practicing physician and the president and chief executive of NYC Health & Hospitals, the nation’s largest municipal health care system. I also have two…