Close your eyes. Picture Mark Zuckerberg. What do you see? Perhaps you envision the Meta boss and Facebook founder in a gray T-shirt, spotlighted on a Silicon Valley stage. Maybe his cartoonish metaverse avatar hovers before you — with legs, or without them. Possibly Jesse Eisenberg, the bony actor who played the fledgling tycoon in “The Social Network” (2010), appears […]

Ahmad Maksoud and Josef Matthew Perou first met in March 2020, a time that was far from joyful. Both work as models and performers, and were similarly impacted by pandemic lockdowns. Cut off from performance work in their respective cities — Mr. Maksoud in New York and Mr. Perou in London — they were craving connection to their art communities. […]

Followers of the Styles desk’s discussions about the clothes worn on “Succession” (as well as a number of social media accounts) know how obsessively fans have tracked and dissected the characters’ cardigans, caps, shoes, watches and, on occasion, unfortunate handbags. On Sunday, the show reaches its finale and so a final check-in with Michelle Matland, the Emmy-nominated costume designer responsible […]

In this week’s Modern Love essay, “That’s Why I Picked a Younger Man,” Conrad Gregory learns that trying to control the uncontrollable usually leads to pain. Want to find out how Modern Love storytelling comes to life through text, TV and audio? Join Modern Love editors Dan Jones and Miya Lee and Modern Love podcast host Anna Martin at this […]

The cardinal rule of dressing Tina Turner, the designer and costumer Bob Mackie said Wednesday night, was “you couldn’t cover anything up.” Her legs were simply “too beautiful.” Mr. Mackie, 84 and working on costumes for Pink’s upcoming tour, met Ms. Turner in the 1970s when she was a guest on the “Sonny & Cher Show.” He was a college […]

Jess Jordan, Kendall Roy’s assistant in the HBO drama “Succession,” is finished with the permanent headache that is the Roy family. But she could have been forgiven for bailing out much earlier than the show’s penultimate episode. Perhaps after Kendall made her take care of his children’s pet bunny. Or when he asked her to procure him drugs. Or when […]

LONDON — On an upper floor in Romilly Saumarez Smith’s 18th-century house in the Stepney neighborhood of east London is a small closet that the Smiths understand was used to powder the wigs of the home’s original owners. Now the 30-square-foot space is packed with a jeweler’s bench and other equipment, racks full of tools, piles of notes and sketches, […]

“Black love is a form of resistance.” The phrase became a mantra for Tristan St. John Thompson, who is an academic and culture dean at DREAM Charter High School in the South Bronx. He frequently talks about “places of resistance” with the students “who look like me and are from where I’m from,” said Mr. Thompson, 31, who was born […]

Shaina Schuster Shealy was dating three different men, all named Ben, in December 2019, when she needed a last-minute date to a work holiday party. She thought about who would be the least offended by an 11th-hour invitation and settled on Benjamin David Glickstein. He, unlike her, dated one person at a time, Mr. Glickstein said. He carried her lipstick […]

For a few hours on Tuesday evening, David Zaslav seemed like the happiest man in the world. “Look at this!” the 63-year-old media executive proclaimed, gesturing at the ice-blue piscine of the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, the seaside resort perched above the French Riviera with a swimming pool immortalized by Slim Aarons. Yachts bobbed in the distance; searchlights crossed the sky. […]