On a frigid New York afternoon in February 1963, Bob Dylan posed with his girlfriend at the time, Suze Rotolo, for the portrait that would appear as the cover of his second album, “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.” He had chosen his rumpled clothes with care, Ms. Rotolo noted in her memoir. The outfit included one of his favorite items: a […]

On a recent morning, Irene Neuwirth, who had trekked from Los Angeles to Christy Rilling’s studio on West 38th Street in Manhattan, chattered brightly as Ms. Rilling fitted her for the gown she planned to wear on Oscars night. Ms. Neuwirth, a jewelry designer with an enthusiastic Hollywood following, emerged in her street clothes from behind a screen, exhilarated to […]

When Dot Goldberger and Simone Budzyn were brainstorming how they wanted to feel on their wedding day, they came up with a number of different adjectives. Among them were: “calm,” “beautiful,” “cared for” and “pumped up.” So they called on 30 friends and family members of all genders who they knew would help them feel those things when the time […]

PARIS — Paris Fashion Week, and with it the whole monthlong show circus, ended on Tuesday just as one of the largest labor strikes of the year took place in France, halting transport and other services and causing chaos, to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to raise the retirement age. Editors — the ones who hadn’t already changed their departure […]

In December, Rachel Wilson was 45 seconds into a first date at a Buffalo wings restaurant, she said, when her suitor left to move his car and never returned. He sent a text from the getaway vehicle: “sorry just wasn’t feeling it :(.” Stunned, she deleted his number and went home. Then she cracked a hard seltzer, opened her phone’s […]

Josh Withers likes it when the couples he marries mess up their vows, such as when someone says, “I take you as my awfully wedded,” instead of the standard “lawfully wedded.” But lately, Mr. Withers — an international marriage celebrant who helped found the Celebrant Institute, a training and mentoring organization in his native Australia — has been worrying that […]

The first time Alison Brooke Zhuk encountered Jay Phillip Parker, in 2004, he was a disembodied voice on a speaker phone in a Miami conference room, ready to close a deal. At the time, Ms. Zhuk and her husband were buying a house in Miami Beach; Mr. Parker, a real estate lawyer, was the attorney representing its sellers. A dozen […]

Here is one of several reasons that being famous is kind of weird: People like to surprise you everywhere and anywhere at all times. Haley Lu Richardson, who has been acting professionally since she was a teenager but found a new and devoted audience playing Portia, the assistant-in-distress on “The White Lotus,” had a big one of these surprises in […]

Don Lemon, a co-host of “CNN This Morning,” is still off the air, four days after apologizing on Twitter and internally for describing Nikki Haley on the show last Thursday as “past her prime.” His comment, while discussing her presidential bid, seemed to refer implicitly to the Republican candidate’s appearance and age in a derogatory and retrograde way, setting off […]

In October 2019, just over a year and a half after meeting on Tinder, Amber Fontenot proposed to Ashley McFaul in a corn maze. But it wasn’t legal marriage she was proposing — Ms. Fontenot already had a husband of nine years, Chad Fontenot. Ms. Fontenot, who is polyamorous, was proposing that she and Ms. McFaul commit to each other […]