This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships.In my mid-20s, I was close to broke. Not struggling-to-keep-the-lights-on-broke, but constantly-doing-basic-math-in-my-head-broke. I had some lingering bad debt that I’d been transferring between credit cards for years. My yearly income was under $20,000 ...

This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships.We were standing outside a party in Texas when the cat came up to us. The party was for my boyfriend, Matty Davis, an artist, dancer and choreographer who had performed at the ...

A decade ago, Atom Moore wasn’t all that interested in watches. Now he is considered one of the industry’s top professional photographers.In 2005, while Atom Moore was freelancing as a photographer’s assistant and digital technician in New York, he did what many people at the time did in ...

“The holidays are meant to be a special time when you bring out your Christmas sweater — and why not your special watch?” asked Summer Anne Lee, a fashion historian and adjunct instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.“Seasonal watches are not over-the-top like the ...

Engineers use A.I., for the first time, to develop a one-of-a-kind anniversary version of the popular watch.How do you celebrate a 40th birthday? Get dressed head-to-toe in solid 18-karat gold, that’s how.Or at least that’s what Casio has done for the anniversary of its fan-favorite G-Shock: Created a ...

Stéphane von Gunten was inspired by his great-great-grandfather’s achievement, but he has managed to better it.For the debut of his own watch company, Stéphane von Gunten, a veteran Swiss watchmaker whose career has included a litany of jobs at elite brands and more than 30 patents, created a ...

Brands see the trend gaining in popularity throughout 2024.It has been more than 30 years since white metal and rose gold watches pushed yellow gold timepieces out of the industry spotlight, but a look at recent introductions of new watch models from TAG Heuer to Vacheron Constantin shows ...

The company’s chief discusses his strategy for the future.The Swiss company Blancpain, part of the Swatch Group, is known for its Villeret watches, its Air Command aviation series, its women’s Ladybird timepieces and its dive collection, Fifty Fathoms.The dive series was born in 1953, after a close call ...

The décor, emphasizing a horological theme, includes a 17th century wall clock and watch parts embedded in the knife handles.The seaweed-wrapped leek fondant circle, sitting on a generous pour of pea-green wild herb sabayon sauce and topped with yellow and red flower petals, made for a colorful (and ...

Raglan, fluted, leg o’ mutton, bishop, puffed, balloon — whatever you want to call them, we wore them.When Holly Waddington, the costume designer for “Poor Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos’s much heralded phantasmagorical film about a young women’s psychological and sexual awakening that opened on Friday, began thinking about what ...

Dozens of brands are at work in the nation despite hurdles such as a shortage of factories and struggles for name recognition.Belgium has long been a hothouse for homegrown designers like Dries Van Noten, Martin Margiela or the Surrealist artist René Magritte. That creative legacy has spread into ...

EveryWatch was developed to be a centralized database for watch buyers, sellers and collectors.What is a watch worth? The ever-expanding nature of the global marketplace — where a growing number of brands, dealers, auctioneers and resellers trade new and vintage watches across platforms and continents — can make ...

Best line from a movie? Best pasta recipe? Best advice? Tell us your highly subjective, super-specific favorites from the past year.What’s on your own best-of list for 2023? Think about everything you consumed, regardless of genre: yes, the best thing you watched, but also the best thing you ...

Her longtime stylist, Jason Bolden, said he drew inspiration from ’90s icons for her recent wedding celebration in Mexico with the baseball player Cole Tucker.In a slip gown that embodied ’90s simplicity, Vanessa Hudgens celebrated her marriage to the baseball player Cole Tucker on Dec. 2, in Tulum, ...