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A series of viral videos from young female TikTok users, who posted emotional dispatches about getting punched on the streets of New York City, caused concern this week among their fans online. Halley Kate Mcgookin, a social media influencer with more than a million followers, posted on Monday morning that she was sending an email on her phone while walking in Manhattan when a man with a dog came up to her and hit her in the face without warning. Police officials said on Wednesday that they had made an arrest in an assault matching the details of Mcgookin’s case. Other women have recently shared similar experiences on TikTok. Mikayla Toninato, a student at the Parsons School of Design, posted that she was assaulted on 13th Street and Fifth Avenue. Karina Dunford also said that she was attacked. As the TikTok videos began to accumulate this week, users flooded comments sections to express their concern and relay their own similar experiences. The random assaults come at a time when anxieties about crime in the city are escalating, though high-profile episodes that get a lot of online coverage often have the potential to fuel a misleading impression of how pervasive crime is. Mayor Eric Adams said in a news conference on Tuesday that the city was troubled by “random acts of violence” and that social media could make these acts seem more common than they are. Read more at the link in our bio.
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After the first season aired, it was never a given that Jenna Lyons would return for a second season of “Real Housewives of New York City.” From the start, she wasn’t quite Bravo’s type: a discerning former fashion executive dropped into a fishbowl of screaming and scheming. @jennalyonsnyc preferred blue denim to busty gowns. She was New York’s first queer housewife but reluctant to open up about her personal life, irking some of her fellow cast members. Her chief motivation for joining the show had been to promote her beauty business, she said, and recover some of the cultural cachet she had lost in 2017, when she left the job at J. Crew that made her famous. In this, she succeeded. Her following on Instagram quadrupled, her false eyelashes brand, LoveSeen, profited, and job offers followed. Having achieved her goals, why would the “unlikely housewife” return? Nine months after detailing her decision to join the cast to The Times — Lyons now explains her decision to stay. Read the full interview at the link in our bio. Photo by @yael_malka
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Pierpaolo Piccioli, the designer of Valentino, announced last week that he was leaving the brand. Ever since, tributes to his talent have been pouring in. “Of all the words used to describe Piccioli’s work — its ‘genius’ and ‘magic’ and ‘vision,’ its ‘dreaminess’ and ‘beauty’ — the one that most stands out to me is ‘humanity,’ @vvfriedman writes. Piccioli is not the only designer to leave fashion in the last six months whose “humanity” was a calling card. The first was Sarah Burton, the designer of Alexander McQueen, who departed the brand in October. The second was Dries Van Noten, who announced his retirement only a few days before the Valentino news broke. It is possible, of course, to see this as a coincidence. Yet, according to the rules of fashion, three makes a trend. And Piccioli, Van Noten and Burton were otherwise not really similar — in background or aesthetic. So what does it say, exactly, that three designers most known for their humanity are no longer in fashion? Vanessa Friedman discusses humanity in the context of fashion at the link in our bio. Photo by Valerio Mezzanotti
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Lizzo’s new Yitty swimwear line seems all about control on the surface. The collection is inspired by shapewear and is offered in sizes from 6X to XS. (The brand lists the largest sizes first.) Lizzo has been a trailblazer of fat acceptance, but she has tailored the concept of body positivity — the movement that urges self-love no matter your shape or size — to fit the times. “The idea of body positivity, it’s moved away from the antiquated mainstream conception,” @lizzobeeating said. “It’s evolved into body neutrality.” Tap the link in our bio to read @ruthlaferla ’s interview with Lizzo about the collection. Photo by Yitty
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Many Americans used to view the British royals with excitement, even admiration, beyond that shown to other public figures. But the monthslong frenzy over the whereabouts of Catherine, Princess of Wales — culminating in a televised statement on Friday in which she revealed she was battling cancer — reflects a fundamental shift in the sentiment of a growing faction of the public: that the Windsors are like any other celebrity family in the public eye, and that they deserve to be treated as such. There has always been detachment in the American attitude toward the royal family, and a succession of births, deaths and marriages in the royal family, and several high-profile scandals, have collided with the rise of an internet culture evermore obsessed with celebrity. @elizabethcpaton asks: Are they basically Kardashians now? Read more about ‘KateGate’ at the link in our bio. Photo by Justin Tallis/Getty Images
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Last week @beyonce revealed the cover for her new album, “Cowboy Carter,” a constellation of country signifiers reminding fans of her Texas roots. Like her previous album, “Renaissance,” the cover shows her sitting on a horse, but unlike on that record, this time she’s in full rodeo gear, riding a white stallion, kicking off a new era of her three-act project. In advance of the album’s release, on Friday, members of The New York Times’s Styles desk took a close look at the album cover, and what it represents for Black American contribution to country music. Tap the link in our bio to read @jeanuh_ , @maries0lis , @thelifeofpanki and Melissa Guerrero’s thoughts on the cover.
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Alan Cumming says he revels in doing “weird things all the time.” And in his cabaret show “Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age,” he blends show tunes, anecdotes and Peggy Lee standards, all in the name of exploring and demystifying aging. The show, which he’s been touring since 2021, made its New York premiere on March 11 at Studio 54. @alancummingreally knows the space well; he reprised his role in the musical “Cabaret” there in 2014, 16 years after winning his first Tony Award for the risqué lead performance. The performance felt like a homecoming, but Cumming has long been a New York institution, perhaps best cemented with the opening of his namesake East Village speakeasy, Club Cumming, almost seven years ago. In addition to cabaret performer and club owner, he is also the host of Peacock’s reality series “The Traitors” which has become a runaway hit thanks largely to Cumming and his campy archness. “I think what I love about my career is that I sort of bombarded people in the early ’90s through the early 2000s with these magical queer figures,” he said. “I guess I still do. They just got older.” Read @itsnumberjuan ’s full conversation with Alan Cumming at the link in our bio.
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At the recent fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris, the many wet waves, curly mullets and braids of all sizes in the crowds seemed to be styled with a shared philosophy: Keep it tight at the top, writes the Times photographer @simbarashecha Hair, no matter the length or the flow, was for the most part arranged to avoid obscuring faces. Curls and longer cuts were often pulled behind ears, and some people slicked back their hair or styled their bangs to keep them from hiding eyes. Lots of those bangs were sharp and angular — especially among devotees of Japanese fashion — while others were more relaxed. All were a reminder that there is nothing wrong with showing a bit of forehead. Tap the link in our bio to see more scenes and hairstyles from outside fashion weeks.
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Are you talking, or are you “yapping”? Terms like yapper, yap and yapping have become popular on TikTok in recent weeks. “In the internet context, I would say somebody that’s a yapper is somebody that talks too much or is an over-sharer,” said @taylornicolelimas an influencer and self-proclaimed yapper in Chicago. “Somebody that just keeps on talking to fill the air. If it gets quiet, they just don’t stop talking.” Being labeled a yapper isn’t necessarily a compliment, but on a platform built on talk, it isn’t an insult either. @4evrmalone discusses the new slang term and its old meaning at the link in our bio.
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Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, is readying for her national close-up as the race to be Donald J. Trump’s running mate heats up. Her recent controversial trip to Texas, documented on X, Facebook and Instagram, sang the praises of Smile Texas, the cosmetic dental clinic that “fixed” her smile. But the teeth story is about a lot more than teeth. Noem’s dental upgrade is simply the most recent step in what appears to be a yearslong makeover that has transformed her, more than any other woman on Trump’s shortlist, to align perfectly with his vision. When the MAGA movement took off, Noem adopted a new look. Her hair got longer, now kissed by the curling iron and parted in the center. Even her clothes changed. Her new look reflects a tactical move that has as much to do with politics and psychology as it does with appearance. “It’s absolutely strategic,” said Richard Thompson Ford, a law professor at Stanford University. Noem is “signaling that she’s going to be Trump’s kind of woman. And, at the same time, that she isn’t going to challenge him.” The story is told in the imagery, writes @vvfriedman . Read more at the link in our bio. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images
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“I’m happy with how I look and have no desire to change my weight, but I have some really cute pants that I hesitate to get rid of in case I can fit into them in the future,” a reader writes to Vanessa Friedman, the chief fashion critic of The New York Times. “At what point are they just taking up closet space? Should I just say goodbye?” Get @vvfriedman ’s answer at the link in our bio. Photo by @maggiehshannon
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“Wait, was that Lil Nas X?” The rapper and singer, clad in bulky designer sneakers and the official race T-shirt, was a last-minute addition at the NYC Half on Sunday. It hardly mattered that @lilnasx had seldom run more than three miles consecutively, let alone a half-marathon. Or that he showed up for the race in a pair of Coach high-top sneakers, which are more boot than high-end racing flat. Had he been training? (No.) Did he have a goal? (Finish.) Did he want to chat during the race? (Absolutely.) Tap the link in our bio to read more about the race and Lil Nas X’s footwear choice. Photo by New York Road Runners
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