‘On dating apps, there is a navigation period while you work out who someone is and what their intentions are.’ Illustration: Carolina Altavilla at Illo Agency/The Guardian‘On dating apps, there is a navigation period while you work out who someone is and what their intentions are.’ Illustration: Carolina Altavilla at Illo Agency/The GuardianDatingInternet dating can feel soul-destroying, unnerving and transactional. Couples explain how their love lives were transformed when they finally stopped swiping Read More...
FashionObituaryJean-Louis Dumas obituaryClever and pragmatic chairman who modernised HermèsThere was a single narrative of luxury in the 1980s and 90s, and its storyteller was the aggressive businessman Bernard Arnault, who aggregated the LVMH brand that corporatised many of Europe's makers of costly goods, champagne, perfume, luggage and couture. Of the few who withstood Arnaultisation, the staunchest was Jean-Louis Dumas, chairman of Hermès, who has died aged 72.
Dumas was the great-great-grandson of Thierry Hermès, who founded the saddle and trappings supplier in 1837. Read More...
DanceObituaryMarika Rivera obituaryActor and dancer abandoned by her father, Diego RiveraThe actor and dancer Marika Rivera, who has died aged 90, shared with her father, the muralist Diego Rivera, an imposing physique and determined character. However, it was to her mother, Marie Vorobieff Stebelska – better known as Marevna and generally regarded as the world's first female cubist painter – to whom she displayed unfailing loyalty after Rivera abandoned them both to return to his native Mexico when his first daughter was less than two years old. Read More...
