Emerging from Covid’s shadow, the city is resonating with glamour, politics and power – and the traffic jams are building up too
all it a return to IRL . New Yorkers are experiencing a bracing resumption of the physical experience of living in the city, four years after the onset of the pandemic upended routines, pushed people online and left much of the population, as in so many places, wondering if normality would ever return.the courthouse on the edge of Chinatown
“Before that they had Gilded Glamour, which was tone-deaf coming out the pandemic – with Kim Kardashian wearing a Marilyn Monroe dress,that seemed to fly in the face of everything the Met Gala raises money for, which is to preserve historic fashion.
There are further signs of a rejection of remote living in favour of the physical. Online dating apps have seen their stock prices crater after losing favour with members of generation Z, who prefer meeting IRL. And last week, as if to put further pressure on the sector,last week were perhaps indicative too: they showed the steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the pandemic began.
“There is something about the fact of colour pictures being on actual pages, and the opportunity for all the scent samples, that made magazines likenot only something you read but also smelled. You still can’t do that on the internet,” says Robert Thompson, a media professor at Syracuse University.
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