Michelle Ruiz

New York

Writer at Freelance

Contributing Editor at Vogue

@voguemagazine contributing editor & freelance writer / clips @vanityfair @nytimes @WSJ etc

Articles

The Season Finale of ‘The White Lotus’ Proved It: We Should All Be Lauries

1 month ago | vogue.com | Michelle Ruiz

We tuned in to find out who died, but the moment in The White Lotus finale that truly killed was Laurie’s monologue on the complexity of female friendship. After a season of triangulating and passive aggression, the trio of ladies we loved to judge sat for their final supper, where two of them pretended the week had been a total dream.
On This Season of ‘The White Lotus,’ the Women Come First

1 month ago | vogue.com | Michelle Ruiz

It’s the scene—the one people will remember after Season 3 of The White Lotus ends on Sunday, when another floating body is identified and the pop culture hive mind checks out of its favorite demented five-star resort. Charlotte Le Bon’s Chloe—Audrey Hepburn with Samantha Jones’s libido and a tart French accent—is straddling Saxon Ratliff, the douche du jour played by Patrick Schwarzenegger, on a yacht borrowed from her creepy older boyfriend, Gary (White Lotus staple Jon Gries).
Up Close But Not Quite Personal With Meghan Markle

2 months ago | vogue.com | Michelle Ruiz

Meghan Markle—correction: Meghan Sussex—has whipped up a pop cultural frenzy with the drop of her new Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Among the highly specific questions bubbling in my texts and DMs this week: Is it prudent to cook in buttery shades of Loro Piana cashmere? Those are Trader Joe’s peanut butter pretzels she’s repackaging, right? Will a child actually abide a goodie bag in which the only sweet is a stick of Manuka honey? (Certainly not either of mine).
34 Celebrity Couples You Forgot Were Once a Thing

Jan 19, 2025 | vogue.com | Michelle Ruiz

Products are independently selected by our editors. We may earn an affiliate commission from links. The ubiquity of 1990s and early aughts nostalgia on Instagram, TikTok, and beyond has led, in recent years, to a resurgence of bodysuits, brown lipstick, combat boots, and chokers. But yearning for the semi-recent past has also reminded those of us with short memories that Brad Pitt once dated Christina Applegate; that, before Ben, Jennifer Garner was wed to one Scott Foley.
This Couple Had a Chinese Tea Ceremony-And Ballerinas!-At Their Castle Wedding on Long Island

Nov 18, 2024 | vogue.com | Michelle Ruiz

Products are independently selected by our editors. We may earn an affiliate commission from links. Before they were @RayandJanny, the TikTok-famous couple with 555,000 followers, they were Raymond Zhao and Janet Kim, students at Great Neck South High School on Long Island. In 2012, Ray, a senior, and Janny, a sophomore, bonded in fashion marketing class. They remained friends for years, going on dates-that-weren’t-technically-dates to New York’s Museum of Modern Art and chocolatier Max Brenner.
Candace Bushnell Knows What Gen Z Thinks Of ‘Sex And The City’

Jul 25, 2024 | nylon.com | Michelle Ruiz

“I see you’re having the peach cosmo,” Candace Bushnell tells me as she slips into her seat at Caravaggio on New York’s Upper East Side early one Wednesday evening. She’s wearing a lilac Adam Lippes sheath and buttery-beige Jimmy Choo buckle slides, her hair blown out in the soft, subtle layers native to this neighborhood.
Miraval Berkshires Resort & Spa

May 28, 2024 | vogue.com | Michelle Ruiz

We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. Welcome to Vogue’s first-ever spa guide—a compendium of the 100 best spas worldwide, pulling from the expertise of our global editors. There is a lot out there in the world of wellness, and we are here to sort the cryo from the cold plunge, the infrared light treatment from the IV infusion. Or if your path is a more holistic one—there’s something for you here as well. Why go here?
Glynnis MacNicol on Her New Memoir, ‘I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself’

May 25, 2024 | vogue.com | Michelle Ruiz

We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. By the summer of 2021, Glynnis MacNicol had been isolating by herself, in a small New York apartment, for 14 months. Mice scurried down the hallways of her building; when people fled, inevitably their cats had gone with them. The then-47-year-old writer was starved for contact.
I Took My Kids to Vegas-And Lived to Tell the Tale

May 18, 2024 | vogue.com | Michelle Ruiz

I knew spring break was off to an unconventional start when I glanced down to find my seven-year-old son doing the Griddy while waving $700 cash in one hand. It was not yet nine in the morning, and our family of four was perched in a suite high above the Las Vegas strip. What were we doing in Sin City—land of The Hangover and Leaving Las Vegas—with a seven- and 10-year-old while our peers ventured to the Bahamas and Grand Cayman and Taylor Swift’s much-lyricized Florida?
‘The Idea Of You’ Has The Wrong Idea

Apr 30, 2024 | vogue.co.uk | Michelle Ruiz

If you’ve yet to read Robinne Lee’s The Idea of You, you’re lucky. A richly hot (and also agonising) adventure awaits – and you’ll probably find the film version, premiering on 2 May and starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine, perfectly enjoyable. As a tortured superfan of the book, however, I can’t not see the adaptation as essentially failing the source material.