EditorialA Karl Lagerfeld ensemble, 2009, features a handbag of black and white mesh with a photograph of Lagerfeld’s face, on display in the exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, April 30, 2023. (Landon Nordeman/The New York Times)
EditorialA Karl Lagerfeld ensemble, 2009, features a handbag of black and white mesh with a photograph of Lagerfeld’s face, on display in the exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, April 30, 2023. (Landon Nordeman/The New York Times)
EditorialArthur Simms’s studio shelves are filled with work and other items that he has collected over the years, including mesh, feathers and angel set on pebbles, at his studio in Staten Island, March 6, 2023. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialArthur Simms’s studio shelves are filled with work and other items that he has collected over the years, including mesh, feathers and angel set on pebbles, at his studio in Staten Island, March 6, 2023. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialArthur Simms’s studio shelves are filled with work and other items that he has collected over the years, including mesh, feathers and angel set on pebbles, at his studio in Staten Island, March 6, 2023. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialArthur Simms’s studio shelves are filled with work and other items that he has collected over the years, including mesh, feathers and angel set on pebbles, at his studio in Staten Island, March 6, 2023. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialFlaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl who left the Central Park Zoo after his mesh enclosure was vandalized, perches high in the branches of a conifer in Central Park in Manhattan on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialAngelica Hicks in the Richard Quinn look she recreated with a T-shirt, hand-cut black vinyl circles and sparkly mesh strewn with bits of duct tape, in New York, Sept. 21, 2022. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)
EditorialAngelica Hicks in the Richard Quinn look she recreated with a T-shirt, hand-cut black vinyl circles and sparkly mesh strewn with bits of duct tape, in New York, Sept. 21, 2022. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)
EditorialSmall cocoa tree plants are protected by a mesh and shade enclosure at a farm near the town of Bouaflé, Ivory Coast, June 15, 2022. (Caballero-Reynolds/The New York Times)
EditorialWire mesh and metal bars protect A rosette window of the Church of Santa Mar?a del Castillo, built around 1250, in the village of Castronu?o, Spain, Dec. 1, 2021. (Ben Roberts/The New York Times)
EditorialMesh Lal Chanchal, a local BJP party leader who is active against Christian groups, outside his home in Bilawar Kalan, India, Feb. 9, 2021. (Atul Loke for The New York Times)
EditorialDaniel Heredia, a volunteer with NYC Mesh, a nonprofit communiity Wi-Fi initiative, installs a router on an apartment building in New York, April 17, 2021. (Jose A. Alvarado Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Waves project install "mesh" networks that connect homes to the internet hot spots of closed Baltimore schools on June 18, 2020.
EditorialSen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), left, wearing a mesh mask to demonstrate his disdain for the safety measure, at the Capitol in Washington, March 5, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters in Rochester, N.Y. on Tuesday night, Feb. 23, 2021, after news broke that no officers would be charged in Daniel Prude’s death. (Libby March/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters march through the streets of Rochester, N.Y., after the Rochester Police Department released a video of the arrest of Daniel Prude, Sept. 2, 2020. (Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times)