Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we examine the celebrity couples who give us hope for our own romantic futures as we try to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds.
I’ll be honest: there’s a tiny part of me that still mourns the relationship between Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum. What can I say? I love it when the weird, beautiful art girl gets the handsome, playfully dumb hunk. It’s giving Marcello Hernández and Jane Wickline’s “Couple You Can’t Believe Are Together” from Saturday Night Live. That said, Tatum and Kravitz called it off in 2024, so it’s time to get fully behind Kravitz’s new fiancé, one Harry Styles.
To be clear, it’s not hard to root for Kravitz and Styles: they’re both insanely hot, their coordinated couple style is unparalleled, and I happen to be the world’s biggest booster of two of their respective projects that I feel didn’t get the pop-cultural credit they deserved at the time. (Rough Night and Don’t Worry, Darling are totally fine movies, okay?)
Somewhat paradoxically for someone as nosy as me, I also enjoy how dramatically little I know about Kravitz and Styles’s relationship. They were first spotted kissing in London in August 2025, and no less an authority on the travails of love than Taylor Swift herself seems to have blessed their union. (Bear in mind, Swift and Styles were once a thing, but her friendship with Kravitz—demonstrated in such extravagant gesutres as lending Kravitz and her mother, Lisa Bonet, one of her homes during the LA fires—appears to come first. Respect.)
Both Kravitz and Styles have had to deal with the drama that comes with conducting relationships in front of the all-seeing public eye for years, so maybe it’s not all that surprising that they’re keeping their eight-months-and-counting courtship fairly low-key. After all, whenever a celebrity starts metaphorically jumping the couch, Tom Cruise–style (remember that?), about how the woman he’s currently dating has irrevocably changed his life and made him a better man, I’m a little wary. Maybe there’s something to be said for the quiet-luxury approach to a celeb-for-celeb romance; after all, as Bonnie Raitt once sang, “Don’t advertise your man.”
It certainly seems like Styles has learned a lot about love since his brief relationship with Swift. In 2016, the singer and actor told Rolling Stone after being papped with the songstress: “Relationships are hard at any age. And adding in that you don’t really understand exactly how it works when you’re 18—trying to navigate all that stuff—didn’t make it easier. I mean, you’re a little bit awkward to begin with. You’re on a date with someone you really like. It should be that simple, right? It was a learning experience for sure.” I, for one, simply love the idea of a decade’s worth of time and life experience leading Styles straight to Kravitz.
