FRIENDS REUNITED: A member of Alessandro Michele’s loyal clique is following him to Valentino.
The designer’s longtime friend and supporter Dakota Johnson has been named a global brand ambassador for the Roman couture…

FRIENDS REUNITED: A member of Alessandro Michele’s loyal clique is following him to Valentino.
The designer’s longtime friend and supporter Dakota Johnson has been named a global brand ambassador for the Roman couture…

LONDON — The British Museum made history this weekend with its first annual fundraising ball, and the glamour in the Great Court almost matched the grandeur of the ancient jewels, Egyptian sarcophagi and Parthenon sculptures on display in the…


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Hong Kong airport and rescue officials have stressed that while an investigation is underway, they are…

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Introducing Toxic Legacy, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Laura Hughes uncovers a lead poisoning…

Fashion and beauty retail stands at a critical inflexion point where digital transformation meets physical retail demand. With 70 percent of retail sales now digitally influenced, according to The Business of Fashion and McKinsey & Company’s

It’s the New Moon tomorrow, which means the Moon is almost completely hidden tonight and there’ll be barely any light to see in the sky.
As of Monday, Oct. 20, the

The year Manuel Álvarez Escudero learned to play chess, fascist bombs rained down on Guernica, echoing across Pablo Picasso’s enormous, monochrome canvas, the Hindenburg exploded in the sky over Lakehurst, and John Steinbeck published a short…

No one can really say when rock’n’roll was invented. You could say March 1951, with the release of Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats. Or maybe July 1954, when Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore and Bill Black stopped messing around…