Coco Chanel’s 1926 Little Black Dress featured in National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Image courtesy of Getty Images. Icon status is accumulated rather than declared. A designer can launch a product, a musician can create a defining performance and a brand can spend heavily on visibility, but none can decide that what they have
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Hernan Diaz’s extraordinary latest work, Ply, is set amid modernity’s wreckage, but it is not quite a postapocalyptic novel. There was no capital-C Calamity, just the inevitable entropy greed engenders. The antagonists are primarily executives, chief financial officers of utility companies with private armies (except the one who’s more of a tech giant a la
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Hayden Panettiere‘s ex-fiancé, Wladimir Klitschko, has filed a petition on behalf of their daughter requesting that he be her temporary representative in California court to ensure that she is the beneficiary of her late mother’s estate, according to U.S. media reports. Klitschko, a former world champion heavyweight boxer and Olympic gold medalist from Ukraine, has
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Prime Video’s new crime thriller Kill Jackie is already dividing critics ahead of its October series premiere. Catherine Zeta-Jones stars in the series as international drug smuggler-turned-art dealer Jackie Price, who is targeted by a group of hitmen called The Seven Demons. Her past quickly comes back to haunt her, but she leans on those
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Father John Misty is back with another one-off single. “The X-panded Universe” is either Josh Tillman’s second or third new song of 2026, following “The Payoff” and “The Old Law.” (“The Old Law” had been floating around since 2024 under a different title, “God’s Trash.”) Maybe it’s just me, but it kind of sounds like
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We independently evaluate all recommended products and services. Any products or services put forward appear in no particular order. if you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. It’s difficult to believe that, just a few years ago, pretty much the only people wearing backpacks were either gap-toothed school kids who needed something
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The latest global brand ambassador appointments include Koji Mukai for Burberry, Song Hye-kyo for Bottega Veneta and PP Krit for Gucci. Images courtesy of Burberry, Bottega Veneta and Gucci. Luxury’s newest ambassadors are increasingly coming from Asia — and September 2026 made that difficult to overlook. Within weeks, Song Hye-kyo joined Bottega Veneta as Global
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Dennis Haskins, who famously played Principal Richard Belding on the beloved ’90s TV sitcom Saved By the Bell, has died at the age of 75. Haskins’ agent confirmed his passing to TMZ on Monday. A cause of death was not immediately shared. Haskins played Belding across multiple iterations of Saved by the Bell, beginning with
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Dan Chung Courtesy: Fred Alger Management Daniel Chung, the CEO and chief investment officer at investment firm Fred Alger Management, survived the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center by chance.  That morning a quarter century ago, the then-tech analyst started his day at the Intercontinental Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, searching for answers on
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The National Lottery Community Fund has pushed for increased collaboration between individual lottery funding distributors to create a simplified system for applicants. The call comes in the NLCF’s response to the government’s call for evidence on how the grantmaker’s good cause funding should be spent, which closed this week. The NLCF said it welcomed the
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Founded in Los Angeles, Apolis has built its identity around a deceptively simple idea: that the products we use every day can create positive change in the communities that craft them. Its signature Market Bag, handcrafted from natural jute in Bangladesh, has become the most recognisable expression of that philosophy. Behind each bag is a
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