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Photos and interviews by Moeri Karasawa, Himari Semans and Getty Images; Text by Oscar Holland, CNN Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — Tokyo Fashion Week…
Continue ReadingPhotos and interviews by Moeri Karasawa, Himari Semans and Getty Images; Text by Oscar Holland, CNN Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — Tokyo Fashion Week…
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Whitfield, CNN (CNN) — “My God, it’s dull,” said interior designer Steven Thomas of the British retail landscape in 2024. As the…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Shigeichi Negishi, the entrepreneur who invented the world’s first karaoke machine, has died aged 100. Negishi,…
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — When Mohamad Orfali was a child, his favorite meal was breakfast. At his family home in Aleppo, Syria, his…
Continue ReadingA small stone vial discovered in southeastern Iran contained a red cosmetic that was likely used as a lip coloring nearly 4,000 years ago, according…
Continue ReadingFive years before Concorde’s first flight, another majestic supersonic aircraft took to the skies — and almost became the inspiration for an even…
Continue ReadingIn travel news this week: passenger–pleasing airports, cool streets around the world, France’s frog-leg crisis and Ireland’s best food and…
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has returned a trove of looted Japanese art to its country of origin after a family found a stash of…
Continue ReadingBy Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — For all the stories of American families who’ve bid adieu to the United States to give their kids a different…
Continue ReadingBy Christian House, CNN (CNN) — As accidental adverts for art shows go, a giant pooch made of flowers is a crowd pleaser. Outside the…
Continue ReadingBy Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — Visitors love Las Vegas for the glitz, glam and garishness of the resorts that line the 4.2-mile Las Vegas Strip,…
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Look at almost any modern high-horsepower supercar and you will see the work of auto designer Marcello…
Continue ReadingEssay by Yemisi Aribisala, CNN (CNN) — Femi Oyebade, a Nigerian diasporan for more than 30 years and a Guinness beer connoisseur, assures me…
Continue ReadingDo you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your…
Continue ReadingA football floats on the surface of the Atlantic Sea; it looks like new from above the water, but below a huge collection of barnacles have attached…
Continue ReadingChristian Friese was standing in the arrivals area in Honolulu Airport, Hawaii, peering at a large airport…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Long lines. Feeling bleary-eyed and exhausted after an overnight flight. Scrambling to get your documents…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Tourists to the Galapagos Islands will be asked to pay twice as much in entry fees from this year amid concerns…
Continue ReadingNine years ago, Sethembile Msezane stepped on top of a plinth, wearing a black body suit and stiletto heels, her arms adorned with wings she…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — Royal Caribbean is suspending cruise ship ports of call in Labadee, on the northern coast of Haiti, as violence…
Continue ReadingIn a man’s world, Katharine Hepburn often wore the pants. The Hollywood leading lady and trailblazer defiantly embraced menswear staples, amid…
Continue ReadingValencia has long been one of Spain’s sunniest cities, thanks to its prime location on the Mediterranean. Now, it can also claim to be the most…
Continue ReadingConcorde, the world’s fastest commercial aircraft, has been making a rare journey – floating down New York’s Hudson…
Continue ReadingBy Steffi Cao, CNN (CNN) — At the turn of the millennium, web-based technology was in a state of chrysalis. Google was just one of several…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — While there was an abundance of daring looks at the Oscars red carpet this year, one of the evening’s most…
Continue ReadingHere’s something for serious stamp collectors only. This summer, philatelists will have a chance to snag the rarest US stamp ever: the 1868…
Continue ReadingAs she prepared for a risky spine operation around 18 months after sustaining injuries in a horrific 2011 car accident that left her in constant…
Continue ReadingAfter a first intervention for the fashion house’s seismic creative director John Galliano failed, Dior’s then-CEO Sidney Toledano staged a…
Continue ReadingWhat makes a street “cool?” Is it a plethora of restaurants, bars, cafes you can spend hours dipping in and out of? Is it independent stores,…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The disastrous Willy Wonka-inspired experience held in Glasgow, Scotland, last month has already been immortalized…
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — For more than a decade, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has been the driving force…
Continue ReadingA man trying to swim to shore after his recreational sailboat capsized at Everglades National Park suffered an apparent bite from an American…
Continue ReadingBy Dimitris Sideridis, CNN (CNN) — For miles on end, there is nothing but huge swathes of desert and the burning blue of the sky. In this…
Continue ReadingBy Lyn Slater (CNN) — In the fall of 2019, I received an e-mail from a group of Parsons Fashion Design and Society MFA students who had been given…
Continue ReadingBy Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — Ever since her 2020 birth, Fu Bao has been one of South Korea’s biggest celebrities, with fans eagerly following…
Continue ReadingCNN By Kathleen Magramo, Manveena Suri and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — The pilot of a terrifying flight from Australia to New Zealand told…
Continue ReadingThere are more than 8 billion people in the world. And about a quarter of them are fasting from sunup to sundown. Every day. For an entire…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Three Belgian climate activists who were previously sentenced to prison for a protest targeting Johannes…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered groundbreaking evidence connecting prehistoric facial piercings to…
Continue ReadingMore and more tourist hot spots are introducing visitor caps and entry fees to prevent overcrowding – and, whaddya know, it gives their coffers a…
Continue ReadingThe popularity of the famous French delicacy of cuisses de grenouille, or frogs’ legs, is threatening the existence of certain frog species, a…
Continue ReadingThe stars of the new “Wicked” movie appear to be gearing up for an epic “method dressing” press tour, having opted for color-coded looks on…
Continue ReadingBali, Indonesia is one of the world’s most popular vacation destinations. The streets tingle with the whizz of motorbikes and the happy buzz of…
Continue ReadingThe red carpet at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre shimmered on Sunday, as the stars arrived at the Oscars in a flurry of sequins, sparkles and striking…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — There was something uncanny about Sydney Sweeney’s look at the Vanity Fair Oscars party last night. The wavy…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — An awards ceremony curveball indeed: Emma Stone, winner of the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The cast of “Barbie” will go down in red-carpet history for their dedication to method dressing, as stars…
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Billie Eilish, Finneas, Mark Ruffalo, Ava DuVernay, Ramy Youssef and Quannah Chasinghorse…
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez and Carlos Suarez, CNN (CNN) — Miami Beach may be breaking up with spring break, but spring break isn’t moving on just yet.…
Continue ReadingIt’s been over a century since theater mogul Sid Grauman introduced the concept of the Hollywood red carpet at the 1922 premiere of “Robin…
Continue ReadingBy Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — Besting 111 of her fellow titleholders from across the globe, Krystyna Pyszková of the Czech Republic was crowned…
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — How do you connect to the internet while barreling through the sky at 500 miles per hour? How can you brew hot…
Continue ReadingJack Latham was on a mission to photograph farms in Vietnam — not the country’s sprawling plantations or rice terraces but its “click…
Continue ReadingBy Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — Some 130 miles north of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, which has been gripped by a wave of gang attacks, a…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The first time Jasmijn van Waalwijk van Doorn accompanied her pilot father, Jorrit van Waalwijk van Doorn, to…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — From the gospel song title “We Shall Overcome” emblazoned on banners and buttons during the Civil Rights…
Continue ReadingBy Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — Spanish police said they have shut down an alleged forgery ring selling fake Banksy artworks across the US and…
Continue ReadingBy Gisella Deputato and Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Rem Koolhaas is always looking for an exit. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect behind the…
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Miami-Dade County told the Dolphin Company, which runs the Miami Seaquarium, in a letter on Thursday that the…
Continue ReadingWhen Napoleon first encountered a Camembert cheese, legend has it, he was so delighted he kissed the waitress who plonked it in front of…
Continue ReadingLife in the United States is pretty expensive these…
Continue ReadingHokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, is unlike anywhere else in the…
Continue ReadingCNN By Ana De Oliva, CNN (CNN) — Diamonds are the hardest material on Earth — and finding one in nature is comparably tough. For thousands of…
Continue ReadingThe fountains at Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas were paused after a rare bird stopped by for a…
Continue ReadingBy Shawn Deng, CNN (CNN) — A flight in China was delayed by more than four hours on Wednesday after a passenger threw coins into the engine,…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — An endangered red panda has been found alongside 86 other animals inside…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — As they walked through the stunning palazzo and gazed up at its frescoed ceilings, Kelly and Jesse…
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Chang and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — It’s about to get easier for some foreign travelers to visit China, with the government…
Continue ReadingBy Susan Griffin, CNN (CNN) — When Helena Bonham Carter walked onto the set of 2012’s Dark Shadows movie, she was stinking of bourbon whiskey…
Continue ReadingBy Pau Mosquera and Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel, “Memories of My Melancholy Whores,” was published…
Continue ReadingBy Ana De Oliva, CNN (CNN) — Diamonds are the hardest material on Earth — and finding one in nature is comparably tough. For thousands of…
Continue ReadingCNN By Milly Chan, CNN Hokkaido, Japan (CNN) — Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, is unlike anywhere else in the country. Fully…
Continue ReadingCNN By Milly Chan, CNN Hokkaido, Japan (CNN) — Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, is unlike anywhere else in the country. Fully…
Continue ReadingBy Carlie Porterfield (CNN) — More than half of the countries that signed a declaration endorsing the Washington Principles — a set of…
Continue ReadingBy Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — Although Paris Fashion Week is usually the talk of the town — and every social network — this week the…
Continue ReadingA new version of Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s “Venus of the Rags” has been unveiled in Naples after the original was destroyed in a…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Touching down in a destination via private jet, helicopter or yacht – or some combination of all three.…
Continue ReadingBy Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — Fashion writer Patrick Mauriès first met Karl Lagerfeld in 1981, after he quoted the fashion designer in a short…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Mount Fuji, a UNESCO World Heritage site and an icon of Japan, has put new regulations in place for climbers amid…
Continue ReadingBy Jemal Polson, CNN (CNN) — “Cruel Intentions,” the 1999 teen drama which celebrates its 25th anniversary this week, tells the story of…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — In the Pritzker Prize’s 45-year history, no country has produced more winners than Japan. And on Tuesday,…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — It was the shirt that stole a generation of hearts and now it has sold for a swoonsome $25,000. The legendary…
Continue ReadingBy Daniel-Yaw Miller, CNN (CNN) — When AC Milan took the field last month in a home game against Napoli — a clash of two of Italy’s most…
Continue ReadingBy Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — Unscathed by the PETA protesters who disrupted her show, Victoria Beckham closed out the fifth day of…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — It began with a bellowing horn. Then out came singer Sam Smith, trudging onto the catwalk wearing a tartan shawl…
Continue ReadingIt rains an average of 171 days per year in Singapore. But one hotel in the Lion City is taking a gamble to ensure that rain doesn’t spoil its…
Continue ReadingNew Year’s Eve 2020 was peculiar for many of…
Continue ReadingIn travel news this week: Circling the calendar for peak cherry blossoms, a very rare peek at post-pandemic North Korea and the insightful…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Ivanka Trump were among the high-profile international figures who jetted to…
Continue ReadingBy Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — Leave it to Las Vegas to upstage Travis and Taylor, Usher and the most-watched Super Bowl ever. Sure, last…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, Abel Alvarado and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — Iceland has evacuated its world-famous Blue Lagoon due to nearby seismic…
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Victoria Beckham’s Paris Fashion Week show was disrupted by animal rights activists as they joined her models on…
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Ed Pierson was flying from Seattle to New Jersey in 2023, when he ended up boarding a plane he’d never wanted…
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — Through oversized black-rimmed glasses, Iris Apfel for over a century surveyed the world with the confidence of…
Continue ReadingBianca Gignac was swimming under the stars, against a backdrop of colorful, cliffside houses, with a complete stranger, her clothes left in a pile on…
Continue Reading(CNN) — Twenty-four floors up a Manhattan high rise, the photographer Ahn Jun sat on her windowsill one crisp day in 2008, dangling her leg…
Continue ReadingAhead of the 2024 Mount Everest season, Nepal has announced a new requirement that all climbers must rent and use tracking chips on their…
Continue ReadingIn the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question…
Continue ReadingCrowded, hot, noisy, hectic – subway systems can test the sanity of even the most hardened urbanite, but can you imagine the world’s biggest…
Continue ReadingAirlines damaged or lost more than 11,000 passenger wheelchairs last year – and a new federal proposal seeks cut the inconvenience for…
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