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Leah Dolan, CNN When asked how they turned Ganni into the formidable fashion brand it is today, husband-and-wife co-founders Nicolaj and Ditte Reffstrup’s modest answer hinted at a kind of serendipity. “There was never a big strategy to it,” Nicolaj told CNN over Zoom ahead of the label’s showcase at Copenhagen Fashion Week in August.

Megan C. Hills, CNN This week, Rihanna reminded fans of her boundary-pushing style. The multi-talented star, who has only been spotted in public a handful of times since giving birth in May, stepped out in New York on Saturday wearing larger-than-life boots. While her RZA tee, sunglasses and snakeskin-print bag already made for a casual

By Amir Vera and Jamiel Lynch, CNN The co-pilot who fell to his death after getting off an aircraft mid-flight in North Carolina may have been sick and was described as “visibly upset” prior to exiting the plane without a parachute, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation and Safety Board. Two people

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Unlike the lost city of Atlantis, when this 19th century Welsh village was submerged underwater, it only took a dry spell for it to resurface and reveal its ruins. Lake Vyrnwy — a reservoir in Powys, Wales — has evaporated enough to expose the vestiges of the village Llanwddyn. Remnants of

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The wood-walled conference room has a sterile quality, and the men in muted suits seated around the wide central table are eerily alike, as if duplicated. But this photograph of a high-level corporate meeting has one outlier — a woman with short, curled hair seated on the far left. She lines up

Oscar Holland, CNN More than a decade since it broke ground, the long-awaited Taipei Performing Arts Center opened to the public in Taiwan’s capital last week. After years of construction delays and debates over a budget that has climbed to 6.7 billion New Taiwan dollars ($223 million), attention can finally turn to the dozens of

Julia Buckley Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the pandemic-snarled water, Europe is having another cataclysmic summer. This time, it’s not pandemic red tape, but what looks set to be the continent’s worst drought in history. Around 63% of the land across the EU and UK had either drought warnings

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN A tour company is urging travelers to visit Ukraine’s bomb-ravaged cities — against international advisories. North Korea has been destroying sites at the Mount Kumgang resort area, once a symbol of reconciliation between North and South Korea. And Emirates CEO Tim Clark tells CNN he wants Airbus to build a new

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that split a nation. For 15 years, she has made artworks based on the partition of British India into an independent India and Pakistan in 1947,

Megan C. Hills, CNN Kylie Jenner has made a strong case for glamorous party tops, channeling a disco ball and another famous Kylie, singer Kylie Minogue, at once. The reality star took date-night dressing to the next level Tuesday, wearing a glittering chain mesh top with a cowl neck and striking hood ahead of a

Jacopo Prisco, CNN The A380 super jumbo has many supporters around the world, but none quite as vocal and powerful as Tim Clark, the president of Emirates, by far the largest operator of the aircraft. The Dubai-based airline purchased nearly half of all A380s ever produced and now has 118 in its fleet, about 80

Liz Kang, CNN In Netflix’s latest big-budget Hindi movie, “Darlings,” Bollywood megastar Alia Bhatt’s character is given some unexpected marriage advice by her mother: “Add some rat poison in his food.” It’s one of several drastic ideas the protagonists consider as they confront an abusive relationship and attempt, albeit clumsily, to find a resolution. But

Terry Ward, CNN As yacht designers continue to push the envelope on the over-the-top superyachts that are being snatched up by the uber-rich, several ships in the Adriatic are taking a different tack by bumping up the luxury offerings on older ships at a lower price point. And these charters aren’t the only way to

Silvia Marchetti, CNN The village of San Casciano dei Bagni, in Tuscany’s lush Sienese countryside, is widely seen as one of Italy’s top hot spring destinations, a place where open-air spa lovers and thermal pilgrims have come to float in natural bubbly waters for over two thousand years. San Casciano’s modern-day facilities are just a

Hilary Clarke, CNN | Junko Ogura and Irene Nasser and Oscar Holland Issey Miyake, the Japanese fashion designer whose timeless pleats made him an industry favorite, has died aged 84. He died of cancer on August 5, his office confirmed to CNN on Tuesday. A funeral service has already been held with his family and

Silvia Marchetti, CNN Visiting Ukraine right now to experience what’s it like living in the middle of a war, see its bombed cities, feel the danger and meet its fighters isn’t likely to be on anyone’s travel wish list. But six months after Russia invaded the country, unleashing a wave of death and destruction, one

Oscar Holland, CNN | Alex Rees, CNN and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The enduring image of Olivia Newton-John may always be one of permed hair, bare shoulders and black spandex on the set of “Grease”. But the late actress and singer, who died Monday aged 73, was a fashion icon before — and long after —

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN New York officials have returned 30 cultural artifacts to Cambodia, including a 10th-century Khmer sculptural “masterpiece,” after the items were illegally sold to private collectors and a US museum. The antiquities, which had been taken from temples and archeological sites during periods of civil conflict in the country, entered the international art