Oscar Holland, CNN One of the stars of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, Olga Smirnova, has quit the company over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and will instead dance for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam. The move comes after the St. Petersburg-born ballerina denounced the conflict, saying that “a line has been drawn.” In a statement published
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN One of the UK’s largest architecture firms has unveiled plans for a verdant new “city within a city” in Vietnam. The new 290-acre (about half a square mile) district will be built around a long “spine” of trees and greenery in the country’s biggest metropolis, Ho Chi Minh City, according to architects
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN Just as passengers were feeling safe to get back on the water, a new problem has struck the cruise industry — in this case, literally, with a 164,000-ton ship running aground in the Dominican Republic. Norwegian Escape, a 2015-built megaship which can accommodate over 4,000 passengers, hit the seabed as it pulled
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN Two years after promising to reexamine how it “portrays the American dream” amid the Black Lives Matter movement, Ralph Lauren is launching a collection inspired by the country’s historically Black colleges. Created in collaboration with Morehouse and Spelman Colleges in Atlanta, Georgia, the range of outerwear, knitwear, suits and dresses was based on
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CNN Oscar Holland, CNN Two years after promising to reexamine how it “portrays the American dream” amid the Black Lives Matter movement, Ralph Lauren is launching a collection inspired by the country’s historically Black colleges. Created in collaboration with Morehouse and Spelman Colleges in Atlanta, Georgia, the range of outerwear, knitwear, suits and dresses was based
Continue ReadingJessie Yeung, CNN and Junko Ogura, CNN For decades, being a student in Tokyo meant you had to look a certain way. Under the public school system’s dress code, all students had to dye their hair black, certain hairstyles were prohibited and even their underwear had to be a designated color. But these rules, which
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus and Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN When ice cream maker Adrienne Borlongan first experimented with a White Rabbit flavor, she thought it tasted like “cheap vanilla.” A few weeks after adding it to the rotating lineup at her Los Angeles shop, Wanderlust Creamery, visitors were about as meh on it as she was.
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN Face coverings have become a staple of air travel over the past couple years. For some passengers, they’ve proven divisive — mask non-compliance has been blamed for the majority of US disruptive inflight incidents so far in 2022. Now they’re starting to vanish from the skies altogether. British Airways and Virgin Atlantic
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN When he was 7 years old, Francis Kéré left his family home to attend school because his village, Gando in Burkina Faso, did not have one of its own. Thirteen years later he moved to Germany on a carpentry scholarship with a dream of returning home one day to build the classrooms
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN “We really didn’t intend selling them,” says Kevin Regan over the phone from the northwest of Ireland. Converting a slice of airplane into a sleek and durable home office had been a personal project in 2021, but after his sister-in-law put photos of the cabin on social media, requests rolled in
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CNN Stephy Chung, CNN Contributors: Dan Hodge, CNN and Momo Moussa, CNN Stephen Wong openly describes himself as “greedy.” The landscape painter is referring to his appetite for absorbing as much scenery as possible during long and sometimes arduous hikes, which see him filling sketchbooks with impressions before translating them into sumptuous paintings. Hong Kong,
Continue ReadingStephy Chung, CNN Contributors: Dan Hodge, CNN and Momo Moussa, CNN Stephen Wong openly describes himself as “greedy.” The landscape painter is referring to his appetite for absorbing as much scenery as possible during long and sometimes arduous hikes, which see him filling sketchbooks with impressions before translating them into sumptuous paintings. Hong Kong, the
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By Theresa Waldrop, Amanda Watts and Amanda Musa, CNN Workers on Monday removed what is thought to be the last public Confederate statue in Maryland other than those on battlefields or in cemeteries. The 13-foot tall copper statue of a boy holding a Confederate flag stood on the lawn of the Talbot County courthouse in
Continue ReadingBy Casey Barber, CNN March 14 is Pi Day in honor of the first three digits of the mathematical constant π (3.1415…). But it’s also a flimsy, yet delicious, excuse to celebrate an enduring culinary concept: the many edible varieties of pie around the world. Classic American apple and cherry varieties might be the first
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN The ongoing invasion of Ukraine hung over proceedings at the 75th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) on Sunday, with organizers offering words of support and host Rebel Wilson using the spotlight to aim a middle finger at Russian president Vladimir Putin. On the red carpet, however, explicit nods to the crisis were
Continue ReadingBy Claire Colbert, CNN High tea took on a whole new meaning for Andrew Hughes and his climbing crew. The group of adventurers held a tea party at 21,312 feet above sea level at Mount Everest’s Camp 2 in Nepal last year, setting a new `Guinness World Record — which was officially recognized by Guinness
Continue ReadingFiona Sinclair Scott, CNN In the month leading up to the Fall-Winter shows in Paris, it was widely believed that the event would mark a significant return to business as usual — a celebration for the fashion world after two years of pandemic-related disruptions. Coronavirus cases were relatively low, international travel to and from France
Continue ReadingRhea Mogul, CNN In a video that has since gone viral on social media, a group of men gather on a dusty street in India’s southern Karnataka state. Carrying saffron-colored flags and matching scarves, the men chant loudly in unison as they taunt their targets: Muslim women in hijabs who remain huddled in one corner
Continue ReadingFiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Days after announcing a buzzy collaboration with streetwear label Supreme, British fashion house Burberry staged a theatrical show in London on Friday, marking its first in-person collection unveiling since the start of the pandemic. Held in Westminster’s Central Hall, in the heart of London, the event did away with the traditional
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan, CNN H&M has unveiled its “playfully over-the-top” collaboration with renowned interior designer and longtime style icon Iris Apfel, releasing images of the long-awaited collection on Wednesday. The collection, announced last year to mark the star’s 100th birthday, includes an array of characteristically eclectic jewelry — including a molded bust of Apfel as a
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