French Girl Chic or right-wing pin-up? The complicated style legacy of Brigitte Bardot
By Fiona Sinclair Scott, Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Long before words like “French Girl Chic” became algorithmically entrenched in online…
Continue ReadingBy Fiona Sinclair Scott, Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Long before words like “French Girl Chic” became algorithmically entrenched in online…
Continue ReadingBy Kati Chitrakorn, CNN (CNN) — When New York-based model and influencer Wisdom Kaye went shopping at the Italian fashion label Miu Miu and…
Continue ReadingBy Ben Jones, CNN (CNN) — When you’re standing in a big-city railway station, scanning the departure board for your train, it doesn’t…
Continue ReadingBy CNN’s Barbie Latza Nadeau Rome (CNN) — Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved…
Continue ReadingBy Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN Masuria, Poland (CNN) — The narrow road through the Masurian countryside winds alongside shimmering lakes and mossy…
Continue ReadingBy Tom Page and Gisella Deputato, CNN (CNN) — Once upon a time, artist JR was just another teenage rebel with a spray can, tagging trains in…
Continue ReadingBy Cecilia Laurent Monpetit, Philippe Cordier, CNN Paris (CNN) — Flexible hours, being your own boss, fresh air and views of Notre Dame –…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — In “The Testament of Ann Lee,” two young Shakers, disciples of revolutionary preacher Mother Ann’s teachings,…
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN The Cotswolds, England (CNN) — In a churchyard, about 100 miles west of London, the rain drives at a 45-degree slant,…
Continue ReadingBy Elyssa Goodman, CNN New York (CNN) — In a windowless room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Antonio Ratti Textile Center, several swaths…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — 2025 was a year of extremes in beauty culture. The $450 million industry felt more polarized than ever, with a push…
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Morrow, CNN Şanliurfa, Turkey (CNN) — Under the shadow of a centuries-old castle in Şanlıurfa, in southeastern Turkey, black-spotted…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — The year’s biggest trend was barely there. It crested Margot Robbie in slim strands of beads and rhinestones;…
Continue ReadingBy Terry Ward (CNN) — When Brooke Black and her Danish husband first lived together in the United States, she doesn’t recall their different…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: a behind-the-scenes look at a “White Lotus” resort, the best places to…
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — When Elizabeth Ruane and her family spent a semester in Lüneburg, Germany, her life revolved around Marktplatz,…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Some of the best suits in Hollywood have come out of the same modest street in London. Since the 19th century,…
Continue ReadingBy Adie Vanessa Offiong, CNN Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Lagos is busy at the best of times, but as the year draws to a close, the sprawling…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Miami (CNN) — With a swift kick to her opponent’s face, wrestler Atomic Banshee began to dominate the final fight of…
Continue ReadingBy Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — Is Paris ready for Emily’s next act? After getting off the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express train in Paris this past…
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By Jane Wooldridge, CNN Altamura, Italy (CNN) — A pair of practiced hands pushes novice fingers into the stretchy dough, encouraging the…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — When the Obama Presidential Center opens on Chicago’s South Side in the spring, a series of large-scale…
Continue ReadingBy Jen Rose Smith (CNN) — If a steaming bowl of soup strikes you as the ultimate in old-fashioned comfort, you’ve got plenty of company. Soup…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel news roundup this week: Italy gets angry at “fake” carbonara, the winner of the Wildlife…
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Buckeyes, biscochitos, marionberry pie. All over the United States, locals have concocted sweet treats that…
Continue ReadingBy Marcel Krueger, CNN Cheiner Torfmoor, Germany (CNN) — Germany’s most peaceful landscape owes its existence to one of its most paranoid.…
Continue ReadingBy Caroline Roux (CNN) — The designs for six new stained-glass windows for the cathedral of Notre Dame have gone on show at the Grand Palais in…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — British photographer Mark Meth-Cohn had spent four days trekking through the Virunga mountains in Rwanda…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Sophie Kinsella, the best-selling author behind the “Shopaholic” book series, has died at…
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — It’s time to uncork the prosecco and maybe order a plate of tagliatelle al ragù for the table.…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — A British Nigerian artist who produces large-scale draped sculptures and vortex-like circular drawings has become…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland (CNN) — Manish Malhotra is to Diwali what Heidi Klum is to Halloween: its ultimate celebrity party host. Every year, the…
Continue ReadingBy Griffin Shea, CNN (CNN) — On the outskirts of Luanda, in a centuries-old white house on a hill, a small museum documents one of the greatest…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — On Monday night, A-lister couple of the moment Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner arrived at the Hollywood premiere…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Jennifer Lawrence is one of the most widely admired and well accoladed actors on the planet: she was the…
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Thieves made off with more than a dozen pieces of art, including works by Henri Matisse, from a library in São…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A water leak at the Louvre in Paris has damaged hundreds of books, exposing further issues at the world’s largest…
Continue ReadingBy Will Noble, CNN London (CNN) — “Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the…
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — In the movie “Kokuho,” a three-hour epic spanning half a century in the life of a fictional kabuki actor, we…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — What goes into building a modern beauty business? Ask Sharmadean Reid, the British mogul with at least four under…
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Danaher, Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN (CNN) — One of Britain’s most acclaimed photographers, Martin Parr, died on Saturday at age 73,…
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By Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — “It’s not a good airport at all,” President Donald Trump said of Dulles International Airport outside…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel news this week: the world’s top 100 cities for 2025, the world’s best hotels,…
Continue ReadingBy Nick Glass and Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN (CNN) — Frank Gehry, who in the second half of the 20th century forged a new language in…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Since Sydney Sweeney starred in a controversial American Eagle ad this summer, which some viewers interpreted as…
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By Ali Halit Diker, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — For years, the Botter Apartment was easy to miss. On İstiklal Avenue — Istanbul’s busiest…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — In the medieval fantasy kingdom of Migal Bavel, where the film “100 Nights of Hero” is set, characters speak…
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Is there still room in fashion for true originality? That’s the question raised by the latest news out of…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen Ohare, CNN (CNN) — What’s la plus belle city of all the world, enticing more than 18 million visitors in 2025 alone? Paris has…
Continue ReadingBy Bijan Hosseini, CNN Dubai (CNN) — Dubai has a new record-breaker on its skyline — almost by accident. The world’s tallest hotel, Ciel…
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