Beauty

This article is part of the Future of AI, a collection of articles that investigates how artificial intelligence will impact the fashion and beauty industries in the years to come.In Hangzhou, a shopper can ask an AI agent to assemble an entire wardrobe, try it on their virtual avatar, and purchase it all within the same super-app. Meanwhile,...

Other creators are cloning themselves with AI to boost their output. Last summer, leading Chinese live streamers Luo Yonghao and Xiao Mu both used AI creator digital twins of themselves to complete a six-hour stream on Baidu e-commerce platform Youxuan, selling consumer electronics, food, and other consumer products, according to reports from CNBC. The session drove $7.65 million...

Bring it, The Balusters does. Over the course of four months, the board members squabble over speed humps versus bumps, racial profiling, homophobia, neighborhood surveillance, PETA, nepotism, a baby named Rocket, and—yes—period-inappropriate balusters. Alliances form. “White girl tears” are shed. Identity politics surface and resurface. Faux pas and microaggressions abound.Lindsay-Abaire is used to writing toward fear—his 2006 drama...

As someone who gravitates toward darker nail colors—probably dating back to my ’90s obsession with Chanel’s iconic Vamp—I’ve popped in and out of nail salons for decades without giving the best nude nail polishes their due consideration. But on a recent visit to Kohler Waters Spa at Lincoln Park, my eyes were opened to the variety of colors...

While walking the sunny streets of Brera, Milan’s design district, over the past few days, I kept noticing the same series of images wherever I turned. (Well, when I could glimpse them between the throngs of people with fold-out maps tucked under their arms, checking off the seemingly endless array of exhibitions that had sprung up across the...

To honor the late Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday today—the monarch, who died in 2022, would have turned 100 on April 21—a special reception was held at Buckingham Palace.Always one to suffuse her fashion choices with meaning, Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, chose a special piece of jewelry for the occasion: a three-strand pearl necklace that once belonged...

The new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art do not so much sit on Wilshire Boulevard as hover above it, a long, blobby concrete structure stretching across the street, held aloft by gargantuan, widely spaced cores. At ground level, the building feels almost improbably large, much of its underside shaded.More than 20 years...

A verdant abundance bloomed across spring runways, and many of us swooned over the floral dresses that walked—each house offering its own take on the pattern. There were roses at Chloé, daises at Celine, and cornflowers at Stella McCartney. Much like the eye-catching displays in the Flower District, you’ll find that no two stems—and no two prints—are the...

From May 2 to 4, the Vogue Café presented by Chase Sapphire Reserve® will arrive in SoHo to energize the city ahead of the first Monday in May. It’s the inaugural Manhattan outpost of the roving concept, which has already popped up in London, Milan, and Paris during fashion month—and you could say we are more than a...

Slim Aarons made a name for himself photographing the beautiful and well-to-do at leisure during the ’60s and ’70s: Marella Agnelli lounging at home in Tuscany, guests gathered at a house party in Palm Springs, holiday-goers poolside at the iconic Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. The latest spring collections channel the elegance of those decades with punchy...