Beauty

Back in 1976, Midwest was a tiny retail space in the suburbs of Nagoya. Today, it’s one of Japan’s most influential multi-brand stores, or select shops, as they’re known locally. The backbone of fashion retail in Japan, select shops are multi-brand stores that feature a highly curated range of brands; familiar names include Beams, United Arrows, and Dover...

An additional partnership of intrigue is with furniture and design fair Salone del Mobile. Another debut from Art Basel Miami Beach, the freshly inked three-year partnership will see the Milanese fair curate the furniture for Art Basel’s global Collector’s Lounge.Beyond luxury players, this year’s fair will also feature major activations in partnership with sport and lifestyle names. Running...

This awards season was a significant one for fashion, marketing the first flurry of splashy red carpet moments since September’s big creative reset. From the Grammys to the Oscars, recently appointed creative directors flexed their design chops with straight-off-the-runway and custom looks for the recently minted brand ambassadors and rising stars with whom they’re keen to align as...

What do you get when you mix real-life royals, Gossip Girl, and polo? Apparently, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s upcoming Netflix show.According to Deadline, the streamer and the Sussexes are developing a scripted drama show themed around polo, the field sport played on horseback beloved by the British royals. Harry and Meghan, via their company Archewell...

When April Grey was a kid, her parents would make an annual pilgrimage from San Francisco to New York City to stay with her grandparents. Before she left home, the musician—now better known by the name Underscores—would draw up maps on sheets of paper of all the sights she desperately wanted to visit on that trip: Not the...

It’s a running joke in my friend group that whenever someone comes over, I force them to take a shower—partly because I’m a germaphobe, and partly so they can help me test beauty products. I like to think of myself as generous (mi casa es su casa and all that), but there are a few items I keep...

With the exception of April and August, 2025 saw a steady stream of designer shake-ups, with new appointments announced nearly every month. In June, Jonathan Anderson was named creative director of Christian Dior—tasked, for the first time in decades, with overseeing the house across menswear, womenswear, and couture following his celebrated tenure at Loewe. Just three months earlier,...

In business and in life, Merit’s chief marketing officer Aila Morin’s number one rule is to always sleep on it; a philosophy she credits to her growth as an executive, and frankly, her mental health. “If I get hit with a problem, I have to be able to say, ‘thanks so much for sharing that with me and...

Fifteen minutes isn’t a lot of time. That is, unless you’re Jennifer Aniston—the actor and entrepreneur tells me it’s actually the perfect amount of time to get things done. Especially when it comes to Pvolve, the low-impact fitness routine that helps her stay in shape both at home and on the road. Pvolve classes—which can be streamed at...

Which is why promotional materials for the exhibition feature not a grand gown of engineered Rococo fantasy—in green silk brocade with coral and cream-colored botanical motifs—or even the emotional heart of the show, a diminutive and comparatively humble-looking corset worn by a young Marie-Antoinette. Instead, they star an altogether different kind of royalty: Utica Queen, né Ethan David...